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mircea_popescu: "There are no homeopathic automobile repair shops,
that
try
to repair your car by putting infinitesimal dilutions of rust in
the gas
tank.
There are no automotive faith healers, who lay
their hands on
the hood and pray."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller incidentally, exactly how
teh neanderthal got wiped out.
thestringpuller: We all know
the reason : Disproving or confirming others finding won't get you very far in a scientific career. One needs
to have novel finding
to get published in Nature , Cell or Science, which are powerful
tickets for next round of NIH funding. Because research resources are scarce, no scientists can survive by examining others papers.
Therefore, faking a cute and novel discovery is effective
to survive
the academia with min
thestringpuller: "U.S. NIH spends ~30b annually
to found research. However, many resulting papers are NOT repeatable In my merely 8 years experience in academia, I believe >50% papers are not repeatable especially
those claiming
therapeutic effects.
mircea_popescu: i merely am pointing out
that your jumps go over lenghty stretches of weak bridging
mircea_popescu: could
the roman empire have mandated its legions wear
the fucking scutum, pilum and
thorax ?
mircea_popescu: im sure all sorts of adults
tell stories
that happened
to me as if -
them.
mircea_popescu: im sure all sorts of romanian kids claim
to know me for
their own circle ?
mircea_popescu: there may be some relation even, and some factuality
to
the claim and existence
to
the group. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: it holds
the same logical strength as "the very reason why 'identity
theft' is a real problem for anybody is
that women are whores"
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2015 03:02:19; *: asciilifeform once worked with a nearly-penniless foreign postdoc whose departure from usa was hastened by some bureaucrat (who handled his papers) deciding
to... buy a house in his name
mircea_popescu: you know you WILL end up having
to come up with "the only reason sun raises in
the morning is usg" at some point
mircea_popescu: at least software has
the excuse it
takes any retarded kid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suppose a better framed debate would
then be
this exactly, as above. "is
this engineering or is it just dumbery"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller move
to wash dc, put up craigslist "Black man looking
to humiliate married white women. Husband may be included.". watch how you make more money
than alf.
mircea_popescu: how do you
think
the gmo stuff is made ? same principle, different lego blocks
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the substantial difference between ENGINEERING and GAMBLING is important here
mircea_popescu: i can readily live with a complete demonization of chromogambling. it would not do anything, in my head,
to either engineering or genetics.
mircea_popescu: bons being synthetised.
the plan kingdom is, historically,
the largest producer of poisons on
the planet and
to a large degree a controller of animal population counts and animal species survival rates, which is why you even need a liver in
the first place - notice
that your imune system doens't REALLY have an organ (thymus, w/e)."
this is not "genetic engineering",
this is chromogambling.
mircea_popescu: decimation: out,
that we should
think very carefully about eliminating or demonizing genetic engineering." <<
to a large degree,
the debate is sorely misstated. nobody is seriously discussing "genetic engineering". what's being discussed is, "let's make random combinations of genetic material we do not at all understand and see what happens.
this will necessarily result in novel/ununderstood proteins and other hydrocar
mircea_popescu: so
they BURIED IT. somewhere. i was in
the fucking sticks. couldn't get another one for coupla weeks, until back
to
town, at which point...
mircea_popescu: no i don't. i used
to, but
then my mother
threw a shitfit once she realised why her aunt's entire chicken population was dizzy
mircea_popescu: only if you go
there lawfully. otherwise you have
to pay.
mircea_popescu: decimation: he's getting kinda old and
tired frankly << yeah we should have a linus retierment betting pool
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: Frankly, handing off
to a reference counting system <<< "One day a student came
to Moon and said: I understand how
to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of
the pointers
to each cons. Moon patiently
told
the student
the following story: One day a student came
to Moon and said: I understand how
to make a better garbage collector..."
mircea_popescu: you're still
there, your house is still
there, your family is still
there because we can't be bothered
to
take
them away.
that's all.
mircea_popescu: any single usg employee's security, in all respects, continues at
the MERCY of unidentified party. in no sense and in no manner does it flow from usg-anything.
mircea_popescu: "You have no idea how much we can fuck with
the US government if we wanted
to," Love
told a hacking colleague in one exchange over Internet relay chat, prosecutors alleged. "This... stuff is really sensitive. It's basically every piece of information you'd need
to do full identity
theft on any employee or contractor" for
the hacked agency.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i guess for black girls it's mostly rap videos << hmm perhaps American media just blinds one
to
the broader cultural spectrum
mircea_popescu: "as a matter of policy, we don't comment on rape cases" should be
the new rape
trial defense.
mircea_popescu: why
this is my problem and for
the court
to decide if
this gives
them authority
to convert chattel."
mircea_popescu: "I cannot speak
to
the contents," he
told Ars via online chat. "Except
that
they are mine.
This is
the only salient detail as far as I'm concerned. I am not on
trial, nor is my data, and I am under no obligation
to speak for it. But my property is being withheld from me, and
that must be justified.
The current justification is due
to
the inability of
the NCA
to understand certain data. It remains for
them
to establish
mircea_popescu: but
this is specific softcore/exploitation. in comes in all color schemes neh ?
thestringpuller: i guess
the media portrayal of
the sorority bwg places a false imagination
mircea_popescu: i dunno... i kinda aren't attracted
to other
types, by and large. i assume it's similar across cultures.
mats: i've read a few
things here and
there about 'the white man's asian fetish' and 'the hyper-femininity of
the asian woman'
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: although it is
the most common item on
the menu,
there is still some "allure" as a minority "banging one out"
mats: i mean, asian women are hypersexualized in p much
the same way as black dudes in media
thestringpuller: ah, always
thinking of
the ABG's in high school/early college who would hang out with negros
mats: maybe we're exposed
to different media, but i don't see it
mats: thestringpuller: hows
that?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: over
there with all
the brazillian hotties.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller if you look at
the demos, it's
the most common item on menu.
thestringpuller: what's with
the US and
the pursuit of bwg (basic white girl)?
mircea_popescu: do you agree with
that fat fag's evaluation
that no women ever date azns ?
mats: i've been on
the search my whole life for a proper descriptor
mats: i'm yellow on
the outside and black on
the inside
mats: although its a reasonable segue into building other
toys ... like shock gloves for bum fights
mircea_popescu: mats: folks are encouraged
to get married so
they can eat fo free << which is how
the dependopopotami are born. "i don't care about
the chick but i gotta be married for money so w/e"
mats: i've never given any
thought
to building one
mircea_popescu: you can basically build a
taser out of a battery and a capacitor
mats: ever since, i've wanted
to buy a
taser, but modern
things have
tags now
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
this actually explains quite a bit << why did you
think
the pentagon spends so much.
mats: as a boy i found a guide for modifying a disposable camera into a single-use
taser