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mircea_popescu: no wonder the ancients didn't have "intellectual property". too cultivated to imagine it's workable.
mircea_popescu: mike_c ben_vulpes i seriously thought i had come up with it, then searched for it, found vulpes
mircea_popescu: to derps making "submarines" because hey, can't just admit bitcoin has it and humbly join.
mircea_popescu: from the idiots trying to get "real estate developments" on arid hills in south america
mircea_popescu: apparently everyone who's not proud to work for corporate america a la buffett is busy trying to carve a small kingdom of flies type of arrangement
mircea_popescu: ascii_field hey, we discussed last year this guy that was really butthurt about some professor stealing his invention ? up in canada ? something to do with mathematica maybe ?
mircea_popescu: kinda how it only takes a moment;s survey to reealise a field/group/whatever will never amount to anything worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: anyway : the people who never burn anyone elementarily fail at this.
mircea_popescu: it may be good taste, but it more likely is a firm decision to burn anything and everything until it either behaves or goes away.
mircea_popescu: people, if left to do what threy will, will just make piles of shit. it's what people do.
mircea_popescu: for that matter - electricity had a bad king, and it still sucks to this day, as discussed yest
mircea_popescu: (and before anyone wants to argue re ford : the man pissed on a field of patents, ignored the law and basically ordered anyone messing with his stuff murdered.)
mircea_popescu: there's always going to be fields with and fields without the luck.
mircea_popescu: rocketry exists because of that nazi us citizen, not because of any government, or other group of people. and on and on.
mircea_popescu: ic had no such luck. you could say shockley made a bad king.
mircea_popescu: the car is functional today to the degree that it is functional for this reason.
mircea_popescu: looky here : nothing works unless individuals sovereign over them.
mircea_popescu: next you're going to tell me growing autism is the intentional effect of tradecraft.
mircea_popescu: "we can't afford to train and then to lose the agents what with these new techniques"
mircea_popescu: speaking of spies, i was kinda surpriosed to see news item linked yesterday casually point out the deep reason for why exactly us gaver up on actual humint to focus on mostl pointless sigint
mircea_popescu: and if i couldn't that failure'd score pretty high up on the priority board.
mircea_popescu: "no need to pay creators for creating - it's what they do"
mircea_popescu: can you see how this would essentially be socialist ideology ?
mircea_popescu: so you're telling me you couldn't flunk tests. because it's "in your nature" to pass them.
mircea_popescu: if this condition is not satisfied, you're looking at mere kinds of stupid.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the difference between smart and stupid is that smart can be stupid, but stupid can't be smart. that's it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: similarly, shopper got shot in muggery after many years of safe shopping.
mircea_popescu: and generally that this conversation keeps sliding towards less and less related stuff.
mircea_popescu: what is surprising is that you're passing off chimps in a zoo for chimps in the wild,
mircea_popescu: "Andrew F. Oberle was giving a lecture to a group of tourists at the Chimp Eden sanctuary on Thursday when two chimpanzees grabbed his feet and pulled him under a fence into their enclosure, said Jeffrey Wicks of the Netcare911 emergency services company."
mircea_popescu: the other point, which for some reason you don't seem inclined to appreciate, is that if the difference between man and beast doesn't exist, then the nominal difference is spurious.
mircea_popescu: you know, the shapeshifting amoebic consistency of your position suggests to me that you'd rather it weren't discussed after all. which is it ?
mircea_popescu: wait, no man was ever killed by cockroaches. what are you on about ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you propose that if you were taken to a jungle, you would have trouble exterminating monkeys ?
mircea_popescu: that's to be done with your teachers, not with the fucking employers.
mircea_popescu: you never, ever, no matter what happens, accept a metric that puts you behind.
mircea_popescu: when you're old it's time for "years employed" metrics.
mircea_popescu: when you're young, you only talk in performance terms.
mircea_popescu: fuck that. why would you ever take a standard that disadvantages you ?
mircea_popescu: doesn't sound like you'll face a dearth of opportunities.
mircea_popescu: he doesn't sound old enough to need a job, that doesn't sound like a job good enough to want, etc.