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mircea_popescu: or we could read secret dispatches, check out how the various actors behave around it, who knows, even go to a military expo.
mircea_popescu: you can tell this by the very good predictor that when china told the us to get fucked, the us secretary of state promised to carefully avoid misunderstandings in the future
mircea_popescu: while england's own "fleet", w/e it is lol... do they still have it btw ?
mircea_popescu: seemed to me putin's counter to the ukraine. fuck with us, lose the uk sorta deal.
mircea_popescu: or maybe i don't well understand the structures of incentive, not living there
mircea_popescu: i still dunno wtf they did to make such a wide margin happen.
mircea_popescu: the ones it keeps you didn't want. much like africa forever, much like renaissance europe ec.
mircea_popescu: not sure how long that lasts, and it selects negatively.
mircea_popescu: quite. and intellectually dead places go beddy-bye whether they agree they're intellectually dead or not.
mircea_popescu: for all anyone cares, the ideas of midwest people re cattle and rain are right.
mircea_popescu: it's not even a matter of whether social justice and pc and the rest of the crap is right or wrong
mircea_popescu: "it sucks at home". course it does. cause boring place with boring people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wants to escape it. why ? and how is his desire different from young peasant kid in village in russia cca 1814
mircea_popescu: the american caesar, if he exists, will caesarize in chile or w/e.
mircea_popescu: but as such he exists because new york, not because lincoln, nebraska.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that a boring place can not have interesting people.
mircea_popescu: left to stand on its own, buffett's "immense potential" will die under the paws of some young lion
mircea_popescu: it got a lease on life once eu once again decided to mismanaged, ]
mircea_popescu: decimation the 1800s worked because at the time europe was mismanaging human resources, and so you could actually get free value by just taking its rejects. then early 1900s worked because the whole country obeyed its betters, so carnegie, rockefeller et co could create a monopoly on the world.
mircea_popescu: by now it's a good three centuries plus a world explored past its sell by date
mircea_popescu: the current libtards are really just trying to do a sort of "being cinderella" except a little deeper than disney
mircea_popescu: back then princesses went into the hovels to rescue genius.
mircea_popescu: in a sense, the renaissance was the golden age of us libtardism.
mircea_popescu: moriarty just some random twerp, no relevancy no relation.
mircea_popescu: decimation really it started during the renaissance, as an attempt to bite the fruit of life fully.
mircea_popescu: greeks, roman republic, roman empire, middle ages, renaissance, industrial revolution, modernity, post modernity
mircea_popescu: you'll confuse people who study history, it's a term of art
mircea_popescu: traditionally it's the fall of rome to the discovery of america.
mircea_popescu: do you mean like 5 people in the renaiisant italy or what.
mircea_popescu: o hey, trilema is not on the "dark enlightenment" map w/e that is. i guess im cool like that!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'lesswrong' would be a harmless heathen pit if not for the inescapable fact that it is a tarpit for a good number of otherwise intelligent folks << this is a major problem in search for a solution.
mircea_popescu: kinda like the position of the girl being propositioned. if hte guy is good enough, not her place to have an opinion, not really.
mircea_popescu: not likely, but if it decided to... who is yudjowsky to say no.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems pretty banal. what else would it do.
mircea_popescu: o, that's bad because it could mp them out of existence ?
mircea_popescu: "ETA: How concerned should we be that DARPA is going full steam ahead for strong AI? Perhaps not very much, given the failure of at least two of their projects along these lines"
mircea_popescu: well, i didn't mean b-a-hood in the "it's sensible and it works" sense, i mearly meant it in the "rule the wrold" sense.
mircea_popescu: possibly one of the more stupid things to come out of academia.
mircea_popescu: what's left is the multi-millenial selected scum of humanity.
mircea_popescu: moriarty there's nothing to fathom. africa is the craddle of civilisation. better people leave, so they left.
mircea_popescu: and resistance will be washed away on the simple grounds that well... fiat world is going to africa anyway.
mircea_popescu: moriarty it would work as a wot system, and as that only.