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mircea_popescu: i suspect for
the average english as sole language speaker action is actually impossible
today.
mircea_popescu: you can't run with your eyes closed. you can';t act in a world inhabited by
these phantasms.
punkman: "Act like a dumbshit and
they'll
treat you like an equal!"
mircea_popescu: so you know, when
the markov chain-based invaders finally
take over,
they'll be welcomed by
the populace.
punkman: yeah you don't have
to spend any processing cycles on what
the other guy said, just do
the most superficial patter-matching
to harvest some entropy for your markov chain
mircea_popescu: back in
the 70s when politicians started doing
this, engaging in pseudo-debates on "issues"
that had no coherent definition in
their respective systems, people derrided
the entire process as nonsensical. enter
the internet, everyone is doing it. everyone. everwhere. find
the most obscure blog and you'll have
two nobodies doing it
to each other for sport.
mircea_popescu: but
the more i read
the more i realise
that actually... it's not me inventing something novel, it's my brain
trying
to cope with nonsense.
mircea_popescu: it started as
this literary device i had
thought i had invented like a decade ago. we even
tried
to work it into our book with chet.
punkman: I like
this concept of parallel discussion
mircea_popescu: thus parallel discussion is not a funny occurence but
the vast majority of all interractions, people happily arguing with self-constructed dopplegangers of each other respectively. basically, a strawman is not merely a logical error, but
the substance of all english language discourse
today.
mircea_popescu: so i suspect pop culture and
the (very specifically english, btw, and chinese!)
tendency
towards
the lowest common denominator and cultural sterility is
the result of
this chasm : on one hand people expect
to be belonging
together, unwarrantedly. on
the other hand,
they share exactly nothing.
mircea_popescu: goat sperm'd have a better shot impregnating
toad eggs.
mircea_popescu: now
this is all about as irrelevant as you like, but if you read what
these commenters say
to each other it becomes rapidly obvious
they fail before even remotely engaging.
mircea_popescu: there's a bunch of academics no less, discussing a
topic of no particular interest with utter abandon : some palestinian guy who's also a professor got offered a job and
then de-offered
the job, because urbana admin didn't like him ranting about israelis on
twitter.
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mircea_popescu: the possibility of
text meaning something
to
the reader is quite severely restricted by a whole list of novel issues, not directly familiar
to
the historian of
this
topic.
mircea_popescu: it all dovetails neatly into BingoBoingo's recent stuff about sublanguages. and i guess my recent post, at
that.
punkman: "this isn't
the
textbook I was expecting!" ?
mircea_popescu: punkman i believe it'd be
the proposition
that words work unequivocally and logic may be applied
to natural language constructs.
punkman: what's
this
technical standpoint anyway
mircea_popescu: basically,
that's what b-a reduces
to : using english as a language rather
than as a lingo is so uncommon by now, it
takes intelligent people some effort
to accommodate.
mircea_popescu: him:lol yeah, it's an unusual writing style. It's like a mix of
technical , story
telling and stretched analogies. I'm sure you get a lot of hardcore readers who follow along. from a
technical standpoint, its somewhat of a nightmare lol.
mircea_popescu: him : It's gonna
take awhile
to digest
this. You like writing eh.
mircea_popescu: that's it. im surprised people even bother learning
the language for
this crap. o wait...
they don't, do
they.
mircea_popescu: and
then you have some stale local interests
topics, mostly molded in
this mold, and some (bad) sports.
mircea_popescu: you have politics/current affairs, which are mostly a bunch of who we're calling
the bad
things
this week, putin "doesn't understand how
the world works" for having dared
to humiliate our beloved leadership bimonthly for
the past year, and israelis are whatever and on and on
mircea_popescu: you have "science" which mostly consists of
the sterile nonsense of "creationists" and a few fringe groups (homeopaths, scientologists, whatever nuts), some very primitive "o look, I discovered fractals" repackaging of basic understanding ("i fucking love science!11") and a bunch of bureaucracy-serving faux debates (o, really, 97.x% of
the "scientists" hoping for a govt grant agree
the govt position has scientific valu
mircea_popescu: you know, english as a discussion space is getting incredibly boring
these days.
chetty: well
they kinda go
together, newspeak
the words are synonyms
mircea_popescu: i guess
that makes me a
terrorist AND a sociopath dunnit.
mircea_popescu: it'd be fucking ridiculous if i
took my capital out of
the bezzle, but allowed
the emotional soliciting nonsense
to continue.
mircea_popescu: what, gotta have my emotions available for use as part of
the "productive future society" ?
that's okay, i'm opting out.
chetty: get with
the program, you are supposed
to feel sorry and guilty unless of course you
too can find a nice victim group
to be part of
mircea_popescu: they're all fluffy magical unicorns,
too. so what of it.
chetty: but but but,
they are all victims
mircea_popescu: they're only discussed because we don't really give a shit about
the prisoner himself. if we did, we'd discuss how fucktarded he is instead of how x is failing y and other statistical wankery.
mircea_popescu: yeah,
the more general point being
that no structural considerations can ever excuse personal ineptitude. obama is a failure first and foremost because he, himself, personaly, is an imbecile, not nearly up
to
the
task he asked
to be allowed
to undertake. every poor black person in jail is in jail because
they, personally, are fucktards.
the "system", family and all else come vehehehery distant seconds, and of little pr
mircea_popescu: so woul have
the forum. if bitcointalk weren't run by a random 20yo kid with nary a clue of
this world and a random gang of otherwise unemployable, it'd have not failed into
the scam swamp of all
time.
mircea_popescu: it would have worked fine with better people at
the
top.
fluffypony: has anyone written a blog post on what exactly makes
the Bitcoin Foundation such a stupid idea? I mean besides
their uselessnes
to date, I mean fundamentally why it would never have worked regardless of who was at
the
top
mircea_popescu: closed down a decade into it. author realises she'd rather be a mommy
than a ho.
mircea_popescu: "This is why I have not written about
the most meaningful relationship of my life so far, or about my realising I want a life partner and children."
mircea_popescu: lmao look at
this, perezhilton still exists. xiaxue still exists.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well at least it gets him
to reorient
towards writing nonsense supporting "global warming" so us comedians can
talk about how 97% of "scientists" agree
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decimation: yeah, it is. I wonder if you will see a white/minority divide on bitcoin uptake. I can almost see
the headlines now: "digital have-nots need free "access"
to bitcoin
to live"
decimation: except now
the situation is such
that
the rednecks are almost completely beaten
to submission, which is a problem ... when all
the kulaks are dead, who do you blame for your failures?
decimation: elites who control
the media & derpatrons keep
the river of meat flowing, ensuring
that
their
traditional enemies (rednecks, roughly) are crushed
decimation: well,
to be clear, it doesn't matter what you do as long as you keep me in power
mircea_popescu: i guess rational consistency isn't
that big a deal when one's got feeeehlings.
decimation: yes, it has often been noted
that liberal policy leads
to impoverishment of
the poor and downtrodden
mircea_popescu: let's make it so
that low income people can't find any jobs, but let's not make it so
they can't vote.
mircea_popescu: in spite of it... disproportionately affecting
the poor etc.
mircea_popescu: they are however in favour of minimum wages,
the exact equivalent of
the voting franchise
mircea_popescu: they are against voting franchises, because
they disproportionately affect
the poor, black, etc.
mircea_popescu: this is possibly
the most incomprehensible part of liberal self contradiciton.
assbot: There are eight states left with minimum wages lower
than
the federal minimum wage -
The Washington Post
decimation: there's a 'movement'
to raise it
to $10.10
decimation: actually no, federal minimum is $7.25 I
think
decimation: I like
the "complained on reddit" detail
mircea_popescu: nbase, for showing us what integrity is (you really didn't have
to do
that).
mircea_popescu: Ok, so Coinbase advertised (via a popup
that appeared when I logged on)
that if I complete my verification (which was already done), I'd get $5. It looked like a bug, but for $5 I clicked it anyway and apparently got nothing. And
then of course like an idiot I complained about it on reddit. Now (several days later), I get $5 in bitcoin from Coinbase with a message
that it's for completing my verification.
Thank you Coi
empyex: mircea_popescu:
Temporarily saved.
artifexd: You are correct
though. Both properties were bought off
the courthouse steps.
decimation: I guess I need
to figure out how
to get a cheap foreclosure &
then find an amish work
team :)
artifexd: The
two properties
that I own returned
their entire purchase price in 15 months from rent.
artifexd: It
takes work, but
the deals are
there if you look enough.
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: you are looking
to buy properties with a
total purchase + repair cost of less
than 5 years rent - in most us cities properties go for 2-3
times
that
decimation: or do you pay outright cash for
the homes?
The20YearIRCloud: the big
thing is getting out from under our locked 6%-8%APY yield, we really can't unless we start selling off properties or leverage.
The20YearIRCloud: I'm really excited with where
things are headed, our ROI internally is very solid, and leverage is only going
to make it more pronounced. Lots of properties out
there and our
tenatnt pool continues
to grow larger
than we can supply.
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: I've
traveled
through rural Ohio, and I can't figure out where people make money. Do
they mostly commute
to
the cities?
decimation: it would be interesting
to see
the spread on a $1k usd bet ending 31 dec
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decimation: The20YearIRCloud: do you rent
to section 8 vouchers?