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mircea_popescu: so why wouldn't you answer the phone. it's more like a boring highschool class than a meeting.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> "because ADOPTION" is my new favourite slogan for redditards et al. << orphans seeking adoption. nothing wrong with the picture.
mircea_popescu: This expectation is so ingrained that people in meetings routinely answer their mobile phones to say << maybe what has really changed is the expectation re meetings. just a decade or two ago, people would have expected meetings to serve a rational purpose and end with a result.
mircea_popescu: basically, the story the 13 yo mutters to herself under her breath to replace unwelcome reality.
mircea_popescu: not sure what it is in english, tho im sure it must exist. perhaps something like "shamanistic narrative".
mircea_popescu: cazalla you know there's a word for this, among people who shovel this particular sort of elephant shit for a living (mostly, clinical psychiatrist)
mircea_popescu: "i don't remember seeing before the parts i don't like seeing today"
mircea_popescu: obv, not exactly what's being contemplated with the "pull together" talk
mircea_popescu: sure, we'll pull together : come swear fealty to me. bring me your daughters, let me name the head of each usg agency
mircea_popescu: "we must pull together" is the age old statist refrain.
mircea_popescu: mike_c well, i think on the mid term qntra has better earning perspectives than whatsapp.
mircea_popescu: i'm happier with trilema's monetization than with cisco's soviet future.
mircea_popescu: absolute texbook case on the dangers of "obeying the laws".
mircea_popescu: mike_c cisco pretty much imploded once it became clear they're working for the usg against their customers.
mircea_popescu: "Chief casualty is U.S. network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc, which in 2012 counted 60 products on the Central Government Procurement Center's (CGPC) list, but by late 2014 had none, a Reuters analysis of official data shows."
mircea_popescu: i imagine it's just like bitcoin : not many shares, many people heard of it.
mircea_popescu: well i lost a main router somehow too. supposedly was a power outage downtown
mircea_popescu: if person has enough sense to limit how much agencyless activity they put out, they will stand a much better chance to develop an actual idenity, and so not find themselves at age 40 flying planes into buildings.
mircea_popescu: the entire "act from cause not towards purpose" thing on trilema is exactly a vaccine against that.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this results in broken identity, and there's literally no solution except carnage (bring down that density), which is why people who figure it out usually leave a note where their assault rifles used to be.
mircea_popescu: identity is the result of action. action requires agency. a perverse system (such as any high density population will always create) separates action from agency. ("i'm only doing my job").
mircea_popescu: how long can you stop the machine before you're simply replaced ?
mircea_popescu: is the same the case for you ? if you simply stop doing your cog-part, is there any pressure ?
mircea_popescu: it's not that he didn't trhat makes him one of those big players, it's that it was solely his option to do so, and didn't.
mircea_popescu: hey, you're a big player, right ? not doing anything is the default, i'm sure caesar could sit on his ass in the castrum and play dice with the centurions for three straight winters if he so wanted.
mircea_popescu: if anyone in any position of "big playerness" in fiat is curious to see exactly how true this is ? take a week to not do anything. at all.
mircea_popescu: The money isn't corrupting him into thinking childhood bipolar is underdiagnosed-- he truly believes it. The reason he believes it is his entire professional existence-- his whole identity-- is predicated on believing it. He's not a scientist, he's a priest.
mircea_popescu: ults were coming no matter what, those publications were already going to be written.
mircea_popescu: If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you think, wow, he's a big player. You don't realize that if he didn't exist there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc. The machine was already in place, his slot was going to get filled; his mind didn't discover anything, those res
mircea_popescu: We aren't overmedicating kids because Biederman told us to; we're doing it because Harvard told us to. And Harvard told us to because that is what they are getting money to study. Biederman is just the nanobot that does it.
mircea_popescu: The real money, the real problem that goes unmentioned is the money that goes to universities, in the form of research grants. Biederman may have pocketed $1M, but I'm sure he was awarded much, much more for clinical trials-- money which he didn't get any of, which went to Harvard.
mircea_popescu: Believe me, I am no friend of Biederman's. But the money is a red herring. If you want to be angry about the specific ethics of a psychiatrist receiving Pharma money, fine, but I am telling you it is not worth the Senate time, not worth press space.
mircea_popescu: you'd think this could be modulated in the head rather than in the welted butt.
mircea_popescu: the only practical thing it does is it forces women to shut up, with the resultant shutdown of welfare, classes with no grades, coddled children etc.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the notion that dod is dumb enough to re-do vietnam...
mircea_popescu: most decent guild players have meanwhile learned to stfu / use it sanely.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field dun take it teh wrong way, but! the thanking is kinda spammy.
mircea_popescu: actually intermittent low bw internet would be better for that purpose. keep the redditard busy
mircea_popescu: no argument that health care was attainable in the us cca 2010. just cost a liuttle more.
mircea_popescu: however, romania is, like all of asia, on gbps sorta thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 's "gravity hole" is a constructive element, not a random occurence.
mircea_popescu: same thing will be with the fcc internet : just fast enough people don't start making an independent one.
mircea_popescu: it's how africa's being "helped" : ban the perfectly fine fillament lightbulbs just as they get to where they could maybe make some, trickle in a little food so most people don't want to work.
mircea_popescu: no see, the socialised medicine is just good enopugh to prevent an actually useful, individual solution.