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mircea_popescu: and you know, in the endless "protocol vs promise" thing (such as - if you free man from labour, you will get incredible developments in culture and civilisation (promise) ; or else you'll get a horde of decayed re-monkeys (protocol) | respectively "if you include women in the political process, you'll get the fundamental if unobvious points to males, like this one, well included and represented into the public matters (promi
mircea_popescu: as phf says, "it's nice to make an effort to see the competent are accidentally included". there's no promise there, nor can be. the only promise is that the shitheads won't long survive.
mircea_popescu: meritocracy means that all involved are competent ; not, pointedly not, that all competent are involved.
mircea_popescu: the notion that meritocracy means "EVERY meritous individual" gets a place is buluceala out and out, and has nothing to do with meritocracy. such a socialist rewriting of the concept is an insult to humanity in the first place ; but to sit and wonder why the cardboard cut "in the shape of a car" and with car written on it doesn't take you places... c;mon.
mircea_popescu: mply "it's undemocratic and therefore bad" or "it's unrepresentative and therefore evil". Reality doesn't work that way."
mircea_popescu: "The #bitcoin-assets aristocracy is not incompetent. Whether in anyone's estimation others not named are just as or even more competent is immaterial : arbitrariety is not the problem, incompetence is. The #bitcoin-assets aristocracy is not particularly fixed, at least in the sense of it being extensible (in fact the list was 25 names long earlier). Therefore, objections on this line will have to be a lot more refined than si
mircea_popescu: this view may even be correct ; but then their inability to maintain abundant, loyal whores is very striking. it's such an obvious point of failure, after all. but hey, not that i don't understand them - the whore will kneel lovingly, but not before every idiot. and being a self-indulgent idiot is so much... easier... and nicer... and pushing yourself so... hmm... is it even compatible with the dignity of warrior ? ain't that
mircea_popescu: in their view, strangely mirrored by various other failed warrior castes, such as the manchuku or the usg, translation is a whore's job.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-15#1466771 << it's more complicated. turks believed that it is below the dignity of a warrior (you have to remember - for a stretch about a degree of magnitude longer than "modernity", being the guy who beat up the cows, bipedal or otherwise, and took their shit was the only respectable line of work for a healthy male ; starting with the romans) to learn languages.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: you certainly can't put later lines in if earlier lines are missing, that's asking for black eyes.
mircea_popescu: w actually did!) would have more or less brought back the burning stake.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-15#1466767 << and if brass had unmitigated audacity to answer "because the jews educate their women to be sluts, which results in the boys being motivated to think, which means one of them can eat ten of your evanghelical shitheaded sons for breakfast. fix your fucking religion, you're lagging behind the fucking irish, even the negro reinterpretation thereof is more socially productive" (as a fe
☝︎ mircea_popescu: very good. see that this is a very iffy point of failure, in the sense that the chances to end up an enemy of the people inadvertently are possibly best. seeing the logs incorrect gets ~everyone's defcon level up a notch or two
mircea_popescu: but anyway, looking forward to more "{Security researchers|IT specialists|Computer experts} with {University of Derp in Derpistan|USG.RedHat.Whatever|The HTTPS Internet} published {Literotica|Fetlife|OkCupid|Ask.fm|Phuctor|whatever} {database|userlist|secret excel codebase} publicly! We don't have a copy because we don't believe in things, we prefer names."
mircea_popescu: but perhaps if you're esl, "made public" means "made privately available to some people who aren't us" or something. god knows everything else means something else, so what the hell's the difference.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi who designed an anti-nuke system that depends on parking lots ffs. or, for that matter, who the fuck believes this/
mircea_popescu: or, as the case is here, land based locators. really, you're gonna use something on land ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in other news, ro politruk class snubbed the us inauguration of some radars or w/e on romanian soil, part of rocket shield lulzfest.
mircea_popescu: of course as far as the crap on tv went, "la cererea publicului [tele]spectator"
mircea_popescu: $v A574295F5F7E38C19A515336EF66E2AEA509070C8C7E5F55CD0080E250F6EE44
mircea_popescu: $google (mips-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.17.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8i zlib/1.2.3
mircea_popescu: no man has a famblee unless a) he's an idiot or b) the woman's +ev.
mircea_popescu: you think the young are at an advantage on oregon trail vs say boston ?!
mircea_popescu: so currently i'm suspecting it's more of an environment issue than an old man issue
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends. i am not convinced by this theory because i've seen the % vary very wildly across culutres.
mircea_popescu: so whether they are or are not distinct, there's no requirement the distinction can be stated.
mircea_popescu: (there isn't a general rule that all edges of the implication ball are part of this world. much like there's no guarantee that all the numbers coming out of a defined arithmetic operation are in the set of numbers you can display)
mircea_popescu: there's no way to even show that the possibility of such meaning exists.
mircea_popescu: now, WHY the three people that actually matter may no longer do their magic... whatever. maybe their toy breaks. maybe evil alien xenomorph mp comes and breaks their moore law and they're up shit creek without it. maybe they just start hating the morlochs.
mircea_popescu: overall, the tribe of monkeys still makes ~ what it always made
mircea_popescu: so today things are just a lot more fragile and that's all.
mircea_popescu: fact is that where you needed 10% of the population before you need 0.1% now. and, economy being what it is and human nature being what it is, this "saving" did not get passed on. it just went into lazy, inefficient and wasteful.
mircea_popescu: no particular construction was built on top of it. could be this, could be that.
mircea_popescu: for which reason there can not exist "america" of the previous millennium. not no more. nor "western europe" nor any of the rest of the stuff.
mircea_popescu: the decision came out "make another", which is === shrug.
mircea_popescu: happened sometime in the 90s, also. after a brief euphoria post the berlin wall moment, people went "well what now ?". just like in that joke with the gypsy woman, "do we wash it or do we make another ?"
mircea_popescu: happens all the time ; but in order to live in a certain shared psychosis, the key is to "not notice".
mircea_popescu: notably, the us exists today because some people shrugged at some point in the 18th century.
mircea_popescu: throughout the 70s women never "seemed" to suck the cock in real life either.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> (incidentally why should usg be doing ~all~ of the thermo-journalism!? time for free men to do their share..?) << this is quite so.
mircea_popescu: <Framedragger> mircea_popescu: are you still interested << well... not someone whose attention span is five minutes ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhuile dumbass f-secure site pops all the bullshit surveys and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: the idiots are prolly regexp matching ".py" in the generated-by meta tag or somesuch idiocy.
mircea_popescu: in yet another example of "security industry" being a bunch of useless scammers, "<Wise> Why is my fsecure antivirus stopping the
http://logs.minigame.bz webpage in my browser claiming it´s suspect?"
mircea_popescu: so by 2020 "university research" will consist of reading logs and naught else. win.
mircea_popescu: improving on nature is how fish tanks start with fish and end up with algae.
mircea_popescu: educating children by the sight of the whip only works in children that have lived experience with the cut of the whip. otherwise, it's just some weird churchly ritual of no meaning, power or importance.
mircea_popescu: and people suspected the river is stocked with enough garbagemen to allow for the occasional dumping of garbage.
mircea_popescu: mental health, i mean. the problem of "coffin liners" that asciilifeform discussed in the log is the direct counter to this. if they don't catch their death of cold, they lose track of themselves. this is not good.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's great for his fucking health that if he starts running around the field packing chicken with snow he catches a cold and dies.
mircea_popescu: but if you ask the economiasts of the statu quo, they would say yes, this is progress - fewer idiots die now than then.
mircea_popescu: a few generations ? that's too fast for most bacteria.
mircea_popescu: i do not care to distinguish which specific facet of progress did more, or most, or anything.