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mircea_popescu: but you really have to be retarded to imagine a ploy to claim industrial production is bad isn't obviously transparent and deeply ineffectual.
mircea_popescu: in a sense i can see it, must be satisfying to actually MAKE something in postsociety.
mircea_popescu: it's this fashion thing, i guess every third unemployed/able chick is making artisanal soap these days.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in another decade there won't be a way to buy soap.
mircea_popescu: (actually, amusingly enough, swift docs date from just about the era ada was fashionable. there was such a time - just like that time in the 90s when everyone was eager to implement linux-y things and you didn't really have to sell it at all, whole cities just switched for no reason)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so there's a meta-documentation that's secret and a faux documentation that's published ?
mircea_popescu: it's remarkably open and well documented for a fiat banking thing.
mircea_popescu: you could trivially test this swift hypothesis of yours you know - wire a grand to the next nigerian to visit your inbox then write to your bank to reverse it.
mircea_popescu: that's not the proper approach there. consider that you'd "entertain laughably innacurate hypothesis" about a) things that really make no difference to you ; b) with which you have absolutely no experience and c) that have exactly nothing in common with a hypothesis and everything in common with an article of faith.
mircea_popescu: mind, selling amulets is a trade like any other trade. wearing them is what was being discussed.
mircea_popescu: (technically speaking, the mp license is actually an anti-amulet, in the sense that it makes life impossible for a certain sort of lunatic. inasmuch as its effectiveness is not predicated on metaphysical but on quite physical considerations, it's just a virus.)
mircea_popescu: in any case - lunacy is not here contemplated. lunacy is actually in practice a very high bar of achievement. you're just weird, which is boringly common, especially in accomplished folks.
mircea_popescu: once they become necessary and "necessarily effectual", it gets iffy
mircea_popescu: yes, they are. for as long as they're decorative, it's one thing.
mircea_popescu: basically. spurious item of presumed physical effectiveness predicated on the basis of metaphysical considerations.
mircea_popescu: but anyway - i suppose the first symtpom of the barrier giving way is when you start including specific amulet comments
mircea_popescu: but the wonder is that you manage to maintain this weird somehow encapsulated while writing code. one would find the notion improbable, on the face, but then again i've read said code.
mircea_popescu: if i ever move to portland and open a shrink practice ima send you a flyer.
mircea_popescu: besides this should be 1/4btc per hour and i should have a sofa./
mircea_popescu: that is not a question i can actually answer, i don't know you well enough
mircea_popescu: had it touched elephants, you'd have a justification about elephant anatomy, just as well.
mircea_popescu: your "notion of how swift works" has absolutely nothing to do with swift, working or notions, and everything to do with you justifying your own theft which happened to touch of swift so now yhou have a "hypothesis" about that.
mircea_popescu: mno. the policeman looks at the item, and asks question. the psychotic thief looks AT THE POLICEMAN and "answers" question.
mircea_popescu: it's the response to the question ; it only exists with the question, dies with the last echo of the question. it has no factual basis.
mircea_popescu: "but you did take the thing and put it up your ass" "yes but no it wasn't a thing not my ass not me"
mircea_popescu: "why did you steal ?" "i had to i didnt really steal it wasn't me"|
mircea_popescu: justification is the verbiage produced in response to inquiry.
mircea_popescu: mno. you are ready to either accept it as a valid justification, or else accept it as a justification that needs futher justification.
mircea_popescu: because you aren't in control of the cognitive process that involves it.
mircea_popescu: it can not be true or false. as long as it's what you need to believe, it'll be there.
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, the name for what you put out is not "hypothesis", it's justification.
mircea_popescu: so you're engaging in intricate description of an item you've never seen. you need explanation of why this is psychotic ?
mircea_popescu: the path to mp world starts by now fucking having an opinion about how swift works when you've sent a grand total of... 0 ? 10 ? what is it ?
mircea_popescu: and note that this is no argument ; this is a judgement.
mircea_popescu: "you are lacan. your picture of the universe is complete and unrelated to any extant universe. have fun with it."
mircea_popescu: i'm not engaging that particular insanity any further.
mircea_popescu: i'm thoroughly exhausted all patience trying to engage the thing, so let's just let you live in your own world and mark once and forever that i lend it exactly the aforementioned credence.
mircea_popescu: i find this proposition that there actually exists a us elite utterly hysterical.
mircea_popescu: think about yourself as a reader. then read it. is the piece all it could have been ?
mircea_popescu: problem being that every tard out there already "feels like he's secretly in a movie", so this, much like gestapo stuff generally, is well desired by the genpop.
mircea_popescu: used to. currently, the bottom fell out, and the local nigglets are pissed off.
mircea_popescu: not like it made anything that'd be remembered once it stops paying for the service.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller no, eventually birthrate -> .5 and we forgot this particular hittite empire ever existed, just like all the other ones.
mircea_popescu: thailand is a pretty interesting case - back in the 90s it seemed very well positioned to become a tech superpower. then... fizzled, somehow. korea won.
mircea_popescu: that poor woman, she's done no film without a rape scene in it. if there ever was an actor that actually answered to the higher call of the profession, it's probably her. and yet people will readily ignore the point and focus on anything and everything, "hey, random stupid broad with nothing to say wants us to buy detergent!"