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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
mircea_popescu: "The Irish hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our pure religion. This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character. Their ideal of human felicity is an alternation of clannish broils and coarse idolatry. Their history describes an unbroken circle of bigotry and blood."
mircea_popescu: in general, the path of "usable" in gpg is kind-of narrow.
mircea_popescu: lol my butt. "usg got a run for its money the likes of which it had hoped to never see. it will not survive another one in all likelyhood, which is just as well, because november promises at least a couple."
mircea_popescu: totally. as in, get type A (wanna do things to environment) people mixed with type B (wanna have things done to themselves) people and performance will improve. just as long as you agree to drop the male-centric definition of performance (the ration of damage done to the quake map by bullets expanded) for a more... you know. jackoffian definition of performance.
mircea_popescu: "The laws of economics and many studies of diversity tell us that if we tapped the entire pool of human resources and talent, our performance would improve."
mircea_popescu: why is it that boys need to do something TO the world in order to feel at ease, whereas the girls need, NEED! to have something done TO them in order to feel GOOD with ~themselves~ ? aha, mkay, it's not all about sex. there's also...
mircea_popescu: "Dove is telling you you don't need to do anything to be beautiful, but it knows full well women must do something to themselves to feel good about themselves" << aha. and now tell me WHY THAT IS ?
mircea_popescu: "If your reaction is “Marina who?” then here’s a brief introduction." << how ab out "then this article has no fucking point, nobody cares about obscure if colorful manhattan garbage girls"
mircea_popescu: just, all the people who have the skill to pull it off have better shit to do, so the world is stuck enjoying 50 shades of grey and what's that thing games something tlp was ragging on.
mircea_popescu: also just a sad repackaging of extant sad masturbation fodder (that gor bs etc).
mircea_popescu: this could perhaps be a pretty uncanny book : the future of europe, with the white harlots living naked in the street and the proper arab girls living burka'd in the house.
mircea_popescu: i honestly liked this stuff better a decade-two ago back when donna was doing it in between being hassled by police
mircea_popescu: "i saw a naked lady in the street - i have nothing to say to her but i'd like to talk to my friends ABOUT her"
mircea_popescu: god damned i want this guy to write for qntra already where is he!
mircea_popescu: cally inseparable from the entrenchment of an aristocracy, can't have one without the other once you get bigger than 20M, ask Bismarck. "Does he write for Time?" No. But keep this in mind every time you hear how great it is Bill Gates is curing malaria after leaving us all with Windows.""
mircea_popescu: ng." How can you work in media and not understand media? The fact that feminism is in the mainstream means that it doesn't exist, it is no longer real, in the same way that when you hear "gun control debate" it's a lie and "fiscal cliff" is an easy to market, safe distraction from the structural problems that can never be named, here's one: for any heterogeneous population, the expansion of a "welfare class" is logi
mircea_popescu: in unrelated not-news, ""For the past two weeks Sandberg was anywhere nothing useful is happening, and I'm going to include Facebook in that. Some cry-baby over at Jezebel was thrilled that Sandberg was featured all week on Access Hollywood, holy Christ, she thought this was a good thing. "Feminism is back in the mainstream in a big way," she wrote, I assume in between quaaludes, "the women's movement is actually movi
mircea_popescu: "Well, feminism has emasculated men." Really? A girl did that to you?
mircea_popescu: anyway, cockring and flag in asshole guy will make a great daddy i'm sure.
mircea_popescu: "See also Princeton, where you will pay them more to get the degree that they will then pay you less to use for them, in no other profession is learning how to do something more valuable than actually doing it. Is that ironic? " << it's not a profession, it's a fandom. and in all fandoms, you pay them more than they pay you, that's the definition.
mircea_popescu: "why is all us epidemiological data null and void ?" "because us doctors a) have to write down a diagnosis and b) are paid the same no matter what is is".
mircea_popescu: aaannd... "if we had a system of healthcare in which doctors were paid the exact same regardless of diagnosis or severity, then there'd be little attention paid to "correct" diagnosis, all of our epidemiological data would be totally invalid, and the number one drug in America would be Xanax. "Wait, isn't that the situation now?" Huh, nailed it."
mircea_popescu: d in college. If you are going to college to get an education and not to meet guys, you are insane, literally insane, delusional, in reality one is never going to happen and the other is going to happen anyway, and you could have gotten both for free at a bookstore. Worked for me. The only question for the future single mom is whether it's worth $XXXXXX a year to meet guys, and the answer is of course it's not, even
mircea_popescu: Of course I'm not happy about this, I like smart people, but that's the new reality. There was a time where women went to college to get an MRS degree, and I am telling you that that time is today, there is nothing else of value in there. Sure, some college women go on to become doctors and CEOs, and some go on to become child pornographers and Salon writers, none of those things have anything to do with what happene
mircea_popescu: ...................................... and spouse of a capitalist.
mircea_popescu: relevant as the skin color. Not irrelevant for now, not irrelevant "until the economy improves"-- irrelevant forever. The economy doesn't care about intelligence, at all, it doesn't care what you know, merely what you can produce for it. The only thing the English grad is "qualified" for in this economy is the very things s/he is already doing: coffeehouse agitator, Trader Joe's associate, Apple customer ............
mircea_popescu: "When we see a welfare mom we assume she can't find work, but when we see a hipster we become infuriated because we assume he doesn't want to work but could easily do so-- on account of the fact that he can speak well-- that he went to college. But now suddenly we're all shocked: to the economy, the English grad is just as superfluous as the disenfranchised welfare mom in the hood-- the college education is just as ir
mircea_popescu: "Lesson one at the academia should be the importance of separating vocation from avocation, as character actor Fred Thompson and electrical contractor Benjamin Franklin both understood."