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chetty: you would listen
to a 'teacher'
that wasn't worth it?
mircea_popescu: benkay im sure all of goethe's
teachers were all supercool and worthy dudes.
benkay: mircea_popescu:
the
teachers'd need
to be worth attending
to.
goonsamchi: lol. my not eating would not affect
the people in africa
mircea_popescu: this is nothing less
than
the point of existence : for you
to drive lesser versions out of existence, or for
them
to drive oyu.
fluffypony: goonsamchi:
there are starving people in Africa
that would disagree
mircea_popescu: of course it does. fucking world is constructed so your existence is built out of
the death of your siblings.
chetty: well
there is a difference between having an opinon, and expressing it
mircea_popescu: goonsamchi so your eating infringes on
the rights of others, stop eating.
mircea_popescu: no, but
the discussion is metaphisics, and being listened
to qualifies him
to speak./
goonsamchi: you should be allowed
to do anything you want unless it directly infringes on
the rights of others.
mircea_popescu: whoa
this is going
to be a good argument, i disagree with everyone.
truff1es: beat some sense into
them,
thats it!
fluffypony: goonsamchi: where do you draw
the line? if a wildly popular personality says
that everyone should kill
themselves, and
then a bunch of people do, should
the person who expressed
their "opinion" be entitled
to it?
mircea_popescu: we'd perhaps have had something like 58 goethes coming out of
there,
this year alone.
mircea_popescu: had
these same fuckwits been beaten
to shit for daring
to open
their mouths when
their
teachers were speaking,
mircea_popescu: seems
to me allowing fuckwits
to have "opinions" has
turned
the us of a into a monoculture of sheep who all
think
the same.
truff1es: thats what
this room would become haha
goonsamchi: not allowing people
to be incorrect just leads
to a monoculture of sheep who all
think
the same. even if
they're right,
there's still a lack of diversity
mircea_popescu: but i am outright denying her
the right
to air dumbassery under
the guise
that "she's entitled
to an opinion"
truff1es: prob diff in murrca
than rest of world
mircea_popescu: nobody is disputing
the woman's right
to be as fucking wrong as she possibly can get away with.
mircea_popescu: goonsamchi
there's a difference between controlling your own life and having opinions
tho.
goonsamchi: i believe in individual liberty and
the right for people
to be wrong
goonsamchi: no, i
think people should be allowed
to control
their own lives
fluffypony: goonsamchi: so you'd prefer
they
take
their medical advice from a
TV personality?
ozbot: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - David H. Freedman -
The Atlantic
mircea_popescu: last
thing we need is every fuckwit social sciences major having opinions about how silicon valley start-ups should be run and so forth
mircea_popescu: goonsamchi it's not a good idea
to have "opinions" on matters you have not
the authority
to have opinions on.
chetty: most people are wrong,most of
the
time
goonsamchi: best
to have diverse opinions, instead of a nation of sheep all
taking
the scientists' word for it, never considering
the possibility
that someone could be wrong
mircea_popescu: oh really ? and i
thought it simply valued pretense and pretending over competence or obeying your betters.
benkay: gotta read more of
this later
benkay: i'd like
to meet
the person who's willing
to
test
that 'likely' in
the states, or finance
the establishment of caselaw.
benkay: risk, it would likely be considered a forward and be excluded from
the
benkay: (and not
their cash equivalent), and is being used by a party
to manage price
benkay: Accordingly,
to
the extent a contract delivers bitcoins at a date after
the sale
bounce: "wordy stuff
that makes you need antidepressants", right ho.
danielpbarron: bitcoin doesn't get "cracked down on;" it does
the cracking
akstunt600: the gen y kids
the ones
that need
the most arent even using it yet really
akstunt600: Maybe bitcoin really needs
to get cracked down on for it
to
thrive
the way we want
bounce: SSRN, wasn't
that a class of antidepressants?
bounce: shh. lemme admire
the sensibility a bit more.
benkay: it has footnotes and stuff
that won't survive so well
bounce: "why not just ignore all
the spam in your inbox?" "why not just ignore
that DDoS coming in?" -- such sensible questions.
mjr_: as in
the IRC command, not attention wise
mjr_: maybe i didn't read
that far down
mjr_: and I
think I will start blogging more
mircea_popescu: well
they were
talking about how much you piss
them off
mjr_: to see yourself in
the mirror
mjr_: its good
to be chatting, and btw, it is very fun seeing people
talk about you when you are not htere
mircea_popescu: then
the fat chicks can go and pretend like
they're acting
there after school
mjr_: ISO will
tell you what
the official name is, and
then you adopt it
mjr_: which is
the same issue...you don't pick a name and
then ISO standardizes
mjr_: similar
to
the whole "XBT"
thing
mjr_: just part of
the group of people who
think
that
they understand
the standards committees and how
the real world works
mircea_popescu: who is zeroblock and what makes him
think he can
talk about amateur hour lol
mjr_: in
the real world, symbols are mapped onto many currencies
mjr_: which was my point...zeroblock
told me on
twitter "amateur hour is over"...i was like so canada, australia, mexico, etc are still in amateur hour...
mircea_popescu: mjr_ exactly. argentina prices everything in "dollars",
there's 3 of
them
mircea_popescu: and afair
they stole it off
the mexicans on
the same grounds.
bounce: and let people
think it's
the new USD?
benkay: no man it's a waste of
time
mjr_: i have
to
try and get people
to shut
the fuck up and open
their eyes and see how
the world works
fluffypony: benkay: what about a backwards Euro symbol,
then it looks kinda like a monkey butt
mjr_: but
the amount of changes
that using
the proposed symbol would cost dwarf any benefit
mjr_: phones can currently
type
the bitcoin symbol...i don't even know how you would convince apple or motorola
to add a keyboard
mjr_: basically i
think i slam dunked
the argument against symbol change
benkay: i advocate we abandon
the btc symbol all
together and just use a capital b
mjr_: when was
that? I'm not sure if my laptop was even open...
mjr_: am I safe in assuming
that everyone here
thinks
trying
to change
the bitcoin symbol is stupid and a waste of
time?
mircea_popescu: teh media has serious issues coming
to some sort of representation of its own irrelevance.
mjr_: i was supposed
to go hang out with him while i was in nyc
benkay: 2
things i'm bummed about missing
this year
benkay: still going
to burning man with
the shreminal?
benkay: they imagine
their imagination matters, fluffypony .
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin
to drop under $400 before June
fluffypony: what is annoying is when
the media
talks about Bitcoin's "surprising resiliance despite being declared dead"
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin
to drop under $400 before June
fluffypony: every
time it's
tanked I've bought on
the downswing
mircea_popescu: fluffypony sure, except we've seen it
three
times already :
the people who are butthurt during upswings because
they were left out still don't buy during downswings because now it's more like "Haha! it's dead!"
mircea_popescu: dignork i dunno, imo all of irc and a lot more is otc in
this sense.