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Wed Mar 16 16:42:07 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so we go to cross some tracks and i say "careful not to touch the shiny parts!" and she carefully steps to not touch the shiny parts.
Wed Mar 16 16:41:30 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> did i ever recall the story of the slavegirl that had never seen railroad tracks ?
Wed Mar 16 16:40:52 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> i can see it already: harem gurl: 'i stepped on rusty nail!' mircea_popescu: 'here's an impregnation, perhaps after 20 generations your descendants will have shell armour on their feet'
Wed Mar 16 16:38:30 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> also duck ?
Wed Mar 16 16:36:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> why ?
Wed Mar 16 16:35:36 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> and this is where we find out that mircea_popescu stands outside heat death.
Wed Mar 16 16:34:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> non-closedness of a system is an accounting fiction.
Wed Mar 16 16:34:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so because enthalpy, you propose no commerce is possible.
Wed Mar 16 16:31:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> at the expense of other processes, of course. so what of it ?
Wed Mar 16 16:31:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> recall pigeon experiments ? brain is plastic, takes over function of lost partys
Wed Mar 16 16:31:33 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but anyway, so animal that stops locomoting gives up brain cells used for handling that.
Wed Mar 16 16:29:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (actually it's the jumping champion, some 1km jumps)
Wed Mar 16 16:28:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it moves.
Wed Mar 16 16:28:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> must not be the same animal, sea cucumber i think of is an echinoderm.
Wed Mar 16 16:26:53 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> aite.
Wed Mar 16 16:26:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> that presumes you act on it.
Wed Mar 16 16:26:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> no. you said maladaptive.
Wed Mar 16 16:26:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is not so.
Wed Mar 16 16:25:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the root of the problem would seem to be the self-serving but otherwise bluntly unwarranted assumption that "intelligence is useful in all circumstances".
Wed Mar 16 16:25:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> not what i said.