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mircea_popescu: but because they cost less to produce and less to maintain
mircea_popescu: there's more ants than people alive not because ants are better tea company
mircea_popescu: this is usually obvious in computer game design. if there's a warrior, a mage and an archer, having them all "equally powerful" defeats the point of having 3 of them. having them "differently powerful" often reduces to the former.
mircea_popescu: it's universal this, absent universally pervasive dedication to diversity, diversity flounders because by its very definition it's multiple examples are not all equally fit.
mircea_popescu: well, the accident that guncotton is not made out of cottons while guns are made out of fllailed earth had something to do with it.
mircea_popescu: but if you try make all teh places run on the same software...
mircea_popescu: have a pedo state, send all pedos there, have a 1950s household, send all 1950s types to utah, and so on and so forth
mircea_popescu: anyway, what irks me isn't the weirdo stuff in the us as much as the memetic tendency. if it worked like, "if you want women to park anywhere and bakers to bake anything, go to ohio ; if you want women to not be allowed to park anywhere, go to montana" etc it'd be fine.
mircea_popescu: which is why so much lobby to not distinguish natural and manufactured women
mircea_popescu: it's quite logical, if you care to follow the twisted remants of logic inside the system
mircea_popescu: in principle, disallowing absurd selection practices for employers may be unavoidable. otherwise, think of that church idiot and his "advice"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also, the thing you cite is employment law.
mircea_popescu: ha! i beat someone to it for once, even if it was 2nd pass.
mircea_popescu: diametric may have a point. you can prolly ge away with a community agreement where every tenant has to play scrabble or some shit
mircea_popescu: let teenagers suck the cock and do the integrals, wtf are they for.
mircea_popescu: does that russian forum actually expect someone to type out (2/3 * x ** (2/3))/((3/4 * x ** (3/4) -(6/7 * x ** (6/7) )+x as a reply to a captcha ?
mircea_popescu: but it's simple pattern recognition, right ? of the ilk of "what is x2 + y2 + 2xy"
mircea_popescu: im not even sure i could do integration by hand, outside of recognising the formulaic equivalents.
mircea_popescu: the idea holds water tho. money is supposed to work as an iq-meter.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, partisan dugouts in the us may have to wait a few years.
mircea_popescu: well yeah. was a bunch o people, they got building permit and proceeded to built like at home. concrete pillars, brick walls etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: why not just buy shipping containers then. not so expensive, can be stacked...
mircea_popescu: anyway, the us-agitprop makes me chaf. "o noes, you can do anything, retards are people too, form a circle let's hold hands"
mircea_popescu: isn't it some derpy "kid wants to be fighter jet pilot, cock not big enough, o lala la drama" story ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, the pill just makes you uber horny.
mircea_popescu: im almost tempted by your theory. "you can sleep better if you never have sex again. here's the pill"
mircea_popescu: shitty trade tho. i wouldn't spend a year in wheelchair for an extra four inches
mircea_popescu: (yes, that's how that "extra" dna from the mother side works - mitochondria has its own dna set)
mircea_popescu: how are you going to fix mother dna outside of eugeny ?
mircea_popescu: the fact that all cultures had beds, and the fact that all cultures could go to bed with any others.
mircea_popescu: sleep is very similar, and in fact one of the better arguments pro homogenity in the human race
mircea_popescu: what if, ok. but i dun believe that has a leg to stand on.
mircea_popescu: if you're going for this why not make smart pill directly, why bother with sleep pill.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some people are fucking dumb. others - not so. find out why, avoid, win.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves chetty used to sleep 4ish hours for many years.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the premise is flawed. they're trying to escape... into da's office ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform escape < they still get paid in paypal. what escape. incape.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you ever met that blessed folk that will spent sixteen hours a day working to "make money while they sleep", 5 dolla an hour ?
mircea_popescu: plenty of people work up the nerve to speak over hours. plenty more probably haven't yet. so ?
mircea_popescu: HOW you get there may be as important as how much time you spend, neh ?
mircea_popescu: suppose shady gringo in the kabul market offers to sell you a dust which, if sparkled around, will teleport you straight into tent, no further need for "Wasting time"
mircea_popescu: suppose the normal introduction so you may be allowed there takes a coupla hours, going through all the complicated pashtun honor ceremonies.
mircea_popescu: he lives in a hut, like all the others, rural pashtun.