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mircea_popescu: exactly. making conception illegal for young women is fundamental if you want an educated set of women
mircea_popescu: but whether it's legal or illegal doesn't decide whether they queue up for it
mircea_popescu: but i don't believe you'll ever be able to run a place where drugs (the actual sort) are legal, for purely economic reasons.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not saying this is grounds to make anything legal or illegal, obviously.
mircea_popescu: somehow it's conveniently forgotten that einstein's general revolution was based on laboratory data
mircea_popescu: decimation the point is valid, there's relatively little useful stuff these singers/songwriters can do.
mircea_popescu: so now all one can still do with his mind is "generalize"
mircea_popescu: because somehow they've decided "data" is a substance, it's no longer fit for the thinking man to generate data, and so no more of things like the excellent field reports people like saussure and levi-strauss dedicated their lives to
mircea_popescu: decimation people got hacked lately with this "only the general is important" rootkit. it meshes well with the divinsation of data-in-se
mircea_popescu: just like acid isn't a good adjuvant to latent paranoia.
mircea_popescu: it's part of that undiscrimination mentioned earlier. it seems to particularly empower any ocd streak you may have.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's valid. a) erdos doesn't get his guidance from youtube ; b) most people taking it will scrub.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves there are guys that thing all ages should be legal.
mircea_popescu: decimation so taleb's mistake is that he's being a BANAL asshole ?
mircea_popescu: wasn't this the poster for medical pot ? it helps fibromyalgia ?
mircea_popescu: who, notably, has a lot more grounds than me to be all "fu world y u don't respek!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cause i was thinking, i prolly do more of it than poor taleb.
mircea_popescu: looks like genetic on that basis. you gotta be really unlucky as a guy
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: "it pattern-matches 'derp' and throws my concentration" << yeah I have the same experience. << does this happen with my stuff too ?
mircea_popescu: decimation they're self prescribed by doctors working the us meatgrinder for sure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because pure amphetamine is undiscriminatory.
mircea_popescu: lol even today., well yes even today, what's changed ?
mircea_popescu: "theoretical physicists calculate the imaginary part of schroedinger function collapses for various items in their room and then convert it all to matrix form to go to sleep"
mircea_popescu: what's he going to do if say a bn chicks actually decide to go for it ?
mircea_popescu: they taught the greeks magic and romans to write don;'t you know./
mircea_popescu: yeah i know. we had a bunch of crypto natl-socialist idiots in romania too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why's the reporter so fucking excited lol
mircea_popescu: or, if you prefer, de retz has some mentions in his memoirs, to the same principle.
mircea_popescu: the owner of one figuring it's better to keep the other in the hands of its current inept owner than let him lose it.
mircea_popescu: i think balzac is the first to describe it. some small sleepy country town somewhere, with two printing licenses
mircea_popescu: millions of country boys had to be assembled in the choir invisible to rectify the mistakes of two inept diplomats.
mircea_popescu: if they worked together we'd be sitting here speaking german threatening doom to the third reich.
mircea_popescu: who's to blame ? inept ribentropp, inept molotov, chiefly.
mircea_popescu: think of it : two major powers, with very close ideologies, the absolute leader of one in love with the absolute leader of the other, managed to go to war!
mircea_popescu: you know ? putting some idiot's wife in the gulag doesn't make him suddenly smart.
mircea_popescu: cazalla no biggy. this is the fungible sort of work, it'll wait.
mircea_popescu: but yes, it's been for many decades now the established mo of the great "nation" of the united states : to grow an inch, cut an inch off the measuring tape.
mircea_popescu: "why do you hang out with these bums ?" "because they're the only people that call me a beauty queen", said the ambitious teenaged slut.
mircea_popescu: obviously. but the convenience does not resolve the other angle. it's a ruinous association.
mircea_popescu: gets to run a piece of shit "resource" that everyone pushes as if it were useful.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the very guy the entire clampdown on the internets exist to protect the internets for
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to be perfectly fair, the guy wasn't keeping his finances in the best of orders (according to you know, the criteria required so you don't get called "a cult leader" by teh cult leadership). nevertheless, nothing nearly as bad as what the childfucker jimbo wales did in his day
mircea_popescu: cazalla you're not supposed to sit, but that's a splendid idea : pole dancing.