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mircea_popescu: "This generation, this, The Dumbest Generation Of Narcissists In The History Of The World, they hate heroes-- except dead ones, they're ok, and superheroes are ok too, people with magic or from other planets-- but human heroes are anathemas, they want to tear them down and show them to be regular mortals, flawed-- and the best is if they can catch them being hypocritical, nothing brings an impotent narcissist to orgasm
mircea_popescu: but seriously, the libtards/hipsers actually need " People aren't seeing Eastwood play Walt; they are seeing The Man With No Name now aged 70 and living alone, still clinging to his horse, I mean gun, I mean car. That's the guy they want to see "grow," that's the guy they want to see admit he was wrong. " ?
mircea_popescu: im not about to see the movie, for one thing i never gave much of a shit about eastwood and for the other he certainly went to shit in his later life (what is with this, pacino doing incredibly bad bullshit a la simone and de niro doing the worst infomercial "movies" conceivable ?)
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, finding shit in yourself is about as valuable as growing tomatoes on your window sill.
mircea_popescu: that book is useful to people ~with independent clincal experience~, even if it is read first, before the experience is actually had (on the expecation that it will sturcture the comparatively more expensive process of actual clinical exposure, thus gettiong more bang per buck)
mircea_popescu: it has a much deeper root. the problem with medical education is that your own body constitutes no clinical experience.
mircea_popescu: you know, the ancient "sophomore's disease", where young minds encountering the big book of medical semiology for the first time diagnose themselves with everything is not MERELY an amusing story.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck permits these imbeciles to pretend like they're faculty i have no idea.
mircea_popescu: "She can't understand why the ideal isn't the same as the average. So she wants to create reasons why the average is the ideal. " <<< Elizabeth Cashdan, woman in science.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at reality ranch, training a sex fied takes me six weeks, training a perfect soldier takes six months, and training a PASSIBLE intel summarizer takes six years.
mircea_popescu: yes the result is directly equivalent with "enemies control the decision process at all points and at all levels". but the cause is much more pedestrian : the innate MISTAKEN belief that "anyone can make a summary".
mircea_popescu: how the fuck did you get a laptop that supplants a half ton desktop ?
mircea_popescu: yes well, the eulora box is maybe 30lbs, and it's made of common materials.
mircea_popescu: and "i want one like joe has" is a perfectly valid definition file.
mircea_popescu: the only example i can think of would be "consumer designed laptop". you go in the shop with the definition files and they fedex you the item later that week
mircea_popescu: actual community maintained game client ius such a fucking all-obliterating win...
mircea_popescu: you don't even have to boither with anything, keeps its own logs, they get awked and gnuplot.
mircea_popescu: it's ten minutes to set up and ten minutes of use to make itself indispensable. the chick can code, i don't remember a tool becoming THIS FUCKING NEEDED in recent times.
mircea_popescu: i'm playing it as we speak, making congressional pulp.
mircea_popescu: it occurs to me i have in this selfsame year never showed anyone anything.
mircea_popescu: i own like 3 of the things, i used them for maybe five hours total the past year.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how come they make sake argument and not say wine argument, or rum argument.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just because he's richer than you doesn't automatically make him not poor you know :D
mircea_popescu: maybe the managers were like "hey, b-a luminary and trb maintainer mod seeks is coming over, EVERYONE ON ATTENTION!!1. Joe, call your wife, I know we said we'd never put her on but man... THIS IS TMSR!"
mircea_popescu: i've yet to find a strip joint that's not really a kindergarten of the retarded.
mircea_popescu: for hall in the wall this sounds actually far above buenos aires' best and brightest.
mircea_popescu: oh dude... am i going to hear cca 2500 that i had a sideline in "poetry writing" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guy was tycho brache's cock puppet, what.
mircea_popescu: you are promised at birth a life on your own terms, or to the breaking of your bones, whichever comes first.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you are not promised at birth a "good" life.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but if ignorant why pick at all. do you also run in the dark ?
mircea_popescu: "even lord tolstoy had to write shakespeare teardowns to justify the great russian novel!"
mircea_popescu: (the reason is that mine's really the affirmative - the dictum masquerades a negative as a pop-positive, is all)
mircea_popescu: does the jump make sense or should i drop some pontoons ?
mircea_popescu: ansd you know, the universal supreme goat council (USG) had a secret conspiracy to import wolves into the forest, to keep the baby goat herding behaviour going\
mircea_popescu: dude, before everything it was "mom leaves, and kiddie follows".
mircea_popescu: also, my nirvana inducing anal pole doesn't have to work
mircea_popescu: derstanding of the ethical progressivism of society-- better than lawyers or engineers or teachers or priests or anyone else-- ethics which they admit are constantly evolving-- but have thankfully, magically, and conveniently reached their culmination with today. The end of history. 4000 years of ethics, useless; they got it all right with a grant from the NIH and a subscription to The New Yorker."
mircea_popescu: "Do you want to live in a world where the criminality of an act-- the culpability of a person-- is based essentially on the moral ADHD of a bunch of doctors with third hand understanding of MRI results? Strike that-- on a very select bunch of doctors who purport to speak for these other doctors, who claim to have the greatest grasp of the science, and who claim in complete and absolute seriousness to have the best un
mircea_popescu: trying to package and sell stupidity as racism is mostly a symptom of that same problem.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the argument is almost always presented as "the glucose consumption picture in this guy's brain looks like THESE splotches of blue/yellow/whatever, therefore he's so-and-so like these other guys whose pictures look similar".
mircea_popescu: quite exactly. it's not okay to say "this man is black, therefore he's guilty, because that's the nature of people that are black"
mircea_popescu: n the justice system. I'd argue any association studies have no place in court, especially when they are read backwards ("because he has this, he is this.")
mircea_popescu: But more importantly, forensic brain scans represent the worst kind of classism. They say, essentially, that because your brain looks very similar to other brains, then you belong in that class; and you take on their other qualities. They may be appropriate for scientific investigations-- as early clues directing further research, "hey, this is interesting, let's look over here from now on"-- but they have no place i
mircea_popescu: "TYRANNY IS A PREREQUISITE FOR QUALITY, APPLE RETCONNERS." << holy shit this may even actually be defensible.