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mircea_popescu: 50%+1 of the population would do fine in "life", if only life was... the story of rapunzel.
mircea_popescu: so... the lower class brain is now... adapted to this counterfactual reality.
mircea_popescu: it happens to heroines mostly, once they take the cock, usually.
mircea_popescu: this "happiness horizon" when "everything would just fall into place in every aspect of my lyf" is a very old very common fiction trope
mircea_popescu: in fiction, there's a scenario and a director, and they conspire to alter reality a certain way.
mircea_popescu: these days most of the brains input for the lower classes is fiction, ie, entertainment.
mircea_popescu: these are very different, even if cyberneticists keep wanting to represent the brain as a computor.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the problem is fucking deeper than that. see, the brain is not made to work, it's made to adapt.
mircea_popescu: "Gabbie Brown @Gabbiebrown · 5h Wishing that everything would just fall into place in every aspect of my life." << check it out, i'm following the only unique snowflake of brilliant potence on twitter. nyah.
mircea_popescu: skinnkavaj no, because you eschew the actual discussion in favour of ridoinkulous formalisms.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what's the 8ball say about when will the last noob try badgering you about nonsense ?
mircea_popescu: in small enough qty, filth is actually helpful for the healthy body
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess the one true gain from this discussion is a lesson as to how downing people may be bad for debate and the marketplace of ideas.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate gribble 1 possibly the best fake-BTC-stock analyst out there.
mircea_popescu: which is why i don't get my fuck-obama-daughters-vlog.
mircea_popescu: he has this "i do not see" device from socialist training in what passes for education these days, and he knows he's supposed to apply it selectively,
mircea_popescu: he further does not see why what gribble says should be controlling.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony he doesn't see why gribble should have said that.
mircea_popescu: "Leading toilet maker Toto refers to itself as the Apple of toilet tech." mwahaha
mircea_popescu: the latter can probably be identified by how they keep crashing into poles.
mircea_popescu: i am coming to this theory that there are two types of people in the world : the ones whose brain is a train engine, and the ones whose brain is a combustion engine. the former can be readily ideintified by the fact that their mental processes move on tracks, no matter the engine's horsepower.
mircea_popescu: what could you possibly offer them that'd make them care.
mircea_popescu: more's the point, if they doi produce the best batch on the market again, why would they want to split the proceeds with you ?
mircea_popescu: yes well, the point being that we sometimes get what we want, and sometimes don't get what we want.
mircea_popescu: im thinking of opening a vlog and i think that'd be a great first episode.
mircea_popescu: hey skinnkavaj do you see any reason i couldn't fuck michelle obama's daughters on film ?
mircea_popescu: moving your virtual office from us to uk to avoid the impending doom is also not NORMAL
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: it could be pending i guess << wait, pending for two years ? heh.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that afaik friedcat was in no sense an engineer, just a pr for a team, and also afaik she said so mul;tiple times.
mircea_popescu: skinnkavaj on the strength of that answer i humbly submit that perhaps you did not actually read the link.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: lead in with the published ones and then veer off investigatory journalizt style << yeah, but then they'll be "offended" and not answer anyway
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: so they can prepare bullshit nonanswers? << once you sent the q's privately, they can already do that.
mircea_popescu: what's this "buy stocks when everyone is selling them" strat netted you so far ?
mircea_popescu: skinnkavaj do you have your portofolio published somewhere ? so we can all lol ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Apparently I am a member of the BTCFundnation after all <<< ahahaha epic
mircea_popescu: "It can classified us a Market player with higher audience as the others, and we understand that some jealous people do not see this with many pleasure." <<< o you log, that has such marvels & many pleasure in it!
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: "Ken what is your 3 month plan" << i wonder if that counts as mid term or long term.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they were actually sort-of trying to get the mechanical calculator going
mircea_popescu: decimation btw, wasn't von rossum working with rice now ?
mircea_popescu: decimation i'm just glad im not the only one aware of the damned thing.
mircea_popescu: decimation> 5 years later no one has jumped << wait, the core devs of python, nobody gave a shit about them ?!
mircea_popescu: so in the end, this great experiment where congress is in the business of pork, the administration is into masturbation and the country is run by laws not men
mircea_popescu: no i mean, yes, but that was way back when it still worked sort-of
mircea_popescu: <decimation> what's interesting is that the DoD wanted to push the industry to open cooperation in the 80's. << this is very true. perhaps the last govt push for sanity in any field.
mircea_popescu: dude, book me already. i have > 500 books i never had the time to read.