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mircea_popescu: i
think. i dunno, i just picked it off
this very chan i
think.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, am i
the only one fascinated by
the history of dyes ?
mircea_popescu: if you
teach your kid your second language
the kid's gonna speak it with your accent, and if you
teach
them english
they're gonna
think english
thoughts rather
than "their"
thoughts and so following.
mircea_popescu: to be perfectly clear, girly wasn't impaired, she just spoke what it happens
to be she had heard. not of within, but of without, which is
the point.
mircea_popescu: just about. anyway, i include
the film in noob psychologists'
training. which is how i reviewed recently.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this exact scenario plays out a lot more
than anyone reading ever realised before reading.
mircea_popescu: HOWEVER... none of
them can remember his name. because, see, he can't have one, because, see, he fails most of
the handshakes. but nobody notices, because... he speaks italian.
mircea_popescu: yet italian supports him mightily in his otherwise doomed quest
to appear human
to
the other humans.
mircea_popescu: fellow in
there ~seems~
to be functional human, but is
throughout
thorouigh nutcase. in
this exact sense, "this cpu only has half
the registers and can only nop ?!"
mircea_popescu: but it is notable because it includes,
to my knowledge
the best on film, model of
the deffectively insane.
mircea_popescu: superficially, it's a vehicle for exploiting laura antonelli's
tits.
mircea_popescu: language isn't innate, but acquired, is
the fundamental point really.
mircea_popescu: the empirical observation of degrees of wolfness supports
the
theory.
mircea_popescu: you fished some name from
teh scholarly
tradition, which i now don't recall.
mircea_popescu: prior
to
this encounter only had
theoretical model of such wonder via... what is it you call
the
theory ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, very amusing circumstance : ran into
teen girly, daugther of korean mother, who only speaks english, but speaks it WITH ACCENT.
mircea_popescu: or w/e, if you prefer in-universe
terms, "diverse", "aware", "inclusive" etc.
mircea_popescu: imo
the best indicator of how culturally nil
the pigdin is.
mircea_popescu: say
the average page in english is obsolete in 6 days and in russian in 8 days ? well....
mircea_popescu: if you calculate
the shelf life of pages by language space, as an average, you can actually meaningfully compare languages as cultural
tools.
mircea_popescu: i suspect, by
the way,
that
the web offers at least one useful number :
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform back in 2016 we might've even seen it, i
think.
mircea_popescu: in which vein i suppose ima have
to produce a few, lest i find myself not having a very high oppinion of myself.
mircea_popescu: actually, i very much don't
think someone respectable who ~doesn't~ have a
train of weeping instagram whores "accusing".
trinque: the scandalize macroexpands
to "tell mother", and if herr lizard admits
to himself
that it does nothing, suddenly he's standing all alone, very naked
trinque: the lizards don't have any other moves
these days,
than
to "scandalize" and
then pout impotently when it does nothing, or backfires
trinque: what of
the desparate attempts
to pin a "me
too"
to him?
mircea_popescu: that'd depend what you mean by is. he's
the canary a massively distributed net uses for some purposes.
mircea_popescu: like elaine once said,
the choice between being raped and being a good girl rests entirely with
the slut herself :
those pantsuit
that choose not
to misbehave are never
truly raped into submission, rite.
mircea_popescu: this is more of
the same "oh, could destroy bitcoin, just CHOOSES not
to"
a111: Logged on 2018-08-15 21:49 mircea_popescu: and since i'm doing "strategic superiority in review" for some reason, do we count
http://trilema.com/2017/lets-put-one-and-two-together/#selection-145.0-149.12 as having protected
trump / fizzled
the "impeachment" lulz ? or "coincidental" in
the sense man who says he's going
to do x doesn't do it not because "if you do it ima fuck you up" but for ~coincidental reasons altogether~.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "a bed sitting room" has
the cast listed ~by descending height~.
this is
totally how ima do any film i ever do, let shorties learn
their place!
mircea_popescu: in
this view, "raising awareness" is
the definitive wank, because it's an activity
that is a) always entirely available ; b) always completely ineffectual and c) ulterior phenomena always confirm its predictions. no substantial difference between
that and waking every morning ~3am and kowtowing
towards
the east until
the sun comes out. a)
this can always be done ; b) it will hurt absolutely nothing and c)
the sun will always
mircea_popescu: stupid people hold similar idiotic beliefs because stupidity is self-similar, not because someone
taught
them
that ; and
tamen usque recurret not because of mechanism, but exacrtly for lack of one. and so on.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-30 18:21 mircea_popescu: in front of
this, whether we idly decide
that he's just dumb or actually evil, ie, his brain dun work like in
the case of say bernstein ; or his brain doth work, but he deliberately attempts
to shannonize republican words into imperial outcomes, a la curtis yarvin, jwz, whatever.... well what fucking difference does it make.
mircea_popescu: and so,
to bring
this around, i always said
that
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-30#1806663 ; here's a fine example of what is meant --
the guy with "plaque is
the result of infection", like
the guy with "homosexuality is biological", like
the guy with "guns kill", like
the guy with "don't
tell women how
to behave,
tell men how
to behave", like
the guy with "stupidity isn't stupidity, but a
thing of reason" are in
the end
the
☝︎ mircea_popescu: the "ideas", if you can call
them so,
that people in caves "develop" aren't in any sense discoveries. john smith's uncomprehending mimicry of catholic dogma isn't "inspired" by scholastic writings. he just reproduced
the
twat cheese, much like shepherd "talking
to
the stars" in
http://trilema.com/2012/luomo-delle-stele/ rediscovers presocratic wankery.
mircea_popescu: and yes, obviously, "the cheese on
the sides of her
twat" is
the "natural" and even "necessary" end point for ~all women. keep her in a cage, unable
to shower for a week or
two and see. but what's
this say ? "common reason" ? fucking spare me.
mircea_popescu: but filth sure as fuck isn't infectious ; and
the cvasi-religious beliefs of
the subhuman horde neither.
they don't end up dirty and stupid because
transmission, but because nature.
mircea_popescu: not even plato
thought
to include a mm or
two of
toe jam in his definition of
the human.
mircea_popescu: honestly,
this seems
the correct representation. "filth is part of
the human body" "whence ?" "if you don't wash it shows up" "so ?" "and it's somewhat predictable in form and substance. and odour" "so ?"
mircea_popescu: in short,
the proposition
that
the accumulation of idiocy observable in
the poor,
the stupid, and
the lazy is somehow a
thing is not unlike
the proposition
that plaque is part of
teeth.
mircea_popescu: but we don't normally speak of "the spread of
the disappearance of hot water in progressive europe".
mircea_popescu: if
there existed a different (cheaper!) universal solvent with low polarity and immense
thermic innertia living
things would perhaps consist of mostly
that, rather
than mostly water. but
this still wouldn't be a contagion, nor would be
the "alternative" "preferred" in any meaningful sense.
mircea_popescu: socialism is not
the result of people ~reading~ ; it's
the result of people NOT reading. whether
they decide
they're not reading in
the circumstance of a readery, where
they discover
that
they're actually unfit for
the activity of reading, notwithstanding what
they
thought
themselves in
the other context, of
the barn (where, among
the cows,
they "felt" like reading'd be just
the
thing) or not is irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly
the idea. "not washing hands" isn't contagious. nobody "not washes hands" because "something
they read".
mircea_popescu: idiots will want for "nothing bad
to happen" and will
trade "nothing
to happen altogether" for it, if need be.
this isn't because something
they heard, or because something someone said.
mircea_popescu: this, of course, is false. atp is not "a virus", it just happens
to be
the cheapest item with
those properties
that can be had. living
things are made predominently of water, but
this isn't a contagion.
this is a necessity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes! example : "As a non-Universalist, I can't help but admire
the success of
this particular replicator. It is brilliantly designed, like
the smallpox virus.
The fact
that no one actually designed it, any more
than someone designed
the smallpox virus,
that it is simply
the result of adaptive selection in a highly competitive environment, heightens rather
than detracts from my awe."
mircea_popescu: it doesn't in fact "transmit" anymore
than
the adenosine
triphosphate cycle, or
the carnot cycle. it's either
there or not, schelling point of reality.
mircea_popescu: um. real gecko is like 20 grams, and plenty large
to hear.
those be some fake geckos!
mircea_popescu: you can't imagine just how fucking cute
they are, btw.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-23 22:21 asciilifeform:
this reminds me, not long ago asciilifeform picked up a little chinese
toy, item shaped like
tennis raquet but
the wires are charged
to 4000v and connect
to (small) cap; a sort of mechanized fly swatter,
they pop, little blue plasma burst, vapour. nominally. so
then , having used it, later i see a most peculiar insect, did not immediately realize what it is, never having seen before. looked closely,
turns out -- fly head + front legs
mircea_popescu: but anyway, should i see one with signs be sure i'll squish it. if
the gekkos don't get
to it first.
mircea_popescu: i believe
the ants in my kitchen are worthy of
their lofty house, fully understand
that history is made by
the great man, and
the great man alone.
mircea_popescu: eminently study-able piece of femstate agitprop. with all
the sluts and hams hollywood could produce, also.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, Argentina won't
take em.
They won't fit or be escpecially welcome in Uruguay...
They are kinda stuck waiting in New York, California, and Chicago
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo will be lulz of all
time, once
the "collusion with chinese influence agents,
treason, corruption" becomes 90% of
the federal docket.