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mircea_popescu: "In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork". For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit". Very. I have even read one text that argued that uni
mircea_popescu: it mixes two things that can't be in the same sentence.
mircea_popescu: how exactly they do it is really no-one's problem unless they start doing particular things.
mircea_popescu: ;;google trilema how the wot is attacked how the wot defends itself
mircea_popescu: why we don't want to all apply the same scoring criteria for people ?
mircea_popescu: re the entire discussion about "standardization" and how it's bad
mircea_popescu: scammers can't control a wot specifically because it's a wot.
mircea_popescu: even the fact that "firmly under scamzor control" shows that it's not a wot.
mircea_popescu: imagine the concept of "x is tenured for a1, ak but not for ak+1 an faculty members" ?
mircea_popescu: and it does fucking vote. what do you think "peer review" and "tenure comissions" are ?
mircea_popescu: this does not exist on reddit. values of nodes are "absolute".
mircea_popescu: the value of a node depends on the path you take to it.
mircea_popescu: in the most important manner : it's summable. a graph is not.
mircea_popescu: cultural diversity actually possible, for likle... the first time ever.
mircea_popescu: " The external pressures to do the wrong thing are enormous, but yielding to them would be fatal for the academic enterprise, while resisting the pressure reinforces its strengths. The pressures are, in fact, so strong that I do not know a university where there is not some faculty or some department that has yielded, but there should be no mercy for snake oil pedlars on campus."
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel for the sake of argument, can you identify an university that closer adheres to dijk's ideas set forth in your 2nd url than b-a ?
mircea_popescu: well anyway. when a bunch of idiots decide to make "their own exchange" and pretend like it has to do with bitcoin, it gets laughed at in b-a and goes away in about 18 months.
mircea_popescu: another exchange that loves making total fucking asses of themselves, that's for sure. any of the old idiots involved ? rosenfeld ? kenna ?
mircea_popescu: mats it doesn't even load on my system, so there is that.
mircea_popescu: "o look, we're stupid therefore carnot cycle doesn't exist"
mircea_popescu: and the very few that do work, take up bs jobs a la "pr". which, in romania, is just about the 2010 version of "hairdresser".
mircea_popescu: goes for a phd. parents support "education" becasuse parents are a) idiotic and b) mostly women buy the time she's 25 anyway
mircea_popescu: same exact thing happens in romania, 20sometrhing yo girlie, still very much mentally 15, does not want to learn to suck cock, does not think a job's high enough for her reddit-powered pretense,
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel we were going to put it on the cardano originally, but guy stopped answering emails.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field who in his right fucking mind would participoate in this ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller guy's just trying to matter, i wouldn't read too much into it.
mircea_popescu: tbh, there's absolutely no reason college time costs more than 10-15k in the us, either.
mircea_popescu: punkman romanians just make them pay, it's beautiful. "got a 9.9x on natl exams ? ok, free. got 9.85 ? 3k a year. fu."
mircea_popescu: pity this got so fucking popularised. it's a great march.
mircea_popescu: in any case, it's a great system, but a) most kids have to pay and b) i forget.
mircea_popescu: punkman thats exactl;y how it works everywhere, romania, france. "bacalaureat" is the proper term, tho prolly greeks don't use it ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no, it's 1 per 10k normally, and notice the age specification. you'd get about 1 to 300k 18yo suicides normally.
mircea_popescu: and who the fuck "surrounds themselves" with mentors. is this jay's movie ?
mircea_popescu: imo this is the mark of a good exam. if you don't get 1 female suicide out of 1k, you'e not really doing an exam.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, about one 18 yo girl per 1000 killed herself (chiefly by hanging) for having done a poor job on the exames.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field obviously not. i was asking him about his country today.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you readily can. it's like trying to keep a 16yo girlfriend today. think of that, you have the model.
mircea_popescu: it's always sad when a great mind dies. it's worse when it just goes dark and keeps on living.
mircea_popescu: anyway, thank god dijkstra died and i don't have to read 2014 abominations from him like i have to read 2014 "manifest destiny" abominations from buffett.
mircea_popescu: " (If you even wondered why I did not join Disneyland or IBM, you now know why. )" << gabriel_laddel see ? right there.
mircea_popescu: an interesting point, tho im not entirely sure what value it carries. warp and weft, as he says.
mircea_popescu: The final reason for my refusal is that the habit appeals to the quantitative mind and I come from a culture in which the primarily quantitative mind does not evoke admiration. [A major reason that we considered Roman Catholics to belong to a lower class was precisely their quantitative bent: they always counted, number of faithful, number of days in purgatory, you name it.....]
mircea_popescu: "so they why aren't you ? why is it still the same three kiddie pools you're threading all over ? they're muddy and green ffs!" "sshh!"
mircea_popescu: "we could be creative, there's certainly nothing keeping us from it" sorta thing
mircea_popescu: whereas the hoodies of 2010 are a testament of anomie.
mircea_popescu: perhaps. tho the "ibm look" of the 1980s was more of a testament of obedience, much in the manner an [insecure] master may mandate slavegirls wear collars.
mircea_popescu: today the issue is more "who is going to deliver the 500`000`000 beatings needed by these idiot kids"
mircea_popescu: a lot has changed actually. in 1980s the battle was on to get ibm to stop fixating on "ibm men wear suits" to the detriment of all else.
mircea_popescu: well, in THAT context his quote means substantially something else than what i took it to mean, made 30 years later.
mircea_popescu: no doubt in my mind they'll actually do it. nothing else they could do.
mircea_popescu: yes, silicon valley is going to fail. this is BECAUSE OF US. nothing else.
mircea_popescu: wait wait, the industry is to be trained to be worthy of all the outpouring social studies experts ?
mircea_popescu: as long as no children actually read the abominations.
mircea_popescu: part of the problem is that they have plenty of time to daydream.
mircea_popescu: just like pansy ass middle class priss imagines if she were a street hooker she'd dazzle everyone with her charms.
mircea_popescu: they imagine that if they were in the private sector, they'd be contenders for vp of jpm