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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not MY observation ; but
the girl's. i personally neither agree nor approve.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-05 13:14 mircea_popescu: it has been
the observation
throughout
the ages
that intelligent people are only happy as slaves ; which is how
that whole "behind great man - great woman"
thing got started ; or why samuel clemens had
to get his daily spankings in wife's bedroom.
punkman: gonna work on
the gwern archives later, feel free
to suggest any interesting
things
too look for while I'm searching for gpg keys/messages
phf: so i got 38479 users, i'm going
to download
their keys, and
then perhaps rerun
the crawler
to see if anyone else comes up
mircea_popescu: and speaking of neurotransmitters :
the most reliable sign of opioid intoxication is decreased respiratory rate. a rate less
than 12 where intoxication is a possibility (ie, not outright impossible) practically guarantees it's
the case.
shinohai: "Dear Elon Musk, please fund an expedition
to settle once and for all
the argument of whether or not
the moon is made of cheese of petrified ejaculate from space giants."
a111: Logged on 2016-05-05 13:13 mircea_popescu: how do you know
the moon isn't actually made of petrified ejaculate ?
mircea_popescu: it has been
the observation
throughout
the ages
that intelligent people are only happy as slaves ; which is how
that whole "behind great man - great woman"
thing got started ; or why samuel clemens had
to get his daily spankings in wife's bedroom.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: again :
the problem of reacting instead of acting is
that you'll necessarily be a muppet.
mircea_popescu: how do you know
the moon isn't actually made of petrified ejaculate ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and as
to
the bear and his honey,
the moment before is called
the endorphin shock.
mircea_popescu: but
there's something wrong when
the brain parasite
takes over
the brain, and you start pursuing nonsense at
the expense of your wealth, your health, your sanity and eventually your life.
mircea_popescu: now,
there is nothing wrong with
this if engaged in for sport
mircea_popescu: except
there's a price! so you pay
the price... except... it's ransomed en route... so you... etc
mircea_popescu: for instance :
the seclist has a hottie (you
think, for absolutely no reason - have you seen her
tits ?
there are rules for being a hottie, you know ?)
mircea_popescu: the sad fact here is
that you personally fall for
this scam ALL
THE FUCKING
TIME.
mircea_popescu: so
then - C wants
the hottie ; but
the hottie has a blood price. so C pays. except
the price is kidnapped on route, so C pays ransom, except hottie falls ill etc etc
mircea_popescu: now
then.
the russian bride is a peculiar variant of
this scam, where
the value
transferred is not pecuniary, and
thus encounters "troubles".
mircea_popescu: but
they all reduce
to "more fluff
to make it easier for C
to swallow
the faux identity painted over a difference"
mircea_popescu: so S sends C you a check ;
thereby
transferring
to you
the form of some money ; but not
their substance. C proceeds
to send S a wire,
thereby
transferring
the form and
the substance ; C is out some money.
mircea_popescu: not all
these dts are exploitable in practice ; but all are exploitable in principle.
mircea_popescu: the way
the scam works is
that
the settlement of substance.money does not in fact coincide with
the settlement of form.money.
this because
there's an absolute
thermodynamic
taboo against coincidence.
mircea_popescu: the form of money is obvious, in
the sense of
the
taste of food being obvious. it produces expected reactions in
the senses.
mircea_popescu: the 419 scam is a particular arbitrage of
the knowledge problem.
the way it works is
that money in modern society consists of a substance and a form. its substance is hinted at by
the "aml/kyc" bs, which is a whole other pile of lulz we won't be getting into here. you prefer
to refer
to it as "X couldn't own rembrandts" internally.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let us study
this problem
together, working on
the basis of a 419/russian bride scam.
mircea_popescu: the principle of
the
thing! you don't fucking
top me from
the bottom ffs!
mircea_popescu: what's next ? i'm going
to show online sub why i should be her master ? am i under
the influence of brain parasitosis ?
mircea_popescu: ah,
the readers. why do
they read
there ?
they could read here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you perhaps still entertain
this delusional hope
that man is what he wishes
to be / sees self as.
mircea_popescu: and i would estimate absolutely none of
the people
there should be here.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is
that even if you put
the effort into bowdlerization, you will not obtain a result better
than i do ; because
the "formal
test" is actually devoid of substance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that's nonsense. mircea_popescu is a matter of substance, not form. what oyu call full bore is merely an aggregate of stylistic choices i prefer [and i prefer
them enough
to put above
the needs of others, because i simply don't care enough about unknown others], but otherwise it has an infinity of formal homomorphisms, and necessarily an infinity of
those could match any arbitrary formal
test.
mircea_popescu: the best policy is
to fucking decide if you're gonna or not gonna ; and
then do or not do. doing sorta halfway is painful. even
to watch.
mircea_popescu: you know, you can be
trained
to do
this right ; you're intelligent enough. but it's a slog, and it's also a lot like learning
to play an instrument.
hanbot: group projects, in most people's hands, need no further reasons
to fail
a111: Logged on 2016-05-05 03:20 mircea_popescu: i suppose eventually
they couldn't stand each other anymore or somesuch
a111: Logged on 2016-05-05 03:09 mircea_popescu:
the complaints are poor decision process, lack of
transparency etc. i wonder if
the actual valuable contributors packed and left
the various hanno bocks, bob becks and other undesirable politicos behind.
mircea_popescu: i suppose eventually
they couldn't stand each other anymore or somesuch
☟︎ mircea_popescu: all analysis seems
to point
to
the whole substance of
that
thing being based on a very
tooth-and-nail neoprotestant stubbornness of collective action.
mircea_popescu: but what happened
to
their home island of caspiar ? it fucking sunk ?
a111: Logged on 2016-05-05 02:57 mircea_popescu: e previous point, he's got a rationalist amulet
to protect him from
things!), but also i notice -
that lesswrong
thing is essentially dead, isn't it ? one wiki edit (his), "0 points"
throughout whatever
that may mean, recent posts nobody cares about, latest diary from February, 5-th most recent blog from last month etc etc. i
thought
there were many idiots in
this
thing,
turns out it's just a handful of derps
that meanwhile f
a111: Logged on 2016-05-05 03:09 mircea_popescu:
the complaints are poor decision process, lack of
transparency etc. i wonder if
the actual valuable contributors packed and left
the various hanno bocks, bob becks and other undesirable politicos behind.
ben_vulpes: a us bank is willing
to
touch customer keys? o.O
mircea_popescu: the complaints are poor decision process, lack of
transparency etc. i wonder if
the actual valuable contributors packed and left
the various hanno bocks, bob becks and other undesirable politicos behind.
☟︎☟︎ ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: once again for
teh illiterate?
mircea_popescu: e previous point, he's got a rationalist amulet
to protect him from
things!), but also i notice -
that lesswrong
thing is essentially dead, isn't it ? one wiki edit (his), "0 points"
throughout whatever
that may mean, recent posts nobody cares about, latest diary from February, 5-th most recent blog from last month etc etc. i
thought
there were many idiots in
this
thing,
turns out it's just a handful of derps
that meanwhile f
☟︎ mircea_popescu: he usual crap] ; it doesn't occur
to him
that while
this is
true,
the expectation
that "all
the people" are a sort of given, and polyamory must be applied
TO
them, as
they are, warts and all, as opposed
to
THEM being applied
to it,
through an extrudation process which substantially changes
THEM, as just so happens
to be
the absolute historical norm both in
theory and in practice - but hey, he needn't know
this anymore
than
th
mircea_popescu:
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/9p9/open_thread_february_114_2012/5v6g << i followed
this link off
the guy's page ;
turned out
to be exactly as worthless as expected (take
the most glaringly obvious point - he protests
that polyamory practitioners are rich powerful valuable people [which he can't confront so he has
to mangle up in
terms of skin color etc, which doesn't make him a racist because rationalism or whatever,
t mircea_popescu: ah, and obviously - fully dedicated
to "safety in
tor"
mircea_popescu: it boggles
the mind, what nonsense people can sell
themselves on, for lack of friends and anything useful
to do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's not JUST into lesswrong, wikipedia, bla bla. he's also convinced "darknet" is relevant in general,
that a bunch of inept shitheads were "a cryptoanarchist revolution" and, wonder of wonders,
that
the pill poppers had some sort of impact in bitcoin whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: i almost prefer
the vapid floozies.
to hear
these schmucks " I feel like
this post deserves a montage or a slideshow with music. So much reminiscing and joyful sadness. ", makes my skin fucking crawl.