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mircea_popescu: there's a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular security hole
mircea_popescu: well that's all i had :D
nubbins`: i'd imagine so
mircea_popescu: i wonder idly if anyone even realises that the turing machine space has by now been explored MUCH more in depth than the human genetic space, for instance.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i dunno man, to me it's the crowning achievement of a particular sort of technopunk, which is what 50 years of soviet industry really is.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i don't get it, is the french govt running an isp ?!
nubbins`: i wonder had she ever seen an air compressor in use before?
Tetra113: i was spending alot of time reading about bitcoin shares/stocks
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 21:44:19; danielpbarron: basically anything ascii wants in book form, I would probably also want
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 21:34:56; BingoBoingo: I have the most intense hangover
mircea_popescu: i have nfi.
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 21:10:47; felipelalli: mircea_popescu: Where can I find objective arguments against BTCJam? As a lending service and reputation system? And what are the alternatives for P2P lending or we don't have? They have 113,000 users, should they be ignored?
RagnarDanneskjol: trinque - i am occasionally using the nick for continued development on punks ver. if anyone here's partial to the name I can pass it over. Wow that xm42
ben_vulpes: <trinque> jurov: had the thought once in meditation that I was always... hm... thinking everything I've ever experienced all the time << i've not read it but this was the proust routine, yeah?
cazalla: mircea_popescu: im thinking cazalla bingoboingo thestringpuller danielpbarron right off the bat, cazalla lemme know who else should go in the magic dozen. <<< pete_dushenski, PeterL might be interested, personally i think while nubbins` would do a great job, it's something i would look at once, put in cupboard and forget about ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i guess i wouldn't make a very palatable politburo member.
mats: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/fighting-isis-in-iraq-how-british-soldiers-and-other-european-troops-are-helping-train-the-peshmerga-10096952.html << based on this, i thought it may be a folgore
asciilifeform: because 'whaddayamean i'm to be hanged for buying ibm'
mircea_popescu: "i dunno, never seen ffcd or 21aa in malware b4!!1"
asciilifeform: mats: packet-in-packet attack (see also, described in that neato phrack thing you linked to, i spent all day leafing through it, you wrecker you) or even frame-shift-mutation in genetics, etc
asciilifeform: and i have not been able to figure out why it is there on certain times but not others
asciilifeform: the interesting thing, from where i stand is, 1) the rope 'counts' but the sidewalk it follows, or the line of trees - do not
asciilifeform: there is a little hassid enclave here where i live. they have the 'eruv' (ceremonial rope boundary) that establishes a zone where they can sorta do things on shabat
nubbins`: it might as well be "i can fly over a cemetery as long as i'm playing tetris on a nintendo game boy"
nubbins`: "i do my own plastic work"
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 00:04:53; jurov: i'd fuck myself. we'd only have to resort to reading /dev/random about who goes first.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1061226 << i agree, the first thing i'd want to ask my long lost twin is if they wanna fuck. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: if i were 20 years younger i'd take the sluts to whatever cons on this premise.
asciilifeform: i've thought about it myself
mircea_popescu: i'd read a technopunk sf novel working on this exact premise.
asciilifeform: perhaps i was thinking of a gnat, hm
mircea_popescu: actually i watched mosquitoes bite, and the head movement really resembles a tank tower.
asciilifeform: at any rate, it was a hypothesis, and i only know of any support for a restricted version of it
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1061162 << ftr, this "qualified" does exactly nothing. i dunno who thinks themselves qualified in the topic. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i forget who first described it
mircea_popescu: iirc i said then, i mostly measure intelligence in person by derived units, such as reaction speeds.
asciilifeform: incidentally, my (i don't exclusively claim it..) myelin impedance matching hypothesis - is testable.
mircea_popescu: im normally 6"2 but i woke with a headache and im only 4"10
nubbins`: all i'm arguing is that stupid people have kids, and their kids are given stupid food and provided with stupid stimulation and forced to interact mostly with their stupid parents and their stupid friends
mircea_popescu: i like naggum's points.
asciilifeform: but i've misplaced it
nubbins`: i feel shiftlessness is much more a product of upbringing
nubbins`: worst rabbit hole re:math was one winter eve i found myself thoroughly intoxicated at a party i'd wandered across
nubbins`: sucks, i like apples ;/
nubbins`: i developed an allergy to apple skins
mircea_popescu: i know.
mircea_popescu: decimation i suppose technically.
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> you become more like your "true self", which just happens to be dead. <<< oh ho ho ho, i like this
mircea_popescu: but that aside : you will note that if i make a bitwise copy of a running system on anothjer system, eiteher will continue independently. if i then set the second on fire, the first is unharmed. whether the 2nd "Thinks" that "it" = "the first" is harmed oir not is irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: http://edge.org/conversation/the-normal-well-tempered-mind << fwiw, i am still not convinced that the electric neuron is not the correct approach. the problem is that it should be stateful. i am half tempted to model what happens if you run a grid of these with say 255 states per.
mircea_popescu: i am rather persuaded by shaw there.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure that's what it is.
mircea_popescu: but, in turkey, at the height of the syrian refugee crisis, i numerously observed various people selling food gifting items to pregnant syrian women.
mircea_popescu: i dun think there's anything that can be done in a whole decade of "education" that's as valuable as kid having mother at home first year.
mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned, giving a mother a year off at childbirth is perfectly reasonable.
mircea_popescu: decimation other than the genetics of intelligence, the children is another way i get conservatives enraged.
mircea_popescu: honestly i don't think this has ever been different.
mircea_popescu: i'da made the comment there, but apparently greenspun doesn't know how to comments.
asciilifeform: from guillotine thread: a: 'I want it, is it for sale?'
mircea_popescu: i did, actually.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> no if you read the article, the 'startup' is actually a division of tucows, the domainame freeware site << you know twocows i actually like.
nubbins`: i once saw thomas edison electrocute an elephant
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 17:35:40; asciilifeform: the one common anthropological thread i see here is that most governments insist on some 'national' symbolic meaning in their chosen means of execution. e.g., the french guillotine across all five 'republics'
decimation: asciilifeform: I don't get why we don't still use the guillotine
nubbins`: man, i remember tucows from back when i had to buy a book to use the internet
nubbins`: if i wanna see a card trick, i don't want you to hold the deck face-up
decimation: yeah I guess that's the idea, but it seems dubious that usg will tolerate such behavior
nubbins`: this is all the sort of thing i understand while reading it but don't really copy it over to long-term storage
nubbins`: quantum tunneling is when i go outside but skip the door
asciilifeform: decimation: i always mistrusted this explanation. beasts do not need to sense their deaths to turn up expired in some inaccessible place.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know what i'd like to see, a reality show of this guy and athene the best paladin in the world (with his mother)
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1061025 << i suspect the importance of that is strictly local. ie, some club of idiots got owned by this concept specially constructed for their particular disabilities. ☝︎
nubbins`: i actually ran into this guy in berlin last summer, hey?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i recall discussing that guy last year.
asciilifeform: this is an ancient mega-war, yes, i know.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i remember correctly, usg is on record saying they lack the ability to input a printed gpg privkey.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i drew a pcb card for mircea_popescu half-seriously
asciilifeform: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ryw4r_eG--/18s0bpicjpxufjpg.jpg
nubbins`: what am i gonna do with a steel business card
mircea_popescu: o gawd, looking for stuff I r find... http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/extradited-by-my-rubber-ducklings.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not a gpg-enabled lawyer, i take it
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/pxZ4arA.jpg
nubbins`: not sure if i have pics handy, but i know there's a couple cards downstairs
nubbins`: mircea_popescu i never understood the concept of a "paper erection" until i got into this biz, ya know
danielpbarron: i don't think i've seen that movie
nubbins`: i actually need to print more for myself
danielpbarron: i collect the things
danielpbarron: i literally have a crate of business cards saved up
nubbins`: lel, i kid
mircea_popescu: i guess it's time to come up with a byline for it hm.
danielpbarron: i like simple / white background black text sorta thing
mircea_popescu: i can go for that as a qntra perk. you gonna be willing to keep the design and make more of the same if these folks run out / for new folks ?
asciilifeform: well there, certainly. but i'd argue that usg implicitly takes ownership of the wild things here
asciilifeform: possibly some mix (i can think of a situation where it is precisely about ox damage)
asciilifeform: (the crown, who will go after me if i show up with a rifle and a kebeb grill ready to go)
mircea_popescu: or the one before that. or i suppose most of his links.
mircea_popescu: i am quite certain at least someone does.
asciilifeform: to rephrase - i'm not certain that anyone knows how to 'civilization' without producing more of this material than anyone knows how to pour into concrete and bury
mircea_popescu: "o look, the usual crutches i use to hide my idiocy don't work, now it's nude on display".
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "a strange happened so i badded it" << quite.