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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski apparently they're not too young to live and breathe.
mircea_popescu: kids can opt whether to die young and leave a beautiful corpse much before any serious effort was spent on them
mircea_popescu: the only half decent approximation of a test would be, "either you go to school where each day for a year contains a beating, or else we kill you in six years".
mircea_popescu: "i've visited all the places my friends sent me cards from"
mircea_popescu: the concept of performance tests is not unlike the concept of postcard tourism.
mircea_popescu: rightly is determined by that they put your world ablaze.
mircea_popescu: why not is not a permissible question in this context.
mircea_popescu: but moreover avoidance of the situation where you piss off the rightly powerful.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the focus of this process should not be satisfaction of the designer
mircea_popescu: what if they go back to school with a chip on their shoulder
mircea_popescu: romans had forbidden slaves (ie, teachers, more broadly, bureaucrats) beating their kids as a cornerstone of civility.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes more importantly : why would you as a kid take a beating from someone you're not a in a sexual relationship with
mircea_popescu: "students will learn to fly then grow the wings most adequate to their preferred flight style"
mircea_popescu: soo... i just got an email from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the choice as to whether to sit by the pool and look pretty / sit by the oak desk and look stern was always open to everyone.
mircea_popescu: anyway, you missed out a 1337 satoshi/day permabag by not coming to sunday's event.
mircea_popescu: so im going to make this one work and play it forever.
mircea_popescu: but i'll tell you this much : im sick and tired of having to switch games.
mircea_popescu: i dun think you comprehend how much ass eulora kicks and will kick in the future.
mircea_popescu: do we yet have something that people can put on pogo and run ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, in all that story a release is required.
mircea_popescu: rather than pretending depression under false pretenses much like "ununderstood" adolescents pretend to be gay.
mircea_popescu: (the incidence of depression among idiots being for this reason the most amusing thing of all! seriously, YOU'RE depressed ? you don't even have enough of a fucking clue to be sad.)
mircea_popescu: more like, the brain's not made for thinking anymore than bitnodes' is made to count nodes.
mircea_popescu: human physiology, the stuff the memory hole effect's made of.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` bitnodes is in the business of finding what it wants to find.
mircea_popescu: and the thing that keeps schmuck is, the thing that keeps all schmucks. fear.
mircea_popescu: inertial mass is, much like the "centrifugal force", a matter of observer observing
mircea_popescu: what is it that makes the speed of chemical reaction be the speed of chemical reaction ?
mircea_popescu: always reasons. the fact that nothing's instantaneous in the physical world is the chief reason there may even be life in the first place.
mircea_popescu: who and where told them "we're getting wiped, at the most last out another three, maaaaybe six months" ?
mircea_popescu: now wonder along with me : WHY is it that shithead gavin is SO VERY FIRMLY CONVINCED this must be done "before the end of the year" ? hm ?
mircea_popescu: there ~IS~ a reason they switched from trying that to trying gavincoin last year.
mircea_popescu: actually, i hope most of it does, and i hope it comes out of their corneas and their daughter's labia.
mircea_popescu: and i don't care how much of it comes out of the skins of idiots.
mircea_popescu: i LOVE!!11 the fact that they're giving me free money this way
mircea_popescu: soros' breaking of the bank of england should be the only example you might ever need.
mircea_popescu: the "you can't hold it" thing works on everyone. huge difference.
mircea_popescu: how do you call the "part which does the printing" in a printer ?
mircea_popescu: the granules themselves are more or less engineered to clog competing heads.
mircea_popescu: the toner granularities thing is a fine example of biology in business.