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mircea_popescu: medicine has ~0 to do with all this (as does democracy).
mircea_popescu: but other than that : the rivers of meat spawn from the generalized sanitation, and are fed by generalized refrigeration
mircea_popescu: not really medicine. people keep going to "medicine", but this is nonsense. for one thing, medicine is in no better shape than it was during classical times, with one major exception : traumatology. which is what unleashed rivers of black athlete, it's true.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the crusades touched pretty much every able bodied male
mircea_popescu: this is exactly counterfactual. the us is fighting the largest battle of a generation, fails to get ANY soldiers over at tikrit.
mircea_popescu: hence back when president bahamas of 1400 ran into "a crisis", what they did was a crusade
mircea_popescu: this may not be the case in marginal, primitive lands, but then again technology diffuses on a gradient.
mircea_popescu: it's just that at some point some % of gdp went into researching pewter alloys and making dumbass candlesticks and now it doesn't.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (organised here is used as a psych term of art - same way "organised delusion" works)
mircea_popescu: it may be rare or common in your environment, but the church sure as hell doesn't dare try and impose a tax, but instead fell back on the b-a taxation model.
mircea_popescu: well... the thing about rat poison is that the rats don't need to know about it for it to work.
mircea_popescu: what is "organised terrorism" ? a large enough group of people who think there's absolutely nothing wrong with setting things on fire if they were government things.
mircea_popescu: a middle aged woman in queens going "when you die you die. that's it. you don't go anywhere." as overheard in "the conversion" seinfeld episode.
mircea_popescu: now, it's true that the self important ignoramus has not been discontinued by this ;' and it's true that he's found new crevices to hide and be gavin andersen in. nevertheless, this is not part of the definition.
mircea_popescu: well no, removed the entire religion thing, from the "must build cathedral" to "tithe" - speaking of which, you ever seen l'avare with de funes ? epic tithing scene in there - and on and on. review the literature of the 1800s, about half the drivel printed was various clerics opiniong self importantly on matters they thoroughly ignored.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: tbh the best example of closing technology to date would be organised atheism.
mircea_popescu: not really. disruptive simply means that the industrial pathways have to be reconstructed. not different from war in this sense.
mircea_popescu: i can see the argument in favour of isolating all "cloud" crapolade anyway, from everything.
mircea_popescu: and there's really no rule on what a node owner does to maintain his own network. you want to cut off aws, cut off aws.
mircea_popescu: yet another theme one can lose an entire team of engineers in
mircea_popescu: "oh my god what if i read it and it makes sense to me".
mircea_popescu: well i suspect the reason for that disinterest is simple fear.
mircea_popescu: and the list could continue. there's piles of patristics, all the way to the divine doctor himself, doing nothing else. what's plotinus exactly ?
mircea_popescu: is composed of one inch squares repeating ad infinitum (edison, gates, the us generally) or is actually a pattern as large as the wall itself (ie, cultivated)
mircea_popescu: to try and formalize this, imagine the question in terms of wallpaper. now you, being a sane individual, would never have wallpaper in the house. but, admitting for the sake of argument that you own a slavegirl together enough to be allowed to run her own household, and admitting she inexplicably wants some wallpaper, the difference between "whatever" and "you can't have that" mostly rests on whether the 900 dpi thing
mircea_popescu: huge books, utterly meaningless drivel, but nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: i like the wesleyan fellow for the same reason, weirdass right wing fundamentalism notwithstanding
mircea_popescu: anyway, i imagine trying to read taleb to judge paths to success/create a path to success would be ungodly unnerving. i mostly like him because he provides an unalligned datapoint, by some definitions of unallignation.
mircea_popescu: that's why the entire progressive bs even caught on in the first place. no causation.
mircea_popescu: these points are always extremely hard to establish. even in the golden age of cultivated, the argument never was causation, but mere correlation. "lucy, sit like a lady" "why!" "because sitting like a lady correlates with not marrying a bum"
mircea_popescu: his theories took him no far, seeing how he created theories after going places./
mircea_popescu: that's what i;m saying. somewhere between patently insane and alienly endearing. "he can'rt be fucking serious".
mircea_popescu: so it registers in my head as a merely not very good attempt at that.
mircea_popescu: i suppose what saves it for my benefit is that romanian-ness has a humongous tradition in playing this for laughs
mircea_popescu: seriously, you're a proud scion of a mightly lebanese line of kings and aviators ?
mircea_popescu always thought that nonsense was between patently insane and alienly endearing.
mircea_popescu: and this doesn't bother you on his www ? or, for that matter, my www ?!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
http://qntra.net/ << older backuped version back online. feel free to log in as per normal, update it, etc. everything should still work as b4, if not lemme know.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: prolly something more in line with "you don't get to comment on his impalement because who the fuck are you"
mircea_popescu: amusingly, it's exactly what we'll say as they get impaled.
mircea_popescu: o btw, didja happen to notice teh speed raid arrangement on phuctor's new server ? :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you would expect, from a very high on view, that bw is the bottleneck in p2p anything, and especially anything dealing with 200gb worth of stored data.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i happen to agree. there's absolutely no reason usg.jwz has any business touching bitcoin at any point.
mircea_popescu: usg gotta split the muppets off bitcoin chain. one way or another, but IT GOTTA BE DONE!!1
mircea_popescu: signatures don't matter ain't good enough, pow don't matter either now. idjits.
mircea_popescu: punkman aka "we want to redefine honest to mean 'honest' please play along".
mircea_popescu: soonish we'll need a dedicated index just to keep track of the various smackdowns we delivered.
mircea_popescu: did the "well we wanted to do xt but mp nixed it so i guess no xt" comunique appear as the last entry on bitcoinxt ?
mircea_popescu: did phuctor happen ? did msm derps steal off qntra ? etc.
mircea_popescu: did buffett have the audacity to claim no shorts could be found with millions riding against him in publicly visible ledger ? sure. ever fixed that ? no.
mircea_popescu: "it didn't happen, or if it did it shouldn't matter or if it does it has nothing to do wit them"
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