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mircea_popescu: he says : this hundred appears nutty, but this seems more because they have no one to follow than a flaw in themselves.
mircea_popescu: if you can't make even one person worth following, how the hell would you make this entire aspirational 14% be each and every one worthy of following (for themselves) ?
mircea_popescu: and i gotta say i love the leverage, i take an hour to write one of these 5k word atrocities, it ruins the day/week of numerous people.
mircea_popescu: i dun believe this is what they wanted musl to be for.
mircea_popescu: pray tell what'd the gestapo have done ? better ? doubtful.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the story of england's country estates is so much lolz. so hitler won the war, and as a result by 1955 they were destroying the "national heritage" at the rate of a site a week.
mircea_popescu: they have that much in common with down syndrome sufferers, it is true.
mircea_popescu: im sure in their own heads they're still actually even like, involved in things and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: to quote professor costanza, "in my mind, the war is still going".
mircea_popescu: not even a month. heh. at least the actual scammers have the decency to go away for 9ish months at a time. seems even 9 weeks is too much for the comparatively shittier decency of the university scammer set.
mircea_popescu: nobody gave a shit about stolfi at any point, his "omaigerd threatened on the internets" attention whoring moment y compris, therefore mp is bad!
mircea_popescu: "oh, they sit on grenades because of windy, not because of cold". fuck them all the same!
mircea_popescu: lord knows it went to soup (true, different flavour) once they started wit hthe "understanding"s.
mircea_popescu: the reason for the succes is specifically the hindbrain. and the uninvolvement of "the life of the mind".
mircea_popescu: they drew thje banner, said fuckit, it devolved into soup and we never heard of those.
mircea_popescu: what does it mean ? it is fucking obvious to you what it means, on the basis of the text itself!
mircea_popescu: i've been aware of this for a while, actually, slowly digesting it.
mircea_popescu: it is right all through in the speciffically correct way.
mircea_popescu: i mean just reading that thing - the strictness of the logic is empowering.
mircea_popescu: conventions in place for eleven centuries or more, and slowly evolving over that interval, read exactly like algorithmics.
mircea_popescu: how much does the field of computing owe to... heraldry ?
mircea_popescu: here's a thought : "Quarterly, first and fourth grandquarters counterquartered, first and fourth gules, three cinquefoils ermine ; second and third argent, a lymphad with sails furled proper, flagged gules ; second and third grandquarters argent, a heart gules imperially crowned proper, on a chief azure three stars of the field."
mircea_popescu: the culture powering romania. i would bet this played a part in half or more lost virginities during decades.
mircea_popescu: ie, "i've seen you, you're to my liking, what's left to do ? i dare speak to you : i love you! if you've looked me in the eye and were struck, you're not wrong to tell me you love me."
mircea_popescu: te-am vazut, mi-ai placut, ce ramine de facut ? indraznesc sa-ti vorbesc : te iubesc! daca-n ochi m-ai privit si-ai ramas indragostit nu gresesti sa-mi spui ca ma iubesti.
mircea_popescu: drove the (relatively moe sheltered romanians) batshit.
mircea_popescu: job of the artist : fix the uneven distributions of reality representation.
mircea_popescu: reality is x, people always, for some reason, represent it as x+a. never as x-a. why not ? should be evenly distributed around x, neh ?
mircea_popescu: "maybe it's cheaper with psychiatry ? let's convince them the incredible burning is worth it ?" "waste of time, these subhuman hindbrained breeders!11" etc
mircea_popescu: and the debate could specifically be, that the damned bitches keep trying to claw the worm out of their bellies, thus giving themselves infections. so the upgraded farfms have to include limb restraints on top of the noirmally used neckchain to a pole thing. which costs moneys!
mircea_popescu: the text follows the conflict between the progressives (hey, whatever it costs, worth doing) and the conservatives (keep your damned ringworms off our famr!)
mircea_popescu: but i got an idea of a graphic novel, suddeenly : in this crapsack world in which the implementation of the "jews eating babies"/"white slavers" moral panic / fetish is actual farms to literally produce baby viande as per the modest proposal, it is discovered that ringworm infection of the abdomen in 2nd trimester females results in tastier, if very strangely diformed veal.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: shape's wrong, mechanical failures are wrong, the whole thing looks digital.
mircea_popescu: somehow the women their mother's generation did not have this problem. it ... sprung out of the void, around 1970 or so.
mircea_popescu: oh, what, every us chick your age or younger, ever. herp.
mircea_popescu: until i beat the shit of her every time she didn't do math properly ?
mircea_popescu: you knew who else grew (for whatever reason) with a complete atrophy of the part of the brain that does "that math-y stuff"
mircea_popescu: that you readily see the "cpu in cpu" thing for what it is, yet you';d allow THE SAME PEOPLE do THE SAME THING to your own brain.
mircea_popescu: it earned it, on its own merits, as part of the whole construction's history. it's there and you honor it.
mircea_popescu: it has its place, which you didn't give it, nor you may deny it.
mircea_popescu: the actual life of the mind as a thing is of the mind, not of a butchered brain.