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mircea_popescu: As of April 30, 2015, the new price for .ws domains has been increased to
mircea_popescu: "a novel method to live. not previously described in art."
mircea_popescu: "Blanton, Brad 1996, Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth"
mircea_popescu: much more keenly aware of how retarded engineers are than the contrary.
mircea_popescu: imagine a programming language in which bubblesort was periodically rediscovered with awe.
mircea_popescu: i mean think about it, dialectics was a novel device early 1900s, impressive and all.
mircea_popescu: to this day the principal value of latin america literature is its patent insanity in this sense.
mircea_popescu: new world did exactly the same thing, dressed its solipsism to look like euro truth. but it's still solipsism
mircea_popescu: judea bastardized it into some sort of idiotic mysticism, which is really just rehashing their pre-existing idiocies
mircea_popescu: ascii_field tbh, i suspect the euro notion of truth never really caught on, even in its own colonies.
mircea_popescu: contemporary records are just as unreliable, it's just that meanwhile our friends in the us inhabituated us with this barbarism
mircea_popescu: fortunately the us is not large enough to retardify china, but i think we're gonna see some pretty spectacular purges down the road.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ftr, that's pretty much how eastern europe ran throughout the 90s too.
mircea_popescu: confucianism IS very good at a well specified set of tasks.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field kinda what makes people unhappy. any slave'll tell you, there's monumental fulfillment in submission.
mircea_popescu: whereas the western folk, while broadly useless, can at least be selected for sanity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the general idea of people who did intellectual work with/in china is that the chinese folk, while broadly very servile, are utterly uncreative.
mircea_popescu: moreover, didn't japanese employees have to pass physicals at work ?
mircea_popescu: the problem, of course, being that with globalization you really can't get options. it'll have to be pret a porter, one thing universally.
mircea_popescu: this is the inescapable human condition : most people are exactly rubbish
mircea_popescu: course the model worked historically about as well as welfarism (aka popular democracy)
mircea_popescu: it seems altogether probable that's what the chinese communist party envisages as ideal, and acts as if were the case.
mircea_popescu: well certainly not anymore than japan can afford samurais.
mircea_popescu: some ills are apparently unavoidable, sure. but the "better folks" got raped meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: suppose chinese monarch had refused... windows. apple. whatever.
mircea_popescu: alternatively : cixi's refusal of railroads did have the end effect of no railroads. but also, of silence.
mircea_popescu: only by sheer luck is there such a thing as the us, too.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field my question remains tho. so they fucked up science. indisputable. to whose detriment ?
mircea_popescu: yes. the method is : people are idiots and if you're going to parent them, you gotta parent them.
mircea_popescu: it's very subtle, the quality, but for this reason valuable. not aggresing sanity and common sense is worth a heck of a lot more than "making it work"
mircea_popescu: people who have no idea how to code go by the "well it works". this guy actually codes by "well this is how it should go"
mircea_popescu: no but seroiusly, lemme tell you - he wrote that phuctor thing, it's like 500 lines, and so sanely laid out i could go in there and understand what it does and how to modify it within ~5 minutes.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> seems when the US disintegrates it'll be chinese totalitarianism the world has to endure next << the price for vanity is rape. that's what the derps in the sec thinking they;re above doing what i tell you to do are doing toi themselves ; that's what the derps thinking theyre "vcs" and not humbling coming in here are doing for themselves.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> anyway i fixed the twitter parser - its not working now. all back to normal. << win
mircea_popescu: jurov you know, i don't read the current propaganda either.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> anyway, i don't think they will be able to make lying about your age a violation. << should be funny if they do... fill the jail up with 29 yo women.
mircea_popescu: how about she is affixed to a whipping post in front of the town church for two weeks, for being a disgusting nag and a total stereotypist ?
mircea_popescu: davout anyway, nothing in that piece makes me think this is anything but a very sad drama, of an old man who is being rejected merely for being old, and is forced to live in a society where random woman (who is no spring chicken either, "une trentaine my foot") can send him to prison arbitrarily.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's really about as nonsensical as "carbon causes global warming". men and apes have a common ancestor is all.
mircea_popescu: "Il a été mis en examen pour «viol par surprise» en mars dernier."
mircea_popescu: hopefully i get to drink champagne off a chick's tits at the ceremony where an 80yo gets a major prize for this advance.
mircea_popescu: certainly your model is a lot better than anything keynes spit out, or hence.
mircea_popescu: but the idea that any fiat-oriented economics is essentially studying fart flow is sound, and yes it's all a matter of diffusion.
mircea_popescu: well if you intend to it can go into the list. but do you ?
mircea_popescu: "Bob: Don't worry, we factored that into our budget after they upped Avagadro's number in China last year."
mircea_popescu: they couldn't really tell, between bubonic plague and malaria and everything else the "better" social arrangements blessed them with.
mircea_popescu: but this aside, yes scurvy - and to a much larger degree pellagra - were endemic and major qol reducers up until very recently. one of the many "blessings" of agrarian settlement.
mircea_popescu: if you think about it - they could have used say dried figs, if it was ~fruitness~ specifically.
mircea_popescu: the problem with sailing was that they had no fresh stuff
mircea_popescu: no, because you can get vitamin c out of all sorts of other sources.
mircea_popescu: just like maize was not part of the diet until the aztecs invented it.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ for the record, no fruit was part of the human diet for the longest time (until the persians actually invented fruit - which is exactly what they did)
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ that's kind-oif the point here. all sorts of fraud available to people trying to push pseudo-anthropology agendas. like for instance people don't readily understand just how huge the genetic and paleohistoric gap between us and chimps is.
mircea_popescu: same is true of humans, and like in the case of those rats (and most other mammals), the alternatives are extinct
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the 10mn years thing : the oldest split that created the rat (murines) as different from other rodents is about 13mn years ago.