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mircea_popescu: i get that you're very emotionally invested in this "master of all i survey" nonsense, but that's not how reality works.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr no, it just sounds like you still have issues listening.
mircea_popescu: if we had the luxury of discarding anything of reality that doesn't conveniently fit with our theoreitcal system, we wouldn't for instance be stuckl with quantum mechanics.
mircea_popescu: you're supposed to listen to it. there's a fucking difference.
mircea_popescu: next time, listen. it's not like it's coming out of my pocket if you don't, you know ?
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of things you didn't know. but the fact that i said mtgox is going down, you knew.
mircea_popescu: because you'd still have 70% of your savings, that's why.
mircea_popescu: o look at that, Luke-Jr needs to learn to listen to mp.
mircea_popescu: decimation: So apparently MP thinks the whole thing was an insider scam run mostly be Vessenes. << if by "thing" you mean "Bitcoin Foundation", then yes.
mircea_popescu: you know that's possibly the least efficient way to buy sex, do you
mircea_popescu: lmao who the fuck bothers banning people on deadman's chat
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo midnightmagic is an old time miner with a very naive set of strongly held notions.
mircea_popescu: generally the objects of the abject populace's fixations end up quite... jesus-ied.
mircea_popescu: gee whiz, look at all the people i want to talk to, and i have barely just woken up.
mircea_popescu: like the russki MMM, or romania's caritas (or later fni), or albania's rebellion of 1997 ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: diametric: the latest trend is that Mark is under a gag order << you happen to be familiar with the trials and tribulations of the public opinion during any of the large eastern european ponzi collapses ?
mircea_popescu: isn;t this the guy who didn't have the time to either a) get with the program or b) read the indicated article detailing the unsuccessful attempts of the last nitwit who thought he's too good to do what he's told on the grounds of well... he's special ?
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun: anyone interested in startups here? << ahahaha epic.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: the guy doesnt know they squated it themselves < clearly there's no relation between jesse and the gang.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta love it when the thesaurus is longer than the poem
mircea_popescu: anyway, enough excitement for one day. catch you all tomorrow!
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan you know how mothers tend to end coversations with "because i say so, that's why!" ?
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan it just reduces to yet another faced of your rationality dilemma.
mircea_popescu: seeing how it's clearly awesome and whatnot, stands to reason it should be worth something to you.
mircea_popescu: lol, now there's some revolutionizng and disrupting in a tang package
mircea_popescu: you ever been on these new social media things they have ?
mircea_popescu: not out of anything than the holy "if you give this nimrod 1500 i'll kill him on general principle"
mircea_popescu: i suppose to some degree, at the level of a challenge, as in, some schmuck pulls a gun and i blow his head off
mircea_popescu: you should also clean out your room, and the fridge, and eat healthier
mircea_popescu: or else you think of the world, in which case you come to terms with your own inexistence
mircea_popescu: either you act in the world, in which case you come to terms with imposing your arbitrarity upon it
mircea_popescu: anyway : you'll never be able to have both a) agency and b) rationality.
mircea_popescu: it's on some level unavoidable tho, because shoulds link into the superego.
mircea_popescu: or you can control their effects, provided you don't act at all.
mircea_popescu: well, so you can control your own actions, provided you don't control their effects
mircea_popescu: unless by "my own" you mean "1k random people i've chosen to represent as my own pebbles"
mircea_popescu: but this is wildly different from what we were discussing
mircea_popescu: but that does not extend to "and by this light make his decisions acceptable"
mircea_popescu: the cogito goes as proof of existence, it's abused to all hell by people who lack the context to understand what's being said.
mircea_popescu: i'm a great fan of descartes, just, not ready to marry him.
mircea_popescu: it's a fiction, this. "i think". pray tell, what do you think.