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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.
mircea_popescu: more like "i have so little, please don't make it less."
mircea_popescu: pulp was never literature. it seemed like it, because of the nonsenser that was early 19th century new york.
mircea_popescu: as they cheapened and broadened they took their proper place. not because "there aren't real wearers anymore"
mircea_popescu: his nostalgia is misplaced. the first time they came up with synthetic fibers people wore them out of pride. "look at me, i am one of those withthe industry"
mircea_popescu: "readers" meant "people more than willing to root through the shit, because literacy is new and printing only last year became affordable"
mircea_popescu: i think they all did that, in the olden penny a word days
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to ellison, guy apparently wrote a shitton. i suppose it's mostly that we don't give a shit about their pulpy universes.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field nobody goes to jail for THAT kinda fraud right ?
mircea_popescu: sf in the 50s was a spare cycle endeavour of the people who at the time didn't have bbs yet.
mircea_popescu: right. it's basically if they start putting on "as seen in bash.bitcoin-assets.org" on shit long after we all left.
mircea_popescu: this doesn't qualify it for "some shit they made up for the cover" ?
mircea_popescu: was a big scandal in the tiny cup. evnetually tho... lo! i am vindicated.
mircea_popescu: i was suspicious at the time. had an argument with other teens, with me going "that's prolly just some shit they made up for the cover"
mircea_popescu: and they all sported various awards, nebula, hugo, whatever.
mircea_popescu: i recall when i was a kid, some of the first books printed in shiny covers etc were various sf works, which is how i even ended up owning some (ender's game, dune, other americas, crap like that) - they looked good.
mircea_popescu: kinda goes with the woman's complaints about the what was it, hugo award ?
mircea_popescu: and where's that pic nubbins put in, with the "you do not want an adaptor, you think you do becaus you fucked up the light arrangement"
mircea_popescu: "this is the sort of item you only ever want because you fucked something else up"
mircea_popescu: obviously a bad idea, just not in their circumstances.
mircea_popescu: maybe you want an ak with a curved barrel, for all i care.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field note that i wasn't commenting on whether i or anyone else would or not would want x. merely on how much sense x makes, given other things.
mircea_popescu: like you know, "an empire". yes the empire may sink, but usually not in water.
mircea_popescu: you know the harem is not like, a block of cheese. it's an abstract name given to a complex social reality.