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mircea_popescu: the empire wanted (correctly) its sovereignity invested properly
mircea_popescu: and then, kinda is constantly scared by and trying to escape his own creations
mircea_popescu: somehow ends up in the laboratory of power, obviously he pushes that ftizic trotsky aside. why not ?
mircea_popescu: the mental model for stalin is roughly speaking a 15 yo country boy.
mircea_popescu: the man was not grand in any sense. he was merelysimple.
mircea_popescu: all extant ones that i know of are written by dumbstruck idiots who think the man was somehow grand
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform someone needs to write an actual biography of stalin sometime.
mircea_popescu: in general, in pursuit of an idea the bone gets picked rather closely of meat.
mircea_popescu: chetty well what, you expect to make omlette without breaking out some soviets ?
mircea_popescu: problem is, even if you put obama on the glory chair, he might not be able to remember who the fuck was in his cabinet
mircea_popescu: which is really not hard to do, take everyone that was involved in any manner in the government of an european or north american country past 1940
mircea_popescu: feeding the christians to the lions was perhaps insufficient, but nevertheless in the right vein.
mircea_popescu: how do you say fascists in russian, except to denote not the folk that derped with hitler but the folk that dared propose the solutions to human problems are to be expected from groups rather than individuals ? and in english.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the gulag shall be quite public. webcams everywhere, with ample explanation as to what the criminal did.
mircea_popescu: the actual risk is that they're getting rounded up and sent to extermination labour camps.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i only fuck whores anyway. they're no longer fertile on the grounds of all the countless abortions back when they were 16.
mircea_popescu: i'd be stuck getting back to this blogpost which is already too big anyway
mircea_popescu: which i suppose is a very good formalisation of what i mean by "not analysable" : imagine a set of numbers which includes an order property, but excludes the highest and lowest member in any subset.
mircea_popescu: basically, this is a magical set that never includes its margins
mircea_popescu: right. which were never part of the discussion of the ideal temperature anyway
mircea_popescu: this is part of the non-differentiability, it does not contain its degenerate cases.
mircea_popescu: i suppose that's a much better statement than "merit isn't a thing"
mircea_popescu: the domains are not discrete ; the functions defined on them are not monotonous nor even differentiable.
mircea_popescu: isn't this the probabilistic thing that finds the shortest path going through one city or we ?
mircea_popescu: merit only exists in a measuring context. the choice of a measuring context is political.
mircea_popescu: so a bunch of spanish peasants burnt down mexico city.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla afaik he was some neighbour of gigavps' or some shit
mircea_popescu: hm, 16 core cpus are cool just because you get to watch the colored lines if you feel like it
mircea_popescu remembers when people were pissed off at hashking on the forum for stealing all their bitcoinz, and some forumer said he sounds like he's 14 and he sarcastically said o no he's 15. formonths afterwards ppl were like 15 yo stole our monyz!!11 in all seriousness.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i was actually offered a consulting gig at a local credit union because of my wot rating << tru story ?
mircea_popescu: <chetty> having a gpg key and a wot rating is elite? who knew << damn straight.,
mircea_popescu: <FabianB> <+mircea_popescu> FabianB this shit is so damned cool but why doesn't it work!!11 <-- i guess i should ask kakobrekla to include empyex in the list of voiced bots << o ya kako please add empy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and there'll be plenty of folks ready to help << clearly.
mircea_popescu: it did all this before. better, even, arguably, since still no man was yet as rich as crassus.
mircea_popescu: (napoleon's "general's baton" bs is nothing but the reimplementation of the gracchi's reforms, 20 centuries prior)
mircea_popescu: such a thing kills everyone else, but it just goes to sleep and comes out virgin and 16 again.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile europe is going in it's second syphilitic-whore-with-a-gram-a-day-habit
mircea_popescu: as a six year old boy he's gonna be your father regardless.
mircea_popescu: whether your father is a scientist or a drunk, or both,
mircea_popescu: it's not voltaire, it's the french retard club, montaigne, saint simon, rousseau etc.
mircea_popescu: the problem is that russia never was and likely never will be actually up to the task.
mircea_popescu: turned by1950 into a quite paranoid "we'll never be safe ever unelss we control it all" is equally sensible in context
mircea_popescu: that the 1800s quaint concepts of the superiority of the west, naive faith in the benevolence of the european man, and his general humanity, all that germanophillia etc
mircea_popescu: that on the 2nd pass they eventually had enough and followed is reasonably understandable.