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Tue Mar 08 18:13:59 UTC 2016 <nubbins`> but because i went on the offensive, mircea_popescu simply cannot back down.
Tue Mar 08 18:13:42 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> which yes, is essentially flotsam.
Tue Mar 08 18:13:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> construction, willy-nilly, proceeds on scaffolding.
Tue Mar 08 18:13:30 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but now i have the ~option~ to do this. back then, i didn't.
Tue Mar 08 18:13:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i would not consider unqualified people.
Tue Mar 08 18:13:05 UTC 2016 <PeterL> mircea_popescu if you were to start rota now, what would you do differently?
Tue Mar 08 18:12:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> because apparently i don't know how the world works, and haven't properly groked the memo about how "reality is enacted by convention" or somesuch.
Tue Mar 08 18:12:07 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it broke down, because by now social consensus is the principal guide for people. and so... the trier of fact established some sort of social consensus and was very surprised when my reaction was to simply disolve it.
Tue Mar 08 18:11:32 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this system worked more or less for a while, which is to say up to maybe the 1920s. back then people had some sort of relation to reality.
Tue Mar 08 18:11:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform aha.
Tue Mar 08 18:11:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> traditionally, in the common law at least, the jury is the trier of fact ; with the judge establishing the legal meaning of those facts.
Tue Mar 08 18:10:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> at that point, i was trying to get a court system off the ground, similarly with random people as judges.
Tue Mar 08 18:10:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> we had an idiocy of ~this caliber back about three-four years ago, which newcomers particularly bored and people without anything to do are invited to read.
Tue Mar 08 18:09:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the matter to be resolved exactly one of two ways : fixing the report or fixing the wot.
Tue Mar 08 18:09:32 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> PeterL aha.
Tue Mar 08 18:09:24 UTC 2016 <assbot> The greatly anticipated BitBet (S.BBET) February 2016 Statement on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ryzbug )
Tue Mar 08 18:09:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://trilema.com/2016/the-greatly-anticipated-bitbet-sbbet-february-2016-statement/#comment-116734 << check it out, moar impersonations ?
Tue Mar 08 18:09:14 UTC 2016 <PeterL> mircea_popescu but clearly there is the expectation that people inside your WoT will say something if they think your report is wrong
Tue Mar 08 18:07:52 UTC 2016 <nubbins`> mircea_popescu is actually describing hanbot scathingly well here
Tue Mar 08 18:07:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> if the people who matter think anything of it, it may see the life of day. if not... a well.