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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : rabies doesn't kill per se. current therapy consists of essentially freezing the brain while the virus is flushed out by the immune system
mircea_popescu: the most we have to go on is that while the recent aberrations produced neither of those,
mircea_popescu: works just fine. you start with women in their 20s, self selected. you beat and humiliate them into shape. five to ten years later, people emerge of this.
mircea_popescu: it is exhausting but not particularly difficult or complex.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have an experimentally verified method.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one has to have a whole lotta things. literacy is a good start, of course. the actual kind.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, africa had no soviets, it was and will remain in the shitter.
mircea_popescu: romania was in the shitter in 1984, and has more gold per capita than most states today. all it too k was getting rid of the soviets.
mircea_popescu: comparing modern day idiocy in africa with the white areas of 1800 ios nonsense
mircea_popescu: reddit is the temple of this bizarre sect, the large collection of people who can use letters but don't understand sentences.
mircea_popescu: they can convincingly pretend like they can read. but in point of fact, they can not and do not.
mircea_popescu: you don't get to measure literacy as counted by j h newman with "literacy" as counted by some fuckardacy.
mircea_popescu: this never happened, seriously. you seen that early 1900s test for ohio if memory serves highschoolers ?
mircea_popescu: you'll have to argue for that better baseline. what's better about it ?
mircea_popescu: and yet... that 2nd brain will never function. all it takes is a little more doping and suddenly you *don't * have a semiconductor
mircea_popescu: another child, not healthy. inside his cranial cavity, slightly more water.
mircea_popescu: a child is conceived. he is healthy. inside his cranial cavity, among water, thin strings of protein run every which way.
mircea_popescu: no matter how you bang on it, the shit chip won't suddenly start dropping magic packets.
mircea_popescu: so in short : there's not going to be external solutions to internal problems
mircea_popescu: to quote the teflon don speaking to sam giancanna, "all they got is a tape. let 'em play it 'till they're sick of it"
mircea_popescu: suppose qntra buys mtv, and obama is shown back to back doing that, 18`994 times over two weeks.
mircea_popescu: bounce in the same spirit (of statistics) : the average bacterium makes no penicillin
mircea_popescu: bounce that's a dubious theory. i don't credit it so much.
mircea_popescu: see, the distance between bounce's theory and asciilifeform's practice is that in theory there's a lot of things that aren't actually fouind in practice ?
mircea_popescu: then who ? who are those numerous people that make news ?
mircea_popescu: if the sec is a puppet, if senior counsel for the sec ~= housewife
mircea_popescu: which is why and how the entire "don't sneeze on people" thing was introduced.
mircea_popescu: what are we talking about then ? the five or so people that mp ?
mircea_popescu: forget being an independent agent. she cant' even deal. she's not even a representative.
mircea_popescu: lacks the authority to make a deal in her purported field of expertise
mircea_popescu: today, someone who has the unmitigated audacity to misrepresent herself as "senior" SEC counsel
mircea_popescu: if not idem then at least somewhat approximting the same
mircea_popescu: and a few millions lawyers, doctors, journalists and other liberal professions,
mircea_popescu: bounce but hear the contrarian view. in 1814, there were about 1k actual scientists in the world, ie, people making their own moral judgements, as independent agents
mircea_popescu: they shoulkd be happy to get whatever it is that reaches them ?
mircea_popescu: because historians are generally regarded like the rats in the sewer
mircea_popescu: this bounce-asciilifeform debate will probably live in the annals.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to follow that model. qntra isn't a seller of 0-dioxin, 1814-equivalent tomatoes, but a greengrocer where they don't hire retards and don't mix shit in the fruit sala.d
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so it's one of those "while you're away at boot camp your wife is sucking snails out of the lesbian couple next door" ?
mircea_popescu: but whatever you care about, that's what alternatives investors have.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, s.qntr is only slightly better than the blue chip fiat company.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, whatsapp has yet to make any money. etc.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, every news outlet to date, pando, gawker, you name it, was started with a nest egg and no perspective to make money.
mircea_popescu: well, i suspect there's a lot of unresolved questions in there.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves the newspaper business isn't really for poor people ya know.
mircea_popescu: Breaking : A Trilema Article I wrote about a Song I wrote about some Music I wrote.
mircea_popescu: Romanian Billionaire And Unrepentant Murderer of Anton Derpopoplus Claims Foreign Interest Manipulate Dow
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves bad title tho. i got better titles than blogger, and the big thing there is the dow manipulation
mircea_popescu: <bounce> "free software a mediocre idea" oh well <<< who ?
mircea_popescu: bounce my idea was to make it contrary forces. so the wordcount should result like the stuff in colorado, a splendor.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves news will have a pov. want it to or not.