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mircea_popescu: it's infantile, sure, and moreover they're pretty miserable at it. nevertheless, it's what they're doing, and there's no outside flippable switch to get them out of it.
mircea_popescu: "this is the code i'ma run, see how much of the world i can despoil on its basis"
mircea_popescu: but the invisible line that unites curtis yarvin, that "lesswrong" derp, spandrell fellow, the restaurant manager chick yesterday, and on and on an endless list of these, is specifically that they welded the head shut.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, to formalize this, i figure there's people who're looking to take ; and people who're looking to give themselves away asciilifeform . tmsr is entirely and to some degree by design inadherent to the former. it may, maybe, work for short intervals, but not too likely, and certainly less likely over time. this results in a lot of butthurt, calling it a cult, whatever.
mircea_popescu: i could think of a more ridoinculous proposition but not readily.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wonder how much he makes out of selling books in 2016 for the love of lols.
mircea_popescu: good translators ? without exception they're major actors in one, often both cultures.
mircea_popescu: (though you'd think he'd fucking know better if he were that window - neh ?)
mircea_popescu: which is fine and all, i mean waste of his life but what's that to me.
mircea_popescu: iirc it was more a case of "hey, i'm here to promote ; oh you're not really an audience ? ok, ima go promote down the street"
mircea_popescu: fucking "take moar oestrogen" confucius & "wanna hear our inept teenage boyish oneupmanships" zeo-dan derps.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: there is no us citizen alive today who is qualified to as much as teach latin.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller not sure where that abroad would be. damascus maybe.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't really experiment with the other kind however ; an tomes lie. not by design but in effect.
mircea_popescu: alf has it. you can not, for any sum of money, acquire a classics education in the english language today.
mircea_popescu: but whatever, i have no expectation to explain to ustards that a classics education always beats a stem education. not in this life. the contrary nonsense's been derped too much, and they've never seen anyone with a classical education anyway.
mircea_popescu: you know... it's social interaction that fell behind their redittardedly advancing technologee
mircea_popescu: "One of the more interesting long-term practical benefits of the technology and concept behind decentralized autonomous organizations is that DAOs allow us to very quickly prototype and experiment with an aspect of our social interactions that is so far arguably falling behind our rapid advancements in information and social technology elsewhere: organizational governance. " << apud buterin, 2014.
mircea_popescu: it's like infants were locked in a tower somewhere and asked to imagine how the world could be.
mircea_popescu: think about it alfie, if i want to buy a thousand votes i'm going to say so and pay a million, rather than talk to a thousand derps and pay them a cent each.
mircea_popescu: Quadratic voting is a procedure that a group of people can use to jointly choose a collective good for themselves. Each person can buy votes for or against a proposal by paying into a fund the square of the number of votes that he or she buys. The money is then returned to voters on a per capita basis. Weyl and Lalley prove that the collective decision rapidly approximates efficiency as the number of voters increases. By cont
mircea_popescu: and speaking of purely academitarded wankatrons, "Glen Weyl has uploaded a new version of his paper, Quadratic Voting (written with Steven Lalley), to SSRN, which now includes the completed proofs. Quadratic voting is the most important idea for law and public policy that has emerged from economics in (at least) the last ten years.
mircea_popescu: gotta economize on the lulz, comedy goldmine running out of gold.
mircea_popescu: "This is why I love Ethereum. The main net is live for less than a year, yet tthis is the third big convention. " to quote the locals.
mircea_popescu: atm all hopes pinned on microsoft-sponsored "devcon" for the scamcoin. basically, mit can either get another usg agency involved or they're dropping it, they lost all they were gonna lose on it already.
mircea_popescu: i don';t recall when that was, they had like a week maybe ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, drama fountain, we kinda covered the basics, they just rehash, shanonize and markov the same stuff endlessly.
mircea_popescu: beetle therein depicted made it to 1yo! gets party butt-hat.
mircea_popescu: but hey, "the eu is not so much a conglomerate with a very small penis as an agglomeration with a particularly large clit"
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding they really needed the rotweiller ; and much better deal anyway
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eu has a small penis. greeks are 10mn, turks 80. not to go into details of how lazy pretentious people fit much better, or into how they're also not much of a threat.
mircea_popescu: country's basically the equivalent of shannen doherty. was hot briefly in its youth, by now it's a great way to pour money down the drain.
mircea_popescu: certainly not a sort of meal ticket for the accursed lot.
mircea_popescu: ie, something for the other greeks/romanians etc to ASPIRE to.
mircea_popescu: notrly greek in that sense. onassis is greek like i'm romanian.
mircea_popescu: internet demolished books, then printing. cable caries many million mile-tons of substitute goods per second
mircea_popescu: lol. you know how many unneeded ships there are today ?
mircea_popescu: hardly interesting. there's what, 10mn of them ? on a peninsula ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly why i don't argue for "make america great again" but "burn it all down"
mircea_popescu: otherwise this quickly becomes the greek argument, "we borrowed and spent but shouldn't have to repay because hey, new government!"
mircea_popescu: once he did, it's committed, he did it as the legitimate representative at the time, his shit no matter how dumb is binding.
mircea_popescu: notrly how this works. if they were so high and mighty, should have shot him BEFORE he committed ~the country~
mircea_popescu: point in case : if parents of useless redditard shoot him, they STILL owe on his college debt
mircea_popescu: nobody asks you to come, but once you're there you leave once the show's done.
mircea_popescu: prior to that - very friendly. after that, and especially owing to stalin's low birth behaviours, hallucinating ownership over ro gold and ro bukovina, it went downhill.
mircea_popescu: in fact thinking about it - the ro-ru bad blood starts with the revolutionary derps deserting the front. cela ne se fait pas.
mircea_popescu: nah, local chieftain fighters will ALWAYS destroy darius.
mircea_popescu: hence the "2k people signed up for deportation" lulz yest.
mircea_popescu: in that sense russland uber alles, uber alles in der welt wtf
mircea_popescu: we were after all discussing headcounts not geographical features.
mircea_popescu: course... there IS that epic tale of sobieski's siege of piatra neamt, anyone know it ?
mircea_popescu: kinda went both ways, between the suceava and krakow courts.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo eh, pre 1800s the russians hadn't yet been invented in europe. was all polish.
mircea_popescu: and in ww1, there was proper ro army alright. there wasn't proper ru army, though, lenin's idea was to a) abandon the allies front and b) go "wee wee please don't beat us up mr european powers sir"
mircea_popescu: mno, there's also that little one in the 1880s when tarevich wrote desperately to plox come to turkey and save our asses we're dying here.
mircea_popescu: ru didn't stand up so well to ro army for most of war.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dun get it, doesn't paypal charge like a buck or so fixed fee ?