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mircea_popescu: and ftr, just in case the kratos = power mind is strong and the verse reads "o noobs, fight shield to shield and never yield [to the enemy]", it is not. it is mide fygis aischris archete mide fovou, ""o noobs, fight shield to shield and never yield [to panic and a coward's flight]
mircea_popescu: helleniki to ro is a fucking nightmare of ages, nothing works right. NOTHING!
mircea_popescu: check me out, i actually made a proper fucking english verse to translate greek!
mircea_popescu: o neoi, alla machesthe par allaloisi menontes, o noobs, fight shield to shield and never yield
mircea_popescu: so no, an inability to have friends is in no way related with intelligence in males ; just like an inability to add is not related to symmetrical facial features in females.
mircea_popescu: it's these specific lobotomies that allow "certain kinds" of societies to function.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is an exact mirror of how a different but overlapping set of societies deliberately and elaborately belames pretty girls to think "they can't do math".
mircea_popescu: ("what do you mean it doesn't function ? yeah i didn't do anything useful with it since june last year, but I FUCKED WITH IT SIX HOURS EACH DAY SINCE!!11". )
mircea_popescu: and a functioning console still does more work than a "correct" computer with nonfunctioning gentoo on it.
mircea_popescu: the reason it actually delivers useful work is specifically that idiot behaviours, as unthinking as they may be, are actually adaptive.
mircea_popescu: basically cults are an attempt to emulate idiocy in higher functioning intellects.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> idiots support other idiots automatically, ideologically. << they do. this is the most fascinating thing : how incredibly cultish idiocy actually is.
mircea_popescu: also, who was doing what so i can see the log line read in chat ? this is starting to drive me nuts. trinque ? phf ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: might need a little manual adding/substracting because obv some keywords also appear more than once, and in the future there may be false positives, but in general...
mircea_popescu: on the theory that by now most common words appear more than once in the half gb log or w/e it is.
mircea_popescu: jurov> and it might actually bolster up creating good tmsr jargon << this is actually not a bad idea. something like "every word that appears exaclty once before shall be linked to that instance. every word that appears only in linked references produced by the foregoing gets linked to the previous instance."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> but i never had the slightest desire to own one , esp. to use for intended purpose << makes two^H^H^H all of us.
mircea_popescu: anyway, so i suppose in the "blogs that must be", we have "adlai - views from inside the insane asylum" and "phf - they have philosophy in russia even!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what grunts what rifles. they "use" "mercenaries" who use them instead.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some - with shovel ; other - with trotyl. yet another - with garden!
mircea_popescu: might consider implementing something like that trinque just in case gribble dies one day or something.
mircea_popescu: basically the problem is, that structured armor will resist 100kj in kinetic attack and melt like chocolate under 5kj of thermic attack.
mircea_popescu: punkman yeah ; too bad weaponry is moving from kinetic to fuel bomb.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the damndest thing, the people who play it aren't noobs, and the noobs don't play it :D
mircea_popescu: hey phf, can i get you to log into eulora for an hour ? i need a noob to do a bouq click to see what comes out.
mircea_popescu: si asa a ramas ursul pacalit de vulpe [and so the bear was left tricked by the fox]
mircea_popescu: whenever he catches on root, fox goes "o noes, stop with the pulling you're killing me"
mircea_popescu: whenever he catches on fox, fox cries out in joy "pull, pull, you're pulling on a root"
mircea_popescu: seeks out fox in a rage, fox runs into a tree hole. bear can't get in, grabs a hooked branch, tries to get fox
mircea_popescu: bear believes, proceeds. overnight the lake freezes, with his tail inside, as he pulls he thinks there's lots of fishes. breaks tail off.
mircea_popescu: fox explains that you go to lake, put tail in water, pull out full of fishes.
mircea_popescu: on way home, bear, who at the time had splendid tail, nicer than fox', asks where she got all the fishes.
mircea_popescu: fox wakes up to the sound of peasant driving very heavy cart full of fishes from the lake. climbs in quietly, and while on its back pushes fishes off the cart with feet. then collects it up and goes home.
mircea_popescu: how'd they say in russian, "trage, trage ca de radacina tragi"
mircea_popescu: i don't let the enemy inform my decisions by his behaviour this explicitly. you ever read the fox and bear fable ?
mircea_popescu: and in any case, scheming against an enemy modelled on the basis of yourself is rather silly, seeing how if you are so similar you shouldn't be enemies in the first place.
mircea_popescu: you use engineering valuator, which defaults to 0 and respectively maxint in certain edge cases. this comes into conflict with known floors and ceilings established through political, generally, but occasionally economical valuations.
mircea_popescu: basically, i've by now distilled the unifying, common principle of all our disagreements to date. it is as follows :
mircea_popescu: but it says exactly nothing about the item being strong, it's all about the item being worthless.
mircea_popescu: similarly, in 500 years of continued derpery, nobody bombed isfahan.
mircea_popescu: the bar it poses is exactly that, ~100 bucks, ie fifteen minute's labour or w/e.
mircea_popescu: so yes, "walled garden". except it's not so walled as to prevent INEPT third worlder to "we are accept only bitcoin".
mircea_popescu: what, and if 15 yo girlie "mocks" some dude in her english class that means she's not interested ?
mircea_popescu: if it abandons that, it no longer substantively exists.
mircea_popescu: in an ordinary zoo, humans are scored like in any other employment. by how often they come late, and other factors.
mircea_popescu: the fiat world is not such. yes, it has the choice to either become such, in which case we won, or else keep trying to pretend no child left behind. in which case we win. etc.
mircea_popescu: the correct model, ie, the zoo, is right here. the republic is a zoo. outsiders are kept in cage.
mircea_popescu: a better model would be "a zoo where the humans are scored by how many times the animals have sex with them"
mircea_popescu: in any case : the fiat world will never be secure, no matter what.
mircea_popescu: i don't think you take the point, perhaps for lack of familiarity with anaximander.