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mircea_popescu: nubbins` you could slap her, or kidnap her to the same strong emotional response
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i dunno what cats have to do with this. is it an internet thing ?
mircea_popescu: one can't turn arround and expect all situations have equally low bars
mircea_popescu: nah, see, the equivocation at work here is that the requirements for being an observer in the foresrt with a falling tree are very low
mircea_popescu: this may be the best stating of the naive nominalism discussed above.
mircea_popescu: there are qualifications needed to be an observer. you don't become an observer of the battle of thermopylae just by stating yourself as an observer
mircea_popescu: the eiffel tower on yoru commode is not a piece of eiffel towers.
mircea_popescu: not whatever irreelvant stuff you're personally dreaming up all for yourself.
mircea_popescu: it's not germane to call it "the eiffel tower" in conversation.
mircea_popescu: it'd be "the eiffel tower of my commode", but only inasmuch as you are concerned.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, you may perhaps in time come to own a miniature of the eiffel tower, which you may emplace on your commode,
mircea_popescu: why do you expect solipsism to be considered by others ?
mircea_popescu: "unequivocally and inarguably a work of art" only in the republic of one constructed by your own living room, of which you are president.
mircea_popescu: but there's a difference between calling a dude a nigger for convenience, as the shortest word available,
mircea_popescu: that aside, there aren't really enough points given explicitly to make much of a call.
mircea_popescu: (naive nominalism is the view that convention enacts existence, and thus forumers are "ceo"s and their harebrained schemes "companies")
mircea_popescu: ah. well i wouldn't know "your" system. what you've written so far is coherent with naive nominalism, ie the ideology of all youths. occam requires it be described as such.
mircea_popescu: in all situations where a set of representations appears equivalent but one excludes all others, that's also the correct one, and the others are degenerate.
mircea_popescu: you know this because i can enact my point in your system, but you can't enact your point in mine.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> you know what, i think you should talk to ozbot some more. <<
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla make it so you can only vote through assbot,
mircea_popescu: not without an explicit mapping function of some sort.
mircea_popescu: benkay okay, but something has to be something or not be something at some point. otherwise we can't have a conversation at all, outside of ∀ = ∀
mircea_popescu: or is it a product manufactured for dutch people cca 1700 ? or italians cca 1600 ?
mircea_popescu: to a degree even people like andy warhol seem little babies.
mircea_popescu: lol. ok, the point here is that while it'd be hard to argue dali wasn't an artist, it's well established he was a capitalist whore
mircea_popescu: but you said artists/capitalists! was is strictly a rap phenomena ?
mircea_popescu: i thought rapper guys did it for the principle of the thing.
mircea_popescu: that aside, it's not exactly part of the business model or good for business to serve the interests of third parties. nsa works for its customers.
mircea_popescu: well, nsa can in principle be bought out, like any bitcoin company.
mircea_popescu: true. on the oither hand diff is also highest it was in some time, and their network share is lowest in history iirc.
mircea_popescu: coder ppl can use whatever social media platforms they feel like.
mircea_popescu: right, cause that should include a .sh in there. but anyway, when you get to it.
mircea_popescu: well i'm sort of in the business of making it less painful.
mircea_popescu: if they feel like it it's quite the epitome of unfine.
mircea_popescu: Ademan helping other people is only fine if you feel like it.
mircea_popescu: i temporarily forget what the equivalent of empathy was. "for the greater glory of the soviets" or something
mircea_popescu: "no, they SHOULD spend their time fixing our problems. cause we have problems. derp!"
mircea_popescu: it's funny tho. "what do you mean we're not sucking these p[eople's cocks enough, and the solution is for all the "people" to spend a lot more time on their hands and knees worshipping them ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: herp. the leeches are displeased with this talk of being cut off!
mircea_popescu: ol, they might be more empathetic to the role that government plays in people’s lives and more interested in fixing those problems than opting out.”
mircea_popescu: Not everyone in technology wants to flee, though. Catherine Bracy, director of community organizing at Code for America, criticized this genre of thinking as reflecting a simple lack of exposure by many Valley engineers: “Most of them aren’t confronted with or don’t have an understanding of most problems regular people are facing. If they had to collect food stamps or ride the bus or send their kid to public scho
mircea_popescu: but unlike your bot, assbot is failing last since 2012.