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mircea_popescu: if it's the kneejerk "not usg diddled" then might as well discard it.
mircea_popescu: bounce im not sure you have a usable definition of subjective in mind.
mircea_popescu: two hours ago i said i suspect i'm weeks away from a major breakthrough in economics.
mircea_popescu: understanding rather than esteem. the people you've dealt with are marks you may be recognised by.
mircea_popescu: god'd like to. but tis impossible, inasmuch as the devil is human, and god is not that good.
mircea_popescu: if god actually knew every thought of the devil, he'd have not been surprised.
mircea_popescu: the criteria is good wot relations, not "knowing their every thought"
mircea_popescu: nobody requires to know his every move or thought in any sense.
mircea_popescu: because someone somewhere in a bureaucracy figured it's a good idea to fucking industrialise research.
mircea_popescu: "Now academics learn to take a paper or a class of papers, imitate the style, the organization; copy the phraseology, discuss the historical literature and find some wrinkle on the problem that makes it look like a contribution. This is what tends to be published, and this is what seems to be "original". And these works never survive the author."
mircea_popescu: conversely, misplaced shards of personhood ruin anonimity. such as w/e, silk road guy.
mircea_popescu: bounce actually, misplaced shards of anonimity ruin personhood. which is why i keep having to ask derps posing as ceos here "who's we".
mircea_popescu: there's no serious consideration of an oil-alcohol mixture being "storng enough", as you won't drink vodka-canoia oil cocktails
mircea_popescu: now, this does not reduce to "liquor being strong ENOUGH"
mircea_popescu: conversely, good cogicity, just like good personhood, relies on not being a sphere. at all.
mircea_popescu: good anonimity, just like good sphericity, relies on not being a cog. at all.
mircea_popescu: let's try a different tack. you know what a cog is. you also know what a sphere is.
mircea_popescu: yardstick is a matter of measuring, and thus relegated to quantitative discussions. we're discussing qualitative matters here.
mircea_popescu: bounce fun fact... that yielded romanian prosop, which means... towel.
mircea_popescu: davout everythint that matters is only what COULD BE HAD knowledge of.
mircea_popescu: perhaps an excusable approximation in some narrow cases, but wrong in principle.
mircea_popescu: speaking of "different" derps is like speaking of photons as billiard balls.
mircea_popescu: because the undistinguishable can't ever matter, by definition.
mircea_popescu: which reduces to "someone who could, in principle, matter"
mircea_popescu: bounce it merely means "someone who can be distinguished from the others"
mircea_popescu: so yes, animals they can be. people however, they can not be, unless recognised.
mircea_popescu: you can be bios, but you can not be zoon unrecognised.
mircea_popescu: davout your ability to distinguish derps is however central to their ability to exist.
mircea_popescu: "A 43-year-old programmer who helped set in motion a class-action lawsuit against the companies and became one of its five class representatives will not be present in the San Jose courtroom. He was shot and killed by the police last December."
mircea_popescu: after it becomes transparent to you, it already broke that anonimity.
mircea_popescu: unless and untill this becomes transpared to you it is immaterial.
mircea_popescu: but what happens inside the pet rock is uninteresting in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: to personalize they need to de-jehova-witnessize for you, before you.
mircea_popescu: for all you know pet rocks have distinct personalities.
mircea_popescu: davout the fact that the person "deep down" "twu wuvs" you is immaterial.
mircea_popescu: the opinion of derp1 is exactly equal to the opinion of derp2 inasmuch as we don't know anything about 'em.
mircea_popescu: this entire shit is backwards. views, which are not fungible, people pretend are in fact fungible. then anons, which are absolutely fungible, people pretend like are not. apparently the web is quite counterintuitive.
mircea_popescu: curious to see how you'll argue cluster4 is not fungible with cluster3 or derpymcherp or w/e.
mircea_popescu: stupid enough to not realise he can't have a "my" as nobody, clueless enough to fail to distinguish a verb from a possessive. this is reddit.
mircea_popescu: davout ne confondre pas anonimite e pseudonimite, i say!
mircea_popescu: davout no idea how you can piss with teh girl handling your balls.
mircea_popescu: people have a lot of difficulty groking that if you're anonymous... there is no property.
mircea_popescu: "my prediction is". da fguck is this shit, "cluster4" is now making "my prediction" ?
mircea_popescu: here's a funny story : bar where we watered saturday night, had an advertising above the urinal. on that advertising, aqr code.
mircea_popescu: " QR codes have been around and hyped for years, but they were never used as much as developers and marketing people hoped." << truth.
mircea_popescu: "Margo I have lived in the theatre as a Trappist monk lives in his faith"
mircea_popescu: Members across three generations: P.L. Chebyshev, A.A. Markov, A.M. Lyapunov, S.N. Bernshtein (ie. Bernstein), E.E. Slutskii, N.V. Smirnov, L.N. Bol'shev, V.I. Romanovskii, A.N. Kolmogorov,Yu.V. Linnik, and the new generation: V Petrov, S.V. Nagaev, A.V. Nagaev, A. Shyrayev, etc.
mircea_popescu: I would like to record here (so people get off my back) that I do not belong to the so-called "Austrian School" of economics, in spite of a few similar positions on bailouts and bottom-up systems. I believe in mathematical statements. But if I were to belong to a school of thought designated by a nationality, the {NATIONALITY} SCHOOL of {DISCIPLINE} it would be the Russian school of probability.
mircea_popescu: but eventually they checked the airline and he was there so. disaster averte
mircea_popescu: so they fetch her and she's completely dumbfounded... guy came, witgh his bags, checked out and left. how is she to know he's not to be allowed to leave ?!
mircea_popescu: so you know, i go there like a fucking ride of valkiries screaming all the way from like outside, WHO DUN IT!
mircea_popescu: she calls me in a total panic, cause well... he's gone ?! and she suspects the idiot receptionist kicked him out maybne ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c threw me for a fucking loop. cause afaik he was leaving tomorrow, right ? so i had secretary call hotel front desk to sert up lunch, cause i figured... we can do lunch