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mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> the notion that anyone's getting signal out of the market ticking up or down is absurd. << you know the interestin thing about humans is, the talented musician/painter/we can transform the brownian motion of the atmosphere into signal.
mircea_popescu: considering how much they spent implanting the nonsense in the skull, it ain't never coming out.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if it's anything like this dude, it'd basically lesswrong/meatballswiki/somethingawful hivemind. unemployable graduates with fixed if erroneous ideas "about the world"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla .de, .fr, early version of gpg keys. hope they can't decode ? :D
mircea_popescu: or w/e that thing is called where teenagers try to touch colored spots in order to have an excuse to rub together
mircea_popescu: but i'm rooting for twister being introduced by the tsa
mircea_popescu: and "terrorism" is a fantastic driver of behaviour. i have all these reports about adults, ADULTS!!11 mind you, freezing in their tracks because the kindergarten caregiver has said so.
mircea_popescu: and for the single woman with no contacts, the situation is fucking terrifing. so this guy asked you out. well ?
mircea_popescu: humans are meta machines, the PERCEPTION of the danger is the driver, not the actual danger.
mircea_popescu: unless it wasn't worth the hassle because her friends did and meh
mircea_popescu: right. and speaking of the victorians, they most definitely didn't have the current highschool/college situation, where pretty much every girl has fucked pretty much every guy,
mircea_popescu: well you have the excuse you're not an anthropologist, so not really your job to do that anyway.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, my argument here is that the very reason "we" are more open about it is because WOMEN are more open about it, and they are more open about it because their safety requires it and they finally figured it out
mircea_popescu: but they had no half'n'half, which from what i hear from other people's wives is the standard fare these days
mircea_popescu: i don't think what they did would meet my definition of fucking, dunno about yours
mircea_popescu: if you read sexus, half the stuff in there would be prosecuted today, it was all good fun and in the spirit of sportsmanship at the time.
mircea_popescu: even without accounting for the inflation of rape brought through redefinition.
mircea_popescu: if today the average woman fucks 12 men this decade, that's 1.8bn fucks. if you have 15k rapes that
mircea_popescu: if the pop was 100mn in 1944, and the average woman fucked 0.1 men a decade, that's 5mn fucks that decade. if you had 500 rapes that's 100 rpm
mircea_popescu: recent prices you can query the bots or the jsons. historical gotta talk to someone who has been doing the querying.
mircea_popescu: if it gives that up it simply becomes yet another protestantism.
mircea_popescu: wywialm the only notable innovation islam a sa christian sect brings is the hard (and somewhat antiquated) requirement for a certain split of the gender roles.
mircea_popescu: (in the narrow definition that she doesn't go with one, abducions aren't in our universe here)
mircea_popescu: bounce nope. of course not. however, the incidence per sex act is lower, for one, and the woman that cares to think can pretty well avoid them.
mircea_popescu: this is why we can't be both rich and pure, and this is why islam in its present state has no future.
mircea_popescu: this simple fact : the only solution is a wot, and when most men have fucked most women the serial killers stand out like sore thumbs.
mircea_popescu: this is, incidentally, the true driving force behind the "impropriety" trend, that took skirts from the ankle to the hip and women from no partners to a dozen a decade.
mircea_popescu: to make it plainer, how does a single woman distinguish a suitor from a serial killer ? they both approach her.
mircea_popescu: in fact, making that difference is the absolute best form of charity
mircea_popescu: from an investment perspective, no. from a community perspective, however, yes.
mircea_popescu: in any case, pattern matching is just by-hand bayesian filtering. it sort-of works, but it isn't a solution or anything
mircea_popescu: "r3wt: alright, did you have coins on OpenEx maybe? r3wt: but anyone here who may have invested in openex or be owed some money, i got you. i got a real job now so i'm on the ascent again"
mircea_popescu: i mean, i didn't pick up anything whatsoever in the case of this xinxi guy. nor did i look into it in any depth. however, consider the case of the r3wt kid. now there, i did pick up roughly the same vibe i imagine you peeps are discussing. and yet, months later,
mircea_popescu: incidentally, where have all the "are women more deceitful than men" studies gone ?
mircea_popescu: just as long as it doesn't reduce to a "she's a woman/politician/newbie and her lips are moving so -> lying"
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol im not saying that persona jkudgement is invalid in any case. obviously all we have to go on is the judgement entered by individuals. but i think the general point is nevertheless interesting, how does one tell ?
mircea_popescu: more interested in the general point tbh, i have no idea what this kid's story is, but in general derpy newcomers with a drive and deceitful scammers with a plan would look quite similar, at least during the first 1k lines or w/e, i think
mircea_popescu: in other news today, mp loves pulling people's chains.
mircea_popescu: like you know, math isn't news, even considering most people don't know it.
mircea_popescu: mayhap you confuse the newsman with the archeologist ?
mircea_popescu: yesterday's log about what's news and what isn't will be so lulzy once ~that one~ qntra article ends up in the position of the stormcaller, greatest news piece ever published etc etc...
mircea_popescu: anyway, if it was indeed over the growth SLOWdown they reported,
mircea_popescu: you know this is perhaps a good point... and trilema has a shitton of them
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski nothing like that can happen. aren't you aware the dow is the penis of the biggest greatest richest most important country IN THE COUNTRY !?>!?!
mircea_popescu: wywialm well the deedbot is atm dead, but being reimplemented
mircea_popescu: lmao. pro tip : if you put Deny from 50.97.161.229 in your droplist ;;isitdown will say it's down.