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mircea_popescu: "Because-" Aub looked helplessly at his superior for support. "It's difficult to explain."
mircea_popescu: it is universally cheaper to make a new chip than to describe an extant one from scratch.
mircea_popescu: "an end to opression" aka "you're not even worth beating up"
mircea_popescu: blaming a college / all colleges / anyone for this is rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: now there's plenty of mobility but no upwards, and plenty of inequality but no understanding thereof.
mircea_popescu: ie, no upwards mobility and a solid understanding of the value and importance of inequality.
mircea_popescu: yes at some point going to college was useful. this BECAUSE at that time people lived in a society that allowed for it
mircea_popescu: so... the expectation that there'd be understanding happening in school is not unlike the expectation that there'd be salvation happening at the brothel.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, stuff that isn't math, such as whatever, "ecology" don't even HAVE concepts, at all
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, math is an AWFUL example for this matter. because, well, in honesty a "simple" notion such as the notion of a number is still patently ununderstood by the species altogether. and for that matter minimal effort to even comprehend it starts with what, frege ? a coupla centuries ago ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell schmidty please fix your connection so you don't do a lot of join/part
mircea_popescu: "I'm told that the system of the day is "Everyday Math." I have no idea what that is, but my worry is that every system of teaching is designed not to maximize learning, but to facilitate the teaching."
mircea_popescu: "and what that means, and so everyone thinks he's progressing just fine; only to reach a later point when his clever shortcut is too primitive to work. Now suddenly you have a 6th grader who appears to falling behind. But he was never really caught up. I suspect that this almost entirely explains Americans' universal hatred of word problems."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you took your wife out on the town dressed as a cow ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ie, he has to provide 3% of the wattage, "we'll match your output 30:1!"
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital do what the usg does : differential leverage.
mircea_popescu: ironically, this would prolly be a killer business in portland.
mircea_popescu: a choice of either that or the same in hot pink, or rainbow.
mircea_popescu: only accept couples, make the dudes work butt off on stationary to power wifey hair dryer.
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital it'd be so great tho, Cuckolds' Gym and Hair Salon.
mircea_popescu: there is, in this town, a place where they sell food by the pound. and you can get a pound of cooked shrimp for ~2 dollars.
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital there's a bar cum laundromat somewhere in ohio
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pet could just come over argue her stuff herself!
mircea_popescu: because - obviously - it pays the best. from the perspective of the horde of chimps wishing to be professors of nothing in particular just as long as professors.
mircea_popescu: not unlike the ridiculous view of field grunts that hey, they know better than the chief of staff what's what, antin-intellectual "social scientists" a la dundes would like best an unsystematic AND UNSYSTEMATIZABLE "science"
mircea_popescu: editor Alan Dundes dismisses Campbell's work, characterizing him as a popularizer: "like most universalists, he is content to merely assert universality rather than bother to document it. […] If Campbell's generalizations about myth are not substantiated, why should students consider his work?"
mircea_popescu: there's a "social sciences perspective" now, and i'm supposed to believe it is != granstmanship.
mircea_popescu: "Others have found the categories Campbell works with so vague as to be meaningless, and lacking the support required of scholarly argument: Crespi (1990), writing in response to Campbell's filmed presentation of his model characterized it as "...unsatisfying from a social science perspective."
mircea_popescu: answer : a bunch of ustards will swoop in, pretending the field didn't end and insisting field enders are badmkay and raceys on top of everything
mircea_popescu: anyone wants to know what happens if one dares END a field ?
mircea_popescu: A tendency to think in generic terms of people, races ... is undoubtedly the profoundest flaw in mythological thinking.""
mircea_popescu: According to Northup (2006), mainstream scholarship of comparative mythology since Campbell has moved away from "highly general and universal" categories in general.[13] This attitude is illustrated by e.g. Consentino (1998), who remarks "It is just as important to stress differences as similarities, to avoid creating a (Joseph) Campbell soup of myths that loses all local flavor."[14] Similarly, Ellwood (1999) stated "
mircea_popescu: "Scholars have questioned the validity or usefulness of the monomyth category.
mircea_popescu: if i had kids there and they wanted money i would go "you can't have a penny until all those atrocities have been burned down"
mircea_popescu: vaguely reminds me of the dude nubbins prosecuted, with the "hand made" laser etched wood clunks
mircea_popescu: iirc there was some guy burning his beard off with "revolutionary laser shaver" in the logs
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol. nah, it'll just create a market for carpal tunnel potions.
mircea_popescu: they ask how babies are made, do they get a story or a demonstration ?
mircea_popescu: next thing you know you're either making your firebolt wands vibrate or go out of the mage business.
mircea_popescu: "well... it's not a vibrating wand, it's a firebolt wand" "CONSUMERS HAVE COME TO EXPECT!"
mircea_popescu: diana_coman quite exactly. "this wand doesn't even vibrate, what use is it!"
mircea_popescu: it's often seen as a problem in idiots who imagien they can keep bitcoin at bay by saying (in some magical correct form, i guess) that "i do not agree" or "i am not inviting this devil in my house" or whatever. "that is not how debates work", what have you.
mircea_popescu: but other than this, to continue the prev thread, no, you do not have control, in the sense that there isn't a magical write-protect bit you set or unset at your will and unless you've unset it nothing can ever affect you.
mircea_popescu: it does however understand magic. especially because magic specifically exists as a result of the subconscious' poor grasp of everything.
mircea_popescu: same thing that prevents them anywhere else, obviously. but the subconscious does not really comprehend locks, or rifles, or anything so complex it needs a factory.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as there's no spanish equivalent, what's to keep some dudes from busting into your house and taking all your holes on the kitchen table ?
mircea_popescu: as far as average person is concerned, their safety from being, eg, raped, is built entirely out of their belief in the magical power of a construct like that. it is not meaningful, but magical, in that it projects will and controls "the universe".
mircea_popescu: answer : you do not. which takes us right to the reason most people do not learn a foreign language, or enjoy interacting with people whose language they do not speak.
mircea_popescu: rther unwated inquiry is, of course, "that;s inappropriate". except... how do you say this in spanish.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310888 << let me explain something to you. slave had some old bitties over for coffee, recounted the story to me. they wanted to know if she's married or has a man. she said no. i suggested she should have said he died in the war. "what war ?" "you know, the war". and then we joked about how it'd play from there, and eventually it came to me the thing to say to prevent fu
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