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mircea_popescu: adlai no but see, even in your running and geneder example, you diverge. to my eyes, womanhood has to do with a nice layer of fat on he ass, as exemplified by kim say.
mircea_popescu: the median of an undefined attribute you don't even have a measure of,
mircea_popescu: there's no fucking usable definition of intelligence, we've yet to build a computer model of intelligence, yet these people talk of some sort of statistical intelligence as if it were a thing.
mircea_popescu: given that clams are somewhat intelligent, is a large enough collection of clams more intelligent than victoria nuland ?
mircea_popescu: i mean seriously, the intelligence ~of groups~ ? wtf does that even mean.
mircea_popescu: such a ridiculous point the soviets have chosen to center their purges around.
mircea_popescu: anyone willing to argue against that has my full attention.
mircea_popescu: His views are also reflected in a book published next week, in which he writes: "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
mircea_popescu: quite instructive piece on the mechanics of us socialism, all the various bits in full view.
mircea_popescu: "In order that the unfortunate views not overshadow the big scientific contribution, some of these folks would rather we stop talking about Watson’s having made the claims he has made about racial difference (although Watson shows no apparent regret for holding these views, only for having voiced them to reporters)." << and the mechanics of "regret", ie, we won't stop being stupid, the victim has to abjure!
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically this entire thing is a "you don't get to have any ~intellectual~ capital either, it all belongs to the state, to be used as slate anon editor directs it to be used".
mircea_popescu: but that's utter nonsense. objectivity is exactly heroic.
mircea_popescu: i find this quite scandalous. the "everything of value comes from socialism" narrative is pernicious enoughm
mircea_popescu: "Indeed, part of the danger of the hero narrative is that scientists themselves may start to believe it. They can come to see themselves as individuals possessing more powers of objectivity than other humans (thus fundamentally misunderstanding where objectivity comes from)"
mircea_popescu: "knowledge-building team" is it now. a hunter^H^H^H^H^H^H-gatherer perspective on science! there's no hunters, just a buncha women sitting around by a bush doing knowledge-building.
mircea_popescu: IF YOU MAKE A DISCOVERY YOU DIDN'T MAKE THAT DISCOVERY
mircea_popescu: nt of great men (and yes, in this narrative, it is usually great men who are recognized). This narrative ignores the fundamentally social nature of scientific knowledge-building and the fact that objectivity is the result of teamwork."
mircea_popescu: "It is a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works for him to think that his expertise at one level of analysis—a molecular level—predicts anything at a higher level of analysis. The structure of DNA does not predict the workings of a cell, which does not predict the shape of a body, which does not predict the characteristics of a culture."
mircea_popescu: jurov why is it supposed to be anything i nparticular ?
mircea_popescu: decimation:cazalla: I use 'generic' rewards card << but... why ?
mircea_popescu: cutting out like 2/3 of the value of all that collection (the actual guy wanting receipt copies etc) because well... they gotta be weird teenagers about it and do it voyeuristically. not the same thing if you know about it. except of course you know. but wait, suspension of dsibelief!
mircea_popescu: decimation: like, you know, so you can share in the bounty of their information? << good point this.
mircea_popescu: "for your safety, please suck my cock" is what all those things reduce to.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: for "my" safety. except i'm not liable for fraud. so actually they are being a pain in my ass for their safety. fucking home depot. << haha EXACTLY.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: and aha, these aren't piss-ant led lights either. ccfl tubes - which means they can't be cranked down all the much (and stay lit) <<< this is the deal breaker for me. i actually run the monitors at about 50% gamma.
mircea_popescu: it's how the entire "do-ocracy" nonsense got its cognitive start. the rebellion of the cleaning ladies, basically.
mircea_popescu: decimation: why should I trust some derp who 'volunteers' for arch over the upstream creator? <<< so very much this, o lordy.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: assbot plz send donation to b-a donation address. << lol troll!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: it wasn't the vendor. <<< maybe it was the vendor's useless bf.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo in what parallel universe do the thorns on the cactus prevent tequilla production ?
mircea_popescu: for all it can be directly established, you wiped your 2004-2012 history ?
mircea_popescu: badon 2014 to 2012 is substantially a weaker claim than "since 2004".
mircea_popescu: it's a potential, unless it actualizes you never know how well you did estimating it.
mircea_popescu: im sure some sort of something or the other was big in south and north america. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: maybe you're seeing too much into the natural excesses of first generation chinese new money.
mircea_popescu: anyway, do you have or can you get chinese coins from 100 ad sort of thing ? that'd be more on point for millions of dollars.
mircea_popescu: seems to me that "mature numismatic market" contains some presupositions that won't hold after you flood it with random coins.
mircea_popescu: " I don't mind over paying a little as the wise man baden always says, to get what I like but I have limits & they are based on potential of growth, 10% is better than bank interest but I would rather a potential 50% - 2000%!!!!! (savvy or greedy?!)"
mircea_popescu: davout i can do that, sure. just, hadn't seen you in a while wanted to see if you still move or what.
mircea_popescu: badon you're familiar with the various "physical bitcoin" issues that often sell for whatever, 15k
mircea_popescu: "I try to identify & buy into the hype in the beginning or as it is happening (the pro's would be about 2 steps ahead of me) but not after the initial rush because of the lower potential for price rise."
mircea_popescu: badon ok, so you're getting some traction. murky market as all hell, will prolly be a challenge to stay on top of everything.