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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.
mircea_popescu: whichy is how "EVERYONE" loved obama in 2009 and everyone hated him in 2011.
mircea_popescu: the problem of examples (symbols, generally, whichy is what they are) is that everyone looking at them understands their own thing.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to illustrating what you see of the world with examples.
mircea_popescu: that's how we got in the fucking mess in the first place, if that's all you wqanna do how about we just microsoft.
mircea_popescu: "by the power invested in me i hereby call him my 00000boyfriend! all is well now!"
mircea_popescu: o i see. nominalism gonna save you from the buttrape ?
mircea_popescu: what, if you arbitrarily chunk content into "humbers under 256" you've now done something ?
mircea_popescu: do not speak to me without backing, for i will eat your words.
mircea_popescu: did you count alphs ? do you have a definition of alephs ?
mircea_popescu: nobody "in computing" seems to have understood or even wanted to think about "wtf is this text"
mircea_popescu: this sort of thing is what i MEAN when i say "understand rng".
mircea_popescu: the ~ reason ~ "programming" decayed into its present shape IS THAT there is no difference to be had.
mircea_popescu: rng is imo least understood part of the box. a sort of equivalent of magnetism in physics.
mircea_popescu: all the work and expense that goes into not saying anything at all...