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mircea_popescu: somehow i doubt the real life models were nearly as... bubbly.
mircea_popescu: dude chinese people from the mao ebullitious era all share this rodent appearance. like walking voles or something, all round and teethy.
mircea_popescu: nor has it ever been, actually. so as a practical matter, you're guaranteed some contamination.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fine, but this practical approach does not resolve the discussed 19yo's problem any ; it's not practical to enforce separation between idiocy and sense on all the edges, nor will it ever be.
mircea_popescu: your notion that "gods" could be just a label, and then you promote "science" to "god-dom" and everythig will be ok because "it's not really a god" is outright endearing.
mircea_popescu: so yes of fucking course it creeps in, i can't be arsed to police the entire edge of the fucking world.
mircea_popescu: how do you at this point distinguish this encounter from you know, joining a cult ?
mircea_popescu: hey check that out, you weren't even holding the knife correctly...
mircea_popescu: part and parcel of this being, you discover you're actually kinda dumb...
mircea_popescu: so, you're a young and enthused, reasonably clever, 19yo girl in random shithole country.
mircea_popescu: no. thats the crazy thing. you think, at first, that it does.
mircea_popescu: thgere was an action movie with an old fuck holding a rifle exactly like a fishing rod
mircea_popescu: there's this lively "industria argentina" making shitty movies, and you know, it's so obviously retard kid copying it hurts
mircea_popescu: obviously, a certain lassitude of thought is required to think properly. but nowhere is it said that if you shit in toilet, you must also bathe in toilet, eat from toilet...
mircea_popescu: it's a wonderful thing, i don't rightly understand it either, but they're terrible at it.
mircea_popescu: well, the problem with getting the schwartzes together is that they're traditionally VERY indisciplined.
mircea_popescu: but, like music, or love or whatever the fuck, it's a complete package, with motivation falling within it not without it.
mircea_popescu: it can be what you do, if you choose to do it. it can be what you "are", if you care to think in those terms.
mircea_popescu: being a scientist is not, nor can be, ~ a profession~. you understand ?
mircea_popescu: you suppose if a coupla choice quotes get your penis wet, shakespeare goers "oh look, some fuckwad got laid, my life's not been in vain" ?
mircea_popescu: and the idea is that if pbs made a weekend special about it, what, majorana'd feel better ?
mircea_popescu: what the fuck difference could it possibly make WHO READS IT!
mircea_popescu: go camming or whatevert it is, people will look at you.
mircea_popescu: you're just another retarded teenage whore with a narcissism complex.
mircea_popescu: looky, if you want to do things FOR SUCH REASONS, you have absolutely no business deluding yourself with notions of "science" or whatever.
mircea_popescu: "how can i be an independent married woman" "you can't be" "but i want to live like i please and make my own decisions and also have fambly and stuff" "shut the fuck up, you're too stupid to breathe"
mircea_popescu: people like to delude themselves about all sorts of optionalities that they neither have nor could exist.
mircea_popescu: gotta know when you have the ~obligation~ to join the terrorists.
mircea_popescu: well, principally schwartz has power to prevent schwartz. usually through variations of imgur thing.
mircea_popescu: the notion that the computer "creates" priests is not unlike the 3yo's notion that THE CHAIR ~made it~ stumble.
mircea_popescu: and that math is insufficient is already seen in, say, protein study.
mircea_popescu: well, the reason that is all we have is that previous physics died in a pool of its own vomit ; and that current math is not up to the task of supporting a repair.
mircea_popescu: it's not related with "strings" other than, finally universally accepted proof they're nonsense.
mircea_popescu: because neither of these are, substantially, bars to its being physics.
mircea_popescu: and you base this on anything other than "it's large and i don't exactly understand how it functions" ?
mircea_popescu: what is this, ricochet thinking with very angry people ?
mircea_popescu: but you seem to have attached in a random spot to my comparison, that wasn't in any sense contemplated in the original discussion.
mircea_popescu: is icbm fuel tank "megalomaniacal" because of parochial view that ride-on lawnmower tank "should be enough for everyone" ?
mircea_popescu: what exactly "megalomaniacal" ? i dun get it. it's a tool.
mircea_popescu: right, in the sense that it went as far as tesla-style can go
mircea_popescu: what'd you have me call it ? take the cern cyclotron as the flagship example.
mircea_popescu: that's exactly what i was talking about ; no idea why you colored it in idiocy-du-jour nsa crapolade./
mircea_popescu: and in physics, you could spend 10bn years with a spaceship and a huge fly net, get same effect.
mircea_popescu: naked eye means no one's showing you anything, you're seeing. opposite situation.
mircea_popescu: you're the cunt in this relationship. the penis, is ITS.
mircea_popescu: says the man who believes pgpdump -i to be "naked eye"
mircea_popescu: yeah well, good luck with that. nosce te ipsum's a bridge too far
mircea_popescu: science as "fits in head" is not exactly practicable anymore.
mircea_popescu: point remains, the way ahead is probably going to be automated maths (as we discussed re v a year ago) applied to immense reams of data. just like in genetics, and so following.