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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.
mircea_popescu: people with money they don't know what to do with are the very definition of schmuckdom
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the idea wasn't that, but to educate thiel so he's less of a schmuck.
mircea_popescu: incidentally... olah is kinda how hungarians say romanian.
mircea_popescu: this is the very stuff of life, following our flights of fancy.
mircea_popescu: but the proposition that one shouldn't or understandably wouldn't for it may turn out to be just fancy... that's nonsense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand, i'm not proposing anyone's obliged to follow any particular flight of fancy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but what if your work is meaningless without $b synchrophasotron ? <<< i thought it was 50k.
mircea_popescu: but it's inescapable. everything's getting forked. gpg, linux, the world.
mircea_popescu: draw up the entire putative history eight nine steps removed in all directions, till the night comes and we go home.
mircea_popescu: lettuce all sit forever and ponder the implications of asking the girl out, of measuring the fucking crystals, of spitting on the ant.
mircea_popescu: as if. but somehow, a billion idiots picked this bit of shoeshiner's philosophy as their foundational line.
mircea_popescu: the story of individual america is basically one line : "there's no difference between the rich man and the poor man who hasn't yet decided what to buy".
mircea_popescu: not to mention the "all metaconsiderations, no agency"
mircea_popescu: somehow the world should be impressed with this "progress", much in the manner parents should be impressed with "look, no hands!"
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only thing the west ever does is, "try and spam it!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, everything in that world devolves to spam, it's one and only true mother.
mircea_popescu: decimation there's a reason i don't live in "civilised" shitholes. i can taste their "feasts of engineering".
mircea_popescu: decimation i think it was here. i didn't care to check it out.
mircea_popescu: there's fruit, and it's grandiose. then there's "fruit", imported by supermarkets for the usian market. you can get quite startling contrasts by buying in both.
mircea_popescu: or is it just, like the gestapo, simply the only shared figment of their infertile imaginations ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, now tell me this : how does teh ussa follow teh expat masse ? shadow fuhrer directs it ?
mircea_popescu: the usians have a fucktarded chain selling the worst goop.
mircea_popescu: there's even a chain of HORRIBLE icecream. in this town, that has the best icecream i have ever tasted, by a long shot, and abundantly supplied by numerous artisanal gelaterias
mircea_popescu: i can't tell you how many times i've stormed out of a shithole, inexplicable in context.
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if they deliberately constructed a home away from home, these people.
mircea_popescu: the soviet restaurant thing is quite palpable here in argentina.