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mircea_popescu: isn't it actually bad for the parts to work on them while too hot to touch ?
mircea_popescu: most english as a single language kids i meet aren't adults at 30.
mircea_popescu: there's no age limit, you can be an adult at about 12.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the platonic concept of "the great lie" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation in public ? nobody would, either. except for me, i keep talking about all sorts of things that shouldn't be in public, much to everyone's shhock and horror.
mircea_popescu: so you know... we're not going to do it. well then... why are you here ?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 you probably realise the only correct solution there was to make iraq 51st state
mircea_popescu: the japanese had a bunch of orgasms and were in that female wax phase.
mircea_popescu: the germans were thrilled to be relieved from the russians.
mircea_popescu: yeah mats_cd03 has it, look how nicely the russians did everywhere since the 90s.
mircea_popescu: i don't think they have YET had any sort of objective.
mircea_popescu: if you review the us record, from korea to the latest iraq...
mircea_popescu: well perhaps not running the military like it were an idiot reservation bound for the special olympics might help.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what it is, the russians have the secret to this.
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah, but they don't really manage to attract that much talent somehow.
mircea_popescu: i'd have you court martialed if you counted by three. and i would notice.
mircea_popescu: Adlai apparently testing for intelligence would help this army
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel in short, im not denying a lot of work has been done. i'm just saying, i'm skeptical.
mircea_popescu: iqs are not linear, and im not even sure they're scalars at all.
mircea_popescu: averaging nonlinear measurements is a fine example of having passed through college unattained.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel there are many countless objections to bring. for instance, the country with a guy at 300 and three guys at 50 is better than the country with three guys at 150 ?
mircea_popescu: it's what i mostly use to score individuals in proxmity, too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as far as i recall the better studies were done by the russians, measuring eye movements
mircea_popescu: decimation diametric would one of you consider perhaps changing nick ? you're hitting a total blind spot with me, you're like figs and dates, i keep confusing you!
mircea_popescu: it doesn't mean much more than, this empty bottle of soda could in principle be gasoline.
mircea_popescu: the genetics underpinnign cognitive function is debatable and poorly understood.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the brain size is not necessarily a predictor of anything. my amd quad is smaller than an old pentium
mircea_popescu: <dub> where are teh bitbets? 50K US deaths by chrimbus << make it.
mircea_popescu: for instance, if a fire breaks out in a crowded place, being trampled is more dangerous than being burned
mircea_popescu: Adlai sure, but again, the mass effects are of concern.
mircea_popescu: in short, you have nfi what happens once it reaches the magical 2% i think it was ?
mircea_popescu: this may be true on an individual level. but large scale biologic phenomena have their own emergent properties.
mircea_popescu: like saying "this hooker's like 50 lbs, she's a lot less dangerous than mike in accounting"
mircea_popescu: <diametric> honestly, though, ebola has an R0 of 2, its less serious than measles << this is relying on a whole string of assumptions.
mircea_popescu: so i go buy chocolate dipped figs. only to discover, the motherfucking figs
mircea_popescu: so these people here are fucking obsessed with dolce de leche
mircea_popescu: if you do actuarial averages, about the best construction you can come up with
mircea_popescu: tbh, if i were sitting on the iron throne in question, i'd have the agents naked
mircea_popescu: decimation do they refund it if you blow up a plane after all ?
mircea_popescu: but you had to be careful or else the adults might catch on.