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mircea_popescu: the only measure of success is, "is this species still extant or meanwhile extinguished"
mircea_popescu: the socialite uses up money to make whatever the fuck you'd call it.
mircea_popescu: maybe we're disagreeing on the point where you cut the space of externalities ideologically and pretend like it ain't so.
mircea_popescu: so if i spend capital to buy advertising im a bad businessman ?
mircea_popescu: or in romanian, "cistigi, pagubesti, negustor te numesti"
mircea_popescu: if she's spending her own money to buy something, who are you to know better ? as long as she can keep doing it she's a businessman just like you.
mircea_popescu: all economy is pouring fluid from one vessel to the next.
mircea_popescu: you can also know things, and you can also fuck really well. that just about covers human experience.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard but business is doing things, no other definition really works.
mircea_popescu: course from what i hear they've been skimping on the catering.
mircea_popescu: and whcd is just a little pork, take all these famished kids and serve them a proper meal once a year is the idea.
mircea_popescu: if you're validated for your peers for what you do, that's business success.
mircea_popescu: she's a pretty girl, she's ambitious, she's for some reason chosen to fuck herself over the mocsny way.
mircea_popescu: what is this thing with youths where they want to pretend like they're doing shit.
mircea_popescu: anymore than i'd hold anything jezebel publishes against "hot college sluts"
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard i wouldn't hold anything bloomberg says against the "financial elite".
mircea_popescu: nautilus coin guy needs to learn to play an instrument.
mircea_popescu: black victory was predictable just looking at greenwich village cca 1960.
mircea_popescu: in general you can evaluate who's going to win a battle just by looking at piperquality.
mircea_popescu: you sound like you went to school for this or something.
mircea_popescu: princessnell: o endogeneity. hookers/porn/sexbots lower cost for men of lacking power. good for high power males, high time preference women. negative externality for most others. increases pressure for neotenized males, masculinized females. <<< precisely.
mircea_popescu: "as a creator of a google, I know what made google successful!"
mircea_popescu: "But what made Google successful as the world’s preferred search engine was not great “community” or shibe memes or aggressive marketing on Twitter." << orly.
mircea_popescu: i get more for .1 a tit for crying out loud. wasn't the usg supposed to be like rich and powerful and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: one'd hope teh us propaganda drive to support their braindamage will collect better heads than the twinkletoss twins and nautilus coin guy.
mircea_popescu: princessnell: As the creator of a digital currency, I..." << derp's never ending quest for relevancy.
mircea_popescu: but yes, i daresay that i'd still chat up women in the andes. wtf do i care about survival anyway.
mircea_popescu: i know a few women i'm kinda tempted to eat with some regularity.
mircea_popescu: as the weirdo ages and frustration builds, this distinction becomes less readily accessible. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: which is really where the problem starts. overactive sex drive makes kids misrepresent the facts of the matter : it's true that women make for convenient release, but it's not true that's what women ARE.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it also doesn't ship with any particular rule as to how it is to be employed or manifested.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones there's this derpitude tradition where noobs claim firstbiggest first to be one day biggest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think there's a space between arguing that nobody should bang head against wall and arguing everyone should be god.
mircea_popescu: why not just relax and enjoy the fact that you CAN chat up women.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i tell ye, if i perceived i HAD TO chat up women i'd be a fucking homicidal maniac, notwithstanding amazing success rates. even if i never left my own harem and so my success rate was forever 100%.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing more pernicious to the mind than its ability to construct self coherent if spectacularly wrong representations.
mircea_popescu: "I don't think an average man can pursue women effectively if he is primarily thinking about how good sex will feel when he gets it. That just isn't the right mindset when a man has to chat up dozens of women before he finds one with whom sex is a reasonable possibility." holy shit, with what woman is sex not a reasonable possibility ?!
mircea_popescu: "By the first time I had "sex" (depending on how you define it, since I took things in stages) I had already endured years of frustration and humiliation of an intensity that I don't think I can properly put into words." a ok.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in short, it's not just the poor man's idea of what being rich is like that's wrong.
mircea_popescu: if sex robots were widely available today, i'd prolly still not use them. (for that matter, indiancandy is a sex robot, not terribly expensive - a good server costs more than what she would)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't see that as an argument at all. just... you know, drool.
mircea_popescu: consider, "sex robots so poor guys can have the same shit as rich guys" ?!
mircea_popescu: those usually look like a raccoon trying to fight a truck.
mircea_popescu: there are very few fields where women / men competition doesn't look like a squirrel trying to fight a raccoon.
mircea_popescu: what is this guy, nuts ? who and why would want to see mixed gender sprint.
mircea_popescu: f women's sports, the greatest affirmative action program in existence (a woman can win a gold medal at the Olympics despite a performance that might not even qualify her for the men's event---but despite her inferior performance she wins the same medal as the men's winner)."
mircea_popescu: "The sporting press is awash in liberal themes these days: the "underrepresentation" of African-American head coaches in professional football (nobody seems to object to the astounding overrepresentation of African-American players); the terrible injustice of private golf clubs refusing to accept women as members (funny, it's not a problem if Lady Victory Fitness Centers exclude men); and of course the whole business o
mircea_popescu: 140 won't cut it. they need like 8bn names for diabethes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda poorly researched tho you know ? the 5mn domain names that were finally abandoned recently were a failed exercise in exactly this
mircea_popescu: about on par with toyota naming their prius replacement Toyota Pizda.
mircea_popescu: indian cooking pronz. "oya baby, put it on the cumin side."