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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.
mircea_popescu: 3. The Law of Net Harm: The less likely it is that the unwanted behavior will change voluntarily, the more likely it is that a program to induce change will cause net harm.
mircea_popescu: 2. The Law of Unintended Rewards: Any social transfer increases the net value of being in the condition that prompted the transfer.
mircea_popescu: 1. The Law of Imperfect Selection: Any objective rule that defines eligibility for a social transfer program will irrationally exclude some persons.
mircea_popescu: what part of english as a single language ISNT perpetual and universally equivocal synonymy
mircea_popescu: THIS is a fine example of what i fucking mean by educated.
mircea_popescu: "Charles Alan Murray (born 1943) is an American paleoconservative and paleolibertarian leaning political scientist, author, columnist, and pundit."
mircea_popescu: "but honey, you can't marry this guy. his parents have no library in the house!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the intelligence vs education thing. i wish i had words to express my meaning in intelligible english. let's try by saying that a good mark of one's education is what sort of thing he fills his space with.
mircea_popescu: ;;google boring miss florida congressional aide made a derpy "bitcoin chamber of commerce"
mircea_popescu: anyway, whatever would happen would come as a surprise to everyone, including in no particular order : a) the people running btc-usd exchanges ; b) you ; c) the friendly usg log reader delegate ; d) isabelle boring or w/e her name is ; etc
mircea_popescu: so far my bitcoins are getting sent to the btc bears lol.
mircea_popescu: what you describe is a what, 3 sigma event ? there's not a plan in place for two sigma events even. banal shit like "they used plane as rocket"
mircea_popescu: in your craziest models you don't have a hitler lizard tribe capable to handle such sudden bends of activity.
mircea_popescu: for instance i said null hypothesis as part of a deal with my brain to allow me to continue to exist.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel there are two threads here. one is "thiel is dumb". this is not being entertained. the other is, "thiel's uneducated". this is my position.
mircea_popescu: well... because it's "universal". once no kid's left behind, the boat's not sailing anywhere.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gabriel_laddel i just parsed it as "a weird way to say mountebanks"
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel actually moocs are the superlative american college.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's pretty "disruptive" alright, huh. "what are we disrupting ?" "the moral fiber of society"
mircea_popescu: whether most women in x population are more like californians or saudis has nothing to do wit ha cunt being a cunt.
mircea_popescu: but not for any structural reason, is the important point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's the matter with it, you writing with different letters or something ?
mircea_popescu: in this line : "oh mp must be insane to spend all his time on irc, if i was rich i'd do [???]".
mircea_popescu gleefully notices how alf is now using the "you yourself" device.
mircea_popescu: "the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude gtfo, nobody said management is required to be illiterate.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel or what they are. or how to look for them. essentially he's a girl that'd like to fuck but never heard of clothes, or make-up or going out.