Results 1 ... 24 found in asciilifeform for 'chrematis'
asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-02-07#1078392 << asciilifeform doesn't miss the chrematist scum and dun need'em for anyffin whatsoever
dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-28 23:31:44 asciilifeform: vex: imho the sooner *all* the slimy chrematist scum maggoting on top of bitcoin go to gasenwagen, off cliffs, to feed the fishes, etc. the better.
asciilifeform: vex: imho the sooner *all* the slimy chrematist scum maggoting on top of bitcoin go to gasenwagen, off cliffs, to feed the fishes, etc. the better.
asciilifeform: for a chrematist, the moolah is an end in itself.
asciilifeform: ... but also because only hardline chrematists have access to fabs, given the expense of the latter, and for these the ev calc. of 'trad btc miner' (i.e. densely packed, operable only in a dc, etc) vs. anyffin else is a nobrainer
asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-11-19#1066779 << asciilifeform's point was that ~for a chrematist~ (i.e. somebody for whom metric of success is strictly '# of btc stacked') the only things that make sense to do w/ btc is 1) sit on it 2) devise scams to vacuum up moar
dulapbot: Logged on 2020-12-28 11:45:08 asciilifeform: loong ago, also had experiments w/ trading bots (was pre-btcism, however) and w/ roughly same aim as adlai's -- laboured under the naive notion that could e.g. apply well-written cl to where the industrial chrematists were stuck w/ indian java monkeys, and exploit, to take 'some of what they thought was theirs'; see also lenin's 'грабь награбленное'(tm)(r).
dulapbot: Logged on 2021-06-30 10:57:11 asciilifeform: shinohai: chrematism is a disease which only afflicts folx who have what to gamble away.
dulapbot: Logged on 2021-06-30 10:57:11 asciilifeform: shinohai: chrematism is a disease which only afflicts folx who have what to gamble away.
asciilifeform: so, given that ~0 meaningfully exportable manufacture there, and that ru aint part of the lizard chrematist 'financial' reich, big fat unsurprise that 'not much commerce but in minerals.'
asciilifeform: the chrematists weren't 'in' yet.
asciilifeform is possibly 'finance pessimist', i.e. came to believe that the sums required to engage in 'high finance' are NEVER to be found in the hands of honest folx, for fundamental reasons.
snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-20 21:01:58 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-12-19#1027090 << much simpler recipe (and does not reduce to 'do nothing') to avoid losing money to e.g. scamcoins: don't be a chrematist. and avoid'em.
snsabot: Logged on 2020-06-08 11:15:57 asciilifeform: jurov: asciilifeform's pov on this differed from mp's. the latter, as i understand, defined only 'socialist' debasement of currency (and, eventually, the entire post-feudal spectrum of politics) as 'root evil'. but exempted chrematists. asciilifeform does not exempt chrematists.
asciilifeform: shinohai: chrematism is a disease which only afflicts folx who have what to gamble away.
asciilifeform: this engine's been whirring for as long as the chrematists have been involved. i.e. since '12 or so.
asciilifeform: chrematists are singularly uninteresting. they, as a matter of course, sacrifice their brains (such as they start with) to moloch.
asciilifeform lulz re the redditus maxing out redd^H^H^Hcredit cards to buy GME. expect 2014-style whining, suicides, etc. when party's over. chrematism is sumthing like heroin.
snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-28 11:47:43 asciilifeform: chrematism, i'm firmly convinced, is the exact sort of sin the ancients saw it as : is intensely tempting w/ all kindsa sweets, and will easily destroy yer soul -- but only if yer ~successful~ in it.
asciilifeform: chrematism, i'm firmly convinced, is the exact sort of sin the ancients saw it as : is intensely tempting w/ all kindsa sweets, and will easily destroy yer soul -- but only if yer ~successful~ in it.
asciilifeform loong ago, also had experiments w/ trading bots (was pre-btcism, however) and w/ roughly same aim as adlai's -- laboured under the naive notion that could e.g. apply well-written cl to where the industrial chrematists were stuck w/ indian java monkeys, and exploit, to take 'some of what they thought was theirs'; see also lenin's 'грабь награбленное'(tm)(r).
snsabot: Logged on 2020-06-08 11:15:57 asciilifeform: jurov: asciilifeform's pov on this differed from mp's. the latter, as i understand, defined only 'socialist' debasement of currency (and, eventually, the entire post-feudal spectrum of politics) as 'root evil'. but exempted chrematists. asciilifeform does not exempt chrematists.
asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-12-19#1027090 << much simpler recipe (and does not reduce to 'do nothing') to avoid losing money to e.g. scamcoins: don't be a chrematist. and avoid'em.
asciilifeform: jurov: asciilifeform's pov on this differed from mp's. the latter, as i understand, defined only 'socialist' debasement of currency (and, eventually, the entire post-feudal spectrum of politics) as 'root evil'. but exempted chrematists. asciilifeform does not exempt chrematists.