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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.
mircea_popescu: "how about as a precondition to anything they abandon their self ?" "OMG WHAT ARE YOU A PSYCHOPATH THIS IS DOMESTIC ABUSE BLABLABLA".
mircea_popescu: "you now have a responsibility ot the people who trust you : to this and that they want you to do".
mircea_popescu: how does the justice system con psychiatry to its own ends ? NOT by asking psychiatrists to buy into court proceedings. by pretending in court proceedings to highly esteem their opinions.
mircea_popescu: jesus check out tlp getting shit. it doesn't seem to help him, but those were older articles.
mircea_popescu: - not the patients, it-- an easy mark for con men with their own agenda: SSI, the justice system, gun control, schools, whatever. "It's called a confidence game. Why, because you give me your confidence? No: because I give you mine." Take a minute, think it through."
mircea_popescu: "The ad's association to therapy here was probably not planned but it was inevitable, just as Mantegna selecting a psychiatrist and not an engineer or a cook or a stripper as the mark in House Of Games was inevitable. It is the only system of rules based on self-deception, it encourages the illusion of "self" separate from behavior. And as long as psychiatry uncritically elevates identity over behavior, it makes it-
mircea_popescu: ironically, the greeks invented cremation didn't they.
mircea_popescu: i think you still gotta be somewhat rich to make chacarrita
mircea_popescu: do you know which is the most advanced one ? ask a 50something stupid woman from the midwest. "oh, it's all energy and people are different". that's the best there is.
mircea_popescu: the clear sign that it's not time yet is the juvenile idiotic look of the attempts to unified theories.
mircea_popescu: that's the MAIN thing every single course book etc on physics says. and it is INSANE.
mircea_popescu: hence "scientific paradigms", ie, "don't look at magnetism".
mircea_popescu: this goes right into the other discussion : by and large, the role of management is to lie to engineering, because if confronted nakedly, the TRUTH of reality is this head-explody vacuousness. so survivable representations have to be created, and they are better if created professionally - because in their absence the brain will create them anyway, and they'll have all the value and efficiency of something a 2 yo repti
mircea_popescu: <jurov> which is imo dubious way to "keep the herd out" << the secret we're not ready for is that all ways to keep the herd out are dubious ways to keep the herd out.
mircea_popescu: /msg chanserv OP rename #bitcoin-assets #bitcoin-fix-computers
mircea_popescu: yeah alfie, the risk is that you lose pace. as in, guy who's been sitting in a fox hole for all summer, when a scout regiment finally shows up on the hillside goes all rambo on the opposition.
mircea_popescu: * kakobrekla suspekts there will be more Things before there are less Things <<< i am of the hope that we're done with things and will be a proliferation of subthings. because fuck me if i'm going all the way into microbiology to fix computing.
mircea_popescu: now all we need are the sort of men who aren't liable to get scared.
mircea_popescu: at least we ended up with a proper definition of scope, truthful if scary.
mircea_popescu: jurov aha. monstrous. but what can you do ? i've been trying to "manage" the issue / pretend like it's not an issue but got efficiently (and righly) uprooted at every step.
mircea_popescu: the plan is the plan. the execution is not at the option of the horde. go reddit moar.
mircea_popescu: someone needs to sell the mexican cartles the same things. o wait... they did.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha the idiocy of these people. seriously, the excuse for selling weapons to terrorists is that "a) they're not the terrorists but the terrorist's Italian cousin ; b) we disabled the checkbox anyway" ?
mircea_popescu: "an exception being the UK, which has a minimum legal age of five for supervised consumption in private places"
mircea_popescu: then came part 2, when the kids i was staying with were "omfg you went into a pub ordered a drink ?!?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: in romania opf the 90s, a drink = 100cc. you could get a half if you were sick or something, but you'd have to specify like you specify nonhot at mexican restaurant. five times.
mircea_popescu: i was like.... what the shit, is this like with wine, you brought me a little to sniff it ?!
mircea_popescu: culture shock, largest i ever encountered : 17 yo me in london, goes into pub orders a drink. they bring him... im not even sure what it was, a thimbleful.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i keep taking these dumps roughly in the shape of horse penis