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mircea_popescu: you're not liable to get anywhere by simply following your own mental narrative in circles.
mircea_popescu: you know, naggum had a very unflattering piece re this approach, alf.
mircea_popescu: because if we're doing the entire "here's some random shit i came up with, do planning for it", might as well.
mircea_popescu: oh yeah, and while at it alf, compute the cost of raising ten children off three different women, also sight unseen.
mircea_popescu: there's yer ever-vaunted "social mobility", mats. the nonsensical premise that people should be in charge of their own life and make their own decisions. pure poison for everyone.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly like that one time when the alzheimer dude or w/e his name is wouldn't work with me then partnered up with keiser and started an ever-lulzy kickstarter that got together fiddy bucks and they're neither goinmg to ever mention again, because hey, internet, it's how it works.
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mircea_popescu: large country, they cvouldn't have fuxcked up all of it
mircea_popescu: the premise being that in that future of barely a thousand people, you don't really need names, and moreover, you can trivially ennumerate the list of everyone
mircea_popescu: actually there's a decent sf story in there, title it something like "986"
mircea_popescu: consequently... really, no further point. if tomorrow you wake up and there's not ten billion people but ten thousand, there won't be a notable difference.
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a shit about rockstars and genius scientists now.
mircea_popescu: one million schmucks had to kill themselves raising kids in new jersey so there could be a miss new jersey on television
mircea_popescu: then, steam power replaced muscle power, and people started playing talent lottery.
mircea_popescu: originally, people pinned women down and stuck it in them because the kids cost nothing, either fed themselves off offal or died, and then could be used, for purposes.
mircea_popescu: only thing another hundred twerps does for you is more inane demands.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: used to be, for most of human history, numbers mattered.
mircea_popescu: as empirically observed, there's not any cause or any way to build anything in a swamp.
mircea_popescu: social mobility is a nice way to say it. the other way to say it is "swimming in a shitswamp"
mircea_popescu: more like a freeranged cow for wu gang's organic organ growth farm.
mircea_popescu: in any case : the best thing that could happen is for a whole lot of lines to go extinct. like... most of them, really.
mircea_popescu: and re the "imagine being a drone"... why do you think it's so impossible to imagine ?
mircea_popescu: they'll just carry dept to stick coins in the stereoscopic machine with the girl taking her pants off
mircea_popescu: ayway, whoredom's gonna be great business. the chinese bezzle looks like it's going to be this, a lot of small yellow beta males swarmin' around. except they won't try to go to college and get a mortgage to please the old folks.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile prostitution... i suspect whores are going to make more money this century than total up to date.
mircea_popescu: recently the airlines managed to lose more money than was made in the history of flight.
mircea_popescu: back in 1992 all ukrainian girls were dancing in leipzig.
mircea_popescu: it'll suck when your kids come of age, not next decade.
mircea_popescu: eh, you might discover that chinese honeymoon much more pleasant than usg dregs.
mircea_popescu: japan was also considering it but then... somehow they changed their mind.
mircea_popescu: Noynoy Aquino said that the Philippines is still considering to join AIIB. "We have not indicated that we are ready to join also. We are actually at the stage of studying the proposal to join this particular new entity."
mircea_popescu: next us president whoever is gonna be is going to discover a sudden fondness for russia and "move past previous difficulties", and the transition's complete : washington is now a sort of germany, in charge of a large rust bucket that doesn't much care for it.
mircea_popescu: no usable jet, not like carriers would be usable even if they had a jet, no money to back it all up with anyway even if they had a miracle cure for rocketry, and no brains to work the entire thing even if money were somehow to be found, as it's always found when there's brains involved.
mircea_popescu: cazalla it's no alternative sort of deal. the "us in south china sea" story is coming to an end this decade.
mircea_popescu: "The only great material difference between Gawker's lines on the fappening and their publication of Bollea's tape is that while photos during the fappening were released in a decentralized manner, Gawker got to publish the Hulk Hogan sex tape first. "
mircea_popescu: and who the fuck apologizes for women that look good in bikinis
mircea_popescu: generally, early discussion of later to be publicly known stuff is considered unambiguous enough.
mircea_popescu: the others didn't have the gumption tro spend a coupla years as paris hilton's foot slaves
mircea_popescu: decimation everything's ambiguous if you wish it to be
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> So, LED bulbs... really excelling at exterior lighting. << so they are. also they bother the fauna, so less racoons
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or similar 'leak' with unambiguous physical consequences. << the "unambiguous" in there is a no true scotsman. you know for a fact that leaks to date have had physical consequences of the worst kind for the twerps in question, and you know they know, and you can observe them act in consequence of that knowledge. they digested the fact they are informationally defeated.
mircea_popescu: <mats> i wonder if this is how history will remember gawker << it's certainly how i'll remember it. "that wanna-be news-livejournal thing that got destroyed by hulk hogan"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you have to appreciate i don't do bezzle. that "couple mil" per year was about 20k actual deductibles and the rest fluff.