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mircea_popescu: a pseudoscience isn't that endeavour lcking principles,
mircea_popescu: belongs as a subset obscure philosophy, right there with aesthetics.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i think it's pseudoscience, the whole lot of it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right, because a field without a definition can exist.
mircea_popescu: (ie, stuff nobody would intuitively accept as intelligence)
mircea_popescu: and in particular attempts to define intelligence in terms of statistical fitting and survivability yield monsters
mircea_popescu: adlai that sexual selection exists is very poor grounding to claim beauty.
mircea_popescu: perhaps, but the label of magnetism is at least applied on some sort of interaction that yields a force.
mircea_popescu: but honestly while there are intelligent people trying, i think it's a snipe hunt.
mircea_popescu briefly participated in some "transdisciplinary" efforts many moons ago
mircea_popescu: "ten youths from downtown accidentally construct the godmachine
mircea_popescu: and "culinary science" is the sort of nonsense you'd expect ou tof english speakers. otherwise l'arte culinaire isdoing fine
mircea_popescu: problem is any set of stupidity definitions are incomplete
mircea_popescu: 106 somethingawful.com kinda interesting this, i wonder how entirely baseless it actually is.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me it's giving different numbers to diff people.
mircea_popescu: adlai: uhoh, site affinity for reddit.com is 51.2x! << i see slashdot.org 151.7x wired.com 83.3x zerohedge.com 81.3x dailydot.com 52.7x boingboing.net 51.7x
mircea_popescu: " The public schools are intended to create complacent "good citizens"—not independent thinkers—because political leaders do not like boat-rockers who question things too closely. They prefer citizens who pay their taxes on time and leave them alone to chart the course of the nation. The growth in government power since the advent of public schools is hard to ignore."
mircea_popescu: "Organised crime groups continue to make use of darknets to harbour trading in illicit commodities, including child exploitation material, illicit drugs and firearms, stolen credit card and identity data, and hacking techniques." << check it out, hacking techniques the illicit item ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: hardphork! << i never applied that, no sympthoms. so no, not a fork at all.
mircea_popescu: i imagine the time to stock up on chinese memorabilia was right before the great leap forward.
mircea_popescu: do you mean "value that would be present in any unverse which allows for bitcoin" ? or do you mean "value which would be present in this X thing whether it be bitcoin or not"
mircea_popescu: Naphex yes, but intrinsic to what. see, when i say "kim kardashian has intrinsic value" i mean specifically, the hole(s) in her ass.
mircea_popescu: i can't believe half the fucking log is keyboards. you people are nuts you know that ?
mircea_popescu: i won't buy something high tech today that has no use, because guess what ? time flows against it.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` imo all this "tech" stuff is a waste of time. i might buy a computer today because i want to use it.
mircea_popescu: "A requirement that all transactions go through regulated and transparent administrators subject to supervision by Australia authorities (rather than just the current block chain process);"
mircea_popescu: "As we have learned from the experiences emanating from the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange collapse, the existence of a "block chain" does nothing to allow law enforcement, other government authorities or the public to identify the real identity of the parties to a digital currency transaction."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` did you kick out violent times out of clocks by suggesting they space out, too ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex yes, time does have intrinsic value, but backwards.
mircea_popescu: badon im not into metals anyway, but i'd definitely buy metal rather than you know, fashion, hype, whatever. "the sizzle"
mircea_popescu: modern coins are worth whatever any modern item is worth.
mircea_popescu: nothwithstanding anecdotal success getting retarded kids to give you their lunch,
mircea_popescu: badon as long as you never pay more for a coin than the metal value you're safe enough.
mircea_popescu: i still don't see why some coins nobody gives a shit about would be intrinsically valuable.
mircea_popescu: i don't pay for krugerands, and those at least are historically relevant.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't pay above the metal for any of them either.
mircea_popescu: it's not unlike calling "literature" the huge pile of us produced pulp.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's at least in my disinterested and ignorant view, the bane of "numismatics" applied to things made after ww2.
mircea_popescu: gernika: What aggravates me more and more recently is the claim that mac products are well designed, when in fact they will destroy your hands. << mactardism is a very visual field. it doesn't account much for function.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: not interested in such experiments. << try have the girl go naked for a day, srsly.
mircea_popescu: kinda shows that stupidity is unpatriotic by its nature. only has one country.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but that 'removes moral dimension!' << eerily similar to fundamentalist xtians objections to hymenoplasty.
mircea_popescu: NOW, the faster she runs, the less of a woman she is. objectively. how do you get out of that shit.