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mircea_popescu: anyway, merely the contemplation of the plain if never discussed (shouldn't this be discussed in school ? you think ?) that cells do not actually have signalling for hunger built in, so the entire insulin system is left guesing, with all the attendant problems of insulin resistence etc. they didn't think this was important enough. apoptosis, yes. this, no. not fundamental enough, didn't make the cut.
mircea_popescu: which makes it a good movie ; which hollywood can't apparently do.
mircea_popescu: and newly woman responds smiling that there's nothing to it.
mircea_popescu: comes back to her still girly friend, who asks her "omygerd you mean you wore this ? and men saw you ? BUT HOW ???"
mircea_popescu: girl goes to visit her slut sister, is fucked, gets some trappings of womanhood (dress)
mircea_popescu: you should. very nice softcore/sexploitation movie, epic natural d's. but the story is more important.
mircea_popescu: tho i doubt many in the audience have the actual, proper mathematical understanding to grasp the MEANING of formalisms.
mircea_popescu: and the thread re "what is the meaning of fractal" controls here,
mircea_popescu: all life works in a certain way for the reason that it's cheapest
mircea_popescu: and filogenesis replicates ontogenesis, or vice-versa. first, the woman spits out a blob, then of the blob collection the men kill some,
mircea_popescu: you have to understand ontogenesis is a two step process. first, a blob develops.then, controlled apoptosis, a process so fundamental cells have signalling baked in for it (but not for hunger, not for pain etc) makes the spaces between what will be your fingers.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which is why teaching slavegirls to orgasm on command is important. the internalised sexuality is a good and useful proxy for a great many other things they need.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: could it be that your girl is actually a MUCH NICER partner (for sex) than you are for yourself (in your own head, doing things, like sleeping)
mircea_popescu: you do take leg and would at least consider wakefulness dope. but not penis dope.
mircea_popescu: for all you know "legs work fine but not fine enough" just like penis works fine but not fine enough.
mircea_popescu: i am not arguing from my pov, but from the contrarian pov.
mircea_popescu: are you the sort of republican central time backwards orc that refuses science ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, because banal patristics 11 centuries old are too hard to read. "without [the possibility of] sin - no salvation"
mircea_popescu: "imagine no baldness. there'd be no stopping them, a nation of supermen" ?
mircea_popescu: then people wanna take drugs, as if juddling all this shit in the vain, vague hope that it's evolutionarized to balance isn't hard enough,
mircea_popescu: that if you don't despise yourself and your own achievements, you'll never get anywhere. but not too much! because you also won't get anywhere! etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, the chief problem with self esteem, and it is indeed a major problem, is that coping strategies develop and are tested as the name says : through coping. will is a fabulous thing, which serves approximately the same role as beauty in teenaged females : now you don't gotta work at anything, because lalaland. and so you don't. and so you suck at everything ELSE. and you're fucked. the problem with self esteem is
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and at about the same age, i wanted to fight a lamb! headbutting ftw
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there are two kinds of three year olds. all three year olds sooner or later threaten their parents with holding their breath. all parents laugh at this, as it's a physiological impossibility : if you do any sort of a good job you necessarily pass out, and once you pass out autosomatic control restarts breathing. the two kinds of kids are : the ones that are dissuaded by this ; and the ones that are now.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i can explain what scams are to wilful idiots until i fall over, it's not unlike trying to prevent storms by lubricating the water.
mircea_popescu: the erect cock, as an incarnation of will, is the one and only driver of action. which is why attempts to legislate inaction are stuck pretending "rape" exists. unless everyone's flaccid, the supremacy of will over everything is too hard a sell.
mircea_popescu: which is also why inteligence is not a force. not anymore than make-up is a force.
mircea_popescu: most people can't do that, obviously, which is why most people are most people.
mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can't eat, you don't try to EXPLAIN to your aching belly anything. you try and WILL it to shut the fuck up.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the insistent, unyielding, disinterested in ANYTHING, eternally repeating the same inept shit behaviour of stupidity is certainly a force. that force is called will.
mircea_popescu: everyone [smart, white, rich, whatevs] likes to think of intelligence as a force. perhaps it is.
mircea_popescu: and by 2028 they come twice a day, and you... what ? you do what, link the log, and on and on ?
mircea_popescu: so in 2027 they come for like 4-5 different similar reasons, with the same bs lines. and you quote the same log, and they go the same huh.
mircea_popescu: now suppose cca 2026 some twerps come to persuade you to go take minsk. and you quote this line of the log to them, and they go "huh" becaue hey, log is too difficult and what's a gpg ?
mircea_popescu: I totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "That does sound different. And awesome. What did their Millennial kids inherit, what did they experience over their adult lives, say 1929-1945?"
mircea_popescu: religion among educated whites in favor of science. Not physics or chemistry, but evolution. Tabloids were incomprehensibly popular, partisan media the norm. A loosening of conventional morality manifested as bored promiscuity, female bisexuality, and a flood of new porn the likes of which never existed before.
mircea_popescu: Well, yes, obviously, there had just been a massive leap forward in technology and industrialization, a booming economy fueling a wealth gap, temporarily course corrected by a financial panic "precipitated" by the failure of two overspeculating brokerage houses. There were also, simultaneously, great advances in progressive causes like worker's rights and food quality, all on the background of decreasing importance of
mircea_popescu: bwahahaha, ok : ""But that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey, things were a lot different then."
mircea_popescu: lol meanwhile @tlp, "I'm starting to wonder if the reason it is always pretty white girls who get kidnapped is that the media is the one kidnapping them."
mircea_popescu: o wait, the jews don't agree they're in africa, was it ? only egypt is. jewlandia is in... well it's almost practically europe right ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose the alternatively counter-cultural reaction would be to write in "no, and i'm not black, either"
mircea_popescu: "you haven't even been to prison ? and you call yourself an american ? get the fuck out of my fucking office, loser."
mircea_popescu: being independent, the only thing they deal in is "facts" or "reality", and gun to head if they believe in anything it's "science." Not physics or chemistry, but evolution. You know, whatever ideologues hate."
mircea_popescu: "Intelligent people, like racists, are fluent in describing themselves in opposition to what they are not, but ask them to define themselves by what they are, tell you what they do believe in, and they're lost. They have opinions on issues, sure, but ask for an overarching ideology and their face botoxes. Overarching ideology? Only people with manifestos have ideologies, not having an ideology is the whole point of
mircea_popescu: no, looky, you have it : silicon 28%, aluminum 8.2%, iron 5.6%, calcium 4.2%, sodium 2.5%, magnesium 2.4%, potassium, 2.0%, and titanium 0.61%.
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea how they do this, either. maybe they discovered cold fusion and are keeping it quiet. maybe they're burning tibetans for heat. fuckall knows, but there they sit.
mircea_popescu: no need to guess that once this option became available, the other two disbecame available "en interior".
mircea_popescu: the catch being of course that the options are now "pay ~1k or ~100 pesos for a pot".
mircea_popescu: re the recent alcoa/aluminum discussion, but also a broader industry and futurology discussion : aluminum is now so cheap (ie, china has got SUCH a solid handle on it forever) that home furnishing shops here have started to offer, alongside pots in silverstone and teflon, pure, plain aluminum. marketed as such, too, "puro alumino".
mircea_popescu pays respect to the people who make it so he doesn't have to remember things.)
mircea_popescu: (kinda shameful how we omitted the entire deedbot and btcalpha infrastructure from the things, becuase hey, fuck trinque and mike_c we got the stuff made so we no longer need it made so we can forget about it right ?
mircea_popescu: i would about 100x rather use a deedbot-based system. and i don't think something like that is usable.
mircea_popescu: the sad truth is that the requirements of safety and concurrency run into problems of time. there's a reason bitcoin blocks are 10 minutes long, and i fear i'm going to end up having to fundamentally redo the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: i get that this is unhelpful at best, but a) making specific error messages is not trivial, and b) the alternative denomination would be something like "generic error message" which whatever.
mircea_popescu: ftr, mpex will issue "Insufficient funds for this request." errors for all sorts of problems, including some that have nothing to do with the user.
mircea_popescu: jurov : i know. working on it, but it's not a trivial problem sadly.