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mircea_popescu: and speaking of which, given that intelligence is to be measured in tsyans,
mircea_popescu: i guess we progressed past the classical philosophy of either rome or the east. a well.
mircea_popescu: dude srsly, intelligent people want to go a direction ?
mircea_popescu: "I seem to be doing a lot of hyperproductive things lately: explaining to people how to kill the foul beast of Empire, revolutionizing the way English literacy is taught to both native English speakers and the rest"
mircea_popescu: da fuck you care whether she can do heisenberg matrix calc in her head or not, really.
mircea_popescu: anyway, thus understood, you will find that a woman trained to be intelligent, irrespective of iq, is quite to your liking, whereas one untrained, equally irrespective of measured iq, is quite unpalatable.
mircea_popescu: same reason braided rope is stronger than straight rope.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, experience shows pairs work better, because errors average out rather than compound.
mircea_popescu: one can train to build muscle by himself. one can also train to comprehend the torah by oneself.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck do you think intelligence is other than the ~knowledge~ of what is noise in the psychocrosstalk ?
mircea_popescu: what else ? first you gotta teach her to rule over her emotions, then gotta teach her the modes of logical failure of teh brain, on it goes.
mircea_popescu: as a result, there's nothing fucking scarier than the former known to man.
mircea_popescu: the difference is that the first's entirely negative (don't do this. don't do that. don't do the other. do something) while the latter's entirely positive. (do like this and like this and so on)
mircea_popescu: which is kind-of why people readily imagine training a woman to think with whip in hand and training a woman to dance whip in hand are the same thing.
mircea_popescu: same thing, for the exact reason you don't see much reading on tv.
mircea_popescu: to the ignorant, there's little difference between circus seal being trained and you sitting in room flipping page after page.
mircea_popescu: much of what YOU know is learned like what a dog learns. specifically, where the fuck the control key is and how to make pretty letters on the screen.
mircea_popescu: dressage has the unfortunate implication of dress-up in english
mircea_popescu: i think this pejorative usage is novel, and not really all that standard yet.
mircea_popescu: no, but every man can either become a circus lifter or die trying.
mircea_popescu: well so if all your intelligence is in fact trained, then what are ye bitching about.
mircea_popescu: kinda lulzy when you visit a blog with one of those blinky geomaps, and the only blinky spot is in argentina.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no but look, you're already conceding defeat. why are you building your castle out of my rocks ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how many women do you know that could do this ? and, importantly, out of these how many are not actually in special-school-for-it ?
mircea_popescu: kind bad example cause didn't we discuss this here earlier ?
mircea_popescu: most of the things one identifies as intelligence in the field is actually artfulness.
mircea_popescu: but you're not free, being alive, and in that bound system you don't actually get enough elbow room to really find out.
mircea_popescu: see, in your own imagination, which is boundless or close enough, you could.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'll bet you you couldn't discern between a well trained and an intelligent creature.
mircea_popescu: i suppose i should say "through the carrot", for elegance of form :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i srsly doubt iq points measure anything useful.
mircea_popescu: yes, but because of networking effects this isn't useful.
mircea_popescu: TomServo the theory is that you don't get that advanced human in any unverse that doesn't include beating as a possibility.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what's more insulting than the plain declaration that "[i really don't care enough about you to be bothered to] ever beat you"
mircea_popescu: it's like the nukes exactly. kids that know they can't EVER get in trouble grow up with various mental illnesses. kids that grow up knowing they could easily get in trouble grow up fine, and generally don't need to be beaten either.
mircea_popescu: TomServo such wives exist only in a world where people are WILLING TO slap them.
mircea_popescu: why shouldn't people who want to stay outside of scrutiny be able to ?
mircea_popescu: no us citizen alive today is willing to sucker punch the wife if she talks back
mircea_popescu: decimation yes, but you know exactly why it won't happen.
mircea_popescu: actually kinda funny what hoover had to say abgout getting off gold.
mircea_popescu: it's their thoroughly debased and humiliated sons an' daughters that get the hitler.
mircea_popescu: those generally go fight in the trenches for five years.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's not generally peoples wanting their "standard of living being preserved" that end up with hitler.
mircea_popescu: <undata> making pizzas << aaaand whose brilliant idea is that "we don't need industry, we can grow rich by doing each other's laundry" ?
mircea_popescu: so.. yeah, this "police will protect us" thing is going to last what, another year or two.
mircea_popescu: the us... heck, they're so fucking cowardly you can piss in their face and they'll likely limit themselves to complaining sottovoce.
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 let me tell you something. they got bums everwhere here. one night, one prolly drunk dude got rambunctious and started yelling.