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mats: #econometrics, actually interesting when
moriarty isn't around
Azelphur: (11:24:09)
moriarty: there's also ##econometrics given your interest in cryptocurrencies
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: can we have /mode +b *!*@unaffiliated/
moriarty please, all he does is join here to pm spam and then leave :P
Azelphur: kakobrekla:
moriarty is pm spamming, (I've also banned him from #bitcoin before), please eject :)
bounce:
moriarty: do you have a script messaging everybody in the channel about ##econometrics or something?
bounce: oh I don't mind them going the way of the dodo. the thing was rather
moriarty was rationalising their existence as "best possible (evar)", which I disagreed with
mircea_popescu: dude reading this
moriarty fellow interact with xmj is like watching a drunk clown trying to ride a cow with k-j, except the clown is really a cow in clown costume and the cow really a clown in cow costume and again adn again.
xmj: plonk /ignore -replies
moriarty bounce:
moriarty, don't be an ass please
xmj:
moriarty: maybe thinking is not your best activity.
bounce sets mode +rumpelstiltskin on user
moriarty for channel #bitcoin-assets
xmj:
moriarty: if you want, i can spam you with vague statements that are technically correct and don't mean shit.
xmj:
moriarty: devil's advocate requires taking someone else's ideology, putting it into a jail/sandbox, examining it
BingoBoingo:
moriarty: Well what happen to poor Cantor in the end after meditating on Cardinality so long?
BingoBoingo:
moriarty: Religion generally requires Spz. additional dependencies that philosophy per it self doesn't
BingoBoingo: <
moriarty> bounce, well, religion is basically philosophy << Bold claim
xmj: 10:42:57 <+
moriarty> it's all about how high you climb in society in terms of status, power and fortune
xmj:
moriarty: water is wet, did you know?
xmj:
moriarty: or you're showing promise to be rich on your own
xmj:
moriarty: once you factor in genetics, you obviously want the unicorn.
xmj:
moriarty: everyone loves a good unicorn
BingoBoingo:
moriarty: Aristocracy is great, but... You've got to maintain a position in it. If you suck it doesn't matter that you're a Borgia.
xmj:
moriarty: WHICH PART ABOUT EQUITY ARE YOU NOT GETTING GOD DAMNIT
xmj:
moriarty: still not US Government equity
BingoBoingo: Bah,
moriarty You've gone some broken ideas on how stratification works
xmj:
moriarty: not the same thing
xmj:
moriarty: difference: you can buy GOOG stock and benefit from it
xmj:
moriarty: at least, google does not rely on government-granted monopoly of force
xmj:
moriarty: one is private company
xmj: you're evil,
moriarty decimation:
moriarty earlier said that such an attitude is 'simplistic' - after all, how can these people (economists, programmers, students) have so many papers and have said nothing?
mircea_popescu:
moriarty no, because the us is getting screwed in its imaginary economic war.
decimation:
moriarty: it looks to me russia has the whip hand
mircea_popescu:
moriarty just some random twerp, no relevancy no relation.
xmj:
moriarty: i wanted to look up the map of the neoreactionary blogosphere for you, sec
xmj:
moriarty: you cannot receive development, you don't deserve development, you develop and then you've earned it.
xmj:
moriarty: "why didn't they?"
xmj:
moriarty: now comes your neoreactionary and inquires "if western europeans built such beautiful institutions such as states that actually hold together over centuries, industries, absolute nuclear family that favors outbreeding, and an army that could literally dominate the entire world..."
xmj:
moriarty: where'd you get that one from
mircea_popescu:
moriarty there's nothing to fathom. africa is the craddle of civilisation. better people leave, so they left.
mircea_popescu:
moriarty it would work as a wot system, and as that only.
mircea_popescu:
moriarty it's a problem of dynamic equilibrium. peer review worked before weight was put on it.
mircea_popescu: <
moriarty> asciilifeform, to be fair it was somewhat of an adjustment coming from the open world of academia and studenthood into proprietary work << that'd explain why you so drastically overestimate the "conversation" going on between empty barrels rolling downhill.
xmj:
moriarty: "standing on the shoulders of giants"
xmj:
moriarty: ...people say ltos
xmj:
moriarty: people say that google and peers are bad for you when you really want to learn things..
decimation:
moriarty: didn't you perceive this as a problem, given your previous point about mixing crap with the good?
bounce:
moriarty: missing the point though
decimation: asciilifeform: the universities that
moriarty mentions being peopled with the same bureaucrats seeking grants
xmj:
moriarty: formal education is just paper
xmj:
moriarty: you're forgetting high-iq math/physics/compsci crowd
xmj:
moriarty: oh i know I can.
xmj:
moriarty: i'm completely retarded, didn't you notice.
decimation:
moriarty: it's true that such a scheme would be unworkable in mass democracy
decimation:
moriarty: and the state is more than happy to deliver, in exchange for not rioting
xmj:
moriarty: you run on testosterone and adrenaline and dopamin and whatever.
xmj:
moriarty: you're not, either