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jurov: (original crashes after
a minute)
ascii_butugychag: because it is
a function of two inputs, the traveller and the destination.
ascii_butugychag: argentina isn't
a squalid pisshole complete with free-range islamic nutters
mircea_popescu: Wouldn't it be extremely inefficient to manufacture
a paper cup for everyone's coffee? That would be millions of paper cups per day, only to be used once. Coffee will never work.
adlai is more of
a mechanic than he'd like, something something for insects
adlai: ascii_butugychag: so, even if no single Sovereign invests in building and powering
a coke machine (or worst - CMaaS! cloud coking! etc), my point is that the collected actions of all eight billion / fifteen thousand / etc sovereigns does turn the rock into
a bit of
a coke machine
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 23:24:47; adlai: although "in" is
a suggestive word, here. I wasn't "in" anything, my acquaintance with the jail/prison/dungeon/etc system is tangential, academic, etc
adlai: it's
a reference to 'et omnia ex machina', if i may (deus ex machina meets vanitas vanitatis)
ascii_butugychag: adlai: is this
a reference to how i'd like my lisp machine to be brought as weight to me peine forte et dure ?
adlai: polarbeard: this is not self-inflicted.
a being capable of simulating your mind/soul/etc should be able to drain your btc and subsequently reclaim wasted resources
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 20:03:12; ascii_butugychag: in that he not only invented neural net, but single-handedly proved that his original conception (which meanwhile spawned
a mega-research-bubble) was
a dead end
polarbeard:
a cheap way would be to actually destroy your physical body and upload your mind to
a virtual torture chamber
adlai: so the only way i see this being
a +EV sustainable enterprise, rather than
a "let's hope the next one is hal finney's long-lost grandson", is if you entrap dearly beloved members of families/clans prepared to enter indentured servitude to keep the inmate alive
adlai: paying for
a faster death seems
a sounder business model, cf 'death with dignity'
ascii_butugychag: adlai: that is part of the scheme, yes. schmuck can go and beg for ransom to keep him alive (or alternatively to pay for
a faster death)
ascii_butugychag: at any rate, this is
a bog-standard minor variation on the ancient theme of kidnapping, with the added twist that the victim can pay his own ransom
adlai: ascii_butugychag: would you call bitcoin mining
a lottery?
danielpbarron: what use is anyone in such
a pit? why would anyone pay into it?
adlai refrains from continuing the "1984 was not
a how-to manual" department
adlai: aha, it's not
a business model... it's
a business ~venture~.
a lottery.
adlai: all i'm saying is that this is not
a sustainable business model
ascii_butugychag: how to price the meals, as i said, is
a case-by-case matter, it will depend on the suspected net worth of the inmate, whether he has someone on the outside to supply ransom, etc.
ascii_butugychag: how the coin gets to the address, is not specified. perhaps it is posted on the walls of the prison. perhaps there is
a place to key in private key. etc
ascii_butugychag: for so long as
a certain address has
a positive btc balance, prisoner gets to eat.
ascii_butugychag: i predicted that in the near future, some people (possibly including some of the folks here) may find themselves inside
a kind of pit prison
adlai: (rings
a bell but i'll have to verify)
adlai: although "in" is
a suggestive word, here. I wasn't "in" anything, my acquaintance with the jail/prison/dungeon/etc system is tangential, academic, etc
☟︎ adlai: ascii_butugychag: prison needs
a sovereign benefactor to maintain, lest it "go private" (or become just
a regular old dungeon pit)
thestringpuller: no way to avoid microshit in
a department full of Marketing girls.
trinque: one switched payroll companies midway through the year, and somehow they both ended up filing
a w2 on my behalf, roughly doubling the amount the feds expected to receive until I persuaded them otherwise
ascii_butugychag: -- it is so that he gets
a chance to fuck it up and pay mega-penalty
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 15:26:56; mircea_popescu: ~you~ "gotta" pay an accountant to keep IRS' files in order. wouldn't it be logical if THEY had to come to you with
a "here's how much we think you owe and if we're wriong we'll goi do the math again" ? who's the sovereign here ?
ascii_butugychag: in that he not only invented neural net, but single-handedly proved that his original conception (which meanwhile spawned
a mega-research-bubble) was
a dead end
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: interestingly, it is possible to arrange the pieces in such
a way that there is no voting circuit as such (as central point of failure)
mircea_popescu:
a reflection of my i don't like or trust raid controllers earlier stance
kakobrekla: does 3ware have something modern (not isa or pci slot) that doesnt cost an arm and
a leg?
mircea_popescu: there's
a one that leads the pack, then the bulk of failures, then
a coupla heros left behind, fwis.
ascii_butugychag: i've been running sets of 4 in raid5 (parity, lose-1) for about
a decade
mircea_popescu: of course... suppose
a man plays with
a model car. is he insane now ?
mircea_popescu: i meant of the specific "i'll wait for
a better deal" process.
ascii_butugychag: on mircea_popescu's planet of immortal titans it might be different, but where i live there is ~always~
a funeral and
a rehash of the process with younger derp
mircea_popescu: then there's
a funeral, and
a rehash of the process in younger derps.
mircea_popescu: and yes, i get it, everyone everywhere is holding their precious self in dear esteem and waiting for
a better deal.
mircea_popescu: hope as they might that they'll get
a certification to substitute absence of actual skill, the world still runs on physics rather than metaphysics.
mircea_popescu: more like "if you want
a billet to help - the application desk is over there ; if not, isn't there some welfare line you sohuld be in ?"
ascii_butugychag: incidentally, mircea_popescu has
a mega-point in that su, unlike british empire, was self-contained, had own set of coolies
ascii_butugychag: this, like any operation against
a thermodynamic gradient, is
a fragile and temporary thing, and tends to end bloodily, but it is why we have computer and not fucking-goat
mircea_popescu: well that, yes. what do you think is always and forever at the fundament of " you could [] still live like
a white man" ?
mircea_popescu: soviets had
a russian > cecen thing going, as
a matter of course if not as
a matter of law.
ascii_butugychag: but see, in the other usg, you could actually take up those professions and still live like
a white man
mircea_popescu: it's not
a la mode because i didn't want to trigger you.
ascii_butugychag: it gets away with whatever in exactly the same way as the usg it is
a tendril of
ascii_butugychag: so, in usa ~being sued~ typically costs you your net worth + some, if you're
a poorfag
mircea_popescu: let them in, tie them to
a steel girder, beat the shit out of them for six hours then call the cops and press charges.
ascii_butugychag: (somehow the conclusion that 'computers you can't program' don't belong in
a security application, is lost on folks)
ascii_butugychag: (there was
a spiffy talk at shmoo, which mentioned how nn used in image recognition usually imprints on what - to
a human - would be an entirely accidental cluster of pixels, and if you flip'em, it will recognize an obvious, e.g,. cat, as
a refrigerator, etc)
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 16:05:04; mircea_popescu: "Some experts have said the field of artificial intelligence is currently experiencing something of
a golden age, with deep-learning neural networks making advances in both speech and image recognition." << well, more like
a qe age.
ascii_butugychag was the keeper of
a linux cluster at
a u.s. army thing and had
a pile of magical spells, paperwork, etc. to keep the devils away from it
mircea_popescu: i think there's fewer people paying their own bloomberg terminal than there's people with
a legitimate research interest in ai.
ascii_butugychag: pete_dushenski: if 'not
a poorfag', can hire
a reverser and make linux client.
mircea_popescu: i can tell this by constructing
a humorous equivalent ot his "mpex should", except mine is both actually funny and to
a much larger degree defensible.
mircea_popescu: PeterL ah, but in the god forsaken country of romania, there's
a bunch of kings called that.
mircea_popescu: at least I HAVE
A DAMNED GOOD REASON or twenty to make the zeroconf accounting rules.
mircea_popescu: get
a fucking human name why don't you. what is this mug costanza and rifling jones bs.
mircea_popescu: we don't even have
a single harmonica per capita over here yo!
mircea_popescu: i tohught that was called
a prince albert. it's brockchain now ?
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> hausmann has
a story to tell about how and why poor countries suck, and it's not because they're untrained monkeys, it's because they need more phree airplanes or some shit <<< venezuela is what happened after
a gaddafi died of natural causes. yes the usg 5th column's unhappy that it has not yet been invited to save venezuela, they were predicting $$$ years ago.
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> mircea_popescu: LOL Trace Mayer is critiquing << i have no idea who that is, but zhe'd better get with the program because i don't see
a future for whatever wot she's in.
mod6: my terminal got all hosed up there for
a sec.
ascii_butugychag: PeterL: constraints - i insist on living in
a house, i insist on renting it, and i refuse to pay over half my wage for it