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mircea_popescu: "When a kid is presented to a psychiatrist, the psychiatrist is pressured, obligated, to do something pharmacological. If a psychiatrist looked a single parent a joint away from a nap right in the eye and said, "nope, he's acting out because of X, Y, Z, and medications aren't going to fix this" that doctor will get his head handed to him by parent or by lawyer. Justice will be done, you negligent elitist."
mircea_popescu: The cause of these high levels of medications is so simple you'll recoil from the truth of it, but pour yourself a drink and take it like a man: the kids showed up. That's it. The kid is in front of you and you have to do something, now, that results in an acute change. Not better grades 4 years out, or less sadness over the teen years; change the sleep tonight, make the kid less hyper now, and when it "stops working
mircea_popescu: You'll observe that none of those words is "diagnosis" or "severity."
mircea_popescu: "Variables associated with antipsychotic use [included] male gender, age 12 years and under, being nonwhite, and a length of stay 13 days or longer."
mircea_popescu: You can wrack your brain trying to figure this out or blame the usual suspects, but the answer is right there in the article:
mircea_popescu: "10 year study of inpatient kids: 44% got antipsychotics. Is that a lot? Yes. It's a lot."
mircea_popescu: could marry cameron diaz, they could go to conferences as cameron & cameron diaz-tinkletoss
mircea_popescu: did the cameron one get a sex change ? or is that the wachowski
mircea_popescu: it was erin was it ? or taylor ? what was the guy's name ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, plox to not insult the derps. gotta reference them correctly, whenever it's one of those idiots it should be "Blythe Masters, who claims to have invented Facebook", or "Erin Twinkletoss, who claims to have invented CDOs" etc.
mircea_popescu: o wait, the dude that failed to get tenure at j p morgan university ?
mircea_popescu: the angle here is that 6 months is a waste of time/resources in the present configuration to go chase that thing. pure scheduling matter, yes, it's valuable, no we can't fill the larder with brontosaurus.
mircea_popescu: the NEXT box has a price. would napoleon have paid that for his box ? never.
mircea_popescu: the first box, gifted to napoleon, has no value (!= is worthless)
mircea_popescu: and now with exaples : aluminum is a theoretical metal.
mircea_popescu: whereas nobody can exclude another from possession of a theoretical item.
mircea_popescu: the equivalent approach is to say item acquired a new property in going from a to b. in both it's the same thing, but in b it is also an exclusive good
mircea_popescu: and so therefore, going from a to b actually increases the market value of item. through a process known as "creating a market".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in situation a, the value of item is to be calculated theoretically ; in situation b, the value of the item is "a little less than it costs me to get one myself". and it is VERY practical. because yes, you MUST keep up with the Xs.
mircea_popescu: situation a) item is shown theoretically to possibly exist ; situation b) item is alleged to physically exist in vaults of lord X.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field outsiders are utterly a red herring. there exist no outsiders. reddit might as well not exist and everyone else reads the logs.
mircea_popescu: jurov i am actually saying something very much like that, yes.
mircea_popescu: actually, the thing is more valuable once known to exist.
mircea_popescu: obviously no tool works for any purpose in any context.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between getting to see the koh i noor and knowing lord x owns it. or, to quote popfictionikia, "Another consideration was education. Before the late 1950s and the advent of the stately home business, very few working-class people had seen the upstairs of these great houses; those that had were there only to clean and serve, with an obligation to keep their eyes down, rather than uplift them and be
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i did not say nor was it implied that i'll make it public. merely that it is had.
mircea_popescu: (and yes, cwcd, not possible w/o bitcoin, gpg, people involved, an actual infrastructure)
mircea_popescu: one of the major wins of /me style b-a governance is that it actually nulls THAT ENTIRE silence cost bs. it's in the logs.
mircea_popescu: (i suppose the deeply lame situation of secret servicemen in this regard has escape all notice prior ?)
mircea_popescu: stalker has files on all the celebs, does that mean they're sexually intimate now ?
mircea_popescu: not how this works. if you wanna call it nonsense, show where it doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: jurov why can't it happen you go to neighbour's wife and place an order ?
mircea_popescu: not some form. specifically the following form : if you fail we all die.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: capitalism works well, but is not well suited to the tasks that feudalism requires.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the important thing here being that it is not even expensive. it's free. for me. which is a large part of the problem - medieval knights didn't get paid in cash nor did they pay cash for the fees.
mircea_popescu: oh i see. in a world of lizzards and wizzards, what's a girl to do!
mircea_popescu: see, why didn't I starve once my original meatwot gave out ?
mircea_popescu: whether they're any good or this good or good i nany sense is aside, and really not the point.
mircea_popescu: again - everyone to whom this would be useful has own re folks.
mircea_popescu: all the derps that this'd be interesting to are essentially on the same side of the same market : wanna make money (sex) out of their "skillz" (having a cunt)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: wh ythe fuck would they ?! they need to see another cunt like you need a hair in your yoghurt
mircea_popescu: you are essentially going "i wonder why nobody at the all-girls catholic school is willing to have sex in exchange of footage of other girls in the shower".
mircea_popescu: obviously this is a discussion at the wrong end of "everything costs more and takes longer" type of process.
mircea_popescu: 6 months, tax free, self directed costs more than one year, pre tax, have to commute sort of job ?
mircea_popescu: publish that, let me get my money's forth for all the "bulletproof" bs qntra is on.
mircea_popescu: completely validated in the majesty of Being. The hero transcends life with its peculiar blind spot and for a moment rises to a glimpse of the source. He beholds the face of the father, understands—and the two are atoned."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ntered elsewhere (Spider Woman, Blessed Mother); and with that reliance for support, one endures the crisis—only to find, in the end, that the father and mother reflect each other, and are in essence the same. The problem of the hero going to meet the father is to open his soul beyond terror to such a degree that he will be ripe to understand how the sickening and insane tragedies of this vast and ruthless cosmos are
mircea_popescu: utside of the bedeviling god's tight scaly ring, and the dreadful ogres dissolve. It is in this ordeal that the hero may derive hope and assurance from the helpful female figure, by whose magic (pollen charms or power of intercession) he is protected through all the frightening experiences of the father's ego-shattering initiation. For if it is impossible to trust the terrifying father-face, then one's faith must be ce
mircea_popescu: Campbell: "Atonement consists in no more than the abandonment of that self-generated double monster—the dragon thought to be God (superego) and the dragon thought to be Sin (repressed id). But this requires an abandonment of the attachment to ego itself, and that is what is difficult. One must have a faith that the father is merciful, and then a reliance on that mercy. Therewith, the center of belief is transferred o
mircea_popescu: mostly on the grounds of being 100% stolen from cambell and co, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: damned thing keeps changing, we started wanting to fix bitcoin
mircea_popescu: again : if you're willing to do that TO BE SAVED from adversity in the field, why even bother taking the field! just continue the paradigm.