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mircea_popescu: whereas
the substance of
thought does not move into adulthood, rendering
the subject incapable
to rightly apprehend
the world,
mircea_popescu: i mean if
the part of
the brain
that handles
the mechanics of
thought moves into adulthood, rendering
the subject capable of articulating longer strings and remembering
them,
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, what's
the difference between
this "amateur" and "childish"?
mircea_popescu: tbh,
the carnegie hall may be a fine example -- florence jenkins played in what ~everone deemed a "how cute,
they made copy out of hut!" item.
mircea_popescu: well, classification is classification ;
the meaning of words flow from reason not from some sort of consideration of political expediency
mircea_popescu: (to briefly revisit
the dilettante issue :
the other problem is
that dilettante delights in ~consuming
the end product~, ie, listening
to music.
the amateur
trombonist and
the dilettante jazzist may be a match made in heaven, however,
they're not
the same
thing -- much like
the narcissist and his borderline-sleeve gf aren't.)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> (and conversely, all
the "but i would
treat her right and have great sense of humor" non-"asshole" lament, very much
this "whay amateur fails!") << Also why amateur doesn't have girl dancing in kitchen with knife and garlic while sitting at
terminal
mircea_popescu: (and conversely, all
the "but i would
treat her right and have great sense of humor" non-"asshole" lament, very much
this "whay amateur fails!")
mircea_popescu: you go
to bed, you close your eyes, your brain goes splat. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: (anyway,
the distinction is spurious, dilettante is LITERALLY italian for "amateur", comes from
the same root as gave delight in english)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am not responsible
to say what exactly ; maybe
trying
to re-enact being in craddle for all i know.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the problem is
that in my head dilettante would be one still getting his footing (ie, who has not yet
touched all
the elements of
the field)
mircea_popescu: all
the fucking scenesters, amateur bdsm folk, have
this in common with
the pedo and
the neurotic-impotent :
that
they're
trying
to re-enact.
mircea_popescu: Mocky i cook! i picked writer because it's easy
to see my writing and hard
to see my fucking.
mircea_popescu: ie,
that line is intended
to show
that
the alternative understanding of
the
term is inconsistent.
Mocky: if so
then why would picking writer be
the argument, why not cook?
a111: Logged on 2019-01-30 18:35 mircea_popescu: consider
though -- am i an AMATEUR writer ? and who's a professional, everyone on
the nytimes list ? really ?
mircea_popescu: Mocky
there's no
transitiveness. how can you be an amateur ~at X~ ?
mircea_popescu: body is entirely as unbroken as anything can ever aspire
to be.
mircea_popescu: hence "amateur mistakes" -- mistakes apt
to be produced by one who acts as if
the world/item/tool/whatever IS HIS MOTHER
mircea_popescu: "when i discovered
the universe was artificial i withdrew into amateurship, because you can't commit
to following a universe
that's broken"
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 19:27 asciilifeform: fwiw when asciilifeform , not even in
teen yrs yet, lost interest in olympiads,
this was why.
mircea_popescu: and i also dispute
there's any requirement of ~expertise~ for ~professionalism~. utter fucking bullshit of
the confused and
the definitionless,
trying
to buy one
thing with
the other and back again circularly because
that's all
they got.
Mocky: I got paid
to do some development for a game, but still would say amateur game developer
mircea_popescu: seems
to me deepfry monkey essentially amateur ; my expert sluts as pro as it can possibly get.
mircea_popescu: i suppose stalin
the definitive amateur, iirc never paid.
mircea_popescu: consider
though -- am i an AMATEUR writer ? and who's a professional, everyone on
the nytimes list ? really ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if kasparov plays
to win -- pro ; if kasparov plays
to feel good about himself -- amateur. money dun enter into it, and proximity
to other people entirely spurious socialism
tendril.
mircea_popescu: everyone has a conception of "how world should be", constructed essentially out of Mother in
the positive and some "expectations" from personal history.
mircea_popescu: if i
take a seat next
to you in your car,
the large cost is my sitting,
the small cost is
the money.
mircea_popescu: various mammies crowding
the us congress building -- amateur Mothers of
Their Country
mircea_popescu: the woman
that fixed
the antique jesus picture was amateur reconditioner of old frescoes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform quackery is
the particular word for amateur medicine. high
time for amateur engineering
to get a specific word
too, but not
the end of
ther world
to wait for it.
mircea_popescu: koch application of fermat DIRECTLY maps on
the above "random definition".
mircea_popescu: i'm
telling you, amateur is one who expects
the world
to "play nice" in whatever random definition he comes up with because daddy had
the common fucking decency
to not rape 'em while
they were growing up, SO
THEREFORE!!!
mircea_popescu: and if i hire douchebag
to douchebag for a while, he's still an amateur.
mircea_popescu: it seems
to be
the older definition, but it's fucking meaningless.
mircea_popescu: (i
think it makes a rather subtle point, so discussion particularly welcome)
BingoBoingo: I am planning
to emplace
the new Rockchip
tomorrow. No downtime is planned, but removing
the old and placing
the new is going
to
take some dexterity.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 16:05 mircea_popescu: it's a pretty sweet item, except for one point : its
twin engines
together less power
than bartholomew.
mircea_popescu: tru. also, contemporary engine would have been a piece of art in 1940s, irreproducible with current
tech