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mircea_popescu: 90% of
the
time i
try
to read something,
the attempt fails ; and almost always it is because
the author is insulting my smarts, not my intelligence.
they're all such intelligent men, from sf writers
to hayek
to what have you.
the problem is
that
they're not smart.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2015-07-08 19:34 ascii_field: far more interesting is
the
trait hasn eysenck called 'psychoticism'
mircea_popescu: but
this seems scarcely what's being discussed when one
talks of "intelligence".
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.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: and in fact
the complaint wasn't "you're not
telepathic enough
to be here" in any sense, but quite specifically "after having been shown
the bells and
the whistles from different angles and being allowed some digestion
time you ~still~ don't manage
to recognize
them, and
therefore lack
the fundamental ability required
to participate in
the affairs of humanity".
a111: Logged on 2018-06-19 16:55 mircea_popescu: douchebag looky,
the place's not for you. you're not smart enough
to be here. what's so hard
to grok about
this ? some people are smart, some people aren't smart, you're not smart. what, you have
to be dragged out, your legs don't work, what is it ?
mircea_popescu: Mocky i actually distinguish between smarts (the reductive ability,
that powers "i suspect
there's no such
thing as intelligence", and
typified perhaps best by d. kyon) and "intelligence" (the constructive ability,
that powers "more loc, more
tech, more future", and
typified perhaps best by "fm-2030" ).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not making either of
those
two strong statements. but it does seem
to me
that
the reason you don't have a model is
that you're
trying
to model somethingt
that doesn't exist (not
that
the UNDERLYING PHENOMENA don't exist). much like people "didn't have a model" of earth-centric cosmos.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-18 17:08 mircea_popescu: intelligence is, imo, very much like
the concept of "luck", or dreamlike causation :
the retrofitted imaginary "cause", constructed retrospectively.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-18 17:09 mircea_popescu: it's a
thing like "prescience" or "telepathy" : only exists
through
the process
that sufferer's more likely
to notice sustaining examples
than disproving examples.
mircea_popescu: (utri == upper respiratory
tract infection",
to help
the future summarizers)
a111: Logged on 2018-09-11 00:26 mircea_popescu: "i have
this inorganic polymerization model which permits me
to predict
the behaviour of calcium-based matrices and also predicts
that should you replace
the calcium with strontium,
the oxigen content cvadruples ans
there's need for an item extra in
there
that's just like aluminum for so and so reasons"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> in usa just walking
through
that door would be a $1000+ ding << For completeness,
there was also
the option
to have a "radiodoctor" do a house call, but I figured
the intel gathering opportunity on
the hospital at a
time when I'm a least several days removed for
threat of mortality would be
the higher return option
mircea_popescu: we have mechanical model for strength, and i can make predictions BEFORE
the fact, and built entirely on measurements unrelated
to "please lift
this weight"
mircea_popescu: the latter "cat" doesn't exist, and intelligence is of
the same ilk.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between "cat is
there whether you look or not" and "we'll put a cat in some boxes you look into, let us know which"
mircea_popescu: but
this is established after
the
training and not afore.
mircea_popescu: it's a
thing like "prescience" or "telepathy" : only exists
through
the process
that sufferer's more likely
to notice sustaining examples
than disproving examples.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: really its only practical function is anxiety modulation in
the waking state.
mircea_popescu: intelligence is, imo, very much like
the concept of "luck", or dreamlike causation :
the retrofitted imaginary "cause", constructed retrospectively.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: no such fucking
thing, it's exactly like genetics -- genetically present
traits may or may not phenotypically manifest. but if
they do not --
THEY WERE NEVER
THERE.
mircea_popescu: i do not belive, since we're doign disbeliefs, in
this starry-eyed view of intelligence where it's a gift, like ambidexterity, or a property, like penis size, and "life can enhance or dishance it".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have little confidence in
this "all humans born human" hopes.
BingoBoingo forgot how awful amoxicillin
tastes in suspension
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I said no, I don't need
the note. If I go back I'll get one
the next
time
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform douchebag is pretty much
the only
thing i don't really want. "Once complete
the children are sorted by score, and
the bottom
thirdi is sold by open outcry (the males are neutered first)." and all
that.
BingoBoingo: I was also asked if I wanted a note
to
take off from work, because apparently
that is what 80% of
the other ER walkins were
there for
mircea_popescu: they only work on low information voters ("coincidentally",
the only sort of voter her most pantsuited hilarity ever wants).
a111: Logged on 2013-12-15 01:18 mircea_popescu: a
tournament market, like
typiocally
the 1mn starlets waiting
tables in hollywood is
there
to exploit labour.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-12 20:38 mircea_popescu: ok. let's go back
to
the original
tournament market,
the hollywood studio.
mircea_popescu: pretty sure io had a write-up re hollywood, but now can't
turn it up.
BingoBoingo: Doctor
took a look and wrote
the antibiotic script
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you recall right off where
the cannonical statement of "why pay 10mn dorks 50k each when could pick 3
to pay 10mn ea and let
the rest hope" lottery
tickets
thread lives ?
BingoBoingo: After checking in at
the desk maybe 45 minutes of waiting
BingoBoingo: Walked
to
the emergency room after calling and finding every clinic appointment slot booked until next week
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the matter is extensively documented on
trilema at
that. cost me a few grand, but hey, can't have free science.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-12 03:03 Mocky: ahahaha shoemoney and his mfa check for $130k made out
to 'nextpimp', man what a decade
mircea_popescu: not so for alphabet, paid
that moron a mn a decade ago, its groupon is STILL GOING. and htey're claiming however many billions
mircea_popescu: somehow hollywood had
to pay millions in salaries
to
the few selected chumnps in its entire existence
to keep
the flow of waitresses going
mircea_popescu: 100% of
that entirely fictitious pile is built out of a generalized belief
that
there is such a
thing as "adwords" and it does exchange money, and well...
that guy was
the early (and really, only) winner of
that lottery market.
mircea_popescu: you're familiar with how alphabet co pretends
to have income ?
mircea_popescu: then
there's a digg cycle, and
then
there's a reddit cycle. and
there probably was a small one in between, with wordpress and "shoemoney" and "web20" etc.
mircea_popescu: i mean, 1993 was cycle 1.
then
there was
the wikitardia
thing, alongside "slashdot" and "fark" and so on.
that was defo 2.
mircea_popescu: sadly
tokyo doesn't enjoy a lengthy history APART from
the moron invasion.
mircea_popescu: buncha fucken
turtles. but
the problem is, as ~100% of
the population is coming
to
town from
the first
time, well... ~THE
TOWN~ ends up consisting of what first
time
towners
think
the
town's like.
mircea_popescu: in fact, 80% or more of what passes fro "creative"
these days, ie shitty cable shows and "stand up comedy" consist entirely of "recognition porn".
turtles visiting
tokyo, "hey,
turtle from osaka, you
too
thought
the
tram was a large dog ?!" "yes
turtle from kyoto,
that's exactly what i
thought when i first saw a
tram, did you
think so
too ?!" "yes
this is a brilliant idea
to
think".
mircea_popescu: a converse way
to look at it would be
to say
that online atomization overrepresents schelling points
mircea_popescu: this hallucination of
the adolescent mind
that "definitely lots of chicks in cemetery, now if only could find right place
to dig".
mircea_popescu: by
the
time you have
to employ alien
tech
to extract some useful out of
the pile, ocean-sifters of epic scale purpose built etc...
mircea_popescu: there's just
this baked in assumption
that "LOT OUYT
THERE!!!" when in fact
there is ~0, not even epsilon, outright ~0, out
there.
a111: Logged on 2016-03-31 15:52 mircea_popescu: and
the start and end of it all is,
these atrocious fucktards, who
think "sadly
there's
too many bars" and
the whole surface of club in buenos aires would fit in one sane club in a sane place,
mircea_popescu: apparently
there's nothing quite as destructive of
the human mind
than insistently inculcated & socialized conviction
that "there's a lot out
there". i liveblogged how
this fucked up argentina, (
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-31#1442615 will have
to do, i can't find
the original discussion with
the local dork now) and well...
☝︎ mircea_popescu: 3.
thirtysomething has spent most of his formative sexual years pretending
to be female. well...
mircea_popescu: 2.
twentysomething "has learned something from his journey", proceeds
to explore
the vast echo chambers of "social" media with IMPROVED
TOOLS!!! he has paper cutout placeholder chix 'so others come' nao, he is sly and urban nao, all
those "other losers"
that don't
think of
this (null set) be damned.
mircea_popescu: rmed by Soviet mass culture? Mass-cultural statements are constantly in
the process of making
themselves
true by causing people
to experience
their common lives in
those
terms." :
mircea_popescu: we could restate
the life narrative of
the millenian in
the
terminology of "It may be argued
that what is wrong with Soviet art is not
that it restricts itself
to
the common experience but
that its version of
that experience is false; were it faithfully
to reflect
the
true experience of
the Soviet masses it might be valid art. But how can one speak of a common Soviet experience without
taking into account
that it itself is fo