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mircea_popescu: the common cold is
the most common disease. it is not
the "largest" nor
the most important disease.
mircea_popescu: "The need
to obtain, install, and manage certificates from
that bureaucracy is
the largest reason
that sites keep using HTTP instead of HTTPS. " <<< most common != largest.
cazalla: or she didn't actually read
the article
mircea_popescu: "Today EFF is pleased
to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative
that we have put
together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at
the University of Michigan
that aims
to clear
the remaining roadblocks
to
transition
the Web from HTTP
to HTTPS."
mircea_popescu: cazalla she might know more
than you about how
to deal with such
things
cazalla: fucking lol,
that shapiro chick favourited
the qntra article on her hardware wallet
mircea_popescu: whereas
to
the counterparty,
those oppressing
them : you could probably switch
to "man and homan".
mircea_popescu: i propose euman as
the
term. it's different from human in
that it's BETTER!
mircea_popescu: by
the way, any
transhumanists of
the future reading
this, secretly in
their secret coven while being grieviously oppressed by an unrelentingly ignorant society :
punkman: what woman has longer
torso
than legs anyway
cazalla: well, you know, some people's footnotes are longer
than
the article itself
cazalla: thestringpuller,
they? one or
two people!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Well
this whole Jesus
thing has kind of been a huge bummer for Western civilization ever since
the Romans started
taking it seriously <<< it happened as
the very complex roman religions were brought closer
to
the understanding of
teh plebs.
assbot: You cannot stop
the clouds by
the building of a ship.
assbot: The eagle never lost so much
time as when he submitted
to learn from
the crow.
mircea_popescu: puritards, i swear...
they're worse
than
the catholics.
mircea_popescu: but in fact, considering pedigrees,
that's exactly what
the antecessor of
this was huh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and
the rawlsian lottery is presumed
to include only
them <<< ahhh, excellent point re
the "inner light" stuff. it wasn't directly apparent,
mircea_popescu: i still can't shake
the same bemused, "wait, did
the monkey srsly just
try
to shoot me with a stick" disbelief whenever confronted with it,
to
this day.
mircea_popescu: out of which she even has like, expectations, not
to mention
thinks it victorious in principle and afore
the fact, like calling
the name of god or something.
mircea_popescu: it
took me a coupla passes until it sunk in
that
the woman actually is seriously presenting
this as some sort of an argument,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
that is, 'slavery is bad mmkay because what if you were a slave' << lol i remember an encounter with
this in kindergarten. substitute whoever attacked some longstanding privilege of mine
that i meanwhile forgot with
the
totally unexpected "can't do
that, because what if all
the other kids want it
too ?"
thestringpuller: mats_cd03: sounds similar
to
the line from
The Dark Knight. "Live long enough
to become
the villian"
mircea_popescu: who was it, baez had a song about how [the wife] has opened
the last can of baked beans
mircea_popescu: right. so yeah,
the worst
thing about a friend getting cancer is
that point where
they lose it
mircea_popescu: can you blame him ? perhaps. can you mock him ? definitely. will he stop
tho ?
mircea_popescu: but meanwhile,
the hunchback is
trying
to straighten "through science".
mircea_popescu: it worked before people
travelled, but your average usian
thatever visited europe now knows
that
the sprawl is fucking insane AND not needed.
mircea_popescu: there are many decades, century+ worth of bad decisions baked in
that will have
to be unwound.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the us has
to get off consumerism.
this is not an if.
mircea_popescu: anyway. in
the country where no man may say "do it
this way ~becayse i say so~" all sorts of pathologies are bound
to develop. because in point of fact a country has some scope for
that sort of
thing, whether you want
to or not. and like in any living organism, once a metabolic pathway is blocked, homeostasis becomes extremely difficult if at all possible. and will
take all sorts of crazy
to pull off.
mircea_popescu: "i was following orders111" "who
the fuck from ?" "reality!"
mircea_popescu: right ? i predict "the dictates of reality" as a concept
to make its appearance at
the war on
terror warcrimes
tribunal.
mircea_popescu: yet, everyone loves
this "i had no choice" and "what would you have me do ? LEAVE ?"
thing.
mircea_popescu: governing a herd of idiots who nevertheless
think
themselves
the crown of creation is no easy feat. it is also no feat any
thinking man should ever accomplish, for any accomplishment at all, and most mere attempts, are quite morally wrong, and
taint something fierce.
mircea_popescu: instead, he will present a list of "proofs". of his value, importance and utility. which he knows are bunk. but what's he
to do ?
mircea_popescu: just like a professor won't have
the mp superbity
to go into
the review meeting hands in pockets and deliver a stern "fuck you, i'm doing you a favor being here, now you prove yourselves
to me and
then go home."
mircea_popescu: but
that's not how it works, because
to keep up
the semblance of "popular democracy" one is stuck "persuading"
the cattle. so all sorts of "justifications" have
to be made up.
mircea_popescu: so add
these
two
together, what do you get ? obviously
the actual goals of
the entire "global warming" stuff, especioally if scrubbed of all
the crud, would generally be beneficial and are in any case unavoidable.
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2014 00:09:10; mircea_popescu: “We have
to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has
to decide what
the right balance is between being effective and being honest. ” ~Stephen Schneider, environmental activist, in _Discover_, Oct. '89
mircea_popescu: Those who are arguing about
the cost of healthcare or
think
that poor people are lying
to get benefits are completely and utterly missing
the point of
the system. It wants
this in
the hands of doctors, because it would be
toxic
to everyone else. Can you imagine your Senator deciding who gets benefits and who doesn't?"
mircea_popescu: "Do you want riots in
the streets? How much does it cost
to prevent LA (or
the city of your choice) from catching fire? Answer: $600/month/person, plus Medicaid. Medicalizing social problems has
the additional benefit of rendering society not responsible for
those social ills. If it's a disease, it's nobody's fault. Yay empiricism.
mircea_popescu: preexisting policy goals ? DING DING DING
the man's a winner! check out
the ~coinicidence~
there!
mircea_popescu: take global warming. it is EXACTLY
that,
they created an imaginary reality
to replace earth's history, and
that imaginary reality now serves... what does it serve ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: applying statistical (or otherwise) counterfactuals
to an actual reality is a mistake of
the same elementary scope as division by zero, or direct conversion of metres
to grams - but for some reason which entirely escapes me,
this is not obvious
to people <<
the reason may escape you but is obvious.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and
that's about as relevant
to
the people in
the field as
the "bitcoin (tm)" "vessenes scam foundation" are relevant
to bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ".@rabite I
think I liked you better as a Christian, could you go back
to
the Jesus stuff please" lol
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform jihad long predates
the invention of america, let alone
the creation of
the usg.
mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform always wondered, in
that spirit, if
there exist folks with 'useful'
tattoos, e.g., one
that
turns you into a 'human slide rule' <<< yes. in russian prisons.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, i believe
their sustenance is genuine.
mircea_popescu: (women have a very deeply entrenched masochism in
them, as you'd expect of machines made
to actually carry
to
term and give birth.
the more heavily sexed ones often have
trouble managing it until
their late 30s)
mats_cd03: if not... you live long enough
to see your buddies dragged behind a cart.
mats_cd03: if you're clever enough
to win,
then you live long enough
to see
the mess you've created
mats_cd03: legitimate grievances or not, i don't see a problem with
taking up arms in support of wutever
they believe
mircea_popescu: i do. what
the fuck do
they
think
they are, reddit on steroids ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Oh response<< any idea what
that's supposed
to mean ?
mircea_popescu: is
the name in recognition of your many queefs or what.
mircea_popescu: so
to
this day it's still
trying
to sort-of pretend it's
that, /b/ in its glory days, 2005ish
mircea_popescu: but ever since, and apparently
to its last day, it had an inferiority complex
to 4chan
mircea_popescu: then some guy decided
to fill it up with child porn, and so it (obviously)
took off
mircea_popescu: it's funny how
the history of
that
thing went. it was about as retarded as lesswrong, originally, a sort of obscure livejournal clone populated by worthless shut-ins (which doesn't mean alkl shut-ins are worthless).
mircea_popescu: well
the advantage
to us being
two different people is
that our data doesn't match.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess now i'm stuck doing a rawls is a clueless ignoramus masquerading as a philosopher (if
the "american" part didn't give it away by itself), inept enough
to present mere circular reasoning as "moral
thought"
mircea_popescu: "you are greatly overstating
the importance of
the site, it's not reddit sized. it's not even digg.com sized, as of
today. it's actually smaller
than your blog, 5-10k a month sort of affair."
mircea_popescu: the onlyproblem with
this
theory being
that spamfilters predate his adolescence.
mircea_popescu: wait, you are crediting a 35 yo blogger from san francisco with having single handedly created
the pop-bayesian idiocy now making up half of applied math out
there ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, consider leaving a shlomo comment on
the article itself, for readers of
teh future.