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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "i wish they kiled idiots so then they'd be real cheap and i could get them all"
mircea_popescu: which is why all east european families were VERY stable
mircea_popescu: moriarty no. it encourages backgrounds to not be fracturous
mircea_popescu: and which is why a fundamentally idiotic game model (the platformer, the scroller, etc) were still loads of fun
mircea_popescu: which is why hard amiga games in the 80s were a lot better than the crap today,
mircea_popescu: bounce hard retries offer no promise of learning from mistakes.
mircea_popescu: nature doesn't come with a "you took that path and a lion ate you, would you like to retry yes/no/cancel"
mircea_popescu: so, the ilusion of having "changed" the system may be cheaply attained
mircea_popescu: whereas the space for individuals is immensely more dense.
mircea_popescu: systems can not exist but in a very narrow space of stable nodes.
mircea_popescu: any system that forces change upon the individual is going to win longterm
mircea_popescu: in the 80s romania there used to be about 100 18yo girls a year hanging themselves for having sucked at tests.
mircea_popescu: moriarty it's not "the governemnt" any more than it's gravity.
mircea_popescu: the observed property is based on not having been tampered with
mircea_popescu: yeah well this socialistoid idiocy... "currently college ed people are upwards movbile let's give degrees to anyone wait that changes mobiliy ?!?!!?" is like, become a woman, they liove longer.
mircea_popescu: quota as in, no more than this may pass no matter what happens.
mircea_popescu: maybe. but if the kids can't read, shoot the teachers.
mircea_popescu: you can not run for office unless in one of these two categories.
mircea_popescu: then 50% 12 years and 5 to 10% 16 years. and that's it.
mircea_popescu: actually free mandatory quoted education is imo the way to do education. 100% 4 years, if any kid fails it shoot him. 99.x% 8 years, if any kid fails he is not allowed to ever have sex with another. no matter what.
mircea_popescu: nol but the free education thing i can see. if you're going to teach everyone the same thing (language) might as well do it for free. your show, your tickets.
mircea_popescu: now that's insane. why subsidize energy expenditure ?!
mircea_popescu: not currently. permanently. not by anything but simple game theory.
mircea_popescu: the only winning move being not to waste your own resources to defend their shit.
mircea_popescu: moriarty this is a nice theory anyone would subscribe to. both those who will and those who won't. after which, disaster of commons.
mircea_popescu: <Gigs> Usage: !wire <AWG>, gives stats for copper wire of <AWG> size
mircea_popescu: so i go to #electronics to see if either asciilifeform or diametric hang in there. they have a bot, i do !help, it says
mircea_popescu: so what, stick to the fleshlight and egg custard crowd over on austrians ? i guess can do that, sure.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i know, but it was for his benefit. give the man a chance to redeem himself.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate moriarty 1 some sort of libertarian or something.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla this email, wtf is it ? i do not comprehend, what ?
mircea_popescu: basically, a government trending to totalitarism will correctly perceive as threats all protections from integration
mircea_popescu: disallowing sharing of financial information is a sizeable nook
mircea_popescu: for instance it being metallic is a huge gulf. arguably pegging it to btc even huger.
mircea_popescu: paper is a minor nook anyway, in the grand scheme of things.
mircea_popescu: hence the earlier discussion with decimation about how much the nist asked him to pay, and how it's basically "come with a note from stalin"
mircea_popescu: pretty much entirely integrated. no policy in the us can be implemented without control of the currency.
mircea_popescu: a metal coin is literally like a whore. 0 integration, she fucks random other men.
mircea_popescu: integration, for the record, is simply a measure of mutual dependence. think in terms of a couple. the more things they do together, te more integrated they are.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not the same pressures. i meant usg specifically.
mircea_popescu: and recently i have been giving them away for free, so.
mircea_popescu: ah. the consensus here is that domains are worth about 10 bux,
mircea_popescu: i can't read him, it's like going to a museum of children "artwork"
mircea_popescu: complexity is not a good predictor of quality. not in the ontos, not in the gnosis.
mircea_popescu: lacan is a total idiot, if he were a woman he'd be irigaray.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this is true to a lesser degree in statistics.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, there exists no intellectualy respectable economist outside of buffett that lived in the 2nd part of the 20th century.
mircea_popescu: and the argument that taleb is "popularizing" brought by butthurt but otherwise worthless "statisticians" in their own estimation neatly mirrors the same criticism brought by "economists" in their own estimation re buffett.
mircea_popescu: i can be well spared the "conversation" of pointless academics trying to publish or perish. not worth following.
mircea_popescu: moriarty looky, if the conversation were worth following, then 30 years of the finance industry following it would show some benefit for it.
mircea_popescu: i don't think the conversation is worth keeping up with.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, i don't particularly favour new stuff. what exactly is ever new.
mircea_popescu: moriarty you're wioth the "it's the protocols of sion v2.0" point of view ?