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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.
mircea_popescu: you perceive a distinction between this meta-modelling and your mommy ? what would it be ?
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan what does "better" mean ? your mommy would approve ?
mircea_popescu: your process is not going to be perfect, and the representation that it is makes no sense.
mircea_popescu: and who maybe doesn't even - horror of horrors - speak your language.
mircea_popescu: should you find yourself alone with a cunt that's not properly bred according to the customs of your class
mircea_popescu: you excused this untenable presumption on the grounds that your high expectations of yourself would otherwise paralyze you,
mircea_popescu: Untermyer: Is not commercial credit based primarily upon money or property?
mircea_popescu: but these are all of the nature of the x% you realise.
mircea_popescu: and further a cognate of quite catholic notions of divinity.
mircea_popescu: which is a cognate of both why regulation can't resolve market problems and why "self enforcing contracts" are nonsense.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, the summa of this thing is that hard rational positions melt away under examination.
mircea_popescu: you'll look back and go... well i guess the prediction came through. now what ?
mircea_popescu: sure greenspan_fan you can think whatever you wish. but that doesn't resolve your decidability dilemma.
mircea_popescu: and similarly as you can't here, you generally can't anywhere else.
mircea_popescu: this is in fact a perfect embodiment of your problem for your convenience :
mircea_popescu: well why wouldn't it be ? maybe it was. maybe i can read the future in uvulas.