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mircea_popescu: <bitcoinpete> "A new entrant doesn't need permission before he can compete with established players" << other than coming to -assets? << i kinda love how they hint but won't come out and say it.
mircea_popescu: if he can then why isn't he. your average scammer, he can make ipo-type noises, can't he ?
mircea_popescu: it is uninteresting and unimportant what the helots thought of lacedemonia
mircea_popescu: the rest is not wrongfully discarded, and it's not even merely discarded : it is *properly* discarded.
mircea_popescu: but taking every nobody seriously is the recipe for complete and utter failure.
mircea_popescu: every particle, you must take seriously, as if it were the entire fucking world, and one particle is enough to disprove an entire theory, in physics. sure.
mircea_popescu: bias here is exactly contrarily : taking random joe blow seriously as if he were a human being.
mircea_popescu: and aspiring scientists are always taken aback. "how can he say this!11"
mircea_popescu: what's the first thing i say here ? "who the fuck are you and what makes you think you have something to say".
mircea_popescu: bias in philosophy doesn't work like bias works in physics.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if us bureaucracy today were about on par professionally with the roman bureaucracy in the times of nero, way past the expiration date of that state, ron paul would have an epiphany and would be introducing bills for giving lincoln posthumous honors.
mircea_popescu: ah. well when you try to discard a metric shitton of experimental data on the grounds that you can't read it...
mircea_popescu: no, just, physicists actually work at their actual profession.
mircea_popescu: you're not very good at experiment content. nature is nature. what, quarks are very good at experiment content ?
mircea_popescu: what, you think people haven't lived together before ? they have, but their recorded experience is lost to you. this isn't their problem. it's yours.
mircea_popescu: you try this, seriously, make new york work without electricity for a year.
mircea_popescu: and they ran it. without electricity. without the combustion engine. without refrigeration, or pumps.
mircea_popescu: consider this simple point : rome was, for a millenium and change, a larger town than the majority of us towns ever were or ever will be.
mircea_popescu: so you can't even speak latin to the barristers these days, then they wonder why the republic is in shambles.
mircea_popescu: but afaik this is the first instance of irony-the-meme
mircea_popescu: anyway. individual use is certainly earlier, shakespeare et all, and probably existed during the romans but i just don't know of it.
mircea_popescu: de Baskerville, devoid of any faith but roughly interestred in the paraphenalia such as the libraries would say such things
mircea_popescu: well let me be a pompous ass all the way then. "for my sins" is perhaps the oldest, and thus original ironic use of a phrase. at the time four centuries ago religious sentiment was still both strong and strongly in control. people like
mircea_popescu: bounce something hinders you from reviewing the historical record ? other than, of course, the dictionary problem i've just re-re-rediscovered, for my sins ;/
mircea_popescu: in another decade it will be impossible to even talk to the children.
mircea_popescu: in·quir·ing /inˈkwīriNG,iNG-/ adjective: inquiring showing an interest in learning new things. "an open, inquiring mind"
mircea_popescu: inquiring means that which has the quality or the form of asking a question
mircea_popescu: (shove it, ie, well if you like it so much and wanna apply it to everything why aren't you doing THAT with it too)
mircea_popescu: goethe has a coupla aphorisms on the topic as well if memory serves
mircea_popescu: punkman kind-of an obvious sidepoint i guess, even kant has some pages about how stupid this is.
mircea_popescu: becuase that's what i think of you, approaching politics wholly ignorant of politics, with an expectation that your voltmeter may do something.
mircea_popescu: what'd you think of a shaman coming to do architecture with his shamanistic beliefs ?
mircea_popescu: bounce that is your flaw, and the flaw of the society you live in generally. you reflect each other. the problem is that "precision strikes" as you call the category work amazingly well in technology. as the most technologically successful group of people ever, contemporary whites have come to worship it.
mircea_popescu: "crassus ipo. as the richest man in all the history of the roman empire, and perhaps the world, definitely i can repay you"
mircea_popescu: punkman it occurs to me, someone should make an ipo as a pretend-historical character.
mircea_popescu: lmao the forum just keeps getting better and better, in the sense of worse.
mircea_popescu: know the idea before others (with this you can also steal it and make your own business before i), also you will get a percentage of "first believer shares" that would be redeemed for final ipo shares and will give you the right to vote if the company success."
mircea_popescu: I am making an ipo for an ipo ( yep need to raise funds even to show you the "business plan", in those days i need to eat too) so, with the funds raised i will start thinking how can i make a good company, you will have preference spot in the share selling of that company and upcoming ipo. Lets say if you are the top owner share of this ipo,you would be able to buy the next ipo shares 4 days earlier than others and to
mircea_popescu: "Hey all!, after seeing some topic in this section i have taken the liberty to share my idea with you.
mircea_popescu: bounce well you failed because if we knew which was the pretend part in advance and universally we'd break godel.
mircea_popescu: but yes, i'm with chetty : stop pretend-fixing things, and also undo most of the fixes already in place. they're broken.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> huh. and so universities are our premier stores of idiots? << well yes. surpriserd ?
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would you do anything other than because it's supposed to fix something.
mircea_popescu: because principles can now be things, apparently, you've found a way.
mircea_popescu: just like, you know, your govt that supports rather than manipulats people.
mircea_popescu: i want my tits colored IN PRINCIPLE, not any particular color.
mircea_popescu: bounce and i want a pair of colored tits. not any particular color, mind you, just colored in principle.
mircea_popescu: two kinds of nerds : those virgin yet and those virgin still.
mircea_popescu: it's nonsense outright and in principle this. what precision ? you can't even distinguish.
mircea_popescu: they're just you know, waiting for it to become possible.
mircea_popescu: politicos, just like bitcoin ceos, just like anyone else, would really do great things, "were it possible".
mircea_popescu: bounce obviously nobody fucks up deliberately. people fuck up with the best of intentions.
mircea_popescu: the innocents exist, as a category, for the slaughter.
mircea_popescu: bounce yes. their hope is simply this : that people like you stop believing there's any value in saving the innocents.
mircea_popescu: politicos are wrongly connected, which makes them worse off than were they poorly connected.
mircea_popescu: this is a subtler point, but probably the best way in is through considering the "nothing sinks a good startup as well as bad revenue early on" observation
mircea_popescu: also, the politicos are arguably the least well connected of anyone.
mircea_popescu: the chick with the close her eyes and think of england