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mircea_popescu: midnightmagic only in uncontrolled environments. in controlled environments, fear is a motivator exactly for education.
mircea_popescu: you then run studies showing that A2 responds better than A1
mircea_popescu: basically you're externalising a cost. when "kids get beaten" subset A1 gets actually beaten and subset A2 learns from their experience.
mircea_popescu: much like the us nuclear weapons, which the us refuses to declare will never be used.
mircea_popescu: problem is the entire system collapses once kids know nobody can ever get beaten.
mircea_popescu: because the group that responds to the former well is SELF SELECTED.
mircea_popescu: the same pseudoscientific process created both notions.
mircea_popescu: but it is over prescrived on the basis of " virtually all infant and child development research"
mircea_popescu: well, either that or magically all kids suddenly need ritalin.
mircea_popescu: it's about as good as us epidemiological data, that crap.
mircea_popescu: virtually all data fugded by post 1950 us pseudoscience on the topic says random stupid shit.
mircea_popescu: children have to be beaten systematically, in which case most don't actually even need pyshical contact.
mircea_popescu: some random drunk randomly hitting some kid is absolutely not within the scope of this discussion.
mircea_popescu: but as an exercise : consider whether you're randomly lumping together beating children with simple abuse, as a sort of strawman argument.
mircea_popescu: we can move on to discussing how temperatures form a golf club pattern next
mircea_popescu: no, actually, there is an endless record of evidence that it does. what there's no evidence for is that not beating them is sustainable.
mircea_popescu: which is why society naturally segregates. it's not that the upper class hates the lower class. it's just that the lower class... stinks.
mircea_popescu: and so you understand both why you had to be beaten, and why you'll be beating the shit off your kids, too. so they don't end up like the retarded us scum.
mircea_popescu: so it's habit, but it's also that once you know things, stupidity appears quite different from how it appears back when you don't know things.
mircea_popescu: "whoever loves you loves you as you are" and all that.
mircea_popescu: but if you're used to your smell being filthy, you'll just keep on doing that because... whatever.
mircea_popescu: B007 yes, it will continue. not even strictly of habit, as chetty says. take washing : once you get used to your smell when you're clean, you're not likely to stop washing.
mircea_popescu: hey D : someone over there ain't doing their job of reading properly.
mircea_popescu: you can make people do absolutely anything they should be doing, provided you're comitted to beating them to death if they do not, and start before they're 5.
mircea_popescu: further proof that teaching kids to read and write is not either sufficient or particularly related to literacy.
mircea_popescu: that is oral culture at its finest. this guy is not part of contemporaneity, or even modernity. he finds himself in a roughly feudal time. back before literacy.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dunno where you get the "civil proceedings" notions from.
mircea_popescu: if someone ends up disbared over pirate's dumb ass that'll be the lol of all time.
mircea_popescu: "like, i know my wife's husband and he happens to be me"
mircea_popescu: well ok, but "i know" means i know some not i know all in this context neh ?
mircea_popescu: so basically all the aurora crap ACTUALLY WAS strictly intended to win the bitbet bet.
mircea_popescu: anyway this shit is pretty epic, it wasn't that zeek rewards went under, it's just that he can't remember who had 200k btc
mircea_popescu: and i don't think reeses_ is even paying attention anymore.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i just went through the list of names there, which remarkably i had pretty accurate to begin with. crossing out the outright liars, like psychological compulsive sort, and the idiots, you're left with maybe 2-3 names
mircea_popescu: if you note, i said "full length treatment, with notes"
mircea_popescu: seeing how rthis topic is bitcoin, it kind-of trumps any other topic, even if some other topic may offer the illusion of importance.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin the usual benefit. a furthering of human knowledge on a topic.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo for this purpose publishing beats signing.
mircea_popescu: if that does happen, this write-up will be a great thing to have.
mircea_popescu: what, you think i just sprout this shit randomly cause i'm bored on irc
mircea_popescu: copumpkin you're in a very good position because you have the skill and the experience.
mircea_popescu: how about you make a full length treatment of the whole thing, with notes ?
mircea_popescu: which says, don't mess with the stupid, his brain's well rested.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin no, not for both of them. romanian expression is "nu te pune cu prostu' c-are mintea odihnita"
mircea_popescu: it's like you sign up to be a chiropractor, and you end up sent to practice in the loony bin
mircea_popescu: "Pirate: And when I find that information, I will give you the updated information and show you that this was not a Ponzi scam. Just give me time. I promise you."
mircea_popescu: B007 i have cars, sometimes. i had dozens at some point. i jus' don't drive.
mircea_popescu: and if they were taken seriously they'd be just... you know, off to soylent plant
mircea_popescu: e/nasizm thing as some suggest. it's simply that most defendants are too stupid to live
mircea_popescu: this is really the reason prosecutions are so successful in the us. it's not really some sort of nefarious police stat
mircea_popescu: (ie, there's an absolute lowest limit a judge'll allow for self-critting idiocy, otherwise anyone from the inner cities would be doing >9k years)
mircea_popescu: well actually... i think in his case the meth defense cuts in
mircea_popescu: actually... he only came up with chaang noi after his 6 months of laying low for the bst to blow over.