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ThickAsThieves: i guess
the core of
this, is i just want everyone
to be more intelligent and logical
decimation: mircea, you would give
the Devil
the benefit of law?
mircea_popescu: the
tension is still
there, you merely force people into hypocrisy
ThickAsThieves: i'm
thinking out loud here, neve rput much
thought into
this
topic
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i mean
this :
that your approach imposes a limit on
the complexity of relationships in your society
BingoBoingo: The slut's free reign comes at cost
to
the father.
mircea_popescu: if
the slut is not allowed free reign, civil war is unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: if
the slut is allowed free rein, you have just destroyed
the separation.
ThickAsThieves: how about you have simple laws
that simple men can enforce
mircea_popescu: you may not readily appreciate
the immensity of
this problem.
BingoBoingo: I imagine in
that case
the officer get dismissed
BingoBoingo: For
the policeman you
take
the local schlubs and have
the officers discipline
them
mircea_popescu: so
then suppose one day a police officer's daughter falls in love with a lowly police grunt.
decimation: I guess
the
traditional method is from
the children of
the local nobles
BingoBoingo: For
the police officer you search for people who can maintain
their own harem.
BingoBoingo: I imagine for a proper police force for Jormania, you would at least need
two castes working for you. Police Officers and
then
the lowly police man.
decimation: if
the policeman acts responisbly, he is rewarded, otherwise, punished
decimation: the master hires a policeman,
the policeman acts on
the authority of
the master
mircea_popescu: suppose you're advising me as emperor of jormania in
the making of my imperial police force.
mircea_popescu: decimation explai nhow
this actual police force works.
decimation: an actual police force would allocate actual discretion
to its officers; chumpatron police have no authority and
therefore
treat others as
the spoiled children
they are
ThickAsThieves: "You are free
to choose
to participate in
the poll or not. Nobody is begging you for your money and I wish we could avoid asking for anyone's money at all
to avoid dealing with investors such as yourself. Hopefully if we succeed in listing IPO we will not have you on our investor's list."
ThickAsThieves: i
think he rides every car''s ass, but generally is a better driver
mircea_popescu: i remember a
time when officer was a superlative menschkeit
thing
ThickAsThieves: my wife
thinks a drive
too slow, except when i don't see nonsensical speed signs
decimation: officer is in
the bureaucrat chumpatron
ThickAsThieves: agreed, and i
think an officer should be human enough
to interpret whether someone is actually endangering a situation, over filling a quota for
tickets
decimation: the speed people actually
travel on a road has
to do with its design, not
the arbitrary (often retarded) regulatory limits
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well,
that reasoning doesn't work in a
town (because if you go fast enough whether you run into someone or not becomes a matter of luck), but it does make sense of highways
ThickAsThieves: there's a stretch of highway about 2 miles long in FL, where
the limit changes 16
times
decimation: "A poll by
the General Social Survey indicates
that about 1/3 of Americans
trust each other.
This is a big step downward from a 1972 survey
that indicated
that about ½ of Americans
trust each other. Around 2/3rds say
that ?you can?t be
too careful? dealing with others. "
ozbot: Academic-Capital:
Trust of Each Other is Declining According
to a General Social Survey
mircea_popescu: "and
then i saw a great vision of everyone's head being screwed in backwards
ThickAsThieves: i
think about how even
the concept of getting pulled over while driving is usually absurd
ThickAsThieves: except right now everyone
thinks all
the scams are
truths and
truths are scams
decimation: once everyone assumes
that everything is a scam or chumpatron, it's going
to be hard
to get anything done
ThickAsThieves: how
the fuck *is* someone supposed
to be responsible
to know what is legal when
the line is nothing but blur
ThickAsThieves: <decimation> actually
the current state of affairs is perfect for
the bureaucracy: no one knows what is actually legal, and everyone is probably an outlaw ///
too
true
mircea_popescu: like you know,
the state of being locked into
the cake freezer seems ideal
to
the 9yo
mircea_popescu: decimation
this only seems perfect. it's in fact disastrous.
decimation: actually
the current state of affairs is perfect for
the bureaucracy: no one knows what is actually legal, and everyone is probably an outlaw
ThickAsThieves: seems harmless
to
them, whatre a buncha potheads gonna do
mircea_popescu: if
there's going
to be a soyuz of
the soviets organised within our lifetimes over
there i'll possibly not be able
to carry on for laughter
decimation: now
that colorado has 'decriminalized'
the other states are going
to race
to
the bottom
mircea_popescu: so... another couple of
these,
they're going
to end up with hostage senate.
mircea_popescu: it's relatively easy living french peasants
that get an easement, which suddenly makes all restraints unbearable
mircea_popescu: as per
tocqueville's observation, it's not opressed peasants like
the german serfs
that rebel
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the problem is
this :
they have 6-7-8 mn people packed like sardines in
there, like 5k/km2
mircea_popescu: decimation eventually someone will write
the grand book of everything, just distil all
the 500k lines here into a castle of words.
ThickAsThieves: The Washington DC City Council voted
today
to significantly ease marijuana laws in
the district. By a near unanimous vote,
the council ruled
that possession and private consumption of
the drug in small amounts would be decriminalized.
ozbot: Mind your step. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
decimation: I find
that after reading an -assets log my mind returns
to
the original ideas contained
therein
mircea_popescu: just,
the vc circus hasn't yet found out, because we don't finance
the circus.
copumpkin: anyone want
to start a petition
to mircea_popescu
to get
the word popescuity added back
to mpex official messages?
ninjashogun: e.g. rather
than raise $250K via an angel investor, or $4M in a Series A,
that both of
these could be done 100% via
the bitcoin ecosystem?
ninjashogun: so I didn't realize how much money is sloshing around
the bitcoin ecosystem. Question: do you
think with WoT
this ecosystem (e.g.
this channel, etc) could substitute for
the actual VC market completely?
decimation: I
thought
that
there was a parallel
there
decimation: the one with
the
two monks well delinates orthodox Christianity from rapid puritanism
decimation: asciilifeform I quite enjoy your
translations of Herr
Tepes
moiety: sorry im
too wasted fromthe last imgur
moiety: omg what am i
thinking
kakobrekla: but you need
the
tv for it
to project
the drugs