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mircea_popescu: subtle my fucking foot. the ~point~ is that art can not create new forms. which is why the fuck they even did the constant copying of masters to learn arts.
mircea_popescu: "For devils have no power at all save by a certain subtle art. But an art cannot permanently produce a true form." aka "Item Dæmones non operantur nisi per artem. Sed ais non potest dare ver am formam."
mircea_popescu: now where the FUCK did they say the bit about the stars ?
mircea_popescu: (latin) Prætereà, omnis alteratio corporalis, puta circa infirmitates aut sanitates protreandas, reducitur in motum localem, patet ex 7.phys. Quovumcanque est motus c li. Sed Dæinones motu c ll variare non possunt, Dionysius in epis. ad Polycarpum. Quia hocsolius Dei est. Ergo videtur, quòd nusla mitrasmutationem ad minus veram, in corporib. causare possunt, quòd necesse sit homini transmut ationes in aliquã causam occ
mircea_popescu: herefore it is evident the demons cannot actually effect any permanent transformation in human bodies; that is to say, no real metamorphosis. And so we must refer the appearance of any such change to some dark and occult cause.
mircea_popescu: (english) Moreover, every alteration that takes place in a human body - for example, a state of health or a state of sickness - can be brought down to a question of natural causes, as Aristotle has shown in his 7th book of Physics. And the greatest of these is the influence of the stars. But the devils cannot interfere with the stars. This is the opinion of Dionysius in his epistle to S. Polycarp. For this alone God can do. T
mircea_popescu: anyway, the english translation is terrible. consider :
mircea_popescu: not even a bad argument ; kinda example of why i occasionally say scholastics' not what moderntards make it seem.
mircea_popescu: actually it even has a "zero one infinity" statement. "if demons could alter the world then what'd stop them at all"
mircea_popescu: very refreshingly medieval perspective. what's all this "i'm a producer" bs.
mircea_popescu: thieves ~are~ thieves, there's no point in "re-education" jail etc.
mircea_popescu: well, it generally rejects the possibility of change. very platonic.
mircea_popescu: approximately, "whosoever believes in self-improvement is worse than a pagan"
mircea_popescu: anyway, what i wanted to quote : "Qui credit, posse fieri aliquam creaturam, aut in melius deteriúsve transmutari, aut in aliam speciem vel similitudinem transformari, quàm abipso omnium Creatore, pagano et infideli deterior est."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile moving on : the malleus item linked has a "The source version of this text, with notes and additional material, can be found at MalleusMaleficarum.org [External Site]." except the "external site" doth not include such an item.
mircea_popescu: or maybe a coronary. even more "typically" protective, very few people with coronaries get cancer indeed!
mircea_popescu: maybe a little bit o' the clap's the best thing for ye.
mircea_popescu: cancer also tends to strike typically healthy people, did you observe that ?
mircea_popescu: "typically tallest", "typically loneliest", typically whatever. sure, observed typicallies.
mircea_popescu: if you're willing to go with "typically", you're going to also say "clouds typically look like dragons"
mircea_popescu: pugachev and zhukov, exactly same : RANDOMLY. and yes, any other one could have, these could not have, etcetera.
mircea_popescu: it's like thinking you were "targetted" for a street mugging. yes, you were, guess by what ? you were targetted as one of the schmucks who imagines they can be targetted by street muggings.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, it is strictly my position ; the clouds don't fucking aim ; nor does, nor ~CAN~ socialism aim.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, same thing fucked yehzov as the ligthning fucked tree. what, you think the clouds aim ?!
mircea_popescu: same is true for all the great heroes of socialism, whether they died in bed or in prison.
mircea_popescu: that minsky had or had not "his" "bank account" zeroed is ENTIRELY not related to minsky.
mircea_popescu: any zek can be fucked at any time ; you know this going in. attempting to ascribe fucking to activity, and especially to discrete activity items, is folly.
mircea_popescu: what do you propose killed the recently discussed yehzov, his "incorrect actions at mit" ?
mircea_popescu: except they're not problems in the way you describe them.
mircea_popescu: that it has a "university" attached instead of a "temple" is irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: and existence is predicated on intelligence, and mit never had one. it's just a humongous pile of printed dollars, the us-style equivalent of the chinese "sovereign funds".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ~existing~ things don't go away ; imaginary nuisances -- do go away.
mircea_popescu: you don't put an anti-prng in the fg. why should any of the ai people put an anti-mit or a f(mit) however defined in their behaviour ?
mircea_popescu: doing "the opposite" or "moving to garage", or anything, ANYTHING WHATSOEVER that in any way is biased by the mit is no go.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and so on. how long do i need to extend this before it catches ? ~~~NOTHING~~~ the monkeys say is interpreted. at all, in any way, to any degree, never.
mircea_popescu: they then decided sussman isn't welcome either ; eventually they had to make a new "lab", to alleviate both the problem of their pretense to sovereignity, and of the people not caring what they say
mircea_popescu: for random reasons mit decides minsky is no longer allowed in the building ; sussman gave him his key card.
mircea_popescu: mit says minksy must use the color green. minsky ignored. mit spent 500 politruk-hours to discern whether he even did what they said or not ; came up with either of these. minsky still ignored.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: other than what we've been fucking doing ? sure, why the hell not. the people involved build the thing ; when mit said some things, they ignored them altogether. give me some examples of thins mit said and i could just ignore for your edification ?
mircea_popescu: nope. they could have simply ignored anything to do with the mit itself ; and then let the mit-tards figure out ON THEIR OWN TIME what's going on.
mircea_popescu: do you eat bananas like a fucking orc, in "certain ways" that are "spiritual" according to the imaginary bananashamans ?
mircea_popescu: out of mit's gear. NOT on mit's terms. use, you understand me ? use. like a thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ignoring is ignoring, you understand, when you "retreat to garage" you aren't ignoring, you're alternatively validating.
mircea_popescu: really bitch ? the data processor was a computer ? ZI SA MORI TU\
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : "The PDP-6 (Programmed Data Processor-6) was a computer"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, phf trinque BingoBoingo ^ lemme know if issues.
mircea_popescu: web-borne noobs have a lot of trouble mentally handling sanity, what can i say.
mircea_popescu: anywya, i think ima reprint (and adnotate) the trinque -linked bolix discussion, because i fear it's so concise and the language so tense, nobody, including myself, will understand wtf was being said in a few more years.
mircea_popescu: venice, for instance, was nominally ended by napoleon, but it actually transformed beyond functionality once charles soldiers got the girls so fucking wet centuries prior.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-14#1813131 << in the specific case of czechoslovakia, they got wet because tanks in prague. now and again "science fiction" pops up containing gender-indeterminate species, which choose a gender by context, "with joe in the room i'm samantha the slut, but when moe's around i'm butch". this is EXACTLY how societies work, they are gendered by context, and sending a bunch of tanks can very well fli
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-14#1813129 << in recent trilema terms one could say it captures the moment where patriarchy gave way to matriarchy in one man's mind and coincidentally at the same time in that man's country. this is not altogether a lossy summary, and it betrays literary value in the work.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, there's an important point in stalin's life, and that is the war. he visibly matured from 1939 to 1943, 1942 even. three years, but he went from being 14 to being 25.
mircea_popescu: but he only had the space to do this because hitler was fucking inept, put the hot iron to the wound for him.\
mircea_popescu: really ? cuz i seem to recall a whole bunch of ukr ustasa groups.
mircea_popescu: "no mother, your son shouldn't die to rescrue the ukrs" very different ring to it.
mircea_popescu: yes, but only because foolishly crosssed the don. see ?
mircea_popescu: (and no, the dream of "soviet integration" is moscow-only. the russians were tribes, with the georgians about as russian as the small rus')
mircea_popescu: they will -- because they know in 1940 if they don't they'll be sitting around in 1960 worrying china might come.
mircea_popescu: well this is what's said. take ukraina, but leave russians with the caucasus, and send them to wipe china.
mircea_popescu: by the time white settlers actually followed, 90% of the locals had been shot or displaced.
mircea_popescu: anyway, point being : the great push west was mostly done by indians themselves.
mircea_popescu: you figure the average indian tribe was possessed enough to ~WASTE~ however many galon's worth of whiskey to get a rifle ? no way no how.
mircea_popescu: i get it, jews are inadherent to history. nevertheless -- indians were part of "alliances" among western powers regularly.
mircea_popescu: really ? how do you think sioux got horses and rifles ?
mircea_popescu: in the end, this is the only military strategy that EVER worked ; it is how alexander conquered "the world" to the degree of having cesar weep on his tomb ; it's how the mongol horde worked, it's how the "shocking" ottoman empire worked, it's how war works when it does.