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mircea_popescu: hanbot any clue why the
selection trick dun work on nicoleci 's blog ? was this not in the tree or ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not in my fridge! i was personally tolerated (with my "harem of one") among a
select crowd of upwardly mobile, english speaking, "tryna make something of this shithole" young males.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so, it readily revives in
selected young through simple exposure.
mircea_popescu: to a large degree for the same fgucking reason, i suppose : that it only ever existed in the mind of a very
select few, who however didn't have the excuse of poverty, or of distance, or of so very many other things that protect the rusophone moron from the full brunt of his wilful stupidity.
mircea_popescu: vhs america might be ridoinculous enough, in its evanescent existence in the mind of a very
selected few (principally, sovblok immigrants) ; but "cultural marxism" america is holy shit hysterical.
mircea_popescu: girl was then sent on the premises, to explain that because they failed to have an online presence, either they let her photograph
select items for her master or else they lose the sale.
mircea_popescu: none of this bs "link an article at a time". you either give me proper
select linkage or you get archive.is linked instead. that sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: so far, the correct approach seems to be : 1.
select the outlier piles (highest q, lowest q). 2. mix the smaller of the two with such a fraction of the larger of the two as can be done. 3. repeat. if 2 fails, move inwardly on the pair list.
mircea_popescu: it should be
selected against, and then disappear, right ?
mircea_popescu: there was a problem circulated by the swiss circle of mathematicians, which he elegantly solved (anonymously). except they saw right through the anonymity, because doh, and begged him to
select and publish the infinitesimal calculus method, lest someone else steals it.
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: obvious she "goes to friends for advice". what fucking friends ? what fucking "advice" ? the world hasn't worked that way in two centuries, if i want a shirt i want 1 in 1000 shirt shops, if i want a woman i talk to candidates
selected through three to five passes with two to three degrees of magnitude lossage each...
mircea_popescu: HOWEVER they do exactly the same in this field of representation. MUCH MORE so, exponentially rather than proportionally when compared to the dragonfly, people sort and
select through utterly staggering piles of alternative constructs.
mircea_popescu: (and by "
select group" above i meant "group of threads/"ideal objects sorted in trees" more properly speaking. not groups of people. this sadly isn't at all evident from context, but i caught it on re-read. half the time though, it IS "evident" on the basis of cousins six removed)
mircea_popescu: most [important] conversations are ongoing for many years. they basically happen in this
select group of complex interplay.
mircea_popescu: well, alf's oft peculiar assumption set isn't what i had in mind when discussing information density. but instead, two aspects : on one hand, that the amount of learned refrences is staggering even for academic discourse (the academitards cheat, by
selecting a very narrow set of possible reference points and agreeing on it in advance) ; and then the more one knows, the more things unfold, exactly in the manner i end up watchi
mircea_popescu: in fairness, that's more in the vein of "well... i got this here chunk, but hard to tell what it actually is, bring me a
selection of hammers to hit it with see if it sings."
mircea_popescu: if i can
select one usable nude floorwasher in 250k imperial "accounts", then probably so could you* (*conceivably, you don't want nude floorwashers, but ~necessarily~ it doesn't matter what you want, the foregoing applies)