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mircea_popescu: and no, "what's sensible with a narrow view may be insane from a broader perspective" doesn't hold because "every sperm is sacred" and assorted nonsense
mircea_popescu: well it is also in what a government of women would hold (and in those countries which do allow such nonsense, do hold) as reckless disregard of their litter.
mircea_popescu: trinque you familiar with the "psychotic" observation of poincarre (the president, not the other one) that "universal lack of suffering may never be a policy goal, for the simplest means to effect it would be simply killing everyone" ?
mircea_popescu: i'd rather expect it's "a reckless disregard of life and property".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, re the constant empress cixi references : the esteemed duke of wellington also contributed "Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!"
mircea_popescu: fortunately the point is exactly that bitcoin doesn't work like that.
mircea_popescu: because i'd so totally trade a mile of "internet" by which our friend of course means retardorama web 2.0, for an inch of bbs.
mircea_popescu: ". In the same way that the people who used to use BBS systems in small numbers that are dwarfed by the number of internet users, Bitcoin will undergo a similar transformation, with similar beneficial effects, only this time, penetrating more deeply into society at every level than what is simple net access today."
mircea_popescu: and they don't have to learn about santa and the guy in the sky. they will, sure, if that's what you wanna tell me.
mircea_popescu: exactly. you don't have to grow fat and stupid now that you have kids. but if you expect to, sure, you will.
mircea_popescu: children, inasmuch as they're yours, expect exactly what they're getting and will be equally thankful for it, which is why a six year old is happy whether poor african or rich swede, just as long as he's with his mother.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman again, matter of internalised expectations.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman which is how camp inmates ended up teaching linguistics lmao
mircea_popescu: rearing children is perhaps not so unlike going to reeducation camp for a few years. it "didn't work" on a. solzhenitsyn. it DID work, obviously, on all the schmucks he knows by name but you do not. so...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: diana_coman i bet you it's primarly driven by internalised expectations.
mircea_popescu: whereas fuctkarded abstractions fucktarded people come up with greatly, and i do mean GREATLY benefit from a spanking.
mircea_popescu: the former's sane, the later's of the same ilk as children going to bed in their favourite clothes
mircea_popescu: and wanting everything you do to be driven by your brain.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between wanting to use your brain as a general thing,
mircea_popescu: (which, incidentally, is WHY we only care to fuck women < 20something. that's it. after she's moved on to office life, you can have her.)
mircea_popescu: same hit people going to work for a bureaucracy exhibit.
mircea_popescu: i guess the formula probably is, "the predominance of women best suited for housewifing equals the unit divided by the maximal litter of a woman"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you get 0.0726 between -1.15 and -.85 deviation.
mircea_popescu: it is rare, yes. look at the normal distribution, between say 88 and maybe 75 you get what, 4% of the population ?
mircea_popescu: it is generally rare to find a woman so stupid her actual optimal level is housewifing.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the model breaks down on low states. which is why the housewife is such a problem for your approach : she's hot alright.
mircea_popescu: maybe a sufficient approach if all you care about is handling and predicting
mircea_popescu: a housewife is exactly that : someone completely adherent to the mob. so much so she can spend all her time with children and not care.
mircea_popescu: that most creative people throughout the ages would prefer to pretend "they're insane" rather than make plain their complete inadherence to the mob is readily understandable
mircea_popescu: i see little more at work than utter contempt for "fellow man" in the common sense this is given.
mircea_popescu: i write the occasional bit of poetry/literature, and i don't either regard it as some sort of gain or myself as insane (for it)
mircea_popescu: so there's a number of different problems with this "ev activity" line of reasoning.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also, art is always and by definition a -ev activity, and people engage in it. for that matter, love and childmaking idem.
mircea_popescu: this is what being intelligent means : the more intelligent you are, the less often you get more than what you put into things.
mircea_popescu: and re vi - whatever!!1 i used it for years. nowadays i find i mostly use nano. then again nowadays i mostly read other people's reports.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in computing (the actual kind) the record's not as bad as in most other disciplines.
mircea_popescu: and yes, the "scam money rots your brain" think is also a very powerful theory.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not that i'm persuaded, but one can't not notice the coincidence.
mircea_popescu: maybe you're right, and it's incidentals. or maybe lisp to the young mind is like meth-lsd
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform name a guy who did lisp and survived mind intact.
mircea_popescu: this "take one side of the story and run with it" is speciufic of ambitious if none too bright 15 yo boys.
mircea_popescu: 2) graham spent his mind on thinking about lisp, ended up a 60 yo too fucktarded to understand even the most basic points of math.
mircea_popescu: 1) naggum spent his mind on thinking about lisp, ended up a 40year old too fucktarded to get out of the rain. this is literally what happened, and one will have a lot of trouble talking around the failure of some guy to avoid dying of perforated ulcer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform look at this perhaps very worrisome set of two examples.
mircea_popescu: afaik they're about as fucktardedly puritan as the anglos
mircea_popescu: i've been up an hour i've been reading nothing but scandalous stupidity.
mircea_popescu: so techniucally it'd be an improvement. and if he stops eating at all and instead starts puking edible vomit like some sort of invertebrate cornucopia, he might even be socially useful FOR ONCE IN HIS SAD EXISTENCE
mircea_popescu: rather than the 99.94% his piece of shit "ventures" are currently.