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diana_coman: they ask what is
that and what is
the other
mircea_popescu: they ask how babies are made, do
they get a story or a demonstration ?
diana_coman: an explanation or experience of what
the damned
thing IS
diana_coman: well, come
to
think about it: children ask "what is
that?" all
the
time and guess what do
they get mainly as answer
mircea_popescu: next
thing you know you're either making your firebolt wands vibrate or go out of
the mage business.
mircea_popescu: "well... it's not a vibrating wand, it's a firebolt wand" "CONSUMERS HAVE COME
TO EXPECT!"
diana_coman: hence
they don't like
the unfamiliar, full stop
diana_coman: because
they already have automated patterns ("learnt") on which
they can operate in familiar situations
pete_dushenski: even
the established ~concept~ of regicide demonstrates
the limited nature of 'control'
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:19:56; ascii_field: pete_dushenski:
the subtraction of EVERYTHING
that you care about from your life is different from death how?
diana_coman: I'd have
though it was much simpler
than
that mircea_popescu: most people don't like learning.
mircea_popescu: it's often seen as a problem in idiots who imagien
they can keep bitcoin at bay by saying (in some magical correct form, i guess)
that "i do not agree" or "i am not inviting
this devil in my house" or whatever. "that is not how debates work", what have you.
mircea_popescu: but other
than
this,
to continue
the prev
thread, no, you do not have control, in
the sense
that
there isn't a magical write-protect bit you set or unset at your will and unless you've unset it nothing can ever affect you.
mircea_popescu: it does however understand magic. especially because magic specifically exists as a result of
the subconscious' poor grasp of everything.
mircea_popescu: same
thing
that prevents
them anywhere else, obviously. but
the subconscious does not really comprehend locks, or rifles, or anything so complex it needs a factory.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as
there's no spanish equivalent, what's
to keep some dudes from busting into your house and
taking all your holes on
the kitchen
table ?
mircea_popescu: as far as average person is concerned,
their safety from being, eg, raped, is built entirely out of
their belief in
the magical power of a construct like
that. it is not meaningful, but magical, in
that it projects will and controls "the universe".
mircea_popescu: answer : you do not. which
takes us right
to
the reason most people do not learn a foreign language, or enjoy interacting with people whose language
they do not speak.
mircea_popescu: rther unwated inquiry is, of course, "that;s inappropriate". except... how do you say
this in spanish.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:17:00; ascii_field: is
that you DON'T HAVE CONTROL
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310888 << let me explain something
to you. slave had some old bitties over for coffee, recounted
the story
to me.
they wanted
to know if she's married or has a man. she said no. i suggested she should have said he died in
the war. "what war ?" "you know,
the war". and
then we joked about how it'd play from
there, and eventually it came
to me
the
thing
to say
to prevent fu
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:13:01; pete_dushenski:
there can be no stable hierarchy. anywhere.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:09:03; ascii_field: roman slavery has very little
to do with
the modern variety.
mircea_popescu: Namworld well, install it, ima make you an account
then.
Namworld: jurov, you never
talked much about
this
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ... << more like "state promised us
that if we smoke
the pipe all will be fine. well... pipe is going out and what is
this!11" << I refer
to
this phenomena as Shrem's Bong
Namworld: I don't mind
testing
the game whenever I have some free
time.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:05:20; davout: which conveniently boils down
to "we need safe spaces
to stop
these micro-agressions"
mircea_popescu: the proof
that reddit is not
the problem, i guess. random reddit nobody knows about waiting in
the wings,
to maybe one day be
the reddit derps know about.
Namworld: I got an email. I get it
the game development has progressed
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:05:11; pete_dushenski: "To bad
there isn’t such a
thing as intellectual rugby…I would gladly
try
to field a
team from people I have know, and let Pete do
the same, and watch his eagle @ss get stomped into
the ground before he could ever gain any altitude."
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 16:44:39; davout: "In my humble opinion:
these bots create a false market.
They represent institutional greed offering no substantial increase in value per point nor do
they offer any noticeable increase in liquidity. I also believe
that
they will chase your average human customers away, who like us, were
trying
to get
the best price we could while at least
trying
to offer a better market"
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 14:03:07; asciilifeform:
this means a ROOM full of displays if you can swing it
phf: i had a picturebook, one of
the c1 models
phf: vaio was
the last laptop you could jack into cyberspace with
pete_dushenski remembers
that vintage of vaio for being incredibly spendy
pete_dushenski: it's a
testament
to
their branding efforts
that sony electronics make me
think only of recent james bond movies
ascii_field: (assuming pete_dushenski is
thinking of
the usual formaldehyde 'smell of new car')
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 21:42:20; mircea_popescu: "we have noticed
that if we spray X on Y
the purchase of flat screen
tvs goes up 15%"
mircea_popescu: (yes
there's a deep reason for
the schism, no it has nothing
to do with politics.
the western church mostly provided laas,
the eastern church baas.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: why
the church ever caught on in god forsaken wastes such as
those inhabited by
the ru speaking folk. etc.
mircea_popescu: kinda what
the eleusine mysteries for instance
tried
to provide as a public good.
mircea_popescu: this is principally why women [used
to] have an advantage over men.
they actually experienced socially mandated death,
to
their benefit. it was
the system which produced usable old bitties of
the sort
that kept say
the jews alive.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 20:05:19; mircea_popescu: completely validated in
the majesty of Being.
The hero
transcends life with its peculiar blind spot and for a moment rises
to a glimpse of
the source. He beholds
the face of
the father, understands—and
the
two are atoned."
mircea_popescu: "we have noticed
that if we spray X on Y
the purchase of flat screen
tvs goes up 15%"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i am kinda expecting
to see "behavioural doping" or somesuch. if industrial pollutant is so cheap/abundant it actually creates an ecological problem, it is obviously only a matter of
time before
the large amts of discrete data (google db, cctv db, etc) are meshed
together with substance dictionary
to create optimized diets for advertising.
phf: conversation keeps arriving
to
the same point
that
the solution
to local maximum is death.
tlp makes
those conclusions in "how
to not be a narcissist", but
then fails
to see how it applies
to himself with his own mengel situation. or
to quote orr from catch-22 "How can he see he's got flies in his eyes if he's got flies in his eyes?"
ascii_field: aaaaanyway he describes his whole life, but i note him here for featuring
the 'sane old generation' of shrinks who did not go along.
ascii_field: 'В подполье можно встретить только крыс' << mega-b00k. 'in
the underground one meets only rats.'
ascii_field: has mircea_popescu ever read
the memoir of general piotr grigorenko ?
ascii_field: actually in usa 'standard of care' is now
this.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Aha. You assume
this is a medical system and not a medium of social control.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no. standard of care is specificallty made
to resist
this, by
the few people
that are old enough
to not want
to soon have
to explain it.
the standard is "as practiced by reasonable minority"
BingoBoingo: So what if
the kids end up fucked in adulthood by a couple months or years of neuroleptic induced hyper-prolactinemia,
telling
the parents
they suck would make
the doctor
the "uncaring monster"
to
the rest of
the system
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> but
this isn't what
this is.
this is a doctor claiming he's being a contemporary rendition of fucking mengele because "the jews and
the dogs expected it" << "Standard of care"
ascii_field: sorta what i
tried
to explain
to pete_dushenski earlier
today.
ascii_field: (it does not follow
that
they must eat 5,000 cal/day of
them)
ascii_field: a great many folks in
this jail have literally no choice but
to eat 'big mac' or die.
mircea_popescu: "so
then... big macs are bad but hey i gotta eat and
this one is not
that bad right ?" sure.
ascii_field: just as no individual 'big mac' made
the fat fella what he is
ascii_field: none of which,
taken individually, are necessarily '~the~ losing move'
ascii_field: becoming mengele's assistant, or
tlp, or me - is a product of a long series of 'bad life choices'
ascii_field: this also calls
to mind mircea_popescu's article about
the fat
train riders
ascii_field: point in making
the distinction was
to divide whom it makes sense
to feed
to giant squid, and whom -
to 'reflash firmware'
mircea_popescu: the sort
that go "oh wait, i was just ... being a woman"
mircea_popescu: well most of it was dead.
they however, you will note, RAPED
THE REMAINDER.