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mircea_popescu: and since "progress" spans ALL the environment, the assessment's fair.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman but there's not that many alternative causations. it could either be genetic or environmental.
mircea_popescu: and that something... doesn't have to be a meteor strike. suppose one of the three changes sides and goes full republic. what then.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: but that aside ... and incidentally THIS is why "apocalyptic" scenarios are so fucking dangerous. god only help you if you're trying to live "in the civilised world" and ANYTHING happens to keep any one of those three from his toys.
mircea_popescu: it's economically masked by the fact that power leverage increased with technology, exponentially - so to run a 10`000 group then you needed 1k > 100 and 100 > 110 and at least a dozen > 120, but now 3 people over 115 suffice.
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea how progress, improvement and liberation resulted in a palpable drop of 25-30 iq points across the entire population, but there it is.
mircea_popescu: (which was, at the time, the fate of the highly functional retards. women above 90iq actually married.)
mircea_popescu: hanbot for all the derpage about "liberation" etc - most women don't actually behave like they're old enough to be house servants.
mircea_popescu: education however - has. reformed out the wazoo by all sorts of ustardian/evanghelical/whatever derps.
mircea_popescu: genetics have not changed in a century ; or in ten millenia for that matter.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside how they wouldn't pass the ridicule of the flauberts of that world.
mircea_popescu: i don't think one third of present "first world" folk would pass a rigorous sanity check as executed by 1916 mental health practitioners.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but whatever, as long as conde nast's happy that reddit gets "user generated content" all's well.
mircea_popescu: to anyone qualified in the field it's obvious that this approach helps psychosis and hurts neurosis ; and that it's about 1000 times more likely to be picked up by the neurotic than by the psychotic. for the very fucking obvious reason that cures predicated on health are no fucking cures whatsoever omfg what school did these nitwits go to anyway!
mircea_popescu: ie, that cbt shit. supposedly if you write down everything in detail instead of doing it, you'll be better.
mircea_popescu: turns out, this, like most everything else in mental pathology, is actually the result of attempted curative practices
mircea_popescu: hanbot you know, looking through it... one thing that struck me about the abundance of patently insane esl folk is, this strange, rare (from a clinical pov) tendency to minutiously document their whatevers.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lost forever in the streets of whaledom... he's the man that never ret-urned.
mircea_popescu: or maybe the day BingoBoingo wanders into a cunt and the cunt doesn't let him leave/
mircea_popescu: and "nobody knows" that new ones pop here as they happen, ofcourse. lettuce not be divisive.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can't recall who's wash ro ambassador. but traditionalyl that thing's a total rat's nest of spyppls.
mircea_popescu: fuck, 50 years ago people'd be so impressed you had a computer at all they'd hire you. etc.
mircea_popescu: used to be how this worked, 150 or so years ago. you wrote to the newspaper, and they were so impressed you could write at all they'd hire you.
mircea_popescu: girl's clearly havign fun / feeling safe / all in lubs and shit. which is definitely something that went out of porn with the end of the 80s.
mircea_popescu: bad crop, bad pose, what the fuck is it with the milkstained, nipple torn bra and so on.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the muppets live off pretense and derpage. perfectly self-consistent.
mircea_popescu: so word around the campfire is that president donald trunkduck is going to have a turducken dinner for his wh inauguration.
mircea_popescu: so what, qntra spaceship left earth in 2015 and that's that ?
mircea_popescu: i guess one thing here is, maybe qntra should have a lexicon ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo listen, perhaps an article discussing us corn inventories and market not the best explanatory piece for "obestiality and transmayogenderism".
mircea_popescu: to quote teh typically frustrated esltard, "I like this game, but I have gotten as far as I can go...not the end of the game, mind you, I just can't get any farther. There is no information available anywhere about how to get past these obstacles. No point in playing anymore. "
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone know guardian sword (picsoft) ? pretty decent roguelike adventure ~for teh ipad~. complete with involuntary translation lulz etc.
mircea_popescu: "From Ernst Katlenbrunner to Preet Bharara, a history of SS Police and Policing"
mircea_popescu: (in other lulz of perhaps BingoBoingo interest, did anyone else know that preet bharara has an illustrious antecessor the original director of the original interpol - at the time called "international criminal police commission", but rebranded to avoid the stigma - who was actually hanged for his activities ?)
mircea_popescu: it's not practical to have physically-blocked "in same room looking at same kbd" sorta arrangement there, costs more than it can ever be worth.
mircea_popescu: phf for THAT kind of pairing, you can't beat irc pairing. it's, in a sense, what i do all day, let "weaker" (ie, more specialised) pairs drive, i got a whole raft of 'em.
mircea_popescu: i think i may even do it that way deliberately - make it a girls only corporation and fu. just to bother teh ustards.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i'll have you know that s.mg is/was ever since forever 100% girl tech corp.
mircea_popescu: phf> for effective pairing weaker pair should always be driving << mno, for effective pairing pair should be having sex.
mircea_popescu: mod6> but since like... at least mid-feb, a lady has been watching my every move. << o no, got lady cat ?!
mircea_popescu: the notion that the us would be derping at bnr is beyond fucking lulzy, what's next, a critique of bach by j. timberfake ?
mircea_popescu: "us" can by and large get fucked, they don't have nor had since perhaps morgenthau anyone in a central bank seat that can compare to romania's.
mircea_popescu: wtgf is that nytimes bs. "it said it said" lalala .what ?
mircea_popescu: for a second there i thought alf moved on to reading bitcointalk for lack of fishfapping material.
mircea_popescu: davout> most of those are 1024 bit though << this may as well be an advantage. phuctor benefits from long primes in its 8ball
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo server is up, but web is iffy. patience will resolve teh matter.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi ; besides, python also installs in user directory neh ? doesn't have to be systemwide.
mircea_popescu: Moduli Waiting for Test: 20 << still getting these huh. nice.
mircea_popescu: Mother mother fuck, mother mother fuck fuck, mother fuck mother fuck noish noish. One, two, one two three four noish noish noish noish. Smokin weed smokin whizz doin coke drinkin beers drinkin beers beers beers. Rollin fatties, smokin blunts. Whos smokes blunts? We smoke blunts. Rollin blunts and smokin..
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "the place where middleaged couples with strange ideas about what'd put the spark back in the bedroom go for massage-vacations"
mircea_popescu: i am not so convinced the past 60 years made the us any less of a culturally impoverished zimbabwe. it's still not a nation, nor much of a country. it doesn't even make much of a hotel, used to be a sort of cote d'azur, now more like jamaica.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, it DID make the job of recruiters that much easier.
mircea_popescu: experience seems amusingly enough to confirm this theory.
mircea_popescu: it stands then to reason to say that classification is more of a hr/personnel retention tool than a opsec instrument.
mircea_popescu: = "opportunity cost" + "self-actualisation value", and since the sort of idiots that actually take jobs with the nsa have very simple "self actualisation" functions, which often evaluate to "be in a place where things are called 'classified'", then this necessarily is a +.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to look at it from a different perspective : attaching the attribute "classified" to a specified item has a number of effects on the world, some of which can have associated values that are computable. one such example is : that it triggers interest from the enemy, however defined. this is clearly a -. another one such example is : that it makes the workforce feel more important. since compensation always has to
mircea_popescu: PeterL something like that. i wouldn't lend money in general, i'm not old and out of touch enough for that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform goes right back to the whole "gestapo couldn't keep abreast of all the phonecalls from the "innocent public" they kept receiving". just like policeman rarely works there as a job, and generally works there as a hedge against his own inferiority complexes, derps working for nsa work there mostly for to be working there.
mircea_popescu: (yes - that's the point of sending kids to school. to get them from where their average capital productivity is < 0% to where they get at least even with average. which should be within reach for an iq 100 fellow ; which is the only meaningful definition of iq available in the first place.)
mircea_popescu: PeterL even if they do, if you can't use capital more productively than 5% a year it's time to go back to school.
mircea_popescu: as the romanian expression goes, prostu' parca nu-i destul daca nu e si fudul.