mircea_popescu: once the blog's back remind me an' i'll link you.

mircea_popescu: " The ability to incrementally develop programs (featured in the first video) has been a cornerstone feature of Lisp since the 80s (or earlier). " << you know this is the only way i like to program in the rare cases i actually do ?

mircea_popescu: i should probably put a "if you don't see the css, please get the latest version of your browser"

mircea_popescu: dux, more properly said. "interface with the stupid users". while i see a clear reason why all women should twerk, whether they like to or not, i see no reason any computer should ever twerk, whether women want them to or not.

mircea_popescu: and i could go on but whatevs. not like we're writing the encyclopedia of stupid.

mircea_popescu: irc is the largest challenge to blogging i ever saw.

mircea_popescu: "So what is power? According to our friend Thomas Hobbes: servants, friends, riches, reputation, success, affability, nobility, eloquence, and being handsome." sheeit i had forgotten that definition.

mircea_popescu: "if only you were a sheep" "but i'm to big to be a sheep!" "nevertheless" "but sheep don't get milk anyway" "well... they're in the general area of where cheese is made..."

mircea_popescu: i go to fratelli icecream parlour, does that insult you ?

mircea_popescu: you can be the dean of aids-is-cured-by-raping-virgin-infants university of harare for all i care.

mircea_popescu: moreover,without specific cause, why would i judge the affairs of another to begin with ?

mircea_popescu: anyway, to answer the general question : biases are a statistic concept, they are meaningful when discussing groups, not individuals. for all i know you're there to troll them, or the only pipe you can get water to your house in happens to be rusted, what are you to do, be without water at all ? gotta wash etc.

mircea_popescu: i don't particularly care, but doesn't it make you yourself wonder ?

mircea_popescu: than with no conjugal arrangements to speask of and institutionally abused people ("but you don't know mit like i do!")

mircea_popescu: imo society would be better off with a lot of conjugally abused women ("but you don't know him like i do!") and functioning institutions

mircea_popescu: i am saying that historically kids that could add were excused from having to express themselves on the very flimsy grounds that "hey, not like they went to vassar, they're technical minds". hence the humanities-technicals division.

mircea_popescu: i do not read in the original speaker even the faintest glimmer of intellectual life.

mircea_popescu: it's really a very well constructed piece, what with this classical parts of discourse, reinforcements of thesis etc approach. the guy that made it handshakes with me, and that's why i believe the piece to be important. it's not a matter of the wikified "was it or wasn't it", totalitarian superficialism. it's that the guy that made it clearly knows what he should be saying, and how.

mircea_popescu: and that problem is present, and that problem is the deep reason i despise mit as an intellectual approach.

mircea_popescu: i've never irl met anyone who couldn't actually light a bulb.

mircea_popescu: I knew a girl once, she was very smart. She went to mit, then returned but never came back.

mircea_popescu: I once knew a girl, she was very smart. she went to mit, and never came back.

mircea_popescu: i propose, broadly, that nobody ever cites wikipedia, in any context. for this exact reason : source needed.

mircea_popescu: africa is actually, at least from what i've observed, extremely ordered. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel " I've assembled some quotes from Wikipedia which paint, from what I could tell, an accurate picture," what is the meaning of "from what i could tell" in that sentence ? because the follow-up, "I've lived in the US for 22 years and heard nothing about" seems essentially an appeal to ignorance. but that aside, how does the "From what i could tell" construct emerge here ?

mircea_popescu: if you think about how a split is driven into wood, i mean the newtonian mechanics underlying the process, you have the model ready : each advancement of the split is a "reaction to" one side or the other overbalancing.

mircea_popescu: trinque yeah, which i insist on the score. the way the brokedness system has propagated itself since at least hamilton, ie two centuries ago,

mircea_popescu: Googling "Leeland Yee", "California IOU", "Keith Jackson" or "mexican gangs" paints a rather grim picture. << i thought the web was broken.

mircea_popescu: self directed learning is like declaratory gender. "i am a woman now". "i am a chemist now". wd eh.

mircea_popescu: "i can't believe i'm losing all this weight. i am eating way more than b4"

mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i hope you appreciate i hit you over the head because i like you.

mircea_popescu: i've been there yo. i lived half a year in lowell, mass. i ate half my meals in the house of professors there. i know the place, as it happens.

mircea_popescu: so i should be careful with my windows 7 - ready laptop around them ?

mircea_popescu: well, that's the function, financially, whatever. i mean you know, in its own privacy.

mircea_popescu: uh. this is like saying "these drama nerds are very sexy, i know one writing for sex in the city"

mircea_popescu: alternatively, i could tell you what's fundamentally broken with them :

mircea_popescu: i don't see how it matters. a school which takes 100 7yos, produces 86 dead 18 yos and 14 sane 18yos is best school.

mircea_popescu: mebbe i dun understand teh terminologies.

mircea_popescu: i don't get why you'd do anythin other than a db import