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mircea_popescu: need something to shanonize, yo. "radical honesty" herp-derp.
mircea_popescu: if americans didn't read french, how exactly would you imagine all the "new concepts" they publish would be made ?
mircea_popescu: back in the 60s and 70s it was looking like muchly the other way. but today, scientology is a barely surviving holdout of those olden days of talk psych.
mircea_popescu: generally, the more brilliant derps in any bogus field are the ones that'll finally sink it. he's chiefly the reason us pseudo-sicence of the mind went the way of pills.
mircea_popescu: in the process paving the way for the ulterior extirpation from human preoccupations of stuff like "social studies".
mircea_popescu: the less important is his intellectual contribution - he proved conclusively that a "field" with "its own terminology" is not for this purely rhetorical reason respectable.
mircea_popescu: conversely : if you're going to con people, take the least time possible. you'll deliver just as much con to each victim, but make more money at it.
mircea_popescu: (because they're exactly equally effective, being shamans).
mircea_popescu: as the expression goes, when hiring a shaman don't hire the "best", hire the cheapest
mircea_popescu: lacan is remembered chiefly for two things. the more important was his economic superiority - he was the first talk psych to reduce the session time. he'd charge people for three minutes sort of thing. that made him more productive than his peers.
mircea_popescu: you hadn't heard of that feminist role-model and brilliant woman in tech irigaray before, had you.
mircea_popescu: you will be able to self-voice once you are in its wot.
mircea_popescu: you don't need to register. you are registered already, and it knows this.
mircea_popescu: i suppose we're still hoping this may be cured with info exchange at some point.
mircea_popescu: you got any idea how many redditards/twitterwhatevers/etc run arround spamming hatred of me ?
mircea_popescu: "i am a guy who walks alone, and gets so excited if anyone mentions him that he even knows this happened".
mircea_popescu: she had no idea what that is and i didn't think much of her
mircea_popescu: i dunno how i ended up with some of these and some girlie asked me how do i "identify" and i said aliphatic.
mircea_popescu: i suspect the most common gender these days is "dragon"
mircea_popescu: <trinque> that is why I didn't just import the thing blindly; it worked differently than the current iteration << yeah at this point a note is called for at that <hr />
mircea_popescu: women, of course, are relatively common in places. and so therefore...
mircea_popescu: which contemporary pretender to sovereignty would you say is not organised by and for the needs, interests and preoccupations of women ?
mircea_popescu: admitting that the two ways any group of people could be organised as are strictly 1. it's only funny until someone loses an eye. then it's hysterical and b. minimize the discomfort of everyone an' love them whether they want to or not,
mircea_popescu: <williamdunne> I will presume you are in the US << he's in portland. a place so infected with dumb, if you ever run into a sane woman you gotta marry her.
mircea_popescu: <adlai> how have you repaid it for what it did give you? << atta boy :D
mircea_popescu: <williamdunne> I'm in Assbot's WoT, not sure why it didn't work for me << because you typed out the full name like a noob, and you have a display that fails to make the diff between capital i and lowcase l. instead of, you know, typiong the first three letters then hitting autocompletion like people who aren't noobs, and thus by noticing that Blo<tab> does nothing figure out the problem.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes " men who button the top button of their shirt when not wearing a tie." << what's that ? retardaton ? tuxedo ?
mircea_popescu: pious fraud. no history was ever told any other way, because the principal driver behind history as a human behaviour is exactly what Chillum was describing re his involvement in wikipedia.
mircea_popescu: one should still wonder why would record numbers of malingerers seen in a thorouhgly voluntary force.
mircea_popescu: the fact that the medical science of detecting imaginary maladies never got such a boost before or since notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: heck, the french conscripts of the french republicalso volunteered
mircea_popescu: "even the slave masters themselves agreed slavery is a bad idea".
mircea_popescu: what if i started an encyclopedia presenting the current state of "web development" as indicative of what computing science is ?
mircea_popescu: that it's badmouthed by the lazy, and that the encyclopedists pushed this angle where the late failure is presented as pars pro toto reporesentative... well.
mircea_popescu: decimation the fact remains that slavery is generally productive, and in some circumstances the only practicable alternative.
mircea_popescu: the woman's husband wanted to end the fee tail on the woman's dowry estate, and did not wish to entertain her children (which she had with a guy she actually liked, about her age), and so ... had his friend teh lord of the cinque ports declare them slaves, and they got sent where slaves went in 1500.
mircea_popescu: in fact, even the puritans, even on the mayflower, for all the pretense to contrary, shipped a total of four children that had been stolen from a gentry woman in england, against hte mother's wishes. three died the first winter there.
mircea_popescu: regularly children as old as 12 are listed as "servants". girls, mostly.
mircea_popescu: it was common practice to pick up children off the street / take the children of people living on the dole and send them over.
mircea_popescu: but the original northern colonists (south didn't exist, like oregon didn't exist during civil war) ran exactly the equivalent of the southern plantation,
mircea_popescu: "welcome, driving class. today, we learn how to accelerate the car. next week, we'll learn steering and braking."
mircea_popescu: either that or perfect the skill, shrug and try to be a rock or something.
mircea_popescu: seeing how stupidity is not self-healing, i don't even need to keep the list per se. just read another sentence later.
mircea_popescu: but the fact remains, i keep reading through, stupid accumulates, eventually overrurns my (short) buffer and i drop it.
mircea_popescu: i couldn't finish hayek because he was stupid. think about that, hayek of all people. if hayek is stupid what chance do we have ?