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mircea_popescu: or as that romanian dude put it, "hai c-am furat un negativ"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know that's an age honored thing in usia. which is why all the brouhaha over "intelle;ctual property" and "bla bla theft" is so funny for people who aren't either born yesterday or to stupid parents in the great plains. srsly, someone stole from murica ? what, christmas ?
mircea_popescu: then merge that with the "i failed and so nobody else should try it!" reversal of the "i tried and thus no one should criticize me" insanity...
mircea_popescu: d I’m too intelligent to look up to my parents the way that children are designed to do. My parents love me, but they don’t feel obliged to respond to reason, and sometimes I feel like they’re the children - children who won’t listen and have absolute authority over my whole existence. I try not to be too bitter about it, but I also try to be honest with myself, so, yes, I’m bitter.
mircea_popescu: "I’m too smart, Professor. I’ve got nothing to say to normal children. Adults don’t respect me enough to really talk to me. And frankly, even if they did, they wouldn’t sound as smart as Richard Feynman, so I might as well read something Richard Feynman wrote instead. I’m isolated, Professor McGonagall. I’ve been isolated my whole life. Maybe that has some of the same effects as being locked in a cellar. An
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol you know the portrait that emerges is exactly that of the sort of kid i'd bust the nose of within a coupla days of being introduced ?
mircea_popescu: one could read treatises on learned topics written by anonymous americans cca 1800 to about the same effect.
mircea_popescu: it's... bad. it's bad in a literary sense, and it's arguably worse in a science sense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you saying he's just a very inept writer of [fan]fiction ?
mircea_popescu: it's just proof that people are endlessly stupid on their own terms.
mircea_popescu: listen, a large crowd of bearded idiots following the child prophet is no proof of the child's anything.
mircea_popescu: it seems improbable, much like crack whores are rarely sober actresses practicing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have little to no evidence of this. all i see is the text, and the text is truely appalling.
mircea_popescu: actually the cat doesn't even have to be dense per se, it could just be very hot.
mircea_popescu: but still, hot damn, semidoctus is becoming a byword for homo interneticus.
mircea_popescu: of course this argument falls apart once one considers that - according to various muppets cca 1900, "physics was a closed science", so by the logic above proposed everyone should be kept from nature itself as they muck it up.
mircea_popescu: no, but because acquiring a monkey-ish familiarity with material is a trivial task, which will then prevent an ambitious and inexperienced actor from actually learning anything.
mircea_popescu: never before have i realised the wisdom of the jews / early christians in keeping the books under key.
mircea_popescu: it's so fucking pervasive by now, they can extract it by simple aculturation.
mircea_popescu: exactly what it is. backed by nothing but the full faith and credit of the usg, in the shape of little bits of paper issued by Department of Harvard, The Stanford Agency scl etc.
mircea_popescu: and THAT is sure as fuck not implied by the form of any part of any "hamiltonian", w r hamilton's reproductive organs included.
mircea_popescu: however, if you add all the smarts people assign themselves and divide by the ... like i dunno, 5000 or so total iq points available for the bn or so english speakers, you roughly get infinity.
mircea_popescu: if you add all the money people think they're worth, and divide by all the value that actually exists, you only get a few degrees of magnitude out of the process.
mircea_popescu: that's a topic that desperately needs awareness, the bezzle's nothing compared to the igzzle.
mircea_popescu: where the fuck are the people holding up signs with "you are stupid" to raise awareness ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's unavoidable given an "educational system" that fails to teach anything but manages to impart absurd delusions of self worth and power, and completely destructured personal social relations.
mircea_popescu: every year shall bring more yarvin, yakudsky, yaranidiot.
mircea_popescu: i am slowly and unpleasantly realising that there will be no end of these ignare cvasi-intellectuals.
mircea_popescu: Poor, misguided random internet person- your donation to MIRI/LessWrong will not help save the world. Even if you grant all their (rather silly) assumptions MIRI is a horribly unproductive research institute- in more than a decade, it has published fewer peer reviewed papers than the average physics graduate student does while in grad school."
mircea_popescu: "I read the comments on an HPMOR chapter, which I recommend strongly against. I wish I could talk to several of the commentators, and gently talk them out of a poor financial decision.
mircea_popescu: "You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! That’s not just an arbitrary rule, it’s implied by the form of the quantum Hamiltonian! Rejecting it destroys unitarity and then you get FTL signalling!”
mircea_popescu: there's no substance to it past getting you to say that, just like there's no substance past oprah's skin color past getting black people to buy shit.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> he posts a ton of extremely ambitious ideas i'd love to see him come through on one of them << you have to understand this is now, thanks to moldbug et all, an internet pose.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform forced mistakes are forced and mistaken.
mircea_popescu: would have never probably happened if phys antrhopologist person didn't read and go "dude, that's the other one!"
mircea_popescu: you good folk apparently think of the robust chimp, the OTHER species of pan
mircea_popescu: you see, when i see chimp i think of bonobos. which... whatever, you could eat one raw.
mircea_popescu: btw, i finally found the source of that debate we had earlier as to how powerful a chimp is etc.
mircea_popescu: so i'm going to rewrite tlp's short story with the druggie in a moment.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many times alf's been impersonated as ascii_field so far
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ you probably should get those various links fixed.
mircea_popescu: to the degree i had a heart specialist following me around.