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mircea_popescu: i
think
the summary
takes smart as a neutral symbol, whereas in
the logs it was used as a very overloaded symbol.
diana_coman: in
the original discussion in
the logs; my q is whether
the summary seems
to miss
the point somehow/convey a different "smart" ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman you're very likely right, i expect a major stone on nicole's back was precisely
this : man re-reading has
to reconstruct a cognitive structure. cost of
this is 0 for man who's been reading and has it pre-built ; cost is small for man who lost it, but was
there and knows how
to build it. cost is immense for man
that
tries
to learn how
to build at
the same
time as building.
diana_coman: yes;
that's
the sense of smart in
there, sure; does it seem different from
the summary or what?
mircea_popescu: "how about you don't have
to keep an empty diff around and in exchange get a stated diff" is exactly like "how about you no longer have
to check oil in car and instead have
to hitch rides on highway"
a111: Logged on 2018-10-18 18:57 mircea_popescu: which i stand behind, ftr ; and it is also what informs
the "if
they had any sense --
they'd be here" stance.
the fact
that rando can't cut
through fetlife
to find
the meat / can't cut
through internet
to find
trilema / can't cut
through femstate
to find bitcoin / can't cut
through pantsuitism
to find republic etc specifically means
that rando is dull, ie, not smart.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-09 09:02 Mocky: of course 'smart
toasting' was
the opposite of smart
diana_coman: asciilifeform, well, someone has
to make
them for
them
to exist at all! and yeah,
this one is significantly longer and also
took a couple of hours more; I suspect
the longer I go back
the longer it will
take because more recent ones have
the advantage of being relatively fresh in my mind - I keep up with
the log
throughout
the day
to some extent anyway
mircea_popescu: part of
the problem being
that we
traditionally use "
to render pantsuit nonsense, and i suppose it ended up coloring
the quotes or something.
mircea_popescu: i
think maybe
the problem is
that we omitted " around
the smart,
though
the intention
transparently is "smart as understood by mainstream idiots".
diana_coman: asciilifeform, hm,
that sounds...dubious for a summary! but
thanks!
diana_coman: ftr I don't mean it in
the sense
that anyone in
there got attacked; simply in
the sense
that it started from something and ended up in an entirely (if
totally valid!) different place
diana_coman: yes, but going from vdiff
to "being smart" of people sounds rather vicious
to me
mircea_popescu: i mean,
the point re "do not
turn signal processor into state machine nor your wire into a cable" seems both
time honored and uncontroversial.
lobbesbot: BingoBoingo:
The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: there,
took me five minutes
typing and half a second's
thought
to demolish
the intellectual produce of centcom since 2001.
mircea_popescu: if it had,
they might've noticed what
the ~necessary correlate~ is. how's one
to be inconsequential and important ?
mircea_popescu: and
to go back
to
the "thin english"
thread : somehow it never occured
to
them
the ~proper name~ for
their ideology is "inconsequentialism". because english doesn't force such, which is why and how it's entirely inadherent
to humour (in
the odessa sense of
term).
mircea_popescu: entire pantsuit rage @trump can be readily decoded in
terms of "how dare you consider consequences".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform best i can
tell a)
this happened under nigglet's reign and b) whole "great again" algo consists of "find me
those orders we can still execute, and limit ordering
to
that".
mircea_popescu: still,
the ~reason~ anyone even maintains a general staff, as opposed
to "shoulda killed
them all, like stalin", is precisely
that left
to
their own devices,
tacticians find
the rakes shaped like
their face.
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's a rake particularly fit for
the exact shape of
their face, because
the principal mental issue of anglotards is
their overwhelming anxiety.
mircea_popescu: right ? all converges
to
the same idiocy, namely "mp doesn't seem
to need
to be concerned with consequences and so
the path
to be him is, you know, douchebaggin' it"
mircea_popescu: how exactly
they imagine
the dumb & deaf can win anything is anyone's guess, but
there
they go.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in passing, here's
the lulziest "vulnerability" of
the whole edifice : for some reason ustards decided
that "inconsequentialism" is
the golden key
to victory, and
therefore a) divorcing
their
thought process from any contemplation of
the consequence of
their actions and b) inducing everyone else
to preoccupy
themselves with "consequences" is
the path
to victory.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
they can
talk
till
they drop.
the republic owns
the internet like it owns everything else
that exists, and
the entire space of
the ~possibility~ of expression.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-17 21:42 asciilifeform: 'John Mallery @jcmallery_cyber 25 Dec 2017 Declinism is a psyop of adversaries...it was spread before during
the Vietnam war.' << ahahahaha gold
a111: Logged on 2018-12-18 23:03 asciilifeform: usg used a fleet of bolix boxen for gulf war I logistics, and fuck knows what else, so in some dusty beetleman's desk it is 'coloured' as 'strategic', and so it gets passed from mallery
to mallery.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-18 22:25 asciilifeform:
this
thing was quite evidently built
to be repairable, by dks et al.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-05 16:22 mircea_popescu: very much in
the vein of
http://btcbase.org/log/2014-08-14#795515 : NONE, and i mean it : not a single FUCKING ONE of
these "government-sponsored oligarchs" have a penny
to
their name. every single one "powerful" of
the democracy-socialism, be
they a senator, a general, a "famous person", a "journalist", WHATHEVER
they may be, made out, at all. not like bandits, not like anythings,
they're as poor as church mice.
a111: Logged on 2015-06-10 03:40 asciilifeform: 'watchman may not know what is behind
the door he is guarding; if he knew - would steal it himself' (tm) (r) (sov army)
BingoBoingo: Ughhh, ustardism. Apparently I have been spoiled by a country where it is less challenging for me
to piss on former and sitting president's doorknobs
than it is for
them
to piss on mine.
BingoBoingo: And it isn't like
the Republic lacks people who could conveniently shit in his air conditioner
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well, whoopdeedoo... if instead of letting
the ants eat your dumb asses you ate
the ants, it'd be
the other way. and until it isn't
the other way, it'll keep being
this way, grand discovery
this. <<
This is. I'm setting up mp-wp for a lead danielpbarron directed
to us.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-18 20:13 mircea_popescu: it's not even clever, it's
the necessary and evident approach. which yes, is better
than clever.