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mircea_popescu: i don't think we mean the same by abstraction. it's not a sort of cool. it's basically purification.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental point of the written word is that allows a certain sort of abstraction. it's "escapism" in a particular sense.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he means he can talk without bothering with the annoying sorts of context.
mircea_popescu: ie, "wouldn't the strange woman in the train made a great wife"
mircea_popescu: (ie, we don't even know the sore spots of say kay objects, mostly because they never got a chance to be found mostly because idiots came and covered everything)
mircea_popescu: on top of which, i suspect there's a large chunk of "strange woman" in all this also.
mircea_popescu: shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and never will lose a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans."
mircea_popescu: "...Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight - wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble
mircea_popescu: not that this is a bad approximation in any sense. but, contiguity is too juicy to have.
mircea_popescu: it is altogether dubious that brownian motion is a stochastic process.
mircea_popescu: "i'm writing a book as a fallback plan in case i go broke". 14 yo.
mircea_popescu: or else your 5 apples delusion is crushed by the outer world supply.
mircea_popescu: either the "1000 apples" of outer world fiction is crushed by your demand,
mircea_popescu: this question is a lot less theoretical than it seems, seeing how eulora.
mircea_popescu: in general the supply side is going to be "as many btc as that community can get hands on" and the demand side will be "all the goods and services it wants to trade".
mircea_popescu: this is a question to be answered by that community neh ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well that'd be a different thing then wouldn't it.
mircea_popescu: couldn't be arsed to send a lawyer after it - to put it with the tax papers.
mircea_popescu: went once, was a queue, took a girl for coffee and welll... there it waits, no doubt.
mircea_popescu: really, "less than college education" ? having a us college diploma is like having a mental disability certificate. it just means you're at best useless but in principle dumb.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, /me enjoyed the spin. really, the gop "may take out" trump ? the gop can't as much as take out the garbage.
mircea_popescu: hey, maybe they feel like strangers "in their own country" because it ain't their own fucking country, and yes they are strangers.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, when rage of mages hit the market in the 90s, what the educated ro kids were saying was omfg, bilibin lives!)
mircea_popescu: he stops passerby, more or less with hands and props they manage to understand each other. passerby looks around, identifies a tree, points to it.
mircea_popescu: proper & civilised soviet citizen walking on street in romanian capital, suddenly needs to pee.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw ever told you the joke of the muscovite trying to take a shit in bucharest ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: d collected in the navel, there is a disturbing episode."
mircea_popescu: "Go to Japan when he is transmitted (the mid-5th century), the board is there to make a box. The Remains of the back hole in the center had been opened for the sound effects. Blood reservoir (No Chi) Name of the samurai in the game of Go was the accomplishment, the spectators came from the mouth (first eight came through clearly), cut off by a samurai sword to the neck of the angry flip board , put the head of the bloo
mircea_popescu: what you call it ain't the lynchpin of this here lynch mob.
mircea_popescu: "Regardless of whether you waive the fine or not, and despite conditional terms added to reassert authority" being the point of interest.
mircea_popescu: but in point of fact, the whole distance is this : that you want the word unary and all the items equal. whereas the world is not even coherent
mircea_popescu: this is what derpy libertards call, for the short distance their congenital apnea allows them to run it, "critiquing the entrenched patriarchy"
mircea_popescu: except, as far as the ants are concerned, there wouldn't be.
mircea_popescu: admire : you want that to be there so that you and ants are made by the same god so therefore, and i underscore, therefore, if the ants were owners of the world there still were a place in the world for you.
mircea_popescu: specifically because it was not vague at all, but both specific and a fundamental requisite of the thinking in question.
mircea_popescu: tell me funkenstein_ what do you have "socialization" mean in there ?
mircea_popescu: actually upon rereading that spoken poem, i notice a hole the light might perhaps be brought in!
mircea_popescu: you show me a roomfull of 20 year olds that all supposedly have an intuitive understanding of number theory, i see both the reason poor brin looks like he sucks corcoduse his entire life and a candidate for hanging.
mircea_popescu: the crime of math is that people have gone on this "intuitive" kick. it only works RARELY.