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mircea_popescu: (conversely, it's usually the case that you do require a trisomy or other polysomy to get the actual worst performance available - kids with such genetic defects are almost universally retarded and sterile)
mircea_popescu: (trisomy is usually a copy of one or the other gene, but it doesn't actually have to be - it could be a mix of them, which ~could~ be a legitimate new gene, if mindbogglingly improbable)
mircea_popescu: which may put it in the billions to one odds of happening, which means that we know enough about genetics since the genome has been sequenced to make judgements about on par with the quality of the pseudoscience that gave us "global warming" and "carbon"
mircea_popescu: and it is unlikely but technically possible that you actually require a TRISOMY to get the topmost performance.
mircea_popescu: if the gene for being a total fucktard has genes A through P and a through w, where upcase ones are dominant, it may be the case that the AD kid is the geniusest of them all and the BG kid is the total fucking retardest of the lot, way behind ww or ft or whatever the fuck other recessive combo
mircea_popescu: there's places with 30+ genes, of which multiple are dominant.
mircea_popescu: the single alele pair model is in the books because fucking peas exhibit it, and because it's easy to teach to biologists, who are people who are bad at basic arithmetics.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. i am so sick and tired of this cloying tiresome pedestrian understanding of genetics.
mircea_popescu: "The other model Hariezer lays out is that magic lies on a single recessive gene. He reasons squibs have one dominant, non-magical version, and one recessive magical version of the gene. So of kids born to squibs, 1/4 will be wizards. In this version, you either have magic or you don’t, so if wizards married the non-magical, wizards themselves could become more rare, but the power of wizards won’t be diluted. C
mircea_popescu: elitism has its protective advantages, especially for teh youth.
mircea_popescu: the one thing that'll ruin a bright young mind is success among idiots.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the "there's nothing worse for a good startup than a bad revenue source early on" quip ?
mircea_popescu: there's a reason for the yawning geopoliticomilitary chasm centering around pekin, and that cause is that the top brass of the us centcom failed to guess cca 1980.
mircea_popescu: thus, they're not bankrupt, and will in fact bury the us.
mircea_popescu: instead of making 25 atomic carriers to the us' dozen, they just made small cheap rockets)
mircea_popescu: note that the chinese very smartly did not do what the usians expected them to do in the 70s/80s (an exact rehash of the 60s/70s russian idiocy of trying to copy them and lose at it, Мы вас похороним! and all that,
mircea_popescu: this is scarce consolation to the poor schmucks sent to die in the trenches, of course, but we're here discussing the larger problem
mircea_popescu: if you're fighting over terrain you do not know you've got a whole heap of problems, each much bigger than anything a buzzard flying by could solve.
mircea_popescu: what can be said about the kid who gets into a fight his first day in the new school ?
mircea_popescu: these don't exist not because "it wouldn't be cool", but because it'd be pretty dumb.
mircea_popescu: if what you're doing requires "air superiority" you're essentially trying to construct a nuclear-powered lawnmover
mircea_popescu: it's unavoidable, she's the server, scheduling naturally resides with her, which...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes maybe they just wanna play conect-r with her.
mircea_popescu: to my great shame, those eyebrows are the only thing i recall of this girl.
mircea_popescu: so mp goes "go and buy some vodka". everyone (~dozen ppls) gets drunk offa half the bottle. girl drinks other half. her eyebrows slowly but surely keep rising all through the night)
mircea_popescu: (tru story : mp was once at a guy's bday party, very smart coder guy. the party - total cockfest. mp's escort only girl in the room. mp sighs and goes got any booze ?
mircea_popescu: sorry ben, im affraid the wine's more runny than you'd like it./
mircea_popescu: anyway, we're also going to the place's best porterhouse steak imo, so there is that.
mircea_popescu: unless they fuck it up, which... argentines are famously unreliable.
mircea_popescu: "Have fun, meet new friends and become a part of the Sesso Community. Become a volunteer at Club Sesso!" dude...
mircea_popescu: "Club Sesso is Portland Oregon's upscale, swingers club."
mircea_popescu: oh, swinger's club. the local thing i visited and cursed closed meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: not that you'd conceivably need it, what they do here is print little 3x2 papers and stick them everywhere.
mircea_popescu: neways, you can has list of pickup places, ie, where the girls go to work.
mircea_popescu: if it makes you feel any better i was saying the same in teh us.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, prostitution being legal, and the universities being in session...