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decimation: all of
that fancy military hardware would be gone
tomorrow if
the dollar collapsed
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu: yes, but if
they decided
to actually get
their money's worth it would be spectacular
greenspan_fan: I
think
they do, but it would be politically complicated
to actually deploy it.
greenspan_fan: higher defense spending
than just about every other country combined
decimation: it sufficiently conflicts
the interests of
the bureaucrats
that
they cannot see
the
threat clearly
mircea_popescu: the us does not have anything like
the projective powers it imagines it has.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe
that
to be a lie. would you say i'm not personally an example of in
the open etc ?
decimation: except
they would be
the mortal enemies of
the entire multicult
mircea_popescu: Solzhenitsyn spent a while exiting in his head
then did it properly
decimation: perhaps it will be possible
that a group of pissed off Euros will invade some reasonable
turd world country and create a colony
mircea_popescu: romans exited
to gaul, byzantines exited
to
the arabs and northern europe etc
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan generally,
the
third world or your dreams.
decimation: I like
to experience
the fifth stage when I play dayz
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan well how could it play out ?
teh fifth
that matters
tried
to voice
till
they got bored, now
they're mostly exiting
mircea_popescu: every dood with a ged and a history of shelf stacking
thinks
they're a person just as much as me.
this bizarre state of affairs can only lead
to fallover.
mircea_popescu: the country's nigh on ungovernable, and
the reason is simply
that
the 4/5ths of
the population
that are
the idiots believe
they are not actually subhuman.
chetty: well
these days
they
try
to exploit
the frustration
mircea_popescu: people much poorer who lack
the delusions of grandeur are actually doing just fine all over
the rest 19/20ths of
the world.
mircea_popescu: all
the problems
the us faces
today are strictly an attempt
to somehow manage
the frustration of
the stupid
that
the unsustainable system induced.
mircea_popescu: in
the real retelling of
the situation,
they start smoking pcp and quit showing up for work.
mircea_popescu: this in
the ideal, business plan rendition of
the
thing (infinite hitpoints etc)
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu:
they move on
to a new fandom (catharsis!) or get a clue; new people are attracted by
the same mechanisms as
the previous cohort
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan it's unsustainable because it creates frustration in
the stupid.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu: read it; still unsure why it's unsustainable-- 0->1 SD is always going
to be about 18%
decimation: I suspect
that merely attempting
to enter
the same confined room with him would be considered a 'microagression'
decimation: yeah
there's no doubt
that
the elite whites in America would import any barbarian available
to level
their redneck enemies
decimation: well, Herr Yarvin's point is
that
the niggers have
taken
the place of
the roman duke
mircea_popescu: decimation dunno how far i'd
take
that always and everywhere, i like say nigger and shit.
decimation: In old Japan, it wasn't illegal
to be an asshole. It wasn't even illegal
to be an asshole
to a samurai. But it was illegal
to be an asshole
to a samurai - if you weren't a samurai. See how it works? You might say
the samurai were a sort of protected class. A system not at all unique
to old Japan. Always and everywhere, "microaggressing" against
the protected class is hazardous
to your health.
mircea_popescu: arguably society as a whole extracts more benefits from
the stupid who
think
themselves smart
than from any other venue,
mircea_popescu: in general, if you're
too stupid
to make a pan, you're much better off
thinking you're
too stupid
to make a pan
thank
thinking you're smart enough
to make a pan.
mircea_popescu: cryptorush is a fine example in an endless string of fine examples as
to why
this nonsense is harmful
to
the stupid poor.
BingoBoingo: If a billionaire falls 99% in
the forbes standings
they are still richer
than Rap Genius
greenspan_fan: true, but people have some grasp of how far
the fall is for others
mircea_popescu: this notion
that anyone could be anything is kind-of strange.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan
they all have equally
the same
to lose :
their place in
the world.
greenspan_fan: I mean, if
the
true scope of
the gulf between
the average and someone in
the 0.001% was really appreciable,
the average person has so much less
to lose
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No,
that may be before my
time.
BingoBoingo wants expandable ASP style batons with inbuilt electroshock devices
to exist.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you recall
that "come up with what you'd
take back in
time" contest on
trilema ?
mircea_popescu: ie,
that
tons of people are completely clueless as
to
their proper place in
the world.
mircea_popescu: just
the fact
that someone'd even consider hassling you is indicative of serious systemic problems.
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan:
That is what your staff is for.
BingoBoingo: Fun would be
taking a
time machine back
to 400AD carrying a pound of black pepper and an sks.
greenspan_fan: you're much less likely
to get hassled as a billionaire if you pretend other people are worth as much as you by some metric
BingoBoingo: It doesn't even have
the history
to be religion.
mircea_popescu: and just how unsustainable
that
theatre is, on
the face.
mircea_popescu: i
think one major point people fail
to properly consider is just how unwarrantedly equalitarian society
today is.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
today, abramovich visiting some london court has nowhere
to eat.
BingoBoingo: Moar nao can fit on a microsd card. I'd like
to feel
that.
mircea_popescu: imagine walking around with ~50mn in
the shape of
ten coins, weighing 1/4 pound
mircea_popescu: but say it was like a dollar, you needed 5 of
them for a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: i wonder what one could have bought with a denarius or
two back
then
mircea_popescu: "In 301, one gold aureus was worth 833⅓ denarii; by 324,
the same aureus was worth 4,350 denarii. In 337, after Constantine converted
to
the solidus, one solidus was worth 275,000 denarii and finally, by 356, one solidus was worth 4,600,000 denarii."
BingoBoingo: decimation: People who lack
the btc
to overstock.com?
decimation: who is going
to go
to Sam's club
to buy a bitcoin miner?
BingoBoingo: I only learned of
this yesterday.
That BFL has a 10 GH/s miner sold
through warehouse stores.
BingoBoingo: decimation: BFL ships
things...
To
Tiger Direct and newegg after
their customers give up on
them.
mircea_popescu: o cause not having delivered anything else
they're now delaying for better stuff
to not deliver