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mircea_popescu: for instance by producing ready resources (cash flow, but not just) in disproportion to your actual effort
mircea_popescu: you'd have to be an idiot to structure your business (and especially mistress!) so that you tend to them.
mircea_popescu: ng committee meetings. Why would he agree to do it? Why wouldn't he rather be playing squash, riding a horse, flying an aircraft, walking his dog, etc.?" The distressing possibility that the oldster agreed to be on the committee so that he would have a venue in which people would listen to him does not occur to the youngster.
mircea_popescu: Part of the answer may be that young people fail to appreciate the risk that they will become more like old people when they are old. The young person sees the old tenured academic, ignored by his younger colleagues in a culture that values hot new ideas, sign up to be on committees. The youngster never asks "This oldster has tenure. He draws the same salary regardless of whether he sits through those interminable bori
mircea_popescu: not that they're hard to crush individually, but there's a fucking pipe of them.
mircea_popescu: i've had it up to here with in-their-mind slick fucks trying to turn bitcoin into some sort of corporate sales management device.
mircea_popescu: "This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs."
mircea_popescu: now you telling me there's no difference you see here ?
mircea_popescu: suppose there's a guy with no profession. he loiters a while in new york but eventually all the beat cops know him so he goes to oregon
mircea_popescu: here's the difference : suppose a guy is a carpenter, and he goes to new york. there's no jobs there, so he goes to oregon and makes himself a cabin.
mircea_popescu: but in the sense of accident "i'd have been to busy to hear of bitcoin" or in the sense of stupidity ?
mircea_popescu: what are we supposed to do, erect columbia's statue on riker's island over here ?!
mircea_popescu: why is it that bitcoin attracts all the weirdos and assorted cruft refused everywhere
mircea_popescu: Neuropathy is unpredictable. One minute I am doing fine, the next my face aches, tinnitus (motor in my ear), then suddenly my abdomen, then feet, then can't swallow and have a "fear of imminent suffocation" anxiety attack, feeling that my stomach wants to exit my body, etc.."
mircea_popescu: pheral neuropathy auto-immune condition caused by an incurable STD which is also morphing into neuropathy every where not just peripheral and causes me chronic fatigue syndrome which causes frequent deliriousness+pain which makes it easier for me to write in a forum than to do the more intellectually sharp+focused work of actual programming... I only get opportunities to program depending on my body maybe every few day
mircea_popescu: "Yeah I am just messing with your minds and have no actual technical ability. But maybe someone does who is reading my points and maybe they will do something. I am hoping. You see I don't really care how we get the solution, as long as we get one. I am not the young productive programmer that I once was with two good eyes (not very productive since losing one eye and acquiring an apparently progressive, incurable peri
mircea_popescu: (of course, the guy was ignored. by the sec and everyone else on the fiat-forums)
mircea_popescu: anyway, check out benkay ascetically depriving himself of internet lulz.
mircea_popescu: i wanted the obituary to read "at least he had his bodyguard with him" but people thought it's too soon.
mircea_popescu: eventually he died, in a car crash, rushing home tired etc.
mircea_popescu: he hated being driven around, so his car arrangement consisted of him driving two people about, who had nothing to do.
mircea_popescu: eventually he got an electyed position, which gave him a driver.
mircea_popescu: i had a friend. he was a touch paranoid, so he ended up carrying a bodyguard with him everywhere, in spite of living in a controlled town
mircea_popescu: i hate greenspun for having deleted his original discussion of his adventures with "expert vcs"
mircea_popescu: basically the chinese ran all the middle ages on a sort of govt-sponsored us university program
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform vaugely reminiscent of all the chinese administrative reorganisations
mircea_popescu: "we are adding the TRUE value to everything through teh social media"
mircea_popescu: decimation indefinitely extensible. "be able to also design the battery"
mircea_popescu: see, if the context is, "be able to power bulb with battery on request or spend the next month poledancing in mumbai"
mircea_popescu: "we are the premier engineer and science institution in teh werld"
mircea_popescu: he couldn'rt force them to work webcams naked for a month is the worst part.
mircea_popescu: afaik actualy us-citizen ee's vs total ee's have a worse salary problem than women/men in non-government, actually productive jobs do.
mircea_popescu: but it can't turn 100mn ghetto kids into more than 300k passible ee's
mircea_popescu: and talk among each other about how "putin is living in a different world"
mircea_popescu: but there's going to be a corner somehwere the retarded kids gather
mircea_popescu: stuffing hands in ears and yelling works "indefinitely".
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the concept of invincible ignorance ?
mircea_popescu: decimation asciilifeform also point out that even a broom shoots once.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform freer people would make home candy in the pattern and distribute it to neighbourhood kids.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nn, "expert systems" and other prime snake oil has long been the substance used to maks government graft.
mircea_popescu: bounce the thing is, evolution algo looks for fine little hairs on things. bad rng adds hairs of its own. it's as if you'd be having two species fighting it out. often enough the one you're interested in gets overwhelmed
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the guys are retards of prime order, which is why i quoted it.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu RT @ArdenEliz The Future of Self-Satisfaction, Part I: Girth Is More Important Than ta Length (link)
mircea_popescu: Arden Elizabeth @ArdenEliz The Future of Self-Improvement, Part I: Grit Is More Important Than Talent (link)