Chaos Patch (#92)
(Open thread + links)
Tech-decay. Unregimented order. Hold the genocide. Men stuff. The weekly round.
Oil zombies, plus $20 a barrel? The transhumanist candidate.
Calamity for the Left in Venezuela (comedy version). Saudi didn’t do anything wrong (it’s just unlucky). Japanese at work. The nationalist surge in France (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), and Germany. Sweden on the brink. A blitz-tour of future chaos. Resurgent nationalism against the Internet (also, and).
Trumpenführer panic update (going hyperbolic): “Are Republicans and Democrats finally uniting against Donald Trump’s racist fascism?” Straight-up Trump-Fascism howling and analysis (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). Running the numbers (and more). Ridiculous, or not? He’s a hate machine. Family values (video). “Asked about what prompted the statement, Trump said simply, ‘death.'” The broken Overton Window. Molyneux and Whittle on the case (video). What a guy! Plus, more chaos (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). The Left Accelerationist argument for Trump.
Terror and politicization. Post-ISIS super-jihad. Yes, there’s a problem. The WMD angle. Oops. Under the rock. Narrative collapse. The case for cultural profiling. “New horrors are likely ahead — that will continue America’s turn to the right.” A return to borders (1, 2, 3). Islam breaks the Left. Obama’s on it.
Media in crisis (see also). Hiding the decline.
Classical mastery.
Nostalgia for apartheid. Roots of black resentment. The real lesson of Clock Boy. “The Antiracism religion, then, has clergy, creed, and also even a conception of Original Sin.” In black and white. East and West (comment).
Hive Mind reviewed (see also). SEK III. Try capitalism (or not).
Stoicism 101. Harrowed by Hollywood. Recruiter. Confused (but fun).
Tech trends. Buying in to the nightmare. Shockley (Part 1).
“Science is dead and what’s left is raw power.”
Tegmark reviewed. “Bullets are magic.” ISS on the chopping block. Pluto video. Dark fire. 4D celestial mechanics. Quantum indeterminacy. Quantum hell. Beyond the End. Flaky (but fun).
The transhumanist candidate.
Research which can actually deliver any results are behind closely guarded corporate doors. Those clowns, who are trying to gain some political capital on transhumanism ect does not have slightest idea what is going on is this field. Elites club only. Once about 15 years back I have seen transgenic pig lab in South Korea. A lot of cutting edge equipment and also Controled rate freezer. Once I saw this device, it become clear this project going to waste tons of money and deliver nothing. People, who know how to freez cells not found in such projects and they do not buy controled rate freezers, they buy vacuum vitrification machines (completely out of reach and of market, for non elites at present).
Similarly everything what this guy is talking is the dead end in the future. While a lot of problems with related issues been solved long time ago (Elites only). Who knows what Novartis is doing in stem cells for last 20 years – nobody knows. top level researchers (nobody knows names), cutting edge stem cell research facilities, attached university and hospital and no information and no pubilcations, besides ordinary carees papers. I know it sounds like conspiracy theory, but it is actual state of affairs. if some times ago gap between media publications and actual research was like 2-4 years, now it 15 years or more. science is not dead, it just got on dark side.
Do those corparate guys who spend billions need any political clowns and Pentaganon advisers any close to thier faclities? So, what is left for media persons is getting increasing looks like science fiction.
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Erebus Reply:
December 13th, 2015 at 5:02 pm
The Transhumanist candidate, Istvan, is a cretin. I once tried to read one of his books & it was nothing more than slavish, third-rate mimicry of Ayn Rand — but much more poorly-written & with a character modeled after Istvan himself as the mighty hero! (LOL.) His “three laws” of transhumanism are completely retarded and unserious. I consider myself a transhumanist, but I wouldn’t vote for Istvan if he were running for local dog-catcher.
..Your comments are extremely odd, though. You’re basically asserting that there’s a conspiracy in pharmaceutical and biological research. What proof do you have?
>”if some times ago gap between media publications and actual research was like 2-4 years, now it 15 years or more.”
This is just completely untrue. In fact, it’s laughable how wrong you are. University PR people are always in a hurry to rush results out of the lab and into the press — even when they’re preliminary, or not really worthy of mention. The PR folks who work for industry can be the same way.
…Regulatory (FDA) approval for therapeutics can sometimes take as long as 15 years. Don’t confuse that with media reports, pre-clinical work, etc.
Anyway, what you’re saying is “elites only” seems like wishful thinking to me. Speaking of Novartis: They’re currently testing HSC835 which, as the name indicates, is a haematopoietic stem cell product. Trials are recruiting now — check out clinicaltrials.gov
(They’re a public company, they need to make money, keep clear accounting records, meet regulatory approval, etc., etc… it wouldn’t do to get involved in conspiracies.)
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Posted on December 13th, 2015 at 2:33 pm | QuoteSomeone please break out ‘Trumpophobe.’
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SVErshov Reply:
December 13th, 2015 at 3:18 pm
feer of trumpets
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Alrenous Reply:
December 13th, 2015 at 4:12 pm
Someone photoshop The Hair’s texture onto a brass instrument.
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As a matter of fact, no. Zero mathematical constructs contain self-aware beings. They all die to Ockham’s razor. All you need to describe them is the math. Ergo, all they are is the math. Additionally, the subjective must be ontologically real. Math is objective, thus separate.
Taylor Hornby is a third-rate intellect. Tegmark says many interesting, novel things, but Hornby seems to have an instinct for the incorrect, stale things.
I wonder if Tegmark still answers his email.
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Posted on December 13th, 2015 at 4:38 pm | QuoteThank you for including us. The main story this week is that Trump broke the race/taboo line and has survived, despite all of the pundits and wise hipsters assuring us that he would burst into flame at that moment.
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Posted on December 13th, 2015 at 6:23 pm | QuoteThe Dark Fire paper compounds my suspicions that physics departments are learning far too much from humanities departments about the black art of “making up subjects and getting people to pay us to agonize about them”.
‘Dark matter physics’ is science’s ‘Minority studies’.
A fictitious discipline predicated on a blinkered faith in the infallibility of the zeitgeist.
Ethnic group X performed to a to a lower standard on test Y?
“Well, it must be on account of a invisible bias on the part of the people who write the exams. Couldn’t POSSIBLY be that they are actually dumber.”
Galaxies not spinnin’ the way the equations say they should?
“Well, it must be magical invisible matter that dwarfs the effect of normal matter. Couldn’t POSSIBLY be that the equations are incomplete.”
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Alrenous Reply:
December 13th, 2015 at 8:26 pm
Dark matter is real. There’s a photo. Google up the Bullet Cluster.
That said, it could well be anything at this point. Happy Pixie Dust civilization can’t be ruled out. You know, with ponies and cupcakes. Or aliens. Or both.
There were lots of alternate theories. MOND. Miscalculations of redshift. All ruled out by the Bullet Cluster.
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I prefer to remain anonymous Reply:
December 13th, 2015 at 10:18 pm
It’s worse actually… The entire field of cosmology can be dismissed out of hand. But it has nothing to do with the ills that plague the “softer” “sciences”. (This one’s a genuinely hard nut to crack.)
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Moly and Whit, everybody’s favourite knit sweater-wearin’, Gran Torino-drivin’ crime-bustin’ Youtube celebrity cop duo. It’s waiting to be written.
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Posted on December 13th, 2015 at 8:30 pm | Quote