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mircea_popescu: they are proceeding on a radically different sort of abstraction than the number-servants
mircea_popescu: but you are wrong to think that the language-servants are not proceeding abstractly.
mircea_popescu: possibly the most imporant articles i ever published but the shit's fucking abstruse.
mircea_popescu: i have a set of three articles in romanian laying the foundation for understanding this and many other bullshits.
mircea_popescu: it is not nearly as silly as it seems. there's a fundamental tension at work.
mircea_popescu: they're "professional" which really is just a shoddy translation of "civilised", ie, part of the polity
mircea_popescu: it's a fundamental function of language, this symbolism.
mircea_popescu: "you'll find the east indies, you just don't know where".
mircea_popescu: and in general, we could have been a subcategory of their culture much like they ended up a subcategory of ours.
mircea_popescu: and their ships could have easily arbitered the 100 years' war
mircea_popescu: chinese merchants shopwing up in europe would have disrupted the hansa
mircea_popescu: may i remind you that at all points of human history the chinese hel;d the upper hand.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because they could never sail, because they were fucktarded in the roman sense
mircea_popescu: decimation perhaps, but that may well be misleading. hard to see
mircea_popescu: who knew that sort of ossified, concrete stability is the enemy of long term survival.
mircea_popescu: it all begun when they decided it'd be more stable if they stopped making fun of their captives.
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps usable as an explanation of why the us and generallythe english world collapses today
mircea_popescu: but the western chimps tend to lol at the slave troop while doing it.
mircea_popescu: both sets of chimps will readily ensalve the troop for their benefit
mircea_popescu: decimation something in that sense. i dunno that it could be readily reducible to any other form.
mircea_popescu: the head whore cixi rejected trains because they were TOO NOISY
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what. they had alchemy inception cca 2nd century BC.
mircea_popescu: decimation it's not even the bureaucracy. i despise their 5000 years of dumbass comme-il-faut-confucianism
mircea_popescu: i've not learned chinese yet mostly because i know of no noteworthy intellectual achievement in their classics.
mircea_popescu: but yes, this is the major criterion i employ to guide me linguistically.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the novel of "how will SE look in a post-key apocalypse" could be an interesting novel.
mircea_popescu tries to remember who decimation is. who are you decimation ?
mircea_popescu: social engineering as the venetians knew it "mostly went away" too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or at least, social engineering as we know it.
mircea_popescu: proofines = the quality of something which isn't proven but you'd like it to be.
mircea_popescu: and perhaps the larger loss. as people today interact with him like with shakespeare, out of reinterpreted reinterpretations of copies
mircea_popescu: it's role never having been to be worth "x billionty dollars" but simply to support nurture and allow this conversation.
mircea_popescu: simply because there's a collection of idiots rather than a single idiot.
mircea_popescu: we are today right here in this chan in a much softer seat than satoshi ever was
mircea_popescu: decimation in anyone's defense, nobody can know everything.
mircea_popescu: by the time they're done they will have collected enough tidbits (such as this one) to actually make an alt with a chance.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, bored young minds with the strength of oxen wishing to create an ACTUAL altcoin are well advised to try and specify bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: because they mostly don't exist standalone because people in gaming need and so make them
mircea_popescu: decimation because satoshi didn't understand udp and couldn' find any libraries.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I feel bad for the youth who will be swindled into giving their flower to rank idiocy <<< unlike what other youth ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you know wells fargo was originally a stagecoach company ?
mircea_popescu: basically what they do now, if you move usd to eur or w/e
mircea_popescu: not that we necessarily care, but it is the first actual loss in the field.
mircea_popescu: after paypal offers transparent exchanging into and from bitcoin to anyone with a paypal account we won't even KNOW what the exchange rate is anymore.
mircea_popescu: and given the horridly ineptitude of the tech people + the horridly dishonest ineptitude of the "business" people involved in the "market" let's call it for lack of a better term of interfacing bitcoin and fiats
mircea_popescu: anyway, the greater strategic implication here is that given my lukewarm at best interest in the fiat side,
mircea_popescu: lol i was thinking, "and after you're done telling me go tell kako"