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mircea_popescu: (better than "i'll wait to patch it in directly at the right time" because the "right time" mioght never come seeing how the people in question don't know what you're patching)
mircea_popescu: anyway -- in this particular case it makes sense to genesis item so downstream can actually invite you to patch on their tree
mircea_popescu: kinda funny how we're "slowly" (ie, 10x faster) recreating everything bsd was pretending to be about, huh.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking, has major chances of being pulled as a patch into eulora-something.
mircea_popescu: nevermind teh purpose of "how it'll eventually look", the future can be trusted to take care of itself, ESPECIALLY if you can be trusted to take care of present.
mircea_popescu: l keep growing the smg_comms tree." << this, ftr, eminently ideal republican code development process.
mircea_popescu: "I packed the above code as a .vpatch on top of the previous genesis .vpatch mainly for keeping my original promise of showing this being built as it is with detours and corrections on the way. Otherwise this could equally well be a genesis in itself given how radically it changes pretty much everything in there. Nevertheless, at least for now - meaning until a final version is achieved and a regrind makes perhaps sense - I'l
mircea_popescu: "does this dildo work on blondes as well as brunettes ?" "well... it works on redheads best, but it'll do the oooh-aaah job for anyone."
mircea_popescu: the issue with priesthood is that it offers perpetual masturbatory toys for the non-smart irrespective of their "intelligence" as irrespective of their height.
mircea_popescu: dumb as fucking rocks also, and i would like to introduce mission street in sf into the record as exhibit fucktards.
mircea_popescu: 90% of the time i try to read something, the attempt fails ; and almost always it is because the author is insulting my smarts, not my intelligence. they're all such intelligent men, from sf writers to hayek to what have you. the problem is that they're not smart.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but this seems scarcely what's being discussed when one talks of "intelligence".
mircea_popescu: which i stand behind, ftr ; and it is also what informs the "if they had any sense -- they'd be here" stance. the fact that rando can't cut through fetlife to find the meat / can't cut through internet to find trilema / can't cut through femstate to find bitcoin / can't cut through pantsuitism to find republic etc specifically means that rando is dull, ie, not smart.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: and in fact the complaint wasn't "you're not telepathic enough to be here" in any sense, but quite specifically "after having been shown the bells and the whistles from different angles and being allowed some digestion time you ~still~ don't manage to recognize them, and therefore lack the fundamental ability required to participate in the affairs of humanity".
mircea_popescu: Mocky i actually distinguish between smarts (the reductive ability, that powers "i suspect there's no such thing as intelligence", and typified perhaps best by d. kyon) and "intelligence" (the constructive ability, that powers "more loc, more tech, more future", and typified perhaps best by "fm-2030" ).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not because "planets don't move" but because "not around earth".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not making either of those two strong statements. but it does seem to me that the reason you don't have a model is that you're trying to model somethingt that doesn't exist (not that the UNDERLYING PHENOMENA don't exist). much like people "didn't have a model" of earth-centric cosmos.
mircea_popescu: (utri == upper respiratory tract infection", to help the future summarizers)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know you get a bunch of utri. should prolly not smoke.
mircea_popescu: we have mechanical model for strength, and i can make predictions BEFORE the fact, and built entirely on measurements unrelated to "please lift this weight"
mircea_popescu: the latter "cat" doesn't exist, and intelligence is of the same ilk.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between "cat is there whether you look or not" and "we'll put a cat in some boxes you look into, let us know which"
mircea_popescu: but this is established after the training and not afore.
mircea_popescu: it's a thing like "prescience" or "telepathy" : only exists through the process that sufferer's more likely to notice sustaining examples than disproving examples.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: really its only practical function is anxiety modulation in the waking state.
mircea_popescu: intelligence is, imo, very much like the concept of "luck", or dreamlike causation : the retrofitted imaginary "cause", constructed retrospectively.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: no such fucking thing, it's exactly like genetics -- genetically present traits may or may not phenotypically manifest. but if they do not -- THEY WERE NEVER THERE.
mircea_popescu: i do not belive, since we're doign disbeliefs, in this starry-eyed view of intelligence where it's a gift, like ambidexterity, or a property, like penis size, and "life can enhance or dishance it".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have little confidence in this "all humans born human" hopes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform douchebag is pretty much the only thing i don't really want. "Once complete the children are sorted by score, and the bottom thirdi is sold by open outcry (the males are neutered first)." and all that.
mircea_popescu: they only work on low information voters ("coincidentally", the only sort of voter her most pantsuited hilarity ever wants).
mircea_popescu: pretty sure io had a write-up re hollywood, but now can't turn it up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you recall right off where the cannonical statement of "why pay 10mn dorks 50k each when could pick 3 to pay 10mn ea and let the rest hope" lottery tickets thread lives ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the matter is extensively documented on trilema at that. cost me a few grand, but hey, can't have free science.
mircea_popescu: not so for alphabet, paid that moron a mn a decade ago, its groupon is STILL GOING. and htey're claiming however many billions
mircea_popescu: somehow hollywood had to pay millions in salaries to the few selected chumnps in its entire existence to keep the flow of waitresses going
mircea_popescu: 100% of that entirely fictitious pile is built out of a generalized belief that there is such a thing as "adwords" and it does exchange money, and well... that guy was the early (and really, only) winner of that lottery market.
mircea_popescu: you're familiar with how alphabet co pretends to have income ?
mircea_popescu: then there's a digg cycle, and then there's a reddit cycle. and there probably was a small one in between, with wordpress and "shoemoney" and "web20" etc.
mircea_popescu: i mean, 1993 was cycle 1. then there was the wikitardia thing, alongside "slashdot" and "fark" and so on. that was defo 2.
mircea_popescu: (of course it does, but "nobody knows" because "it's not in vice" and "nobody with a clue would be here anyway" etc.)
mircea_popescu: sadly tokyo doesn't enjoy a lengthy history APART from the moron invasion.
mircea_popescu: buncha fucken turtles. but the problem is, as ~100% of the population is coming to town from the first time, well... ~THE TOWN~ ends up consisting of what first time towners think the town's like.
mircea_popescu: in fact, 80% or more of what passes fro "creative" these days, ie shitty cable shows and "stand up comedy" consist entirely of "recognition porn". turtles visiting tokyo, "hey, turtle from osaka, you too thought the tram was a large dog ?!" "yes turtle from kyoto, that's exactly what i thought when i first saw a tram, did you think so too ?!" "yes this is a brilliant idea to think".
mircea_popescu: a converse way to look at it would be to say that online atomization overrepresents schelling points
mircea_popescu: this hallucination of the adolescent mind that "definitely lots of chicks in cemetery, now if only could find right place to dig".
mircea_popescu: by the time you have to employ alien tech to extract some useful out of the pile, ocean-sifters of epic scale purpose built etc...
mircea_popescu: there's just this baked in assumption that "LOT OUYT THERE!!!" when in fact there is ~0, not even epsilon, outright ~0, out there.
mircea_popescu: apparently there's nothing quite as destructive of the human mind than insistently inculcated & socialized conviction that "there's a lot out there". i liveblogged how this fucked up argentina, (
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-31#1442615 will have to do, i can't find the original discussion with the local dork now) and well...
☝︎ mircea_popescu: 3. thirtysomething has spent most of his formative sexual years pretending to be female. well...
mircea_popescu: 2. twentysomething "has learned something from his journey", proceeds to explore the vast echo chambers of "social" media with IMPROVED TOOLS!!! he has paper cutout placeholder chix 'so others come' nao, he is sly and urban nao, all those "other losers" that don't think of this (null set) be damned.
mircea_popescu: rmed by Soviet mass culture? Mass-cultural statements are constantly in the process of making themselves true by causing people to experience their common lives in those terms." :
mircea_popescu: we could restate the life narrative of the millenian in the terminology of "It may be argued that what is wrong with Soviet art is not that it restricts itself to the common experience but that its version of that experience is false; were it faithfully to reflect the true experience of the Soviet masses it might be valid art. But how can one speak of a common Soviet experience without taking into account that it itself is fo
mircea_popescu: in this sense, "transsexualism" is merely conceptyual leakage brought about by the sort of leaky abstractions that go in the making of an ivan in the first place.
mircea_popescu: i would guess about 60% or so of 2?F "sub" girlies exist on fetlife only as the fruit of the overactive imagination of a beta "M" somewhere.
mircea_popescu: "littlems_muffin 21F sub 6d Your fantasy of obtaining already serving woman is fucking sad mate! Not even close to a reality. Go fuck yourself instead. Do not disrespect me again. Master Ivan" "LordMPofTMSR 37M Master 6d Oh sorry, I thought it was Igor."
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what you're talking about. as far as i know ~all white kids are vaccinated around 1 year and then right before kindergarten ; and have since about 1920.