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mircea_popescu: yes, but that's what he means by "theoretical physicist"
mircea_popescu: well in that manner, becoming a slave is the easiest way to increase quality of life.
mircea_popescu: "my own evaluation of variable x has changed as my measurement standards changed"
mircea_popescu: kinda how the soviets failed, people went "eh why bother, they gotta pay me anyway, and i don't make anything out of iteither way"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's when you stop contributing to an idiotic community and just keep for yourself.
mircea_popescu: if there IS a fire, nobody can insure the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: not everything's insurable nubbins`. specifically : insurance works for individuals. i was discussing the country/western world.
mircea_popescu: on average, if you average them, per capita debt about 1k, per capita income about 5k, hopefully there isn't a fire.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fwiw i suppose your situation is exactly typical of "the civilised world".
mircea_popescu: "oh i just pay 20k out of my 6k a year. problem ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski he sells used chicken fingers to make up the diff.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i mean they also happened in daytime, you know, cause the shops are closed at night. so daytime causes it ? meh.
mircea_popescu: but i still think it's at best wrong to imagine "the discussion did it"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` to the degree that one's action is prevented by organised debris in his head, then this process may clear a path he can finally act upon
mircea_popescu: which is important because "being in bitcoin country" does not anymore "make you bitcoiner
mircea_popescu: which is just another way of saying that "talking about bitcoin doesn't make you part of bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: if dude's not ready to buy nw car, he may talk of whatever with whoever, still no car. so forum didn';t DO anything.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski if someone's ready to i dunno, buy a new car, then he has specific questions which a forum might answer, and he's buying cart with our without forum. so forum didn't DO anything.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski being persuasive is like being tasteful. not a property of the painting.
mircea_popescu: no dude. they kept talking indefinitely. it's a way to pass the time.
mircea_popescu: hey, i used to write great novels, but then i got promoted and now im doing 6 teasy metaphores an hour!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` all about how and why would one go in the water, whether there's breathing, ample considerations.
mircea_popescu: and they had this conversation which went on for a while.
mircea_popescu: so listen, i was once with like half a dozen teensy chicks by the side of a pool, and some were in the water and some were on the chairs.
mircea_popescu: which should explain why people don't particularly wanna say anything on the topic. how the hell does one even know ?
mircea_popescu: which then paid off when you went and fucked with installing pogoshits
mircea_popescu: nubbins` honestly i thought you were kinda dumb for the entire interval, but in a reserved sort of way.
mircea_popescu: cuz 598986907 years ago, hunter went into the forest, whereas woman only moved fat butt from current bush she plucked once someone found a new bush
mircea_popescu: the answer in his head, prolly, was "to be replaced with what"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider the ancient discussion with TaT re women. "do you like her ? if not, get rid of her"
mircea_popescu: im starting to understand why religion is such a big deal. it's not that it makes any sense, it's that it provides answers to "fundamental questions of life"
mircea_popescu: yes, but the fictitious game of "may be" is by definition going to provide any anwer you seek.
mircea_popescu: if the answer's no, then you've got yourself a social study. if the answer's yes, more power to ya.
mircea_popescu: it involves an answer to the very simple q : "can you do something with it ?"
mircea_popescu: this does not involve finding the officer of serenissima hr.
mircea_popescu: there's a very simple heuristic to evaluate whether you're currently developing or whether you historically developped skills teh most serene republic has a need of.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform moreovber, you know, resolving problems that are clearly past what you probably correctly call an event horizon is an exercise in derpitude.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can build all your factories you want once the idiot in the room (made out of a bunch of idiots glued to each other) is dead.
mircea_popescu: i recall this point where some derpy agent swore before the court he used excel spreadsheets to rape a db
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform REAL PROGRAMMERS DO NOT LISP LAWL YOUR ARGUMENTES INVLEAD!
mircea_popescu: just wait patiently while oponent kicks himself against everything in sight ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's that azn fighting style where you don't particularly give a shit ?
mircea_popescu: except we don't really participate in plankton whatever.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im quite unconvinced of the latter. and the former reduces to... what exactly, "not everyone has the biography and talents of a computer user, windows plox" ?
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, 4chan and the internets have blown what looks like a permanent hole in the sort of deffective mental processes that are required for "patriotism" or whatever the pink-bellied shit involved in wwX was.
mircea_popescu: i personally can't quite see how i'd manage to motivate myself to participate in yet another "we good they bad fight for great justic!!1" conflict.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you appreciate how the task to defeat germany3 is quite different from what we're doing here ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well in the abstract it is dificult to evaluate. what exactly would be the task fo this red army ?
mircea_popescu: no wait, make a full sentence, i have no idea what you're saying.
mircea_popescu: o no wait it wasn't you, some other guy was making dire warnings about how teligent mit is
mircea_popescu: low level scamming, "i'ma call this empty jar MONEY and wait for idiots to deposit".