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Sat Mar 12 00:34:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> you could trivially test this swift hypothesis of yours you know - wire a grand to the next nigerian to visit your inbox then write to your bank to reverse it.
Sat Mar 12 00:34:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> that's not the proper approach there. consider that you'd "entertain laughably innacurate hypothesis" about a) things that really make no difference to you ; b) with which you have absolutely no experience and c) that have exactly nothing in common with a hypothesis and everything in common with an article of faith.
Sat Mar 12 00:32:47 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> anyway i don't do amulets, much as mircea_popescu is convinced of this. i ~might~ entertain laughably inaccurate hypothesis about whatevers, when i have no access (unlike to the inside of a computer) to the priors.
Sat Mar 12 00:31:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> mind, selling amulets is a trade like any other trade. wearing them is what was being discussed.
Sat Mar 12 00:31:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> no, but we do know how idiots think.
Sat Mar 12 00:30:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (technically speaking, the mp license is actually an anti-amulet, in the sense that it makes life impossible for a certain sort of lunatic. inasmuch as its effectiveness is not predicated on metaphysical but on quite physical considerations, it's just a virus.)
Sat Mar 12 00:29:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in any case - lunacy is not here contemplated. lunacy is actually in practice a very high bar of achievement. you're just weird, which is boringly common, especially in accomplished folks.
Sat Mar 12 00:28:11 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> once they become necessary and "necessarily effectual", it gets iffy
Sat Mar 12 00:28:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yes, they are. for as long as they're decorative, it's one thing.
Sat Mar 12 00:27:37 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> this is amulet, but mircea_popescu's anarchist license, is not ?
Sat Mar 12 00:27:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> for instance.
Sat Mar 12 00:26:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yo9u know, like #this code copyright
Sat Mar 12 00:26:36 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> basically. spurious item of presumed physical effectiveness predicated on the basis of metaphysical considerations.
Sat Mar 12 00:26:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> what's your definition of an amulet ?
Sat Mar 12 00:24:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but anyway - i suppose the first symtpom of the barrier giving way is when you start including specific amulet comments
Sat Mar 12 00:24:25 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> but i would like to see why mircea_popescu considers the code - sane, and my picture of the rest - not.
Sat Mar 12 00:24:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> nah, lunacy is not this.
Sat Mar 12 00:24:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is actually a great question.
Sat Mar 12 00:24:05 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> i get what mircea_popescu is saying, 'the man is a lunatic but somehow capable of engineering sanely'
Sat Mar 12 00:23:36 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> uhh