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mircea_popescu: i think your notion of "to explain" may have a lot in common with your notion of "diagram".
mircea_popescu: for the same money you might complain tail recursion can't be explained in any language hn speaks. hurr durr, let them fucking learn languages first.
mircea_popescu: get bigger foreskins ? or stop trying to store oil in foreskin ?
mircea_popescu: nope. similarly pint of oil can't be fit in any prepuce any man carries. what's one to do ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but no, greek alphabet and most of greek text extant is understandable. and understood. that dutch can't be arsed is neither here nor there.
mircea_popescu: well apparently i never published the dildos in question. anyway.
mircea_popescu: every queen in the valley of queens was buried with a shelf full of religious artefacts
mircea_popescu: you know this is what we say, about all the diagrams of extinguished authorities ?
mircea_popescu: well yes, in being a diagram, it's meaningless and therefore "a religious artefact"
mircea_popescu: which observation IS A SAD COMMENT on the whole problem, recursively!
mircea_popescu: even more entertaining in context than the finishbed product
mircea_popescu: anyway, the dorks ("scientists! scientific method! just the data! own determination!!1") involved had a whole story of how it's supposed to be universally meaningful.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a whole pile, google image search for "harappan steatite" returns more than i knew / ever saw, so.
mircea_popescu: you can say "Wtf it is" but not what it's supposed to mean.
mircea_popescu: (speaking of which, the harappan steatites remain undeciphered -- not that people've not tried.)
mircea_popescu: they're gonna sacrifice preet bharara's arsehole to maintain the sun's power levels.
mircea_popescu: whatever, they're too fucking smart and in charge of things and matters to be catholics like "those beasts" of "the dark ages". too busy getting "just the facts" and "drawing their own conclusions" so as to be polytheistic dorks like the aztecs, the harappan, and whatever other tribes forgotten through disuse.
mircea_popescu: "the sun was walking down shithead avenue in maryland, and as it sat down at the starbucks it felt a ..."
mircea_popescu: it took however the dumbest generation of narcissists in history to make this astral point personal.
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking thing is that for ~as long as there existed human culture, which is to say the greeks, it was both known, evident, and accepted that the situation of life on earth is precarious, and the party will end.
mircea_popescu: the only fuckoff.sh for not having a dilated asshole and insulted prostate is... not taking cock up the ass. sadly ? I THINK NOT!!!
mircea_popescu: fuck that shit, give me a country run by pimps and hookers, i do not want to see more "college educated" "respectable" schmucks raise head above water.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi who imagines anyone would want to live in a world run by the bureaucrats in preference of a world run by the drug dealers. am i really supposed to believe a guy who always sells the amount he promises is not to be trusted with government, whereas a conclave of disgusting crows that never fail to break their promises are naturally recommended for the job ?
mircea_popescu: in the latest lulz re banking scams, third world banks discovered that if they just charge for wires anyway, notwitstanding sent OUR, nobody'll know the difference.
mircea_popescu: (no, it's not clear if monkery or monks is misspelled.)
mircea_popescu: basically "modern culture" is strictly this : a special monkery where idiotic monks re-do the copying of old manuscripts in the font of the year.
mircea_popescu: thanks god for progress, see, we can now re-do all the boccaccio which we pretend to not exist, because the old redos are no longer cogent of the new set of hyeroglyphs.
mircea_popescu: could make a whole bunch of "clever" romcoms around the newly upgraded mistaken identity comedy, omg his watch flashed.
mircea_popescu: could get a ----- BEGIN DICK DESCRIPTOR ----- header that'd allow ytou to estimate upfront.
mircea_popescu: girls could charge by kinetic momentum / mass displacement / profile geometry etc. fairer.
mircea_popescu: maybe they could add them to foreskins, could pay per stroke.
mircea_popescu: sort of last-stop on the train ride between virginity and mother of two. nobody can recount what happened in the intervening decade
mircea_popescu: the idea being that "i fucking love britney spears because here's a painting of her in my bedroom" in 2004, "i fucking love science because here's a painting of science in my bedroom" 2005, then hs ended moved to dorm got stoned and plugged in all the holes.
mircea_popescu: something with false color renderings of outer space telescope shots
mircea_popescu: cogent challenge to authority is a finnicky-er order than readily intuited by the desperate adolescent
mircea_popescu: without exception one claiming "i fucking love science" or "where can i find just the facts" or etcetera is merely rejecting what they perceive as the NORMAL authority, in favour of an unvoiced alternative they deem superior.
mircea_popescu: f fact you predicate your meaning on preexisting authority.
mircea_popescu: whether you are obeying the words of darius, the greatest man-god to walk the sands around babylon, carried to your ears by a stout fellow in weird pajamas ; or the echoes of the voice of some dumb woman nobody liked, whom you'de irrationalyl decided is important beyond all else in nature ; or the strange flickers of a tube which "is impersonal and therefore truthful, pay no attention at the jew behind the screen", in point o
mircea_popescu: because every time baby-thought runs into insurmountable problem, it runs off to mommy "random" box. which is not random to mommy now is it.
mircea_popescu: the rest is just whitewash, mostly by people who imagine authority is something they can personally deny. speak truth to power or something.
mircea_popescu: if you pretend "rationality" ie "i fucking love science" ie, meaning-afore-authority to be the prime mover.
mircea_popescu: (amusingly enough, lots of "engineers" esp of the computing type display the behaviour.)
mircea_popescu: yes, the ass that died of thirst and hunger being trapped equally thirsty and hungry at equal distance from a pail of water and a pail of oats.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: how this works, whoever has nice weather ends up falling behind in textile mill development.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger latin is not so far off from predicate symbol notation in the first place, which easement did slow down the development of hte cleanner tool.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the amusing parallel ot all this is, of course, the "plain reading" of the us constitution.
mircea_popescu: he had a whole workshop producing cutlery devoid of handles but missing the business end.
mircea_popescu: aristotle built plenty of machines that didn't work also.
mircea_popescu: i live among a people who prefer textual renditions of paths to actual map usage, or cartesian addressing mechanisms. the notion that you have a more direct understanding of some house by saying "Fuckenstrasse 17" than by saying "turn left art the church and follow the tit stamps on the sidewalk" is ...
mircea_popescu: the fact that you get an erection watching a picture of Anne rather than reading "Anne spent her days naked and her tits were big and milky" is no argument as to the ~meaning~. your erections ain't meaningful.
mircea_popescu: like any nonsense, it claims no parentage. but no, it is a primitive kind of hieroglyphism.
mircea_popescu: carrying meaning with raw geometry. if only. the easier case for this would be "carrying love with naked penis", ie, raping your way into marriage. that has better chances of working than the meaning of sheer existence.
mircea_popescu: they already fucking copy/paste the slides into a shannonized mess.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or maybe because the hope that diagrams won't pile up and evolve to hieroglyphs entirely baseless ?
mircea_popescu: somehow the fact aristotle is a major source of quotes today in europe, but fukantothmoth or w/e her name was isn't a source of anything for "the great nation of africa" idem dun bother. why the fuck is it that i can recide names of ancient members of the republic of letters to fill an orthodox pomelnik for a full mass, and nobody can name three fucking egyptian authors he likes. supposedly they taught our barbarians magic an
mircea_popescu: somehow the observation that they could read aristotle in the middle ages but couldn't read egyptian until 1800s doth not bother the diagramist.
mircea_popescu: i should open a bank offering 100% guaranteed deposits -- for the poor.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587264 << so delightfully naive, in retrospect. "oh, the reason alphabet doesn't work is that the meaning of words gets lost through thousands of years, but if only they had slideshare then! the wholly contentless meaningless diagram is eternal -- nothing there to lose!"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: heck, you could actually draw it out of the kuhn-popper theory of paradigm.
mircea_popescu: of course, it's not generally the way of tv personalities to inquire what'd be the table stakes. they're just there, right ?
mircea_popescu: trinque or alternatively you could draw it directly from aristotle and the discussions of prime movers. though the subtleties of scholastics are not well understood by the "modern" mind.
mircea_popescu: in the sense pointing and laughing is some kind of anti-mongoloid, sure.