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mircea_popescu half expects
to find some bad retailer on
the other end
decimation: maybe someone should make a bitbet for
the date of
the appearance of an official usg 'game'
decimation: another variant: all
the prisoners play 'WoW' - upon gaining some princely sum of gold
they can be freed
decimation: plus
the prisioners would be occupied with something, instead of scheming how
to spray bodily fluids on whoever happens by
the slot
mircea_popescu: incidentally :
this would be a great prison. judge doesn't give you a
term. judge gives you a frequency count.
gabriel_laddel: "let me
tell you a story about a mouse I caught in a field..."
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, most do.
these are
the rare exceptions not
the bulk. recall orwell's "jew makes a dollar a day"
thing
decimation: my usian upbringing causes me
to conjure some dude living in a hovel or a wagon upon hearing 'gypsy'
mircea_popescu: but point remains : what man HAS
TO do is never clear.
mircea_popescu: decimation well, some of
those were built out of begging, some out of scrap metal
theft, some out of who knows what.
decimation: is
this what
they do with all
the coins
they manage
to scrape
together?
mircea_popescu: always good for a culture shock for usians, because somehow
they
think starbucks is luxury.
mircea_popescu: yes. and you should see
the insides, furs and shit. it's really very azn
mircea_popescu: decimation would it now ? seems more a function of where htey were born, if
they heard of plumbing or not.
decimation: it might not
tell you who
to hire next, but it would explain why nobody in
the city you are visiting has heard of plumbing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a long array of
things, all more or less coney.
decimation: at any rate,
the "iq"
thing seems more useful when applied on
the population level
decimation: someone had
to shape
the mud into huts
mircea_popescu: but barefoot girl in
the mud aside : she probably had parents, who similarly had
to work
to keep
the lights on.
mircea_popescu: took a wroing
turn, ended up on mud street from 1750. down
towards us, completely naked 9yo girl, rope
tied around her waist. literally rope.
mircea_popescu: took some ppls
to see
the enchanted gypsy palaces in
turda (romania). which, you know, are pretty elaborate.
mircea_popescu: for all i care
the wot world can result in
the sky combusing.
mircea_popescu: my point being, your have
to is weak. not
to any personal effect, but it does ruin our
theory.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no,
that's not it. if i were in prison, would i HAVE
TO be in prison
to keep
the lights on ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the "have
to". if you were writing software it'd be a magic variabler.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i dunno, i dun
tend
to spy on people writing code
that much, i'm prolly
the most ignorant in
the room on
that score.
decimation: but essentially ends up with
the 'classical'
theory, which is 'this statistical
thing
that
tends
to pop out reliably on
these
tests'
gabriel_laddel: monkey @ lisp
term ?! << outside of
that, have you ever seen any program written as "fluidly"? Which comes back
to
the original discussion of "what is intelligence"
decimation: the book has a whole chapter on
the subject of defining intelligence
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel it occurs
to me
the
templeos guy is kinda high iq
mircea_popescu: why does it define stupidity and make statements about intelligence ? should stick
to stupidity.
mircea_popescu: decimation does it at any place say what it deems intelligence
to be,
this book ?
decimation: almost hysterically in denial about
that possibility, will snap
too far in
the other direction. It is possible
to face all
the facts on ethnic and race differences in intelligence and not run screaming from
the room:
That is
the essential message.”
decimation: from
the book: “In any case, you are not going
to learn
tomorrow
that all
the cognitive differences between races are 100 percent genetic in origin, because
the scientific state of knowledge, unfinished as it is, already gives ample evidence
that environment is part of
the story. But
the evidence eventually may become unequivocal
that genes are also part of
the story. We are worried
that
the elite wisdom on
this issue, for years
mircea_popescu: it advances at random
to a random degree, is
the
thing.
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:13:09; gabriel_laddel: my point is
that science does not advance "at random"
mircea_popescu: is really
the small part of
the discussion.
thiel is smart, and it doesn't help him