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mircea_popescu: "up until that point where you take them to the recycling plant door and one is refused, they're entirely the same thing right, hold fluid"
mircea_popescu: it seems, if one's inclined to generalize, that both sexes of a species are the same species, much like both recyclable and non-recyclable bottles are "bottle", in some sort of sense that doesn't make any sense in examination.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the irritating problem is that while the two characters are fundamentally disimilar, nevertheless there's superficial similarities that rankle. both use a language to communicate what appear to be thoughts, and both can emulate formal logic in their own wetware to reliably come to the same true/false values
☟︎ mircea_popescu: 1918 technoly lol, potassium chloride. i had an entire box, as a boy, FOR JUST THIS JUST IN CASE!!!
mircea_popescu: anyway, speaking of which, isn't it a wonder all the "secret services assassinations" etc don't involve a simple "replace shower gel with nitrobenzene" ? evidently they can get hotel maids to perjure themselves in the most ridoinculous way possible, why not something incomparably safer ? not like the usual fucktards would ever give up the "conference" life
mircea_popescu: and no, there's nothing wrong with saying "universally, except for the morons". car tanks are universally filled with gasoline (except for the morons -- such as those who try straight toluene, or those al schwartz speaks of, or etcetera -- there's no "consensus" escape from reality, and so in plenty of cases there's no difference between divergence and idiocy)
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-05#1847933 << moreover, the "new life" device is typically female ; perhaps the most widely examined & researched point by humans on earth, there's a fucking reason "marriage" consisted historically and ~universally~ (not counting the moron societies) of exactly this, "Ia-ti mireasa ziua buna, de la tata, de la muma, de la frati, de la surori, de la gradina cu flori" ie "bitch, say your goodbyes
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: but yes, she's not read nearly enough to be capable of penmanship in anything but the common low style. yet.
mircea_popescu: even the momentarily-still-alive ones are very arguably significant at all.
mircea_popescu: tha fuck does this even mean ? how can it possibly be significant if defunct ?!
mircea_popescu: "Jake Joseph Paul is an American actor and YouTube personality who rose to significant fame on the now-defunct video application Vine. "
mircea_popescu: imagine the reasoning of little girl, "mommy, mommy, isn't my skirt much better now, i put some mud on it"
mircea_popescu: if they were rid of the moronic usgistani monkeys on their back, they'd be truly happy people.
mircea_popescu: they came up with a buncha pantsuitisms here ; no smoking in public, no genuine leather... can't even keep a chipmunk pet. not legally at any rate.
mircea_popescu: byzantium was both richer and larger than rome throughout the entire xtian period
mircea_popescu: after the western world brought the benefits of democracy to the byzantines, the latter also stopped using it.
mircea_popescu: "stench as lasting as the color" says the ancient source.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform smelled such that it was specifically a cause of divorce among the jews
mircea_popescu: (and since we're doing notes : anna porphyrogenita has an ancient name, which approximately meant the same as "comely". Ἄννα Κομνηνή, anna the comely. looks nothing like noether!)
mircea_popescu: special greek teacher had to be imported, and was the only and first one in century+
mircea_popescu: besides, one's in a much better position to find comnena in 1200s than 1400s. by the 1400s, nobody in italy could read greek, you realise this ?
mircea_popescu: and for same reason he didn't care -- he also didn't start the renaissance.
mircea_popescu: which is why renaissance did not start with dante ; it included him, but in effigy.
mircea_popescu: dante wisely never asked beatrice if she could read the latin verse. nor did he care
mircea_popescu: literally this, things are important now that literally did not exist a decade, or a century, or ten thousand centuries ago.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i fear that may be just so much wishful thinking.
mircea_popescu: it never occured to me to inquire whether, or that i'd care if, 1998 girly wrote anything. who the fuck cares, "sense enough to not get run over" was plenty, then.
mircea_popescu: today i have to go through millions of "profiles", and the results are overall less satisfactory.
mircea_popescu: as a factual matter, i could (and did) pick up women i'd share a bed with on the street, some short two decades ago. even less.
mircea_popescu: this has no bearing on the expectations of people to feed themselves through work of their hands ; but it speaks rather on the expectation of people that they can make friends.
mircea_popescu: yes, but in a different aspect ; that concerned principally the happenstance that labour is no longer a thing, much like phlogiston is no longer a thing.
mircea_popescu: "you are not smart enough to be here" certaily means something at all points of human existence, from the eleusine days forward, and before. but WHAT it exactly means depends strictly on how sharp and how effectual tools there are available ti distinguish sense from idiocy.
mircea_popescu: but the more abstract world of representation (aptly described not by the computer, but by the trilema-style referencing, which is more fundamental a computer than the computer itself for the needs of this conversation) suddenly exploded all that. like when you lift a rug, suddenly all sorts of scum was exposed that before passed.
mircea_popescu: to put the matter into proper formalization : the old world, of mechanical contraptions that could be physically debugged, was relatively simple and moreover in certain senses and on some dimensions very strictly constrained. consequently it was possible to build exam-taking rulebooks that allowed a large population of morons to build up, and "work", passibly well, as church wardens, ship righters, what have you.
mircea_popescu: "but your right honorable greatness! WE HAVE NO OPPOSABLE THUMBS!"
mircea_popescu: watch them at work, the impression becomes inescapable you're trying to teach lizzards writing
mircea_popescu: there is that ; but more common with older folks seems a deep and fundamental ineptitude with the programmable machines
mircea_popescu: and god only had a few million souls at the peak available and the women kept pouring out children, and well...
mircea_popescu: hmm, i'm goping through creanga's cannonical and i don't see it ; but i quite literally recall this "take the left, lose your life ; take the right, lose your quest ; go straight ahead and lose both"
mircea_popescu: in other news, /me is working on a monstrous, 70k+ words as it stands nao, work of adnotation.
mircea_popescu: pretend to make gods of men all ye will, the problems of gods then they'll assail.
mircea_popescu: most of these bums, from taaki to whoever else, are precisely not the us professional class, but the orc dreamer.
mircea_popescu: not exactly, a lot of foreign derps in bitcoin, esp early 2010s.
mircea_popescu: be it judges, politicians, realtors or the community of poets from wisconsin
mircea_popescu: sure does. walk into any us conference of professionals
mircea_popescu: anyway, there was a lot of metals dealing for coin back in the day.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is false, incidentally. amir taaki famously had his 16 yo sister camho for coins.
mircea_popescu: the problem with manufactury is that often the evaluation of cultural artefacts produced is very difficult.
mircea_popescu: ^ this was a thing. "bitcoin jesus" was a thing. all sorta lulz lie buried in the everlog.