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mircea_popescu: give it a spin sometime, it's absolutely fantastico economic-wise.
mircea_popescu: but the latest comer to "we're a website, we print numbers" side of "financial services" is nevertheless amusing.
mircea_popescu: i can affirm under oath that the whole argentina btc market is under 10 btc / day
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "So began an extraordinary course of events that saw her tweet shared more than 600 times, kick-starting a viral scandal which resulted in the 72-year-old academic"
mircea_popescu: flaying obese people alive and stuffing small african children in the sack of flesh idem.
mircea_popescu: heck, throwing transsexuals from rooftops would create jobs.
mircea_popescu: and it's not a matter of "sex" or "omnipresent" or "influence". sex is the basis of all social interaction. education is not an abstract or abstractable abstraction, but social intercourse, exactly like fucking, exactly like seduction, exactly like any other social behaviour.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel a) people who aren't being educated aren't being educated, mmkay. why is my model of education supposedly failing to take into account things which aren't part of the field ? b) it was a disucssion of humor, references a quote, from al ink. saw link ?
mircea_popescu: imagine the inconvenience of trying to diddle history with this arrangement.
mircea_popescu: (afaik this would be the first example of a closed loop, which is to say a cyuclicity i nthe graph of modification dependencies
mircea_popescu: certainly can go into deedbot. which will go into the blockchain. which... inception
mircea_popescu: (note that at the current rate, it'd have been a lifetime)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so the bad news is that it looks like node will be off for something like 24 hours.
mircea_popescu: the only stable solution is in any case willing submitting to chosen people. and there should be no room for "state" anywhere once that's done.
mircea_popescu: that said, it'd be incredible cultural progress for the us if it actually was a little funnier.
mircea_popescu: societies exhibiting an incredibly exacerbated "making fun" cancer have been recorded. they still have the same problems with demagogues and peoples' general emotional insanity. humor is no panacea.
mircea_popescu: hould be, we can see how askew they can get, and we can recognize distortion when we are confronted with it.” << for the record, this is rank nonsense. it only seems to work because americans are the worst of all german stocks - incredibly stolid, unhumorous fellows.
mircea_popescu: Along these lines, Meerloo offers a prescription: “We must learn to treat the demagogue and aspirant dictator in our midst just as we should treat our external enemies in a cold war – with the weapon of ridicule. The demagogue himself is almost incapable of humor of any sort, and if we treat him with humor, he will begin to collapse. Humor is, after all, related to a sense of perspective. If we can see how things s
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel's committing this error where he's proposing that since he's not fucking the girl, he's not in love with her ; asciilifeform is committing this error where since there was a building in the vicinity of the learning, the building is now a school.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel the notion that one can educate outside of a sexual context is not unlike the notion that one can write code without reading any.
mircea_popescu: it is with great sorrow i say the above, no sort of anticipation.
mircea_popescu: why do you think i myself have anything to do with it ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel your protest is not unlike protesting everything on earth gotta spin around the sun.
mircea_popescu: if nobody had taught poettering how to write, the loss ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform most mathematicians hate teaching anyway
mircea_popescu: yes. empty "goodwill" is closer to a crime than to a good thing.
mircea_popescu: "The fuel, as usual, is the emotional blackmail of people of goodwill, the uses of mass mobilization to exploit that goodwill, then, finally, to render all such goodwill meaningless."
mircea_popescu: so... let them pick sex partners. that's the only education they either can have or need.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a) you can't educate "a class". individuals only ; b) you can't educate people you don't, most intimately, know ; c) there's no education outside of the educated's choice.
mircea_popescu: there is really no substance to the institution of marriage outside of this.
mircea_popescu: how about you educate your children pre-puberty, and whoever they feel like educates them post ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel think about it. why would you want to spend time with an idiot if you're not fucking her. and what else is an idiot if not one in dire need of some education.
mircea_popescu contemplates a future where the only tuition is prostitution.
mircea_popescu: incredible the amount of innovation simply sprouting forth from the ground once someone says "nobody asked you anything" @ the usual barnacles.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, yes, tomorrow. but can't hurt thinking about.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell agorecki how's the learning coming along ?
mircea_popescu: what's needed is a fucking ISCS. the intellectual state of computer science.
mircea_popescu: just biding their time, waiting for a good opportunity, honest! wanted to do maximum damage, and as we all know, ~MAXIMUM~ damage is always in the future.
mircea_popescu: because truly, it was waiting for salvation! resisting through culture!
mircea_popescu: incredible that this "free world" thing has waited patiently, and incredibly quietly, for 25 years for us to show up. i imagine it will be very hurt in its hopes and aspirations when i spit in its mouth.
mircea_popescu: For instance: #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf ("Hello World\n"); } compiles to 985,018 bytes. This is almost all libc overhead.
mircea_popescu: imo nsa of 1999 was much better organised than the crap of today.
mircea_popescu: "You don't have to boot frmo the CDROM. And if you need a router you have a network and therefore can connect to another machine."