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mircea_popescu: wtf is with the potatoes already ? you know they have a fucking STATUE of like... corn, in ohio ?
mircea_popescu: actually scratch that, apparently nasdaq no longer knows of it.
mircea_popescu: sure, and there's a nasdaq tmsr, and some canadian band ; and thorium-molten salt reactors and what have you.
mircea_popescu: you know, someone had a similar problem due to ancient gfx card / old drivers or somesuch. iirc there's a solution to tone down world items.
mircea_popescu: my ftjam finished in 12:44 on this (kinda old) machine
mircea_popescu: i guess it depends on machine to a more significant degree than i thought.
mircea_popescu: it was a painless ~10 minute compile for everyone who tried it so far, but diana_coman 's kinda curious if that holds out in win or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so how do you find out if you have the erdos gene ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL ironically, the reason i'm convinced it's genetics is that of the (~half dozen) girls i encountered with the problem, ALL hated nordic fish
mircea_popescu: yes but... i tried lactate. i tried glycosulphate. i mean... holy shit, what, does it come as part of a chunk of protein eight miles long, to count ?
mircea_popescu: i'm pretty sure it's the gut, myself, but then again wtf do we know.
mircea_popescu: i mean... ammonium citrate. useless. but just how complex does this coordination have to get ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the intestine ? LOTS of it. the intestinal surface is just as fucking complex as the brain. it selects certain bacterial populations ffs.
mircea_popescu: so you next suppose "oh, it's because the pill creates this point with a gradient, whereas livers are distributed". so you grind it into a dust, mix it in say, humus. nnnnnope...
mircea_popescu: intuitively, you'd think "oh well, there's these many oxidative presentations of iron, i've tried them all, time for you to say goodbye to life". yet, chiken liver works. bloody steak somewhat but not as greatly (and only with proper red wine anyway, so clearly oxidative pathway)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, good for you then. but generally in modern anemia the problem is bad genetics leading to poor intestinal uptake.
mircea_popescu: the piddly coffee i drink, drowned in milk as it is, has ~0 effect i can discern.
mircea_popescu: errofuckitsmother and etc. girl doesn't absorb, has to go on diet of chicken livers and so on. THAT works.
mircea_popescu: what IS a very bad analogy however, that i let pass though i shouldn't have, is the fucking iron pill. you don't know this, because insufficient exposure ; but i run a farm of women my whole life and let me tell you that a) pernicious anemia is still a fucking thing. unlike syphilis that isn't since antibiotics, pa is, iron pill or no ; b) iron pill doesn't work worth a shit. every fucking time i'd try every glycosulcinate, f
mircea_popescu: "oh, alf decided he's going to solve problem by paying someone to startle him every 5 minutes"
mircea_popescu: when you get startled you aslo "short of fusebox". the objection is at best disingenuous.
mircea_popescu: sure, if you're a fuycking weirdo you may benefit from such nonsense. but a) it's a short term thing and b) whatevert you're doing, you're doing it wrongly, as evidenced by this perceived need to short out the fuse box
mircea_popescu: is this also a case of "o noes, mp is making shorting out hte fusebox into the devil - it could be useful"
mircea_popescu: o noes, "i increased my capacity". well... i can increase the "capacity" of my house circuitry right now, just short the fusebox.
mircea_popescu: for instance, do you know you could shatter your own bones under your own muscular power ?
mircea_popescu: so far the discussion is that capacities vary FOR A REASON. a biological reason.
mircea_popescu: there is no fucking "categories". and this is a fundamental problem here, that you seem to imagine for whatever reason that the world is a large collections of drawers with labels on them.
mircea_popescu: moreover, that two ten hour parties sum to less than one twenty hour parties is unclear ; that a hit takes a hit out of you is certain.
mircea_popescu: it's like talking to bitcointalk i swear. "x works ; y doesn't" "no y is not the devil" "nobody said it is" "but it could work" "has it ?" "i dunno" "then wtf are you on about ?"
mircea_popescu: good thing we spent half hour re-establishing the obvious that alf doesn't like.
mircea_popescu: i can dose your daughter/sister/wife so she can party "like an animal" on the basis of seeing her naked and knowing how long the party lasts. that's what "speedballs work" means.
mircea_popescu: exactly like another certain demographics hopes she'll be a princess soon.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. if the problem is "go ten miles" then the fucking combustion engine works in that i can tell you a fucking fuel qty value.
mircea_popescu: i can buy by the kg if need be, and i'd like to find a way to classify assym cyphers meaningfully. say a number.
mircea_popescu: so what problem will i be able to solve if i take how much dextroamphetamine ?
mircea_popescu: while there's not a single example of "high cns function helped by chemical", you can take ps hoffman as a fine example of "idiot enhanced himself"
mircea_popescu: i dunno whence "the devil" comes from, but that aisde, the point was that speedballing does work, if with miserable side effects ; whereas smartrophine or w/e the shit is hoped to work, by a certain demographic.
mircea_popescu: we've moved from "i'll make this music better by increasing output volume" heavy metal fan approach to "i'll make this music better by speeding up the tape". welcome to the rap game yo!
mircea_popescu: this regulates firing. not glucose usage on one end ; not rational activity on the other.
mircea_popescu: ~the only reason the complicated glucose/lipid interface even exists in the liver is that muscle can't protect itself from brain
mircea_popescu: here's a newsflash : there's no mechanism to downregulate brain consumption of glucose, outside of the natural.
mircea_popescu: you seriously imagine it's a matter of "if i just increased the voltage of the south bus, i'd have twice as much ram" ? what is this, 15yo-overclockers-anonymous ?
mircea_popescu: then i don't think much of your biological model of rationality, either.
mircea_popescu: patently not what you had in mind. nor at any point a contested usage.
mircea_popescu: "the performance of my inflamatory cascade has been enhanced. asa result i am not going to die from this beesting"
mircea_popescu: we weren't discussing it in the general context. fucking obviously doping works at some point, hence inflamation supression.
mircea_popescu: yes, but we were discussing it in the context of your "i wanna solve theorems"
mircea_popescu: stop being a tightass. speedballing is the ~only performance doping actually shown to work.
mircea_popescu: it's not "they have the energy", it's "they actually care" + "they have the recuperative power".
mircea_popescu: it's not a kind of "genetic engineering" of the "magical" kind seen in ~cartoons, "this spider touched radioactive superglue at the same time as this janitor"
mircea_popescu: it's a kind of dentistry - children don't need it, they got milk teeth.