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mircea_popescu: ah, and THEY don't have any children. yeah i can see that argument in that context.
mircea_popescu: if children had actual marginal utility i would have children. by the dozen.
mircea_popescu: it's an option though. i could, if i were so inclined. i'm not, but that's a societal failure.
mircea_popescu: ah, poverty. sure. si quis, inquis, dives est, tum cenare potest cum cupit. si pauper...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i guess she's getting out one way or another. but then again this'd be why i own my women as opposed to marrying them.
mircea_popescu: well i find this claim unsubstantiated so far, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: you just object to the notion some people might not give a shit what women think ?
mircea_popescu: well, especially all the sometimes you've decided not to have a choice.
mircea_popescu: so ridiculous, "i'm a colonel at nsa" "nice, i'm a regatta rear admiral!"
mircea_popescu: i don't do that, nor would i. but i suppose i'm to leave this aside ?
mircea_popescu: but you never explained any mechanics of the dislike, merely stated it.
mircea_popescu: the debates as to genetic basis for intelligence have raged for a while in the logs. it's not really settled i guess, but there's certainly no merit for NATIONAL concepts of intelligence hm ?
mircea_popescu: i had some pretty clever friends that part of the world.
mircea_popescu: spandrell for the record, it's not at all an islamic argument. why would anyone but an idiot hang out with the idiots ? who ever goes willingly to an accountant party ? etc.
mircea_popescu: check it out asciilifeform the 1300s chinese novel even has the "bitcoin corrupts" doctrine. "obviously he was a bro, and all bros of the world should join the rebel army".
mircea_popescu: yeah, prior to bitcoin that was the case with me exactly.
mircea_popescu: there's a huge pile of interlocking wonders that make up la serenissima, i'll be more than happy to explain them in detail as time goes by.
mircea_popescu: the bot allows you to self-voice, if you have the WoT presence, which you likely will because i'd rate you.
mircea_popescu: so the way this channel works is that you register your pgp signature with the bot ; and then you can maintain an identity. otherwise anyone can "be" spandrell
mircea_popescu: why would i want to read a tv show script, good lord. even the people paid to do it don't.
mircea_popescu: yeah i'll have it fished out ; just thought maybe you know something. worth asking.
mircea_popescu: i'm genuinely curious whether it'll read offensive or you're just a pansy.
mircea_popescu: oh also, reading this article makes me want to round my knowledge of medieval chinese literature (which consists of golden lotus, vase and spring plumlet) with this other thing. know of any decent edition of said "water margin" in any european language i could get online ?
mircea_popescu: lemme fish his good looking chicklooks hmm where was it
mircea_popescu: anyway, asciilifeform is this fellow by the name Stanislav Datskovskiy.
mircea_popescu: i thought that's where people go to meet all the hot japanese chicks!
mircea_popescu: hm. because you never met anyone ? or because you know who he is irl ?
mircea_popescu: ^ it's all integrated, you know. the someone was asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: well, it's a loose assemblage of terrorists dedicated to destroying the very possibility of what you'd call "a state" and salting the earth where it stood
mircea_popescu: the most serene republic is the most serene because it is the sovereign of all fiat governments, not because it's quiet.
mircea_popescu: but serenity is here used in the metaphorical, political sense of medieval europe
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and check out the comments - he has his very own viragh all spinning.
mircea_popescu: (and yes the book burning was correct in spirit, if not particularly productive in implementation. the faux "humanism" nonsense is infamant.)
mircea_popescu: re about righteousness and love, about what is right for all humanity”. This in 300 BC. Do you see now why the First Emperor burnt their books and buried the scholars alive after he unified the Empire?"
mircea_popescu: "So basically, Confucius today would approve of Angela Merkel and Bryan Caplan. Thanks dude. No wonder he was never taken seriously by any of the dozens of kings of his time, and died a low-class civil servant. His universalism however was catnip for the nascent class of non-aristocratic bureaucrats, who developed it for centuries after his death. They loved this “we are above armies, borders, and that gruesome stuff. We ca
mircea_popescu: he is clever. to wit : "What kind of intellectual climate existed in that time. What happens when everyone is coming up with new ideas all the time? Think about it in contemporary terms. What happens when everybody and his grandma has his own ideas is… a whole lot of signaling spirals."
mircea_popescu: anyway, props to the blody shovel dude for noticing the obvious
mircea_popescu: in the end, there's no real solution to naggum's point. herd tither.
mircea_popescu: brilliant solution. now they'll be responsible for curating it.