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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.
mircea_popescu: suppose there's a well respected, honorful general of this one tribe
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you got the stomach for some mysticism ?
mircea_popescu: or maybe sleep is a very high level cognitive function, and humanity still struggles with logic.
mircea_popescu: i don't think sleep improvement is impossible per se. but i do think what's herein contemplated is of the level of improving cpu caching with drills, lathes and other mechanical tools.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i dun sell gherkins to gardners and vodka to russians.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so then just lie down with yourself and relax, it's doable.
mircea_popescu: can you normally tell what's wrong with you, if something's wrong, and what food item was the cause, if you're sick ?
mircea_popescu: i think the more likely producitve approach is psychologic tho
mircea_popescu: theres really nothing to know, you just... lie down and sleep
mircea_popescu: well... so what does the pill do again ? allows you to rename things ? i can do that w/o pills :D
mircea_popescu: but at this point, we suddenly face the danger of falling into nominalism. consider a pill that zaps 1&2 so you can 3-4 only, withj the caveat that to be used safe over a century, you have to lie down for two to three hours each day and relax independently of sleep.
mircea_popescu: only problem with that test is you won't be able to distinguish the source of any side effects - from the rocketing or from the rocket.
mircea_popescu: i read the hypothesis here as "stages 1 and 2 can be safely removed"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note that for me to disprove your stance, all i need is an example of possible failure, which i've satisfied. for you to support your stance giving a counterexample is not enough.
mircea_popescu: there were some renaissance mechanical models for this.
mircea_popescu: the human body being a final case of "the protocol is the code". it works like we've discussed, as this insane collection of things repaired by malfunction in unassociated things
mircea_popescu: now, having a period of time where it can relax and clean up may be exactly what it needs. even if this is enforced by cnc paralysis rather than another venue
mircea_popescu: the reason for this is that the heart can't do too many regime change cycles a day
mircea_popescu: people who use it outside of that envelope, such as for instance habitual stimulant abusers, stock brokers and other such "high stress" occupations usually die of heart failure.
mircea_popescu: the heart is a well designed pump, that works very well in its own engineering envelope.
mircea_popescu: it isn't. you're saying it's "a waste of time", a spandrel merely means "not directly resulting from selection"
mircea_popescu: but even if it were, that's still not enough for what you're arguing.
mircea_popescu: and yes, you can login with nameserv from a webirc session as well as from any other session
mircea_popescu: (i also have a bet with some unfriendly parties as to whether that film' gonna be criminal insanity or not, but that's a different story)
mircea_popescu: im curious who's gonna be the first b-a alumn to become famous in an unrelated field.