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a111: Logged on 2016-08-30 13:53 mircea_popescu: ah
trinque was also on lisp huh.
there is
that.
trinque:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-30#1531833 <<
there are
two orthogonal items here. one is
the sanity of
the language, which begets
the brevity Framedragger observed in my code.
the second is whether
the implementation of
that language has been *used* widely enough
to expose it
to
the great filter.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: also because oxygen has
to be imported, so
to speak, it's very efficient firefighting. how long can it burn ? well, while air lasts.
mircea_popescu: it's not a
thoroughly unreasonable way
to go about it, "what if we spring a leak ?"
mircea_popescu: iirc
they were pretty big on
the whole compartimentalization
thing.
mod6: i sure as hell didn't wanna have
to go back
there
though for lack of a "good sample".
mircea_popescu: "phlebotomist kit is
this here submarine hatch. problem ?"
mod6: SQUEEZE
THAT
THING LADY
mod6: so,
then she gave me 20% more.
mod6: i was like, "don't be afraid
to squeeze
that
thing hard."
mod6: asciilifeform: i dunno. she gingerly
tried
to bleed me.
mod6: but hard
to
take such a person srsly.
mod6: anyway, she seemed at least smart enough
to
take
the sample and perscibe some antibiotics.
mod6: needless
to say, I had
to fetch it for her.
mod6: she
took
this blood sample from a "spider bite" of some sort on my hip, dropped it on
the floor.
mod6: the dr i went
to see
the other day had
to be 350 lbs.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-30 15:24 mircea_popescu: "i am an engineer" "good for you" "but i'm poor" "then you aren't an engineer ?" "no, i am, it's just...
the environment i come from doesn't allow for engineers.
this world is so unfair!" "so
then... by coming from an environment
that doesn't allow for an engineer, you...aren't one ?" "NO SEE, ENVIOUS RAGE! OTHER PEOPLE ARE IN HEAVEN AND I AM IN HELL!!"
mircea_popescu: nah,
they had ports
throughout -
the indian ocean for
the portuguese ;
the atlantic for
the english.
mircea_popescu: lawbreaker (unrepentant) at least provides personal history
to back up his independence claim.
mircea_popescu: "oh but if i had a better car
then definitely gf", sayz elliot. and i'm sure he's right hurr.
mircea_popescu: the real deals walk
the same information superhighway as everyone else.
mircea_popescu: heh. wait
till you get into
the "i'm an webentrepreneurdesignmarketing" like pim kim what's her face.
mircea_popescu: some whores who knew
they were whores, and some whores who wasted
their life pretending
they aren't whores.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, contrary
to what russian speakers
thought, soviet union contained no engineers, no
teachers, naught else. just whores.
mircea_popescu: "i am an engineer" "good for you" "but i'm poor" "then you aren't an engineer ?" "no, i am, it's just...
the environment i come from doesn't allow for engineers.
this world is so unfair!" "so
then... by coming from an environment
that doesn't allow for an engineer, you...aren't one ?" "NO SEE, ENVIOUS RAGE! OTHER PEOPLE ARE IN HEAVEN AND I AM IN HELL!!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the experience is, of course, massively beneficial. moreover, it's also
the only way.
mircea_popescu: history of china
throughout
the 1900s is exactly
this : came out of ghetto, of own volition, and offered self.
mircea_popescu: let's read
together from
http://trilema.com/2016/mochila-o-muerte/ : "many of
the most beautiful Jewesses – adults and adolescents, some already naked and others in various states of undress – came out of
the ghetto ~on
their own volition~ and ~~~offered
themselves~~~."
mircea_popescu: no, more in
the sense of "now
they'll either wear suits or come up with complicated arguments as
to why
they aren't, because either way
they very deeply care".
mircea_popescu: they are not cancellable at all ; not even in
the same way plants are cancellable.
mircea_popescu: nobody cancelled
the wealth curve either, nor
the ships and conquer china.
mircea_popescu: this model is built on some axioms. one of which is "dumb people". not smart people.
the moment you
turn around and
try
to apply it
to engineers you plainly demonstrate you have absolutely no connection
to
the people who come up with
this, but merely cargo cultist, following motions.
mircea_popescu: this is
the whole premise of capitalism : dear retard, don;'t listen
to what
the priest says
to do ; but listen
to what
the rich guy says
to do.
mircea_popescu: now
then. giving intelligent people a
tool
to break idiots from
the social fold (ie, money) results in all sorts of minimums off
the wealth-curve (very much like
the schroedinger equation,
this) being cut off, resulting in more money, resulting in more ships, resulting in conquering china.
mircea_popescu: find a much better blueprint in circumscribed circumstances
than
the heuristic would provide (the circumstance has
to always be limited because otherwise complexity explosion - which yields
the principal problem of capitalism, ie disintergration (as
the
term of art)).
mircea_popescu: the whole capitalism / industrialism model works on
the following principle : idiots (by which we mean virtually everyone) are overwhelmed by
the complexity of reality, and so resort
to societal heuristics. such as you know, "religion", or else "all girls" agreeing
that sucking cock is gross in 9th grade and
that only farmhands and mongoloids wouldn't do it in 12th grade.
these heuristics are weak, and an intelligent guy can
mircea_popescu: it only exists because of jwz
training of smart kids, making
them want
to "cleave" brains and responsibility.
mircea_popescu: look, it's not my fault
that a)
they misapplied
the model and b) you bought into it.
mircea_popescu: wage worker grandmaster ? what's
this, like engineering ?
mircea_popescu: this of course comes with a corresponding responsibility of smart people
to not be fucking retards, but hey.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't
trust his decision.
that's
the point : under 110 or so, you are well advised
to not even
think about making
these sorts of calls.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron does sister of friend want
to see buenos aires ?
mircea_popescu: there's
two married exponentials at work here, and
the 2nd's even more abrupt.
mircea_popescu: that's
the other problem
there. motivation of random retard - from fear, firecracker, from interest, nuke. when you go above 95 on
the iq scale, what
the everloving fuck are you going
to put in your firecracker even.
mircea_popescu: and if we count
those hours at
the 100k estimate,
tmsr did more for increasing worldwide productivity
than feminism.
mircea_popescu: in contrast, for
the past SIX FUCKING YEARS i've been pulling 100 hour weeks like nobody's business.
mircea_popescu: i dun
think it ever
took me more
than a few days
to pay for a month of costa rica or whatever, and
this if i was particularly persuaded by
the "don't eat from capitals" balabusta angle
that month.
mircea_popescu: i have just about 0 interest in working for any of
the various cans of usg soup. pre
tmsr, i actually didn't work much if at all, and in retrospect i understand it's for
this exact reason.
thestringpuller: depends on if he's a nuclear physicist pretending
to be a plumber or vice versa.
danielpbarron: gabriel should make his case
to get listed on mpex