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mircea_popescu: and in other news, holy shit reading the "venture capital" blogospam is A LOT like going through clinical notes on schizos with systematised delusionary processes.
mircea_popescu: he's ineffectual because why the fuck would we help him.
mircea_popescu: the key part in the atomics-of-the-masses discussion is that "best he could".
mircea_popescu: seems to me he set out some standards for the world to meet, ie vehemently delicious pork chops and cali blonde private whore ; and when world failed to live to them he "terminated" it as best he could.
mircea_popescu: only things that will hate, which is to say, punish you in this game for your misbehaviour in previous games, can possibly be protected by a law.
mircea_popescu: if the item will not play over multiple meets, it is not a subject of legal protection.
mircea_popescu: well yes. "how dares this world not justify its continued existence to me"
mircea_popescu: besides, there's a reason young males are the expendable biomass in all sexuate species.
mircea_popescu: the problem is ~nobody wants to live without women if they can help it. as exemplified by say the nazi jew airbnb ; and as explained by say shaw.\
mircea_popescu: anyway. that's the original pussygrab. "will (((we))) ie, men, finally ruin (((the world))) ie gynecaeum ???"
mircea_popescu: except, of course, for the nuclear bomb, which is why all the apoplectic femlit on the topic since 1940s.
mircea_popescu: to elaine, the city is a paramount construction, which is why it was the first invention. this is not avoidable. as it happens, elliot to date hasn't well figured out ways to destroy the city.
mircea_popescu: "the continuance of life on land", if viewed from zootehnist/slave ower perspective.
mircea_popescu: if you will. usually, it's called "mankind", for unclear reasons.
mircea_popescu: an elaine, modelled after no one in particular really, is individual who deems connecting with her sisters is a definitive strategy.
mircea_popescu: an elliot, modelled after and in homage of historical elliot rodgers, is individual who deems world is at the bar to justify its continued existence to him.
mircea_popescu: so it's : to blow up, either pile enough epsilon elaines until it sums to blow up ; or else keep pulling pins out of elliots, until one does it.
mircea_popescu: this is the point here : elaines accumulate, havin babies, but their upper bound is epsilon (having babies). elliots do not accumulate, being incapable to even communicate.
mircea_popescu: 1 is cumulative fungus, other is non-cummulatiove lottery ticket.
mircea_popescu: and elaine likely could not produce 1800s warsaw ghetto with her own hands, let alone san francisco.
mircea_popescu: which is the point. elaine wants to live in city, elliot hasn't the sense to fuck her over.
mircea_popescu: you couldn't have such a thing as "bay area" if every elliot around there could just donate a few peta bequerels to the general area.
mircea_popescu: but it DOES destroy the convention of "all good things flow to city", which has been the rallying cry since the times of parmenides.
mircea_popescu: how useful atomic detonation is against a jet, remains dubious.
mircea_popescu: how better to be convincing that snake oil works, than by pretending it is very very expensive ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point being that many unsurmontable tech problems of the 1940s are hardly worth the mention today. "it's called a servo, duh" etc.
mircea_popescu: "but why, it's just spinning things precisely". ya, well...
mircea_popescu: let's put it this way : if you took the people who did the original centrifugal separators and had them made ping-pong playing drone instead, they'd have failed.
mircea_popescu: if you say the same, starting in 2000, you may still be true.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the broader point : if you say one middle class individual couldn't, in his spare time and with his spare cash build a thermonuclear weapon during his lifetime starting 1980, you may be true.
mircea_popescu: then the "nobody could have predicted" "innovation" of mirving rockets that were too large in the 1st place.
mircea_popescu: much like "how big should a pixel be". it works for them to make bombs a certain size, so that's the size "bombs must be"
mircea_popescu: "why do you stick those in your asshole ? not like anyone searches you" "he wants me to."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you can have the guard act like your subby with her asshole, you surely can have her bring you roids.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not how this usually works. there's two kinds of women in jail.
mircea_popescu: very amusing because of the slug reaction to salt : "what do you mean our failure means worthlessness!!!! THAT IS NOT HOW WE WERE PROMISED WORLD WORKS!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, i guess matter of taste. too much of that barbara streisand inbred look to her for me.
mircea_popescu: judgement by association doesn't work though. it's firmly possible the most interesting one ever will be 99.99% similar to this one.
mircea_popescu: anyway. reality winner is ugly and unintelligent. these are bars, first to interest, then to potential. so no, 0 interest.
mircea_popescu: trinque you can in principle discover perfectly sane 50 yo that has somehow survived in a world of utter idiots. women are capable of incredible feats of self-preservation.
mircea_popescu: o noes, teh nulandisms dun work any better than the bhararaisms work these days ?
mircea_popescu: might as well ask me if i can re-annimate hilary's worn pantsuit.
mircea_popescu: moreover, individuals are individual ; this item here discussed is not an individual.
mircea_popescu: do you think a child who lived with wolves to age 9 would be more difficult to teach creative writing to than a child who lived with wolves to age 2 ?
mircea_popescu: some do. those that do, do. some don't -- and they... don't.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why do they raise holsteins in preference of angus ?
mircea_popescu: and as a side-point to all of this : there's about 155 tons of gold in the world. this means that any female past the 19`405`500th is actually inflationary.
mircea_popescu: if you're poor, you're not white. if you're a cuck, you're not white. if you've got money and guts, you'll be white no matter what. othello is my witness.
mircea_popescu: do brown cows make coffee and white cows milk in your world ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you know what color the veal was that made your steak ?
mircea_popescu: today, same as what it was back when you could buy croatian virgins in the 90s, same as it was back when you could buy twelve year olds directly from the un peacekept darfour, the exact fucking same as what it'd have cost to buy a gypsy girl in 1800s bucharest, or 1600s charlottesville, or for fucks sake, in 200 ad rome :
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you know what the price of a woman UNDER TWENTY is in the meat trade ?