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mircea_popescu: "What of it? People who don’t know MtGox won’t buy this story as long as you provide zero evidence to back it up, that’s what of it."
mircea_popescu: "I’m sure a lot of people would like free icecream, too. And free coffee, even to the degree of queing for an hour to get it. And whatever else. So what of it ?"
mircea_popescu: "Any actual evidence that they have this magic “unlimited selftrading account”? I’m sure a lot of people would like to see it if it does indeed exist.."
mircea_popescu: but in any sort of scientific sense i made no prediction. people even today object to this approach
mircea_popescu: and if i had, we wouldn't know if the disclosure was complete,
mircea_popescu: which had been published months and months ago, but nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: @twobitidiot honestly believes he's a sort of snowden, having leaked important mtgox shit
mircea_popescu: as far as a sufficiently entrenched glbse "investor" idiot is concerned, i just got lucky
mircea_popescu: this doesn't change the fact that all the other subgroups of the subgroup each had their own pipe dreams
mircea_popescu: some subgroup of the subgroup will impose that and in so doing it'll become history
mircea_popescu: sure, a group will be described by a power law. and in that group a subgroup will pretend identification with the power law's peak.
mircea_popescu: "if my calculations are correct, her knees ought to be parting right about now"
mircea_popescu: you still don't have that sort of privileged relationship with reality that'd allow you to turn an is into a should.
mircea_popescu: this'd be more of the berkely approach. who said i don't try ?
mircea_popescu: you mean "it's impossible to act while maintaining the pomp of my pretense". surely, it is.
mircea_popescu: you then proceed to flatter yourself in supposing you can identify the elements in that power law
mircea_popescu: sure, you may model a power law, which will be correct
mircea_popescu: all i'm saying is that you don't really have the priviledged relationship to it you readily grant yourself.
mircea_popescu: you could probably have portia de rossi meet jesus if you strain a little.
mircea_popescu: any nonsense can meet in your head, that doesn't matter all that much.
mircea_popescu: there's no retrospective causality, retrospectively speaking all you have are explanations.
mircea_popescu: is the equivocation between causes and reasons. causality only exists in prospect.
mircea_popescu: right. the foremost fallacy bred into children by a slappy introduction of the scientific method
mircea_popescu: she will fuck you for a cause, whatever it may be, even if it is drunkedness or desperation.
mircea_popescu: she maybe fucked you because she was drunk, or because she was getting desperate, or for any reason.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan do you understand the difference between saying "she fucked me because she loves me" in the morning vs saying "she will fuck me because she loves me" in the evening ?
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan you could make a list of 1k names, but the point remains, the king's cousin was actually placed well enough to displace the monarchy.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 kinda dubious anyone other than him actually paid it any mind.
mircea_popescu: philippe egalite didn't end up the head of the french republic. napoleon did.
mircea_popescu: max keiser was not actually able to create an altcoin as successful as tat's.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as you don't draw any inference from it, you may continue to think so.
mircea_popescu: "suppose this brick is a boat. obviously actual boats actually float, but nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: because particles are a piss poor stand-in for people.
mircea_popescu: and predicate a retrospective causality that never existed.
mircea_popescu: for instance, there are people right here working for me as we speak and probably reading this. i have no fucking idea where their working for me is going,
mircea_popescu: in fact, matrices aren't even there. and besides they could never be small enough to fit.
mircea_popescu: just because i use some matrices to describe eigenstates does not mean matrices are now integral parts of quantum mechanbics.
mircea_popescu: but plenty of retellings of history of the world in english have been predicated on the cognitive device you describe.
mircea_popescu: "if you have 1000 average people [...] take over a small county "
mircea_popescu: no, but they are capable of making their own fucking judgements.