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mircea_popescu: what exactly are you
trying
to get writing it
though ? money ?
spandrell_: i
take it you guys liked my chinese stories
spandrell_: anyway, i didnt come here
to convince you
to marry and have children
mircea_popescu: i don't
think you've experienced paranoia of quite
this strength and vintage in all your born days.
spandrell_: if somebody actually bothers
to supplant me i'll feel very flattered
mircea_popescu: of course by now we don't know whether
this isn't an impostor :)
mircea_popescu: much like after-the-end people go around looting
the walmart, not stocking
the shelves.
mircea_popescu: moreover, post-world effect. i'm much better off picking up select 19yo children from otherr people
than making
them de novo.
mircea_popescu: now, ironically, i ~could~ make useful children. but i require items (such as an undisputed right
to kill
them)
that i could also make, but can't be arsed
to.
spandrell: which is why people
tend
to have 1 or 2, as beyond
that
they start being less cute and more annoying
mircea_popescu: aite. i'ma need some
time
to get
to
that, seeing how i'm not going
too fast
through
this one cuz we keep
talking midway :D
mircea_popescu: ah, and
THEY don't have any children. yeah i can see
that argument in
that context.
spandrell: but
their particular lifestyle means
that for
them children have no marginal utility either
mircea_popescu: if children had actual marginal utility i would have children. by
the dozen.
mircea_popescu: it's an option
though. i could, if i were so inclined. i'm not, but
that's a societal failure.
spandrell: my issue with
the stuff is
that
the hero-dudes are all about fight and drink and competing
to fuck unrealistic fighting women
spandrell: well back
to
the water margin and bro culture
mircea_popescu: ah, poverty. sure. si quis, inquis, dives est,
tum cenare potest cum cupit. si pauper...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i guess she's getting out one way or another. but
then again
this'd be why i own my women as opposed
to marrying
them.
mircea_popescu: well i find
this claim unsubstantiated so far, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: you just object
to
the notion some people might not give a shit what women
think ?
spandrell: i
try
to please my wife with money and not faith
mircea_popescu: well, especially all
the sometimes you've decided not
to have a choice.
spandrell: plenty of people go
through
the motions
trinque: what is
this, give unto caesar?
spandrell: who doesnt like
the govt but works for
them and
tries
to be honorable
mircea_popescu: i don't do
that, nor would i. but i suppose i'm
to leave
this aside ?
spandrell: doing
the honorable patrician kinda
thing
spandrell: you're doing your
thing as a military officer
spandrell: imagine yourself in
the position of qin ming
mircea_popescu: but you never explained any mechanics of
the dislike, merely stated it.
spandrell: they also have
this bro culture
to
them which i dislike
too, as i wrote int he water margin post
mircea_popescu: the debates as
to genetic basis for intelligence have raged for a while in
the logs. it's not really settled i guess, but
there's certainly no merit for NATIONAL concepts of intelligence hm ?
spandrell: i wouldn't know, i generally avoid
them when i'm home
spandrell: well
there's always
the right edge of
the bell curve
mircea_popescu: i had some pretty clever friends
that part of
the world.
spandrell: i wasnt really
that serious but i do understand i struck a nerve
spandrell: am i only able
to read you, mircea_popescu, or are you
the only one
talking right now?
mircea_popescu: spandrell for
the record, it's not at all an islamic argument. why would anyone but an idiot hang out with
the idiots ? who ever goes willingly
to an accountant party ? etc.
mircea_popescu: check it out asciilifeform
the 1300s chinese novel even has
the "bitcoin corrupts" doctrine. "obviously he was a bro, and all bros of
the world should join
the rebel army".
spandrell: and people say
the internet is bad for you
mircea_popescu: yeah, prior
to bitcoin
that was
the case with me exactly.
spandrell: i actually started
to study japanese because i found a bitch on IRC who
taught me
mircea_popescu: there's a huge pile of interlocking wonders
that make up la serenissima, i'll be more
than happy
to explain
them in detail as
time goes by.
mircea_popescu: the bot allows you
to self-voice, if you have
the WoT presence, which you likely will because i'd rate you.
mircea_popescu: so
the way
this channel works is
that you register your pgp signature with
the bot ; and
then you can maintain an identity. otherwise anyone can "be" spandrell
mircea_popescu: why would i want
to read a
tv show script, good lord. even
the people paid
to do it don't.
spandrell: perhaps
the old version,
there's
two
spandrell: there might be a version of
the
tv show with english subtitles
spandrell: i probably should check out some english
translations if i want get
the book written
mircea_popescu: yeah i'll have it fished out ; just
thought maybe you know something. worth asking.
spandrell: maybe
there's something on libgen?
spandrell: then realized i could just watch
the show
spandrell: i
think i said it
there
that i read parts of
the original
mircea_popescu: oh also, reading
this article makes me want
to round my knowledge of medieval chinese literature (which consists of golden lotus, vase and spring plumlet) with
this other
thing. know of any decent edition of said "water margin" in any european language i could get online ?
spandrell: it would be an honor
though, do
tell me any
time you come
to
the east
spandrell: i can confirm
then, never met
the guy
mircea_popescu: anyway, asciilifeform is
this fellow by
the name Stanislav Datskovskiy.
spandrell: well if
this asciilifeform is a hot japanese chick
then I might have met her
mircea_popescu: i
thought
that's where people go
to meet all
the hot japanese chicks!