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mircea_popescu: yeah, because banal patristics 11 centuries old are
too hard
to read. "without [the possibility of] sin - no salvation"
ascii_field: it wouldn't astonish me
to learn
that 'will' is chemically goosable
mircea_popescu: "imagine no baldness.
there'd be no stopping
them, a nation of supermen" ?
ascii_field: what folks secretly want is
to discover
the dope
that opponent does not yet have.
mircea_popescu: then people wanna
take drugs, as if juddling all
this shit in
the vain, vague hope
that it's evolutionarized
to balance isn't hard enough,
mircea_popescu: that if you don't despise yourself and your own achievements, you'll never get anywhere. but not
too much! because you also won't get anywhere! etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway,
the chief problem with self esteem, and it is indeed a major problem, is
that coping strategies develop and are
tested as
the name says :
through coping. will is a fabulous
thing, which serves approximately
the same role as beauty in
teenaged females : now you don't gotta work at anything, because lalaland. and so you don't. and so you suck at everything ELSE. and you're fucked.
the problem with self esteem is
ascii_field: wake up in drunk
tank, minus
their guns, and policeman
tiredly says,
ascii_field: two drunken louts went
to hunt boar. one wanders over
to a neighbouring 'number' (hunt sub-lot) and says 'there are many moar boar here'
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and at about
the same age, i wanted
to fight a lamb! headbutting ftw
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
there is a sov joke about
this!
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:14:16; mircea_popescu: I
totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up
to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960."
ascii_field: what keeps
the kid from fighting with a garbage
truck
ascii_field: now
the one puzzle imho is why
this mutation isn't fatal
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
there are
two kinds of
three year olds. all
three year olds sooner or later
threaten
their parents with holding
their breath. all parents laugh at
this, as it's a physiological impossibility : if you do any sort of a good job you necessarily pass out, and once you pass out autosomatic control restarts breathing.
the
two kinds of kids are :
the ones
that are dissuaded by
this ; and
the ones
that are now.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:19:07; mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can't eat, you don't
try
to EXPLAIN
to your aching belly anything. you
try and WILL it
to shut
the fuck up.
mircea_popescu: i can explain what scams are
to wilful idiots until i fall over, it's not unlike
trying
to prevent storms by lubricating
the water.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:19:07; mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can't eat, you don't
try
to EXPLAIN
to your aching belly anything. you
try and WILL it
to shut
the fuck up.
mircea_popescu: the erect cock, as an incarnation of will, is
the one and only driver of action. which is why attempts
to legislate inaction are stuck pretending "rape" exists. unless everyone's flaccid,
the supremacy of will over everything is
too hard a sell.
mircea_popescu: which is also why inteligence is not a force. not anymore
than make-up is a force.
mircea_popescu: most people can't do
that, obviously, which is why most people are most people.
mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can't eat, you don't
try
to EXPLAIN
to your aching belly anything. you
try and WILL it
to shut
the fuck up.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
the insistent, unyielding, disinterested in ANYTHING, eternally repeating
the same inept shit behaviour of stupidity is certainly a force.
that force is called will.
mircea_popescu: everyone [smart, white, rich, whatevs] likes
to
think of intelligence as a force. perhaps it is.
mircea_popescu: and by 2028
they come
twice a day, and you... what ? you do what, link
the log, and on and on ?
mircea_popescu: so in 2027
they come for like 4-5 different similar reasons, with
the same bs lines. and you quote
the same log, and
they go
the same huh.
mircea_popescu: now suppose cca 2026 some
twerps come
to persuade you
to go
take minsk. and you quote
this line of
the log
to
them, and
they go "huh" becaue hey, log is
too difficult and what's a gpg ?
mircea_popescu: I
totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up
to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "That does sound different. And awesome. What did
their Millennial kids inherit, what did
they experience over
their adult lives, say 1929-1945?"
mircea_popescu: religion among educated whites in favor of science. Not physics or chemistry, but evolution.
Tabloids were incomprehensibly popular, partisan media
the norm. A loosening of conventional morality manifested as bored promiscuity, female bisexuality, and a flood of new porn
the likes of which never existed before.
mircea_popescu: Well, yes, obviously,
there had just been a massive leap forward in
technology and industrialization, a booming economy fueling a wealth gap,
temporarily course corrected by a financial panic "precipitated" by
the failure of
two overspeculating brokerage houses.
There were also, simultaneously, great advances in progressive causes like worker's rights and food quality, all on
the background of decreasing importance of
mircea_popescu: bwahahaha, ok : ""But
that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey,
things were a lot different
then."
mircea_popescu: lol meanwhile @tlp, "I'm starting
to wonder if
the reason it is always pretty white girls who get kidnapped is
that
the media is
the one kidnapping
them."
mircea_popescu: o wait,
the jews don't agree
they're in africa, was it ? only egypt is. jewlandia is in... well it's almost practically europe right ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose
the alternatively counter-cultural reaction would be
to write in "no, and i'm not black, either"
ascii_field: but
then it was banned in many states (including md, where i happen
to live)
ascii_field: at one point, it was fashionable
to check credit agencies instead
mircea_popescu: "you haven't even been
to prison ? and you call yourself an american ? get
the fuck out of my fucking office, loser."
ascii_field: initially
they
take applicant's word of honour, but sometimes check public record
ascii_field: this
typically
takes
the form of a paper form with 'boxes'
to 'tick'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: in usa, it is
traditional for folks showing up for a job opening
to be asked whether
they have been
tried/convicted
ascii_field: '“Earlier
today I announced
that as president I will
take steps
to ‘ban
the box,’ so former presidents won’t have
to declare
their criminal history at
the very start of
the hiring process,” Clinton
told
the assembled crowd. She did not correct herself.'
mircea_popescu: being independent,
the only
thing
they deal in is "facts" or "reality", and gun
to head if
they believe in anything it's "science." Not physics or chemistry, but evolution. You know, whatever ideologues hate."
mircea_popescu: "Intelligent people, like racists, are fluent in describing
themselves in opposition
to what
they are not, but ask
them
to define
themselves by what
they are,
tell you what
they do believe in, and
they're lost.
They have opinions on issues, sure, but ask for an overarching ideology and
their face botoxes. Overarching ideology? Only people with manifestos have ideologies, not having an ideology is
the whole point of
mircea_popescu: no, looky, you have it : silicon 28%, aluminum 8.2%, iron 5.6%, calcium 4.2%, sodium 2.5%, magnesium 2.4%, potassium, 2.0%, and
titanium 0.61%.
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea how
they do
this, either. maybe
they discovered cold fusion and are keeping it quiet. maybe
they're burning
tibetans for heat. fuckall knows, but
there
they sit.
mircea_popescu: no need
to guess
that once
this option became available,
the other
two disbecame available "en interior".
mircea_popescu: the catch being of course
that
the options are now "pay ~1k or ~100 pesos for a pot".
mircea_popescu: re
the recent alcoa/aluminum discussion, but also a broader industry and futurology discussion : aluminum is now so cheap (ie, china has got SUCH a solid handle on it forever)
that home furnishing shops here have started
to offer, alongside pots in silverstone and
teflon, pure, plain aluminum. marketed as such,
too, "puro alumino".
mircea_popescu pays respect
to
the people who make it so he doesn't have
to remember
things.)
mircea_popescu: (kinda shameful how we omitted
the entire deedbot and btcalpha infrastructure from
the
things, becuase hey, fuck
trinque and mike_c we got
the stuff made so we no longer need it made so we can forget about it right ?
mircea_popescu: i would about 100x rather use a deedbot-based system. and i don't
think something like
that is usable.
mircea_popescu: the sad
truth is
that
the requirements of safety and concurrency run into problems of
time.
there's a reason bitcoin blocks are 10 minutes long, and i fear i'm going
to end up having
to fundamentally redo
the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: i get
that
this is unhelpful at best, but a) making specific error messages is not
trivial, and b)
the alternative denomination would be something like "generic error message" which whatever.
mircea_popescu: ftr, mpex will issue "Insufficient funds for
this request." errors for all sorts of problems, including some
that have nothing
to do with
the user.
mircea_popescu: jurov : i know. working on it, but it's not a
trivial problem sadly.
mircea_popescu: "how about as a precondition
to anything
they abandon
their self ?" "OMG WHAT ARE YOU A PSYCHOPATH
THIS IS DOMESTIC ABUSE BLABLABLA".
mircea_popescu: "you now have a responsibility ot
the people who
trust you :
to
this and
that
they want you
to do".
mircea_popescu: how does
the justice system con psychiatry
to its own ends ? NOT by asking psychiatrists
to buy into court proceedings. by pretending in court proceedings
to highly esteem
their opinions.
mircea_popescu: jesus check out
tlp getting shit. it doesn't seem
to help him, but
those were older articles.
mircea_popescu: - not
the patients, it-- an easy mark for con men with
their own agenda: SSI,
the justice system, gun control, schools, whatever. "It's called a confidence game. Why, because you give me your confidence? No: because I give you mine."
Take a minute,
think it
through."
mircea_popescu: "The ad's association
to
therapy here was probably not planned but it was inevitable, just as Mantegna selecting a psychiatrist and not an engineer or a cook or a stripper as
the mark in House Of Games was inevitable. It is
the only system of rules based on self-deception, it encourages
the illusion of "self" separate from behavior. And as long as psychiatry uncritically elevates identity over behavior, it makes it-
punkman: definitely
too warm,
they
turn bright pink
the moment
they step off
the plane
mircea_popescu: ironically,
the greeks invented cremation didn't
they.
punkman: ascii_field: no place
that does cremation, despite endless plans.
punkman: phun-fact: if you want
to get cremated in greece,
they ship you
to bulgaria
mircea_popescu: i
think you still gotta be somewhat rich
to make chacarrita
ascii_field: btw latest word is
that majorana is prolly in mircea_popescu's graveyard
mircea_popescu: do you know which is
the most advanced one ? ask a 50something stupid woman from
the midwest. "oh, it's all energy and people are different".
that's
the best
there is.
mircea_popescu: the clear sign
that it's not
time yet is
the juvenile idiotic look of
the attempts
to unified
theories.
ascii_field sourly mumbles something about unified
theories
mircea_popescu: that's
the MAIN
thing every single course book etc on physics says. and it is INSANE.
mircea_popescu: this goes right into
the other discussion : by and large,
the role of management is
to lie
to engineering, because if confronted nakedly,
the
TRUTH of reality is
this head-explody vacuousness. so survivable representations have
to be created, and
they are better if created professionally - because in
their absence
the brain will create
them anyway, and
they'll have all
the value and efficiency of something a 2 yo repti
mircea_popescu: <jurov> which is imo dubious way
to "keep
the herd out" <<
the secret we're not ready for is
that all ways
to keep
the herd out are dubious ways
to keep
the herd out.
ascii_field returns
to sorting panzerfausts in
the führerbunker