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mircea_popescu: just as every other "expert" opinion they ever came up with to date.
mircea_popescu: and the cavallier "oh, we'll just introduce subdivisions" nonsense pushed by the prb folk utterly fails to consider the implications
mircea_popescu: consider for a second here : the year is i nthe future, the world is numerous planets, a single satoshi is worth trillions in today's money. literally, enough to buy a larger town.
mircea_popescu is too lazy to dig up the trilema piece holding exact figure (no, it's not this, a little lower)
mircea_popescu: was part of a larger discussion cca 2015ish of the problem of unboundness in bitcoin. even as it stands currently - you can end up with 2100000000000000 discrete items to keep track of ? really ?
mircea_popescu: until the coinbase halves, you can only use 50 btc ; then 25 and 12.5 etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: iirc we discussed this in the logs. recall, the no-splittable coins ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, this xerocopy argument, while at first convincing, readily recurses into a restatement of the children argument above ; but it is flawed because, as granma wittily observed, "cartile nu cer demincare" ; ie books need not be fed.
mircea_popescu: lol asciilifeform you should prolly write those articles.
mircea_popescu: i count self as perhaps middling student of recursion, as a soon to be 40yo. there's a lot to it, what do you want from me.
mircea_popescu: also there's a major problem with abstract criteria. i for instance don't grasp recursion.
mircea_popescu: but you do have more control over the matter than over entropy source.
mircea_popescu: not quite what i had in mind for a couple model here :p
mircea_popescu: (amusingly, the reverse is impossible : black people ever so often end up with entirely white kid, because slavery.)
mircea_popescu: simple criterion : you can not guarantee you will never get the number 7. you can guarantee you will not have mulatto kid.
mircea_popescu: actually matching the japanese gender split of literary production and japanese political situation over time is bound to be shockingly instructive.
mircea_popescu: and who's gonna write the poems ? women only ? literature by females results in the collapse of the empire.
mircea_popescu: i'm not saying it is impossible. i'm just saying it's a pretty distant bridge.
mircea_popescu: if we are to learn anything from the history of the 2nd millennium, is that marrying performance and lineage is suicidal. so fucking costly a stupidity, in fact, as to sink monarchy, ie, the most perfect form of social organisation possible.
mircea_popescu: problem is biology has no intention of defending you. reversal to the mean is the controlling phenomenon there.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i see the point to a certain degree, the street in practice DOES select, for the worst. but i think he just meant "crapshot" rather than proper, street scum.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it does not work for most women ; and i never tried nor would i be bothered to try on children.
mircea_popescu: i have no such confidence. some girls are extremely good at shaping themselves into an extremely sharp tool in the right sort of context ; and the result is by very far much sharper than anything ever produced naturally, or through alternative means.
mircea_popescu: you know, actually a lot like how google go "brain" looks.
mircea_popescu: it's a field of "zero. likely zero. zero zero likely-meh. zero. zero zero zero. zero zero zero. zero zero zero. zero zero zero. zero zero zero. zero zero "
mircea_popescu: if i believed my kids were going to be anything like me i'd even consider having some.
mircea_popescu: ironically, from this perspective the decision to drive to arizona to play lottery is even judicious. better odds than trying to play the pool party, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: fortune is deeply not random when discussing girls. joe rapes rachel and as a result rachel is tankful and joe has a new slave. moe tries to talk to sarah and is forced to waste 30 hours doing "sensitivity training"
mircea_popescu: fortune is by definition random when playing the powerball : you'll get half your money on average.
mircea_popescu: the kid in the pool was there because of his family relations.
mircea_popescu: it IS unfair, and it is also deeply antiequalitarian that the better kid of their year get free jet engine ; while the crummier kids get ankle weights.
mircea_popescu: and yes the world is ~so~ cruel : the better have it easier, and the crappier have it harder. because the world is not interested, to any degree, in survival of the everyone.
mircea_popescu: elliot is right in figuring that he'd have perhaps functioned normally, or at least had a better chance at it, in this sort of context.
mircea_popescu: but once is not enough : once in the pool, they blindfold him, and then the one twu wuv girl lures him over by whispering "polo" long after he's stoped saying "marco", which, again, is the point.
mircea_popescu: some models who in practice hang out with them (this almost never happens, even in california) lure/force him into a pool. it's not exactly ~against~ his wishes ; it's irrespective of them, which is the point - males, esp young, esp virgin, are very fucking shy, and i dunno that this even exists, act of male devirgination which is not out and out "rape" by the female. certainly not at a sane age for it (such as 15).
mircea_popescu: btw, since i mentioned
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160831/from:36/to:36#36 : it is directly evident why it's such a big deal for elliot kid. leaving aside all the insane preposterous nonsense worthy of a tucker max / wolf of wallstreet / suicide kings production : there's one sex scene, in which this kid (totally whitebread, goes to school and does his homework 15yo with no tattoos) is kidnapped by a bunch of derps, and then
mircea_popescu: such goldmine. "baby, just the tip!" applied to enthusiasms etc.
mircea_popescu: i think ima save this though. "purposeless walks and golf". nb.
mircea_popescu: lol this "purposeless walks and golf" bit is pretty shiny. deliberate parody ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yup, guy's got a pretty good stare going.
mircea_popescu: to quote, "oh no, i wouldn't do THAT. *pause* there MAY have been some instances... in THE PAST! but that's all ancient history now."
mircea_popescu: well, especially when i take my head off, place it on the table, and feed it icecream on the shorter path
mircea_popescu: well actually maybe you don't know, wtf do i know. but anyway, there's a very peculiar thing people/kids do when the inconceivable happens ; like joe di maggio walks into dunkin donuts
mircea_popescu: everybody reads trilema, including the local tards. i can spot them, too, i go to a cafe or w/e, there's this dude in a corner being all weird in the specific manner.
mircea_popescu: it's just... kinda easy to forget just how many layers there are in "sexually unattractive" in practice.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude, a large part of what i like about #trilema is that it doesn't consist of above examples.
mircea_popescu: it's a complicated problem. world is world, forum is forum. wut do ?
mircea_popescu: trinque hmm, turns out it's not slow - just silent if no key found. can has an "not found" thing plox ?
mircea_popescu: the advantages of this approach. we find out things about the internets.
mircea_popescu: yeah, i think a lot of non-english speaking folk are reading that.