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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
mircea_popescu: start beating your wife whether you know why or not, she's going to start behaving like lady huddington.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> so with different structure we'd get better ideas bubble up to the top? << people don't do what they want to do. people do what works.
mircea_popescu: in a world created out of catastrophic punishment and complete and utter disregard for the /other/ sections of society however,
mircea_popescu: in a world created of tailored punishment and precision strikes, the incentive is for the bullshit you see.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the problem is not the people, the problem is the structure.
mircea_popescu: you just decide "this entire culture must die out". least possible effort.
mircea_popescu: chetty but in these matters, "precision strikes" take effort. carpet bombing, on the contrary, does not.
mircea_popescu: chetty i thought we were discussing metaphorical bombs.
mircea_popescu: bounce the argument here is that "later" is meaningless absent and sort of process, and that precision strikes are a liability not a +ev move.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, the weasels plan and account for it aforehand.
mircea_popescu: i am assuming that precision strikes aren't to be preferred because punishment must be disproportionate and impredictable to work.
mircea_popescu: those /other/ sections of society have to be bled for their indolence.
mircea_popescu: so then you don't really have half a leg to stand on here, do you.
mircea_popescu: i should be so fucking lucky, walk from here to the bathroom, be ready for the olympics.
mircea_popescu: he's sat down and thought about it for a whole half minute and so therefore has a result on the topic that should be shared with the world.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu · 7s @kendo451 @kLee1977 And for that matter, #bitcoin doesn't present itself "as" anything. What you perceive it as is your own issue.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu · 33s @kendo451 @kLee1977 So your wife is limited, but women are not. Your logic isn't all that it might have been, had you learned some.
mircea_popescu: Ken Griffith @kendo451 · 5m @Mircea_Popescu @kLee1977 My wife doesn't present herself as a monetary unit. Point is, Bitcoins are limited, yet cryptocurrencies are not. Hide conversation
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu · 28m @kendo451 @kLee1977 You really have no clue wtf you're talking about. Is your wife easily copied with "women" resulting in unlimited supply?
mircea_popescu: Ken Griffith @kendo451 · 2h The primary weakness with Bitcoin as a store of value (money) is that it is easily copied with "altcoins" resulting in unlimited supply.
mircea_popescu: by heaps and outrageous bounds messier than necessary.
mircea_popescu: no dude, let it be way way way fucking messier than necessary.
mircea_popescu: bounce the idea that there is such a thing as "messiser than necessary" is how the problem started and spread.
mircea_popescu: i am fuming out of five different smokestacks for five unrelated reasons.
mircea_popescu: and the fucktarded children of the women that he didn't fuck are roaming free
mircea_popescu: what the shit, how about someone start a bdsm cartoon stating everyone is under 12 and being based on real persons who are being forced to do the things depicted.
mircea_popescu: the collapse of the western world is a fucking moral imperative by now.