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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.
mircea_popescu: "i have decided that only the upper third of the mandelbrot set is of interest. WHY DOES THE REST KEEP RECURRING WE HAD AN AGREEMENT!!1"
mircea_popescu: tel lyou what : the weird make it, the brave take it from them, and the smart take it from the brave. true in the "empire building" us west as well as in lublianka.
mircea_popescu: again you do not get to say what parts of brain are irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, you musta been readoing a different www, half of mine's with and about whores, criminals and the insane.
mircea_popescu: for that matter what do you think you are, tchaykowsky ?
mircea_popescu: dark alley is life of the mind alright. the first. still the best.
mircea_popescu: and you don't get to declare what parts of reality are irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: fucktarded atlantic article. "oh, reddit matters, everyone cares about us"
mircea_popescu: to put it in vernacular terms, quod times non te destructit, quod te nutrit te destructit.
mircea_popescu: there exists in this world a woman whose actual experience of a first date with me includes this part where she was taken to a dark alley in a completely new town, made to strip and well... no, rape didn't ensue. she jsut got a crack on the butt.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, alf, why didn't I get my skull cracked ? god knows i been in plenty of dark alleys.
mircea_popescu: "but he just wanted email to work" no, srsly, fuck you.
mircea_popescu: i happen to not think anything of the mathematician that doesn't know how his fridge works. "oh he's specialised" fuck you. "but this is how we do it here!" yeah, this is how i do you in the ass.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308923 << the problem with this approach is that you also don't agree with the theory that the deer is less than the fox. fine, don't agree : the fox eats the deer nevertheless. your options are either a) to not share an environment, in which case your failures are not fit-reducing or b) to grow uniformly.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: u get nottin' for nottin'", if they want money ~they better go work for him~.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308922 << there's a problem here. of the original set of hoodlums, meyer lansky actually survived, to die in the 80s in florida like any serious jew from beyond the pale. most memorable about him is the anecdote that when about 9 was trying to run a numbers racket with some friends, and when the older boys tried to muscle in, as older boys are supposed to, he demured. "yo
☝︎ mircea_popescu: phillipe equality was aristocracy. lavoisier & co were the newly rich.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308917 << dude. "de" lavoisier was exactly the opposite of aristocracy, more in the vein of donald trump. he inherited the fortune of a ferme generale entrepreneur (tax scam the french copied from the romans - guaranteed to make one crassus-rich. sort of at-the-time equivalent of "real estate development") and married the scion of the same.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "The physical chip was designed by Mykotronx (USA) and manufactured by VLSI Technology Inc. (USA). The initial cost for an unprogrammed chip was $16 and a programmed one costed $26."
mircea_popescu: if after going to all that fucking trouble and obtaining that much actual superiority the people for whom i supposedly did it behave like fucking teenagers i would actually go to their house and feed them their children in cooked parts.
mircea_popescu: it's enough to drive one stack. im surprise not more usg-kgb folks go on murder rampages. i know i would.