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mircea_popescu: back in the 70s when politicians started doing this, engaging in pseudo-debates on "issues" that had no coherent definition in their respective systems, people derrided the entire process as nonsensical. enter the internet, everyone is doing it. everyone. everwhere. find the most obscure blog and you'll have two nobodies doing it to each other for sport.
mircea_popescu: but the more i read the more i realise that actually... it's not me inventing something novel, it's my brain trying to cope with nonsense.
mircea_popescu: it started as this literary device i had thought i had invented like a decade ago. we even tried to work it into our book with chet.
mircea_popescu: thus parallel discussion is not a funny occurence but the vast majority of all interractions, people happily arguing with self-constructed dopplegangers of each other respectively. basically, a strawman is not merely a logical error, but the substance of all english language discourse today.
mircea_popescu: so i suspect pop culture and the (very specifically english, btw, and chinese!) tendency towards the lowest common denominator and cultural sterility is the result of this chasm : on one hand people expect to be belonging together, unwarrantedly. on the other hand, they share exactly nothing.
mircea_popescu: goat sperm'd have a better shot impregnating toad eggs.
mircea_popescu: now this is all about as irrelevant as you like, but if you read what these commenters say to each other it becomes rapidly obvious they fail before even remotely engaging.
mircea_popescu: there's a bunch of academics no less, discussing a topic of no particular interest with utter abandon : some palestinian guy who's also a professor got offered a job and then de-offered the job, because urbana admin didn't like him ranting about israelis on twitter.
mircea_popescu: the possibility of text meaning something to the reader is quite severely restricted by a whole list of novel issues, not directly familiar to the historian of this topic.
mircea_popescu: it all dovetails neatly into BingoBoingo's recent stuff about sublanguages. and i guess my recent post, at that.
mircea_popescu: punkman i believe it'd be the proposition that words work unequivocally and logic may be applied to natural language constructs.
mircea_popescu: basically, that's what b-a reduces to : using english as a language rather than as a lingo is so uncommon by now, it takes intelligent people some effort to accommodate.
mircea_popescu: him:lol yeah, it's an unusual writing style. It's like a mix of technical , story telling and stretched analogies. I'm sure you get a lot of hardcore readers who follow along. from a technical standpoint, its somewhat of a nightmare lol.
mircea_popescu: him : It's gonna take awhile to digest this. You like writing eh.
mircea_popescu: that's it. im surprised people even bother learning the language for this crap. o wait... they don't, do they.
mircea_popescu: and then you have some stale local interests topics, mostly molded in this mold, and some (bad) sports.
mircea_popescu: you have politics/current affairs, which are mostly a bunch of who we're calling the bad things this week, putin "doesn't understand how the world works" for having dared to humiliate our beloved leadership bimonthly for the past year, and israelis are whatever and on and on
mircea_popescu: you have "science" which mostly consists of the sterile nonsense of "creationists" and a few fringe groups (homeopaths, scientologists, whatever nuts), some very primitive "o look, I discovered fractals" repackaging of basic understanding ("i fucking love science!11") and a bunch of bureaucracy-serving faux debates (o, really, 97.x% of the "scientists" hoping for a govt grant agree the govt position has scientific valu
mircea_popescu: you know, english as a discussion space is getting incredibly boring these days.
mircea_popescu: i guess that makes me a terrorist AND a sociopath dunnit.
mircea_popescu: it'd be fucking ridiculous if i took my capital out of the bezzle, but allowed the emotional soliciting nonsense to continue.
mircea_popescu: what, gotta have my emotions available for use as part of the "productive future society" ? that's okay, i'm opting out.
mircea_popescu: they're all fluffy magical unicorns, too. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: they're only discussed because we don't really give a shit about the prisoner himself. if we did, we'd discuss how fucktarded he is instead of how x is failing y and other statistical wankery.
mircea_popescu: yeah, the more general point being that no structural considerations can ever excuse personal ineptitude. obama is a failure first and foremost because he, himself, personaly, is an imbecile, not nearly up to the task he asked to be allowed to undertake. every poor black person in jail is in jail because they, personally, are fucktards. the "system", family and all else come vehehehery distant seconds, and of little pr
mircea_popescu: so woul have the forum. if bitcointalk weren't run by a random 20yo kid with nary a clue of this world and a random gang of otherwise unemployable, it'd have not failed into the scam swamp of all time.
mircea_popescu: it would have worked fine with better people at the top.
mircea_popescu: closed down a decade into it. author realises she'd rather be a mommy than a ho.
mircea_popescu: "This is why I have not written about the most meaningful relationship of my life so far, or about my realising I want a life partner and children."
mircea_popescu: lmao look at this, perezhilton still exists. xiaxue still exists.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well at least it gets him to reorient towards writing nonsense supporting "global warming" so us comedians can talk about how 97% of "scientists" agree
mircea_popescu: i guess rational consistency isn't that big a deal when one's got feeeehlings.
mircea_popescu: let's make it so that low income people can't find any jobs, but let's not make it so they can't vote.
mircea_popescu: in spite of it... disproportionately affecting the poor etc.
mircea_popescu: they are however in favour of minimum wages, the exact equivalent of the voting franchise
mircea_popescu: they are against voting franchises, because they disproportionately affect the poor, black, etc.
mircea_popescu: this is possibly the most incomprehensible part of liberal self contradiciton.
mircea_popescu: nbase, for showing us what integrity is (you really didn't have to do that).
mircea_popescu: Ok, so Coinbase advertised (via a popup that appeared when I logged on) that if I complete my verification (which was already done), I'd get $5. It looked like a bug, but for $5 I clicked it anyway and apparently got nothing. And then of course like an idiot I complained about it on reddit. Now (several days later), I get $5 in bitcoin from Coinbase with a message that it's for completing my verification. Thank you Coi
mircea_popescu: $proxies mpex.ws mpex.bz mpex.co mpex.biz mpex.coinbr.com
mircea_popescu: there's gotta be some aspiring bitcoin journalist about.
mircea_popescu: talk about "valuable domain real estate" why don't you.
mircea_popescu: jesus so i'm just going to let these bitcoin-financials.com/net/org expire ? nobody wants em ?
mircea_popescu: and you can always trash it if it's one of those nonconsensual/foisted contracts
mircea_popescu: you don't have to sign a contract with an arbitration clause if you don't want to.
mircea_popescu: that's the motherfucking point of a court system in the first place.
mircea_popescu: decimation i have no idea what bs the "arbitration" thing is.
mircea_popescu: was some new guy sorta angling for his project w/e it was.
mircea_popescu: so recently some new guy was in here with his old idea rehashed and i pointed out to him it'll never work, and it only seems to work for now, because it's not working yet.
mircea_popescu: they got worthless money in infinite supply. as long as they follow the crowd they get to keep the shirts.
mircea_popescu: it's the dubious blessing of being raised in a system, that with the safety this entails for as long as the system survives comes intermingled the complete cluelessness and inability to survive.
mircea_popescu: battery chickens have no idea 'bout pine needles. big whoop.
mircea_popescu: take the coinfire dood. he thinks he's too old to be arsed to learn gpg ? he thinks he's too mature to submit ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is the perfect tool for intergenerational warfare.