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mircea_popescu: as weigh is at 90k, even should you hold all the no you can't expect to make more than .189
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal what i mean is, the value of buying 1 btc from you rather than betting 1 btc is given by the weight differential
mircea_popescu: mike_c TheNewDeal no dispute it can be done and has done. just, impediments, friction, that sort of consideration
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal but your holding is worth at the very most .189 BTC, and that if no has a 100% chance to win ?
mircea_popescu kinda interested to see this model developped, but the fact that txns have to take a time, and a risk premium on top of what's actually bneing sold seems insurmontable
mircea_popescu: this works splendidly well, on a certain crowd, creating "consensuses" and "progresses" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: then charge for the amassed pseudoscience to be repeated in drivelly sources like the huffpo.
mircea_popescu: unsurprisingly. sara miller mccune is a reputed con woman that came up with the following scam : make up fake "peer reviewed" scientific journals, then charge variouis idiots that were stpid enough to try and carve careers out of "social studies" a few hundred dollars to publish their goop
mircea_popescu: the_scourge are you looking for the log bit about the spanish revolutionary right ?
mircea_popescu: for one thing, the fascists had better plumbing than the us does.
mircea_popescu: 90% of all available anything, towards the end of things.
mircea_popescu: do you know how much time and effort the central command spent trying to narrow it down ?
mircea_popescu: neither were any of the men involved in, say, the end of the soviet union.
mircea_popescu: why'd you expect one's finances to derive from one's politics ?
mircea_popescu: the "turn the other cheek" folk over there. the "if you as much as bother a hair of my beard I'll gouge your fucking eyes out with your own detached ribs" folk over here.
mircea_popescu: it could as well mean blog going "Fuck you, of course I fuck my students!"
mircea_popescu: whether they have or they don't have a choice today, it makes little difference.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the notion that there exists an ending for every character doesn't hold.
mircea_popescu: "never interrupt the enemy when he's making a mistake". fortunately the internet makes so that "help him instead" remains undetectable.
mircea_popescu: "With his wiry grayish-brown hair, his tortoiseshell glasses and his intensity, Professor Lewin is the iconic brilliant scientist … he is at once larger than life and totally accessible."
mircea_popescu: well, the enemy proposes that relevancy is a matter of headcount.
mircea_popescu: fortunately, i am lazy. also fortunately, it's a job that does itself.
mircea_popescu: if i weren't so lazy i guess i'd organise a special cell to create these derpy "controversies" about every single intellectually productive us person and have the academia "sever ties" with them.
mircea_popescu: "Institute revokes emeritus title, removes online courses of popular physics professor who starred in viral videos"
mircea_popescu: probably they're in the path, but not being defaulted to
mircea_popescu: remarkably, wikipedia manages to write however many words on poe without mentioning the guy was batshit insane.
mircea_popescu: obviously the garbage composter will take either just as happily, and so would the toilet.
mircea_popescu: nobody wants a plate of twelve "kinda-shitty" dishes when he could have an exquisite dish and eleven helpings of garbage, readily discarded.
mircea_popescu: his general point is well taken : as whole groups, the burgeois-puritans were more on point than the feudal-catholics. however, (and he says it, but he hides it too because he does not want to confront it) : as elites, the catholics mashed the puritans into the ground.
mircea_popescu: ed. In seventeenth-century England, for instance, there was a religious and political cleavage which distinctly resembled the left-right antagonism of to-day. Looking back, most modern people would feel that the bourgeois-Puritan viewpoint was a better approximation to truth than the Catholic-feudal one. But it is certainly not the case that all or even a majority of the best writers of the time were puritans."
mircea_popescu: "Mr Upward would no doubt answer that a belief which was appropriate several centuries ago might be inappropriate and therefore stultifying now. But this does not get one much farther, because it assumes that in any age there will be ONE body of belief which is the current approximation to truth, and that the best literature of the time will be more or less in harmony with it. Actually no such uniformity has ever exist
mircea_popescu: one sec to package it so it doesn't end up flooding log
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: that's quite specifically what religion is for: coping, thus survival << that coping worked better pre industrial revolution that post.
mircea_popescu: fucking a. didn't this guy as retold by asciilifeform end up sucking cock because "gentleman" in his own opinion ?
mircea_popescu: "For example, one common trope in various religious traditions is asceticism: the voluntary renunciation of material comforts. Since this tends to be much easier for those who start out wealthy and comfortable, it's an effective status marker."
mircea_popescu: kinda the problem with this guy, he's writing a bizarre sort of fiction.
mircea_popescu: "o no wait, that's what we wanted anyway" "like fuck you did"
mircea_popescu: "In the more recent past, the Allied victors eradicated militarist traditions in Germany and Japan through their control of the educational system." << lulzy. and of course, defeated japanese and german troops erradicated the same in the us and its allies by... also control of the educational system ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes actually i confess i do the same sort of obsessive rereading myself. tho perhaps not on orlov and yarvin
mircea_popescu: anyway, that "how dawkins got pwned" thing reads to me like "unemployed grad was playing Plague Inc. on his ipad while dawkins was on tv"
mircea_popescu: dun waste your time, you don't have so much of it. go do something that matters somewhere where it does.
mircea_popescu: well if what carries currency here doens't matter, why are you talking ?
mircea_popescu: not like there's any rush. the logs stretch endlessly.
mircea_popescu: well so then there the conversation ends. you are a believer in some strange notions that don't carry currency here.
mircea_popescu: they're just as much pseudo, the political motivation of pseudoscience makes not on wit of difference.
mircea_popescu: yarvin doesn't get an out of jail free card just because he is "with us", as opposed to whoever, golf club pattern proponent
mircea_popescu: the_scourge: wait, are you suggesting that socialism isn't part of The Cathedral? << a) "the cathedral" is about as solid a concept as moldbug's new os.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> anyway : the only people in a very untenable phys-sec position are the various bureaucrats, us or otherwise. <<
mircea_popescu: there's no need to hold anyone hostage to enact a public gutting of government servants.