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mircea_popescu: the similarities are overpowering. both groups are grossly acultural, clinging to ridiculously simplified worldviews and models of thought, and pretending to a legitimacy and importance that is both absent in the field and justified ideally and historically only.
mircea_popescu: if anyone can explain the difference between "for king and country" of the blips of the 1800s and "for democracy1`11`11" of the redditards of today...
mircea_popescu: yes, some symbolic "states", about as related to historical states as the queen of england's to historical britsh monarchs will survive
mircea_popescu: i think it's liable to go the same place - state's exactly as dead today as monarchy was in 1803
mircea_popescu: and the numerous coallitions of defeated european monarchs trying to save monarchies from napoleon
mircea_popescu: moreover, there are hard to miss parallels between this entire "saving the state" interventionism of the us coallition
☟︎ mircea_popescu: one should really stop and think for a moment if he notices that the opposing players eschew "opportunities" he himself wouldn't.
mircea_popescu: perhaps because they're not retarded enough to be the us.
mircea_popescu: state's in just as bad a shape as syria/ukraina/etc ever were.
mircea_popescu: i am kind of curious why neither are going for the "peace keeping" thing
mircea_popescu: anyway, i see a point to actually signifying tattoos, those queen of spades ankle stuff, or the russian cat or whatever.
mircea_popescu: i suspect worthless argentines tryin to act brazilian tough
mircea_popescu: the earlobe idiocy is really popular here in the hipster crowd
mircea_popescu: trinque the lol part is, how often the tattood were in fact free agents or otherwise involved.
mircea_popescu: this chick has on her pubis that original persian message, in greek.
mircea_popescu: actually the only tattoo i ever saw that i thought was cool,
mircea_popescu has seen plenty of "property of X" crotch-and-other-places
mircea_popescu: you are aware, yes ? point of life for the genotype driven is reproducing the damned things
mircea_popescu: think about it - that's for many of them the ONLY chance they get to reproduce their dna.
mircea_popescu: everyone's happy : the plebs for a, the corp because b), as quarters weren't evenworth stealing
mircea_popescu: (same holds true for the recent downturn in actual marriages ended that way too)
mircea_popescu: the only reason there's no coke machine murder-suicides is the low value of the item.
mircea_popescu: imo most coke drinkers do about the coins and machines what they do about their hopes and wives
mircea_popescu: don't come to me with a model that requires turning wizards into coke machines. there's no power to do so and the effort would be overall -ev anwyay
mircea_popescu: the usg did NOT survive eating the coin merely a few times.
mircea_popescu: the machine has a horrible reputation, and only survives in its abjection
mircea_popescu: but when i tried that you said "it is a mistake to ask"
mircea_popescu: why would THE WIZARD get involved in this, when there's an unbound negative result on the table.
mircea_popescu: anyway, by "magical dragon" i meant what you seem to mean by "wizard" just ftr.
mircea_popescu: not an easy task for angels to actually walk the earth.
mircea_popescu: and the past few years have taught me a whole lot about the value and complexity of maintaining impeccability.
mircea_popescu: why would magical dragon risk his magic to get involved in a system that may well tarnish it for no reason ?
mircea_popescu: the mistake is not to ask for it, the mistake is to contemplate a system that requires the question answered.
mircea_popescu: so, he put in his key, and the result came out negatory. what now.
mircea_popescu: specifically modeled for our convenience out of al schwartz.
mircea_popescu: how are you going to resolve dispute between party a which claims it ate its key and party b which claims the key was junk ?
mircea_popescu: then again... the past 50 years would look a lot different if i were actually right.
mircea_popescu: i am inclined to believe the solution to this problem is psychanalisis not software development.
mircea_popescu: if that reason can be descreibed, is that reason anything but psychogenic ?
mircea_popescu: is there any particular reason the amateur that's not in a kool dude wot now will manage to get in the kool dude wot of the proposed market ?
mircea_popescu: it'd seem very superficially that if this is true the other name for it is "polichinelle's secret"
mircea_popescu: a) monkey b) possesses the key c) will let go IF - c1. not painful c2. food and shelter.
mircea_popescu: what you said is a metaphor for womanhood, not the other way around.
mircea_popescu: you are trying to take the personal relationship out of sex.
mircea_popescu: in that example a) why would anyone accept to be paid less than the "cost to fuzz", and b) why would anyone opt to pay more thanb the "cost to fuzz" ?
mircea_popescu: i may be too slow for how fast this conversation has become, so gimme an example
mircea_popescu: will the computer test if the thing it is testing has met the test or merely circumvented the test ?
mircea_popescu: the 80% automation is what we do now anyway, for instance when using pgp
mircea_popescu: ah, i wasn't. an' i'm not about to link the theory wqith the practice formally yet.
mircea_popescu: well you might have noticed i AM making experiments in that province.
mircea_popescu: but that some is important and it falsifies a ~fundamental~ property of markets.
mircea_popescu: it works privately. there ~are~ dudes who get girlies to throw their soaking wet panties at them
mircea_popescu: they have a lot of common characteristics, yes, and the people "in" like to joke about it and pretend it's "the same". but... it is not.
mircea_popescu: but the market you propose, like the market which consists of assassins, like the market which consists of whores, is eminently NOT a market like the market that consists of grain, or ddram chips.
mircea_popescu: contrary to public idiocy, bitcoin's not particularly adequate to the latter. then again, public idiocy thought trains go too fast so it'll make passengers asphixiate out of lack of oxigen and cars explode.
mircea_popescu: the connection i see is that the proposition of this market is about as silly as the proposition of the trivia bot. there are fundamental differences between what a market is and what an assassination market is.