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mircea_popescu: "Alum and current fellows have produced more than $100 million in economic activity including investments, exits, revenue, and grants. "
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i sent her an email. iron a shirt in case shows up.
mircea_popescu half expects to find some bad retailer on the other end
mircea_popescu: incidentally : this would be a great prison. judge doesn't give you a term. judge gives you a frequency count.
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, most do. these are the rare exceptions not the bulk. recall orwell's "jew makes a dollar a day" thing
mircea_popescu: but point remains : what man HAS TO do is never clear.
mircea_popescu: decimation well, some of those were built out of begging, some out of scrap metal theft, some out of who knows what.
mircea_popescu: always good for a culture shock for usians, because somehow they think starbucks is luxury.
mircea_popescu: yes. and you should see the insides, furs and shit. it's really very azn
mircea_popescu: decimation would it now ? seems more a function of where htey were born, if they heard of plumbing or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a long array of things, all more or less coney.
mircea_popescu: but barefoot girl in the mud aside : she probably had parents, who similarly had to work to keep the lights on.
mircea_popescu: took a wroing turn, ended up on mud street from 1750. down towards us, completely naked 9yo girl, rope tied around her waist. literally rope.
mircea_popescu: took some ppls to see the enchanted gypsy palaces in turda (romania). which, you know, are pretty elaborate.
mircea_popescu: if facts were facts debates would be silent observances.
mircea_popescu: for all i care the wot world can result in the sky combusing.
mircea_popescu: my point being, your have to is weak. not to any personal effect, but it does ruin our theory.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, that's not it. if i were in prison, would i HAVE TO be in prison to keep the lights on ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the "have to". if you were writing software it'd be a magic variabler.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i dunno, i dun tend to spy on people writing code that much, i'm prolly the most ignorant in the room on that score.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel it occurs to me the templeos guy is kinda high iq
mircea_popescu: why does it define stupidity and make statements about intelligence ? should stick to stupidity.
mircea_popescu: decimation does it at any place say what it deems intelligence to be, this book ?
mircea_popescu: it advances at random to a random degree, is the thing.
mircea_popescu: is really the small part of the discussion. thiel is smart, and it doesn't help him
mircea_popescu: intelligence, in a strict sense of whatever, bus speed ? bus width ? ram ? cpu cycles ? frequency of parity errors ?
mircea_popescu: but the whole thing strikes me like an attempt to establish a link between female beauty and hair color.
mircea_popescu: ftr, i dun actually credit the race/intelligence theory. not that i have strong feelings either way
mircea_popescu: 1. Any rule applied uniformly over a group with a view to some purpose will result in measurable contradiction of the purpose before it results in measurable achievement of the purpose.
mircea_popescu: no idea why this'd be "murray's law", but at least i see something.