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mircea_popescu: (literacy, for
the sake of propriety, remains what newman defined,
http://trilema.com/2013/a-very-unfair-perspective/ "to see
things as
they are,
to go right
to
the point,
to disentangle a skein of
thought,
to detect what is sophistical, and
to discard what is irrelevant." hence
the literacy as basis for
technology,
to distinguish slapping from lighting)
mircea_popescu: "replication" is no basis ; literacy is
the basis.
that "replication" is
the schnelling'd-upon point of ~expression~ of literate heuristics is fine and dandy. but it is no basis
thereby.
mircea_popescu: "oh but mp -- i don't mean absolute replica ; functional replica suffices" "then here's my recipe
to replicate fire : slap girl's cheek middling hard. it'll
turn some shade of reddish blue and give off heat for a
time."
mircea_popescu: now, as
to
the other horn, what is "to replicate" ? fire is a
technology, no man has yet replicated any fire -- fire is necessarily, as per
thermodynamic laws -- irreplicable.
mircea_popescu: that is what
technology is -- what's left once you exclude
the monkey activities.
mircea_popescu: technology, ipso nomine ut ipso facto excludes
the illiterate.
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine what sense does
this make,
to put iliteracy as
the gatekeepeer
to
technology.
mircea_popescu: i do not perceive my
time is strictly wasted with
the phillies. unlike assembliline, assemblycunts are satisfying on a deeper level.
mircea_popescu: whereas ignorance only needs a correctly screwed dong
to fix.
mircea_popescu: yes but
the implication of
the word is
that a special catalyst is needed,
that's otherwordly.
mircea_popescu: paracetamol, similarly "we don't know how
the fuck
this works" doesn't meet my definition of magic -- it seems quite certain it works in
the usual way, if yet
the intricacy unknown.
mircea_popescu: you know, iron only replicates it
TO YOUR EYES. it doesn't do it in some sort of objective sense. it only puts
the corect mul in rx if you know
there's a rx
to look for.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-10 16:24 asciilifeform: it wouldn't be any dismay
to asciilifeform if we end up filling
the rack with strictly mircea_popescu's successful patients, say.
mircea_popescu: girl (or, i suppose, "bottom",
to not exclude spuriously half
the discussion) is more
than happy
to go out of her skin. if you ask her
to.
mircea_popescu: all knowledge is in
the end unwilling. not "carnal",
there is no such distinction, all knowledge is
the exact same
thing. and "unwilling" not in
the sense of oppostion, but in
the sense of defect. what exaclty is
the maiden
to know afore
the fact about
the knowledge you're about
to impart on her, be it penis or math ? DEFINITIONALLY "not enough", right.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-26 00:46 asciilifeform: have
to understand, jet fighter is not really a complete machine. it is a
tentacle of
the larger industrial slave empire which produced and employed it.
mircea_popescu: there's a large component of rape involved in all education ; had
the societal convention not been
that "ye kids must suck an adult cock, nqa",
the feeble interest socrates managed
to induce even in his contemporaries would never have amounted
to anything.
mircea_popescu: socrates,
to
take a modest example, would eminently NOT have been even remotely interesting
to
the kids in
the kids' own
terms.
mircea_popescu: note
that
there's a problem here.
that i, personally (and not explicably) manage somehow
to be sexually attractive
to women less
than half my age as i was
to women over
twice my age has very little
to do with anything and i wouldn't expect it systematizable.
mircea_popescu: note
that
the prussian system (which is
the upper node of what contemporary dork calls "school", and it is a SYSTEM, more complex
than just
that) is not even 2 centuries yet.
mircea_popescu: no, actually, it worked out for
the greeks for longer and with better results
than any attempt at either paideia, "civilisation", "education" or anything else ever did.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-09 18:55 asciilifeform: if martians land
tonight and in
their pov 'sentient' means 'grasps at least first order logics'
they will immediately barf, 'we found a race where 1 full battallion of sentient males for erry female , and whole buncha veggies '
Mocky: I've witnessed in my grown children
to my horror and despair
mircea_popescu: "man who has walked with crutch all life -- cripple or not ?" "we'll have
to see, won't we."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have personally witnessed "could not estimate laptop charger chord is not going
to reach" visually, from five yards away, had
to do
the actual manual comparison. so yes,
that's my overarching point -- IM are universally stupid in a very strict sense, unfit
to lvie in world.
mircea_popescu: very much like
this, o'reilly-ers, or de raadt-whatever collective barnacle IM.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-10 15:50 asciilifeform:
the 'TW' , 'educated' by decade of reddit and hn, is usually incapable of even considering 'tor is honeypot', it
threatens 'depersonalization', sorta like pushing
the hanging stool out from under feet. iirc naggum described
this psychopathology at length.
mircea_popescu: i suppose, in a degenerate case. my original example was "business" of a certain sort of "free man on free soil" outlook, like "online casino" or whatever other mlm-for-the-2010s
things.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-08 22:29 mircea_popescu: in other lulz : femen,
the "ukrainian" organisation is selling shit priced in dollars via 2checkout.com,
the columbus ohio us corp.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-22 17:18 weevlos:
trinque: we are a media publication. our power and capital comes from
the number of visitors we have
to
the site. we aim
to
transform
through culture. if normal people cannot visit our site we are not accomplishing our goal
a111: Logged on 2017-12-22 17:21 weevlos: 1)
that's not my call
to make, i am only one employee
mircea_popescu: o
that guy, what was his name. yeah, here you go, absolutely fine IM-TW binome.
that dood and weev.
BingoBoingo: Aite, updated. Going
to walk a bit and read where
the forum discussion goes before seeing what
the least shitty webirc is
mircea_popescu: understand : woman saying "i don't have sex" is a fine approximation of "i don't have sex [unless you convincingly ask me
to]". meanwhile "i don't suck dicks without permission" connotes "well, you were passed out, i asked
three
times like
the jews, in all directions, and as
there was no answer i figured...welll... here's a dick..."
mircea_popescu: in #Pizarro on Freenode. << link
to webthing mqay help
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo : "Pizarro servers do not employ BMC, nor always-on KVM setups. We do not disassemble servers for any reason, so feel free
to seal your boxes. Account management is done
through RSA process, do not expect
that you can sidestep loss of your key
through social engineering. Burn Microshit, burn." ?
a111: Logged on 2015-12-09 03:27 assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 19:36:34; mircea_popescu: <Naphex>
https://xotika.tv/static/report06102015.html << speaking of which, plox
to give
the guy's numbers a good shakedown, because im considering listing xotika
this month.
BingoBoingo: Ah yes, Naphex welcomed Republic as customer of exchange he did for someone else.
Then when he wanted
to do HIS OWN camsite ran away
to heathens