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assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 23:49:08; mircea_popescu: i suppose to be cracked the same way all of them get cracked - guy with immense downlist and very well connected gets off his lazy, stupid fiat-ass and goes through the wot selection process. then has enough spots specific and high level enough to interest the locals. seems a tall order.
asciilifeform: but yes, the ONLY possible thing i would ever consider a job upgrade is ... not having to leave the house, or talk
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1428365 << i do unspeakable things to pay billz (not in a literal cube, but this is the ~one~ saving grace) ☝︎
jidan: just a pleb.. hoping to see some chat
mircea_popescu: a real life drama.
mircea_popescu: anyway. apparnetly, not married, living together for 15 years, he owns the house, she's basically a tramp, dude drinks and nonconsensually humiliates the woman, had been driving her nuts the whole night, she lost it, is now sorry, tried to fix on teh spot, visits at hospital etc.
assbot: ATAC BIZAR de 8 Martie: O femeie i-a TĂIAT TESTICULELE soţului său pentru că nu i-a luat FLORI ... ( http://bit.ly/220XLih )
mircea_popescu: http://www.evz.ro/o-femeie-i-a-taiat-testiculele-sotului-sau-pentru-ca-nu-i-a-luat-flori-de-8-martie.html << holy shit it's real.
mircea_popescu: what, next you're going to say we have actual proof the usg had been running a string of massive conspiracies, such as you know, inserting backdoors in software, such as "parallel construction", such as iran contra, such as whatever the hell.
mircea_popescu: might as well demand trump learns a foreign language.
mircea_popescu: i suppose to be cracked the same way all of them get cracked - guy with immense downlist and very well connected gets off his lazy, stupid fiat-ass and goes through the wot selection process. then has enough spots specific and high level enough to interest the locals. seems a tall order. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: and so... not yet a cracked nut.
fluffypony: yeah, seemed a colossal waste of time in the end
mircea_popescu: when s.mg needed a tech hand diana_coman got it ; the job wasn't on the market nor would s.mg have continued had the job had to go to the market.
Azelphur: I worked for him for a little over a year, he stopped paying me, now I hear he's taking web dev work and telling clients I'm working on their projects...I quit back in December and have no knowledge of said projects
mircea_popescu: a while back, yeah. don't think it worked out too well in the end.
fluffypony has a vague recollection
mircea_popescu: well, for that you'll have to get into the wot, establish yourself, read the logs for a while...
shinohai: Nice logs again someone must have given nubbins a xanax.
asciilifeform: also i will note, it is somewhat more difficult to bludgeon morons as a dervish, than from a dirigible.
mircea_popescu: let me tell you a story.
asciilifeform: and did 'go for jugular' on quite a few, see comments ?
asciilifeform: most recent comment- a few days ago.
assbot: And Gavin moves on to the dark side. The Bitcoin project is officially hijacked on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1MvB8Kx )
asciilifeform: yes, a small reactor...
mircea_popescu: ALSO for the job of rescuing children, "social media", or rather, the social media facade of b-a works better than iq.
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mircea_popescu: thing is, social media does a better job of this.
asciilifeform: a difficult, thankless job, that is becoming usg-illegal, for decades , slowly
asciilifeform: thing is, they actually do a job.
asciilifeform: i once spent several months trying to devise a machine-generatable test that ~could~.
assbot: 10 results for 'eysenck' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=eysenck
asciilifeform: it isn't a breakage. iq does not test the 'rng' (eysenck's 'psychoticism')
trinque: +asciilifeform | but the 'brain learns' thing is pure nonexplanatory obscuratronium. << what, you thought I was satisfied with "learns" as a complete description?
mircea_popescu: fine, have it. we still understand flight to a larger degree than cognition.
asciilifeform: computer, as i like to point out, very much is a boeing with feathers.
asciilifeform: i would say that we ~understand~ a thing if we can fully separate the ~accidental~ complexity of it from the ~essential~.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was not a question of building anything, but of understanding, neh ?
mircea_popescu: a nucleus.
mircea_popescu: the general complexity of the cell is perhaps the chief lie of popular conception of biology. "oh yeah, nucleus, cytoplasm, yeah i recall". you recall my left foot. golgi apparatus. a whole set of vacuoles. the nucleus has a membrane in layers. there's dozens of different items in there we don't even fully enumerate - and your understanding isn't good enough to stand for the mithocondria, which, incidentally, also has
asciilifeform: nobody's built a mechanical bird (ornithopter) worth half a shit yet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's very little to be explained, so far. "the brain consists of a varying set of individual cells, in the billions, which have a number of internal states that have not yet been enumerated either in the collective or reliably individual cases, which connect to other cells through a process they apparently to some degree control but is not otherwise understood, forming patters that are not meaningfully
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assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 16:31:41; trinque: this leads to being able to wire visual inputs into the tongue, and having the brain eventually learn to make a picture from this
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1427882 << hey, and the brain learns to make a food out of hamburgers eventually. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 16:31:18; trinque: I have a friend in prosthetics who once explained at length to me that the brain doesn't begin knowing how to see, smell, etc
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: they have these bar stools at work for the high tables. the obese people will sit on them and so the pneumatic pump goes out. so now when a normal person sits on it, it slowly sinks down. everytime it happens I'm like "yup an obese person sat on this"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is correct, lsd is psychoactive in micrgram dosage. which means that yes, go to coca-cola plant, come out a liter of lsd lighter, enjoy fireworks in a billion people.
mats: a pound of the stuff in a local water source sounds like an interesting experiment
asciilifeform: it is likely that no more than a dozen litres of lsd ever EXISTED on planet3.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron> to whomever was running a brute force on my wordpress login << there's thousands of boxes working this 24/7. "seo industry".
mircea_popescu: nice tho, had me wtf'd for a little.
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 21:51:30; mircea_popescu: no, guy is just some derp trying to find a place in usg, as opposed to b-a or isis or whatever. that's all.
mircea_popescu: is this a hoax ?!
mircea_popescu: "The Police recovered over $500,000 worth of lab equipment stolen from the University, along with 3 hand guns, an assault rifle, 50 years’ worth of military grade rations and twelve 55 gallon barrels (including three almost empty barrels) of what DEA labs have identified as pure liquid Lysergic acid diethylamide, a powerful hallucinogenic drug more commonly known as the street name LSD or Acid."
mircea_popescu: no, guy is just some derp trying to find a place in usg, as opposed to b-a or isis or whatever. that's all. ☟︎
assbot: The necessary prerequisite for any change to the Bitcoin protocol on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1UTpmg4 )
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/the-necessary-prerequisite-for-any-change-to-the-bitcoin-protocol/#comment-116750 << people come to trilema, seo their link. trilema gives them a gift in exchange.
assbot: 18 results for 'armstrong' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=armstrong
danielpbarron: to whomever was running a brute force on my wordpress login, yeah I noticed. time to find a new IP
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: a lot of the snoooooore-fest article coming from likes of armstrong and company, sound like stuff people would rant at occupy wallstreet
thestringpuller: i guess that's all a miner is really...
thestringpuller: sounds a lot like proto-mining 2013
asciilifeform: 'The cracker is built out of surplus Grass Valley HD video transform boards, scrapped by GV because of defects. A useful tool was developed to assist the board reverse-engineering effort.'
asciilifeform: 'NSA@home is a fast FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker. It is capable of searching the full 8-character keyspace (from a 64-character set) in about a day in the current configuration for 800 hashes concurrently, using about 240W of power. This performance is equivalent to over 1500 Athlon FX-60 CPUs, which would take about 250kW.'
assbot: 0 results for 'http://nsa.unaligned.org' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnsa.unaligned.org
asciilifeform: (summary: article elementarily demonstrates that a hash of the sha1 type could be designed with trapdoor. and then argues nonsensically that we 'know' there could have been none such.)
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danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1427870 << i just woke from a nap when reading this, and convinced myself that ~I~ had accidentally skipped up a couple lines and read it again ☝︎
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm admitting it as a sin, not proposing it as a moral.
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 13:38:44; assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 13:33:19; *: mircea_popescu is incredibly fucking glad he never gave in to the temptation as a child, and systematically never regarded go as anything above or beyond parlor trick to entertain oneself with teh nude houri postcoitally, in spite of perhaps reasonable and well reasoned arguments to the contrary.
mircea_popescu: it is/was a wot game.
asciilifeform: but also that a thrown match was almost impossible to conceal from expert eye
asciilifeform: somewhat relatedly, my understanding of the history of go, is that match fraud was historically a rarity
asciilifeform: also if lee sedol is not thinking about the 'maximize exposure' thing right now, he'd have to be a fool
mircea_popescu: the argument is there. not particularly strong. also note that the bar for bitbet arguments is crazy low. we've seen absurdities argued the likes of which would scare a highschool teacher.
mircea_popescu: not with a machine.
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, i read http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1427949 and wondering about footnote x. despite standing to lose some coin, i do not see how the bet ought to be seen as a sham ☝︎
asciilifeform: as far as i can tell, turks carried on a healthy, 'asiatic' sort of unbureaucratized barbarism for quite some time - witness how well they got on, for how long, without banks, for instance
mircea_popescu: dandians, duzians, twas a thing.
mircea_popescu: speaking of ancient arcana - who even noticed that the soviet ideas of central planning are a direct calc copy off the way turkish empire ran ?
thestringpuller: well i was more under the assumption philosopher stone of AI (a sorta Star Trek TNG "Data") doesn't currently have a means of existing
asciilifeform: it certainly added up to a coherent whole, at least once you cut away the obscurantist armour.
thestringpuller: since not being a chemist that is a blurry line
mircea_popescu: a young consumation girl [ie, whore], otherwise clever and vivacious, receiving some caviar aside the mug of vodka, proceeded to explain some matters t ome.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: perhaps different outlook, knowing you can't emulate human mind on current machines. perhaps the only way to "true AI" is some cyborg thing of a brain plugged up to machinery...
assbot: Caviarul si fata on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1TLJTnM )
asciilifeform: for this, the 'artificial A-student' suffices.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> but the other kind. << there's a deep reason the bayesian religion is widely appealing.
mircea_popescu: nah. much older, was in a tail end of a discussion of art iirc
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo it sorta ended a larger piece, ima trilema. << cool
assbot: The GUI, the twerk and the most valuable resource on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1QDMaNV )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually it was in a pm convo
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it sorta ended a larger piece, ima trilema.
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mircea_popescu: trinque> it also seems to suggest that mind-amplification << mind amplification is really an everyday thing. that's what b-a does, and before b-a that's what the internet tried, and before that books, and so on.
mircea_popescu: and so a community of sorts emerges.
mircea_popescu: the one with the army which, going through a field, encounters the same problems all the previous ones did.
trinque: this is what I'm aiming to say, that my friend has said he knows very little about *how* the brain forms a picture, only that it will (waves hands) learn to when given input representing one