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mircea_popescu: which is technically a step below on the literary scale. i await with bated breath the next step underwater.
mircea_popescu: of course contemporary usage is unpaid shanonizers (such as, reddit users), increasing the volume and decreasing the cost of their misrepresentations of their own social interactions.
mircea_popescu: so... it's only useful if you're making two cents a word writing "young adult fiction" or whatever other "genre" bullshit, and need shorthand to keep track of your "characters"
mircea_popescu: poorly-er done. meanly-er done, actually, in the classical sense of mean ("of mean extraction")
mircea_popescu: this exact process is at work here - it becomes much easier to write the sort of pulp cultureless usians call "novels" by proceeding on one of these accounting paradigms
mircea_popescu: harlan e has a piece where he explains how people like hubbard were optimizing their workflow by - for instance - typing on rolls of butcher paper so as to not waste time changing sheets in typewriter
mircea_popescu: anyway, i will say for the record that all this "typficiation" bullshit, from the ntjx to the mti to everything else is ~strictly~ the result of lazy writing.
mircea_popescu: it looks like the elephant three people found in a dark room.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i can vouch for the fact that the classification's nonsensical by the plain observation that i'm all over the fucking map.
mircea_popescu: gtfo, reddit. you don't get to classify the things other people do.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> achtung, panzers: << dawg i thought you were going to PUT THE ARCHIVE THROUGH IT ALREADY!!!1eleventyeleven
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or mike_c or anyone sane in the fucking head. or over the age of 30.
mircea_popescu: because they actually are a much larger damage than that. sort-of like insanity.
mircea_popescu: mike_c this, imo, sums up the general utility of "revolutionary websites". people don't want accounts on them even if given away with 200 dollars worth of credit attached.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes meanwhile i figured it out. you were quoting teh fox missus
mircea_popescu: guy's name is actually alp arslan, upon research. i misremembered.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : at battle of manzikert, spy to ars aslan : "my sultan, the enemy army is approaching us". ars aslan : "then we are approaching them as well"
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mircea_popescu: i'm really not enough of an expert in the field to be all that confident.
mircea_popescu: there is no requirement that graph be arbitrarily traversable.
mircea_popescu: the sane were pretty much either dead under the white flag, or else involved in subverting the red.
mircea_popescu: doing what, sanely waiting for the messiah ? (the real one this time!)
mircea_popescu: the insane can either live in the camps nor not live at all, that's the problem there. sanity, not intelligence.
mircea_popescu: framing the discussion in terms of intellectual ability is completely missing the salient points. nobody ever gets offed for being either academically smart or stupid, it's orthogonal.
mircea_popescu: you know, the "wrecker" who was "trying to make the train tracks run down faster"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: brilliant guy, inescapably stupid. what are you gonna do ? can't empower stupid. off to the gulag with him.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, watching the derp go about how "we need regulation" suddenly made me comprehend why exactly von meck actually belonged beheaded.
mircea_popescu: i should prolly have one made, come to think about it.
mircea_popescu: women off to tadjikistan, milk goats in chains for the rest of their lives
mircea_popescu: honestly, my greatest regret in this life so far is that ~100k romanian ex-various state things survived the year 1990.
mircea_popescu: i fully intent to ejaculate down the cut throat of every single female involved.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, there's not going to be any "anastasias" out of the current imperial family.
mircea_popescu: by the time i'm done, it's time to start butchering the powers that used to be.
mircea_popescu: actually, hopefully we end up in prison, like the early soviet leadership. i'm gonna write a dictionary and a history of the world.
mircea_popescu: in short : those who do are dull. "i do not wish to think about these things, i have better stuff to do!!1". those who don't are insane. but who's to notice ? they themselves can't, the others can't be bothered. so... imperceptibly insane.
mircea_popescu: well... you know, the junkie is also imperceptibly addicted.
mircea_popescu: the former try to make things, the latter try to pass of their pretenses.