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mircea_popescu: i
think someone put "my dear" for "hello" in some sort of 1970s azn manual of english
chetty: My dear,How are you? i am a banker in
the bank, i get your contact from yahoo
terrorist search.Reason,i am in need of your help as a foreigner i want
to
transfer an abandoned $15million
to your account 40% for you while 60% for me please indicate your interest for more detail.
RagnarDanneskjol wonders why help is expected during
the course of normal discussion
mircea_popescu: im very helpful according
to most people i know! HELPING COMES NATURALLY
TO ME
xmj: note
to self, ignore mircea_popescu on most any discussions as unhelpful
mircea_popescu: science comes easy
to you according
to yourself, some friends
that are into business and
this is somehow my problem ?
xmj: entrepreneurship pays more
than research (postgrad) positions
xmj: yeah, well, maybe you have no idea what you're
talking about :)
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, maybe you shouldn't
trust
that
too far
then.
xmj: all on
the autistic spectrum
mircea_popescu: <xmj>
To me, science comes naturally. << know anyone who actually is of
this opinion ?
mircea_popescu: really boring! Which is
to you say, you're a
typical human female."
mircea_popescu: gets
the heart going. I see it has yours going, when
the science was
mircea_popescu: witch-finding and crime-solving and conspiracy-theories --
that really
mircea_popescu: unnatural
training is required for
that. But gossiping and
mircea_popescu: blame, because witch-hunting is something
the human brain does
mircea_popescu: want
the cure now! And when we don't get it, we look for a witch
to
mircea_popescu: "We all act as
though we're immortal until we get sick, and
then we
mircea_popescu: "experiment" studies people who already did live
there. helpful o.O
mircea_popescu: "In one of
the most comprehensive studies of its kind, researchers at
the University of Colorado School of Medicine in partnership with
the Harvard School of Global Health have found
that people living at higher altitudes have a lower chance of dying from ischemic heart disease and
tend
to live longer
than others."
assbot: High Altitude Boosts Longevity And Reduces Risk Of Dying Of Ischemic Heart Disease - Medical News
Today
xmj: mircea_popescu: slept ~17h
tonight. slept most of yesterday... (well, powernaps in IST airport and plane)
mircea_popescu: decimation: yeah
that's a good point. I
think
the money is less important
than
the relative status, which is less important
than just getting people
to defer
to
their betters quickly << no, not quickly. painfully.
mircea_popescu: decimation: it is probably
terrible
to become an object of some fad among elites
today << you know, i'm a poststructuralist jus' fine.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: i've been off reading physics articles
trying
to grasp
things and lost
the conversation << should probably be
the motto of b-a
decimation: except I was reading Dijkstra in "structured programming" and he wrote
that it was hopeless
to
try
to "prove" practical code. He did suggest
that
this is a reason for humility and simplicity.
mircea_popescu: knew a camwhore who slept with her laptop because
the one
time she didn't it felt snubbed and wouldn't work right
the whole day.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can attest
the faith healing already happens, in
those sad sad caves where middle aged women huddle
to stroke
their collective pretending
to be part of civilisation.
xmj: I
think my brain just snowcrashed.
mircea_popescu: there's no distinguishing sufficiently advanced
tech from magic, nor sufficiently decayed
tech from faith.
mircea_popescu: but if you ever wondered why
towards
the end of an epoch art moves from classical
to
trollage... well... art is a sort of societal immune system.
mircea_popescu: society in general and civilisation in particular is predicated on making sense of
the world, which readily reduces
to avoiding being humiliated.
this is fine and dandy until it actually works.
mircea_popescu: when she's 16, she runs out of school (for which she risks a reprimand) and hides behind
the bleachers
to... kiss (for which she risks quite a lot of societal shunning)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider
the life and deeds of gabrielle, a buxom blonde girl.
mircea_popescu: (something needs
to push rocks up in
the air, and
the space station
too. what's needed
to push
them down ?)
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (of what? if we knew,
there'd be at least a hypothetical pill.) <<
the public appetite for personal humiliation decays, and with it,
the possibility of life.
assbot: Logged on 29-08-2014 05:11:06; decimation:
the
thing is, Admiral McCain probably didn't have
to issue any special instructions
to 'finesse'
the investigation,
the investigators probably all
thought it would be a brilliant plan
mircea_popescu: right.
this was accidental, not
the result of conspiraci, ie, political organising.
mircea_popescu: and
the subsequent ones didn't spread out but converged ?
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, recall
the story of
the milikan pious fraud i
think it was ?
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, i can see perfectly valid reasons
to not
trust measurements made by new guys on new
tools.
mircea_popescu: decimation basically, it was a new immigrant vs old immigrant debate.
the old guys had savings and wanted
to keep
them.
the new guys had mortgages and wanted
to get rid of
them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i really don't
think its as political as all
that.
decimation: mongol hordes appear on
the border - giving not one wit about
the current power structure - and pillage as
they see fit
decimation: another answer: when power is passed
to
the new generation, it
tends
to be divided rather
than concentrated - in
the end
the franchise is extended
to every human and his dog, and no one is really in charge
decimation: one answer: wealth and power sow
the seeds of
their own destruction, in
the avarice and sloth of
the new generations
decimation: plus
the chinese bureaucracy lasted for hundreds of years per reboot cycle
decimation: heh
turdolade. yeah I guess
the bureaucracy really exploded with Diocletian, but
things had already been going badly for at least a hundred years
RagnarDanneskjol: what do you assume
to be
the root cause ascii? (besides societal mental atrophy)
decimation: decay from 'rule by men
to
the bureaucratic state was definitely on
the list
decimation: asciilifeform: is
the death-rattle
the gridlock caused by bureaucracy replacing science?