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mircea_popescu: the notion is not so unlike "what if we diffed asts". it's a bad idea because now you want the "encoding".
mircea_popescu: you always want to pay in silver and be paid in gold. that's the rule ; that "nobody knows it" has little bearing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why not ? if bitcoin were weaker than fiat ?
mircea_popescu: the rat's preference for cheese over charcoal is dispositive in the matter.
mircea_popescu: that they picked a specialist which handles bitcoin storage is not germane ; the rat also picked a specialist which handles the fats cycle, called a liver. this doesn't mean the rat dun eat, nor does it mean charcoal is cheese or vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: mno. all fiat companies are the same company, call it the united states department of business fronts.
mircea_popescu: oh wait, the divisibility fallacy ? "the rat doesn't eat because the mouth doesn't hold on to any food!" ?
mircea_popescu: moreover... why do you think a company would take bitcoin, but refund in fiatola ?
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, i can't hear you over the sound of worthless dollars sloshing around. what was that ? i didn't... try hard enough to find the real place where they don't have meat in exchange for rubles ?
mircea_popescu: i couldn't care less, but sum up the trades for the day, do they come to $100 ?
mircea_popescu: passive niche support is what the game is all about, because indirect effects overwhelm direct effects in nature.
mircea_popescu: just like men clean up their kitchen to ensure their survival, just so fungi dirty up the kitchen, to ensure THEIR survival, and of the rats, cockroaches and other elements of the same ecosystem.
mircea_popescu: kinda the deep reason smart people are so very hesitant to join anything. which is all the better - a divided elite is how the plebs get to pretend they matter.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the way "tech" works in the us aka sv is very simply : get the "hipster ass rorbros" on the wagon, then sell them out later for mass market.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, technically he asked alf, so there is that. none of our bidnis :D
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ahahaha i thought you meant that apple pr piece, i was totally lost here.
mircea_popescu: well... what was he declaring haram ? i'm confused on that part.
mircea_popescu: more's the point : whatcha mean with the haram halal thing jurov ?
mircea_popescu: anyway ; intel knows him, "one of the more accurate predictors of apple's earnings" ; guy's been announcing "apple building new company" bla bla for a year
mircea_popescu: i have nfi who beil cybart is ; but the article in question is spun copy, a notch under of the conceptual value of fanfiction and about on par with wikipedia articles.
mircea_popescu: i've never seen more reluctant male even among the actual mongoloids.
mircea_popescu: it's impossible to know, apparently the "hello i am joe of clan moe" is no longer taught in primary school.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i dun recall the specifics but i think this may have been grafted not endogenous
mircea_popescu: (general here means exactly the same it does when i say we have a general cure for infection. it's not that nobody can die of infections ; but that there's antibiotics, which mostly work.)
mircea_popescu: which is the deep reason for a major redistribution of research resources from other fashionable causes to cancer in thepast decade, as cartman aptly observed.
mircea_popescu: there's been various successful tests, including prostate-cancer-rat achieving complete remission through 1 iv application. so we have maybe 50-50 chances to see a ~general~ cure for cancer within our lifetime.
mircea_popescu: since recently dna understanding improved significantly, and the workings of the immune system, esp in its binding functions, became more understood ; and since complex molecule synthesis muchly developed as well, a universal cure for cancer based on the principle of getting alpha-amanitin bound to a specific tumour cell seeking protein seems altogether very feasible.
mircea_popescu: and to round off the "fungi are interesting" general literacy thread - the way most (and the most) poisonous mushrooms work is through a substance that inhibits extremely selectively rna polymerase 2. this makes the affected cells unable to reproduce, and hence the "eat destroying angel, get cramps/diarhea in three days, drop dead in 7" effect.
mircea_popescu: they are some of the most diverse biota, possibly 5 to 50mn different species.
mircea_popescu: there's a good few millions of species ; 10k would be a negligible dent.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> i dunno, output a list of 10k items ? <
mircea_popescu: (actually, for they reading to educate : most fungi live in more or less mutualistic relationships with lichens ; a few with trees, which are advancedlichens)
mircea_popescu: governments, turns out, tend to waste their resources.
mircea_popescu: which is why i say, not much seriouys work done on the actual topic.
mircea_popescu: yes, but there's a very few fungi that are industrially relevant
mircea_popescu: in general they were directed at "interesting" things which didn't include fungi
mircea_popescu: if they did produce anything useful in the above vein i've never seen it.
mircea_popescu: which should prolly be a decent grant topic for the curious.
mircea_popescu: but afaik nobody has done serious work on "order species by spore resistance to proton beam illumination".
mircea_popescu: there's planets with wild volcanoes of ethylene in our very solar system. red dwarf may make them rather pleasant.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's some possibility their spores made it out into outer space.
mircea_popescu: except things like dog vomit, or the previously discussed black alcohol modl. they've been here fopr a long long time now.
mircea_popescu: trinque this doesn't explain why ants aren't like trilobytes see. most species are extinct, ants are uniquelly successful at the game of life.
mircea_popescu: "anthill optimizes for anthood" is a very true if not particularly useful statement. and the type of "anthood" variable could be... "anthillyness".
mircea_popescu: there's no requirement that the world makes sense in my categories, see.
mircea_popescu: anyway - the reason the yaching ant is such a good example is because - it COULD just fucking cut off the god damned sail. couldn't it ? just drag the seed without the air drag ?
mircea_popescu: what's this, "i'll make sure the turing machine don't ever stop, i'm having too much fun" ?