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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.
mircea_popescu: the difference is that if you ignore the former you get paid, and if you ignore the latter you get hit in the head.
mircea_popescu: there is a very fundamental difference between constructed complexity ("web technology", astrology, political science etc) and actual complexity (protein folding, moving bodies in grav fields, etc)
mircea_popescu: "The Monte-Carlo approach to engineering, if you will, but with humans doing a really bad job of playing RNG." << how mp's view of VC world sounds, without any of the bile.
mircea_popescu: "all of their tools live in the Web, that bloated, miserable heap of accidentally co-executing text-as-sort-of-program."
mircea_popescu: duralumin, which is its first serious application, and what those large cow milk receptacles were made out of, in the 1920s pictures of farmers throwing milk away
mircea_popescu: the only thing is that "aluminum" is not like steel, it's like iron. ie, an element.
mircea_popescu: well depends what you alloy it with and how well you do that.
mircea_popescu: ALUMINUM DOESN'T CHIP << yes it does ben_vulpes ; poorly formulated aluminium's major problem is chipping. that's why it wasn't used in airframe fabrication from the get-go.
mircea_popescu: it turns out to be not only the best green tea i ever had, but so fucking great i'm actually drinking some.
mircea_popescu: so i spent four dollars for eight ounces of jasmin green tea.
mircea_popescu: as to archeology : find a source. that is the only way archeology works. you must find someone who remembers the history.
mircea_popescu: what shall be remembered of the thousand year archive is exactly what should be remembered : that which touched something that still interests.
mircea_popescu: some people who wrote deeds are dead. some are not. some LINES of deed writing exist ; some are dead.
mircea_popescu: trinque yes. imagine there's a millenium worth of deedbot, in the library of republixandria ; and imagine this is burned. now, we aim to reconstruct it.
mircea_popescu: dja understand how this models out or should i go into it ?
mircea_popescu: trinque pull out the whole bundle with a fingerprint in it, not just the deed
mircea_popescu: (this is turning more and more into the only legitimately useful implementation of "blockchyain technology" known to date)
mircea_popescu: and it delivered a blob consisting of all matter signed by that fingerprint, encrypted to that fingerprint
mircea_popescu: here's what i was thinking trinque : how much complexity would it add if the download was of the format
mircea_popescu: "So I bought a sewing factory makes a good title but the truther is that I bought a near perfectly sized industrial building and remodeled it to become a sewing factory."
mircea_popescu: one day im going to understand how stupidity in very smart people works.
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