asciilifeform: and turned the 'natural, inevitable' into kibble.
asciilifeform: but ~someone~ took out a sharp meat cleaver, like mine, but larger, and CHOPPED the happenstance crud off.
asciilifeform: prior to iron pill, it was perhaps supposed that 'women vary in their energy level and that's that'
asciilifeform: recall thread re mircea_popescu's pets and their iron pill ?
asciilifeform: that none of the existing dopes are demonstrably 'great idea for everyone, let's eat with breakfast' is quite a separate assertion from what i read to be mircea_popescu's supposition 'only idiot would try'
asciilifeform: doping is simply attempt to 'steal fire from the gods' and move up categories, paying whatever price.
asciilifeform: let's try slightly different question. people vary in endurance / energy / sleep req. just as they vary in height, etc.
asciilifeform: all we have re comparison is that time he made a bet and quit for month
asciilifeform: the head is not an off-the-shelf part, and so all of the manipulations are sadly subjective. possibly erdos could have achieved same result by having a servant whip him silly every morning. not my place, to say this.
asciilifeform: it would have to be a problem that is just out of reach with normal methods.
asciilifeform: an engineering tradeoff, like any other.
asciilifeform: nah, 25 y.o. overclockers, 'i'ma boost voltage by 0.1 and pump nitrogen'
asciilifeform: i'd be worried if mircea_popescu began to think much of my models.
asciilifeform: 'idiot body thinks that it should conserve the glucose, but i have this 7-dimensional optimization problem that won't solve itself so shuddthefuckup'
asciilifeform: quite similar, actually, to what i had in mind.
asciilifeform: we might have disagreement on what means 'works' ?
asciilifeform: didn't mircea_popescu earlier proclaim 'doping dun work' ?
asciilifeform: not being an aficionado, it is possible that i do not
asciilifeform: i dun really see a hard distinction between 'performance dopes' and, e.g., silicone tits, or heeled shoes, etc
asciilifeform: but - to move up the stack - mircea_popescu's comment re dopes was, in effect, 'shuddup peon and be content with what nature gave you' wasn't it ?
asciilifeform thought this was pretty clear from context..
asciilifeform: more in the 'soldiers, i demand your lives, and you will give them to me!' (tm) (r) sense
asciilifeform: 'napoleon' is typically shorthand for 'effective napoleon', unless the asylum is explicitly specified, neh ?
asciilifeform: on account of their one-time over-representation in asylums
asciilifeform: shorthand for 'exceptional mover of things' conventionally
asciilifeform: what, laser beam from the heavens has to illuminate you before you can finally napoleon ?
asciilifeform: (and no anybody else worth the mention)
asciilifeform: if everybody followed this dictum, there'd be no napoleon at all.
asciilifeform: ~the man~ doesn't distinguish, and if he tries, and is laughably off target, he ends in asylum and issued a bicorn
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is just as strange a question as 'how do i distinguish if i am ceo', or napoleon, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: think of afterburners on jet fighter. there are no afterburners on boeing liner. for good reason.
