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mircea_popescu: this is
trivially understood either
through geometry or high physics.
there are fewer
things
than you can write equations for.
mircea_popescu: so - efficient markets, yes. but only if markets. and
there's no guarantee everything you imagine can be a market.
mircea_popescu: when
they can be compared, z80 loses. where
they be meaningfully compared, common ground breaks down.
mircea_popescu: but back
to our point of interest : your expectation
that "z80" and "pentium" costs can be meaningfully compared breaks down.
mircea_popescu: it's a very plain statement
that dunning-kruger, and consequently,
the reward for being not an idiot is not accessible in idiot
terms.
mircea_popescu: but if
there's one criticism
that can not be put at
the feet of
the scholasticis, it is superficiality.
mircea_popescu: in a very amusing (to me)
twist,
this is actually in
the fucking patristics (the wanna-be mishnah of xtianity). "your reward be not of
this world" etc.
mircea_popescu: "oh,
the end of
their world is visible from our world". a) no, it isn't ; b) so ?
mircea_popescu: if multiverse, and if in ALL possible verses picking a on X quesdtion results in annihilation,
this means exactly nothing.
the a pickers aren't in any way different from
the non-a pickers.
mircea_popescu: things are only meaningful
to
those capable
to perceive meaning, and
this ALREADY means not-them.
mircea_popescu: so in
this sense,
there is no "unless it does". yes,
they'll die.
mircea_popescu: the idiot can not lose, because by
the
time he's lost he's gone. where's
the neobee schmuck ?
mircea_popescu: i'm still here,
they as individuals are not. but
they as group are still here. perhaps
to outlast me.
mircea_popescu: look, let's go at it
this way. in your own private experience, as a witness, how many
times did a horde of idiots on some idiot forum know better
than me ?
mircea_popescu: yes
the people
that won won. but
this means nothing in context.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they never do.
that's
the problem. by
the
time
the war is lost,
the people who lost it are dead.
that's
the
thing.
mircea_popescu: which is just another restatement of "people are insane" which is pretty much
the oldest observation in
the book
that everyone keeps restating self-importantly and lo, it's voltaire! it's nietsche! it's existentialism! it's your grandmother vigin! etgc
mircea_popescu: the fundamental problem of reality is
that for
things
to work,
things don't actually have
to work.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with
this, yes ?
the romans kept going "why would someone farm when he could heroicly steal women and shit ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: you familiar with
the mathematical sleigh of hand called "induction" rite.
mircea_popescu: well,
they got
to where
they are
through a succession of present days.
mircea_popescu: your wife's cunt costs 0.
teen poon costs... how much does it cost ? as alf says "might as well me from mars."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc he went
to work as an exeprty in fucking
teens for
the fbi afterwards.
mircea_popescu: somehow
THAT gender gap doesn't figure
too prominently in "feminist" discourse
today
mircea_popescu: speaking of nothing related, anyone recall
the original patrick naughton
trial ? compuserve exec, flew
to La
to meet a 40yo FBI agent
that had been posing as a 13 yo girl in a dads&daughers sex chatroom. hung jury : all women voted
to convict ; all men voted he;s innocent.
mircea_popescu: in
the world where women cook as a matter of course, cooking is MORE EXPENSIVE
than in
the world where cooking would be "absolutely" less expensive but women would kill
themselves if you allowed
them in a kitchen
mircea_popescu: consider home cooking. it is ABSOLUTELY
the cheapest way
to feed a fambly.
mircea_popescu: it's not
that "no one is
tooled for it". it's
that
theyre not
TOOLABLE for it. and if
they WERE, it'd be expensive.
mircea_popescu: "absolutely" is a meaningless
term. yes, you
think it exists. good for you.
mircea_popescu: pentium 3 is ACTUALLY cheaper
to make
than z80 ever was.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your argument will reduce
to something like "making 1950s bachelite and fuel oil is '''cheaper'''
than making diesel and wd40".
this is equivalent
to saying "z80 is cheaper
to make
than pentium 3". both are incorrect.
BingoBoingo: Sure, but
they switch around condom brands
mircea_popescu: in
the very lowest sense of it all. cheaper in adp
terms.
mircea_popescu: no. cheaper
to make
these
than
those. cheaper
to prescribe
them. cheaper
to
take
them.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but
they only did
that because it was accessible.
BingoBoingo: Depakote was popular because drug companies made conditions for
the insurance companies
to pay for it.
mircea_popescu: the "regulators" had 0
to do with it. while
the refinery process poured out diesel fuel, you were gonna run diesels.
BingoBoingo: antiepileptics
tend
to work on ion channels, antipsychotics/antidepressants fuck with neurotransmitters
mircea_popescu: and
the entire "everything wrong is really wrong with
the brain" ie "not criminality but imbalance" so on and so forth are only superficially an ideology matter, ie "humanism" run amok us style.
mircea_popescu: yes, obviously, "antiepileptics for everything" aka "everything
to do with
the brain will be fixed by fucking with
these neurotransmitters" comes from exactly
this fertile field.
mircea_popescu: wherever
there's
two ustards,
there's ustardation, aka
this sort of narcisiac neurosis.
mircea_popescu: has 0
to do with pharma. where usg goes,
the usg.problems go.
mircea_popescu: That's how an entire nation of psychiatrists could have been deluded into prescribing Depakote for maintenance when
the data itself says not
to do it. It's belief, not money, "we believe bipolar is a kindled disorder..." Hell, if Harvard believes it, what chance do
the rest of us have?"
mircea_popescu: He starts out as a young academic. He lands a spot in a research group
that studies X, so he studies X, later he branches out into X+Y, or goes
to Z, etc, eventually he finds himself a niche. And he believes in
that niche, he believes in his data, no matter what it says. You can't convince him he's wrong because it isn't science and it isn't even a bias-- it's identity.
mircea_popescu: The money isn't corrupting him into
thinking childhood bipolar is underdiagnosed-- he
truly believes it.
The reason he believes it is his entire professional existence-- his whole identity-- is predicated on believing it. He's not a scientist, he's a priest.
mircea_popescu: sults were coming no matter what,
those publications were already going
to be written.
mircea_popescu: "If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you
think, wow, he's a big player. You don't realize
that if he didn't exist
there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc.
The machine was already in place, his slot was going
to get filled; his mind didn't discover anything,
those re
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it specifically says "you don't have mandate
to start wars, unless you do."
mircea_popescu: and for
that matter he had as much mandate
to start a war as lincoln did.
mircea_popescu: reagan didn't have
the mandate
to send
the airline union packing. it went packing. roosevelt had no mandate
to confiscate people's currency, or
to redefine currency, or
to fuck up
the justice system.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:25:18; ben_vulpes: obama doesn't actually have
the mandate
to negotiate; subtle fact of us presidency
that most outsiders (and usians) miss.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Jordan. During
those
two years he had
to leave Basketball over
those gambling debts