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asciilifeform pictures first day of mircea_popescu's lecture. n00bz walk in, find small road cone on each chair. 'no, gentlemen, these are glued on. have a seat.'
trinque: mircea_popescu: hm, right. I'm describing a particular brand of neurotic american stress, not petrification.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 14:45 mircea_popescu: this is because you also don't grasp the concept of "learning" correctly. there is no required participation of the fucking subject in learning actual matter, such as philosophy. if i were teaching them cooking i'd be interested in their own fucking contribution and whatever. but the point of philosophy is to shut the fuck up and LEARN. what "the text makes you think" and what "you feel about X" is entirely uninteresting, bec
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, that sounds then like an excellent class in waking up early, but with dubious results philosophy-wise :p
shinohai wonders when mircea_popescu will offer him full-time staff position as curator of players and tits
shinohai: mircea_popescu: khaos49 has key, needs acct
shinohai: ;;later tell mircea_popescu new Eulora blood awaits your arrival.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 00:29 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-24#1528679 << not all the children are fit to live ; all the parents are liable to lie to themselves on this score. this impedance mismatch is the first and in plenty of approximations the only business of social science.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 06:02 mircea_popescu: it's so fucking weird - kid evidently comes from money. he didn't find a brothel ? a roach peddler ? nuttin' ?
phf: mircea_popescu: you're totally right, i have no idea what i was thinking
a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 00:56 mircea_popescu: "better ai" is no improvement when it traduces in practice to "must play a game with known/computable solution" .
a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 00:48 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-24#1529001 << seeing through walls is not ai.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 00:55 mircea_popescu: (it's also not terribly fun to play over the age of about 12 or so, for this very reason. supaplex, which had dumber scissors (always left/right hand rule) AND allowd you to turn them around was much more interesting game (when scissors applied))
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu was this http://trilema.com/2011/epifania-cu-pedofilia piece ever translated ?
asciilifeform recalls covertress's 'veeeeeery speshssul offer' for mircea_popescu . perhaps ~this~ was it.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 17:23 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand (and this is quite certainly not an expert view) most mmporg tried to use robotic 'npc' to fill this eco niche.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 14:36 mircea_popescu: diana_coman i wish to meet the father that actually does this.
asciilifeform: 'harem', to use mircea_popescu's ontology, vs 'forum'.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand (and this is quite certainly not an expert view) most mmporg tried to use robotic 'npc' to fill this eco niche. ☟︎
asciilifeform: in mircea_popescu's movie - turns out - yes, everyone must.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's the gain of having the 9 around ? makes the fella with the 250 feel extra-31333337 ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how do you stand the barn folk? what do they contribute to your game world ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ah, i had this notion that it was discounted recently.
asciilifeform: abrr: are you here as part of mircea_popescu's 'pay for tits' program ?
shinohai: mircea_popescu well i hope you're having fun. <<< least I could do in exchange for the #trilema girl
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-08-27#811154 << mircea_popescu see also. ☝︎
asciilifeform: what did mircea_popescu think it was ?
shinohai: mircea_popescu: the eulora post?
shinohai: I came mircea_popescu !
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://lwn.net/Articles/696561 << moar fruit from the nailgunned-murdock tree
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: would you say 'name of the rose' is a reasonable portrait of 'who monks' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the only clear thing it means is 'not monk, did not take vows of celibacy'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu never met such ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from sov criminalistic records, the typical picture is 'grandfather kills family with axe', or 'mother drowns children', but no, afaik, 'village idiot axes dozen in town hall'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has article where 'supernumerary children who failed to find their infant graves'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: chinese pictograms did not come from mars, no.
asciilifeform: all of the dysfunctions detailed in mircea_popescu's analysis, are ~typical~ of the folk here.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, beat me to it, lol
diana_coman: mircea_popescu> also consider - someone like the young rodger is the result of careful selection over the generations. <- thing is: if ancients were aware of the type, this selection thing is not really that relevant: there probably always was, there always will be
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 14:26 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: being run over by a 2-horse carriage at age 7 would have helped.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 14:33 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wouldn't have been judged fit for service since 1800s
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, I did NOT say to teach him anything; precisely my point: nothing to do to make him something else than he was (or rather: wasn't); what I meant by plenty to do starts with NOT pretending he is a fine child like all the rest, let's get him to college, give him a car etc
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, that may be, although I suspect it's not true per se: sure, nothing could have been done to make him something else than he was; plenty could have been done to allow him to die happy for instance instead of giving him that responsibility too; moreover there was plenty to be done to help everyone else basically; what asciilifeform says
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: being run over by a 2-horse carriage at age 7 would have helped. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, diana_coman : ask anyone who grew up as usaschwitz inmate. the culture is broken in ways that make dr mengele look like a harmless eccentric. they see it as a VIRTUE to keep broken people, esp. children, alive.
a111: Logged on 2015-10-10 13:15 mircea_popescu: their issue is with the WILL. car deaths are "accidents". that's ok. just as long as nobody gets what they WANT libertard is happy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: very unusually, and afaik unlike every other postalhero, rodger's youtube thing is still up: https://www.youtube.com/user/ElliotRodger
deedbot: PeterL rated mircea_popescu +1 << Runs MPEx and Eulora and stuff.
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated t2yax 1 << Euloran
asciilifeform realized just now that question http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-24#1528307 seemed quite strange to mircea_popescu most likely on account of his not buying shitware to-break-it. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sample is pathetically small yet.
trinque: mircea_popescu: speaking of coping with poverty, saw a guy selling ring pops in the middle of the road. guy on a motorcycle paid him and immediately popped in his mouth.
asciilifeform: sooo mircea_popescu , how many 'dominations of the vertical and the horizontal' did we just spoodge into the faces of here ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phuctor is as it is so that i could do this, since day1
a111: Logged on 2015-06-22 20:01 mircea_popescu: there is a deep link between sex and communication, not least of all because sex is the communication of biological material.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 01:43 mircea_popescu: so anyone recall the spot in the logs many years ago where i explained to iirc trinque that the great sex mutation was most likely driven by the introduction of speech ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu would quite likely still be mircea_popescu if he were shorter by a cubit.
asciilifeform: maresyev was not, imho, typical flyer. nor mircea_popescu's capo - typical shorty.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you know who alexey maresyev was ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now i gotta ask, how ??
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was epic
phf: mircea_popescu: you know they made scateboards in su, my dad brought me one from tallinn, because he was obsessed with Estonia, but i'm pretty sure by mid 80s they made them all over
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu really exists, and lives approximately where he is said to live, and really is this tall skinny fella, as pictured in, e.g., my www.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: any thoughts on conference 4 of late ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tangentially: you have remnants of http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=FOOBAR in trilema.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but hey, i 'made up for lost time' later, had my share of petro-rubbish in usaschwitz.
asciilifeform: as per mircea_popescu's old piece 'a deal can be anything' --
asciilifeform: was it in a mircea_popescu article that i read 'rat does not know where he will eat, but knows that he ~will~ eat, and delights in the disjunction' ?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-21 13:07 mircea_popescu: listen : go to the president cafe or w/e it'scalled, the one right across from the teatre / across the street from that park, an' take some pics.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/eu-tinar-8.jpg << l0L!! i still have ~that~ coat
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'which meant that out of a hundred or so kids eating in a large room, I was the one getting the chicken meat parts. Which I didn't like, nor ate, because they were inferior bits to what I normally chomped at home, and they consequently didn't interest me, notwithstanding that most of those children had never in their life eaten meat. Supposedly it was good for them, right ? Vegetarianism is the future and all that ?'
asciilifeform: trinque: it was part of mircea_popescu's original gossipd spec.
felipelalli: mircea_popescu: it's better than my notebook :) I'm pretty sure my cleaning lady plugged the computer off. OK, you guys win, I'll pay a vps shit just to install this little shit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: stupid vs bubblegum wrap ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, them!
a111: Logged on 2015-03-07 16:12 mircea_popescu: turbo was for kids tho, we had the one before that. with fake money.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didntcha have 'turbo' in mircea_popesculandia circa late 80s
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: state-operated devaluations also not same
asciilifeform: i knew it! mircea_popescu will answer 'that one time in new york in '68...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'segwit' thing is, as i understand, intended as a protocol hardfork - to isolate trb users.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: earlier observation is just that - observation. that turdmeisters apparently wish to live as cockroaches in the crevices of bitcoin, instead of issuing 'honest' plainly labeled usg alt.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: noshit.jpg
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 00:44 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-01#1511937 << oh, "color revolutions" dun work ? tell you what, we'll steal your country's exports and with the proceeds finance an alt-country we'll pretend is realy your country. ha-ha!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the leaked widgets give a pretty good impression of the production quality, actually
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: quite!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc it was tried, the doge thing
a111: Logged on 2016-08-23 16:42 mircea_popescu: lol what waterfall.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I don't think there was a time since I came into communion with the proto-republic where it wasn't the case.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I thought since 2013 though some operations turn over
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, PeterL was pointing out that trb does not relay the ingredients desired in this kitchen.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> is there some rule that "experts" in anglosphere must be ludicrously inept at their chosen expertise, as per their own lights ? << Yes, if every "expert" sucks then tournament market doesn't need a very sweet pot for the winrar.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-23 13:54 shinohai: mircea_popescu , I am rather disappoint that not a single person has responded to generous Eulora offer.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in this case i was thinking of the microwave blaster thing
shinohai: mircea_popescu , I am rather disappoint that not a single person has responded to generous Eulora offer. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who? mark twain ?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-17 16:13 mircea_popescu: evidently, the socialist party does the exact same thing. for reasons of habit however, it doesn't irk you when they do it ; only when we do it.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-22 02:11 mircea_popescu: i guess we ping Framedragger ? or let him be ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what makes you think yours would win out ? << Yeah this is problem clinically addressed with oral vancomycin and one of the few problems addressed by that.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> phf intel says "roosh", ie some middle eastern looking kid.\ << Looks like he's trying too hard is my impression. Maybe becomes something if CLitler is elected.
asciilifeform: dunno, ask mircea_popescu .