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asciilifeform: i should like to learn how these were assembled.
mircea_popescu: i saw that kinda flea market
asciilifeform: when i was a boy, these were being sold, laid on carpets in the town market, right next to rabbits and dogs
mircea_popescu: i never read the damned books, but the challenge is interesting.
mircea_popescu: for the record, i just started writing a solution to that harry potter thing.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2015#1037971 << "i have an idea... let's pay isis people to tweet anti-isis messages instead of beheading our guys. a) it worked for the idiot usians and b) it's easier to do, right ? which is what the consumers have come to expect" ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2015#1037958 i don't even want to get into a discussion of how barbarously stupid they are. ☝︎
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo i think you need to cut the space there
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2015#1037942 << i found one before too! your bot's like broken. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2015#1037936 << i played it maybe two years ago, was a decent diablo clone. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i could scarcely conceive of an experiment to more convincingly verify the "our audience is entirely worthless" theory. it's verified alright.
thestringpuller: punkman: i think democracy and cryptofeudalism are incompatible
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: and what IS burning man but fuck club ? << not entirely this is about 1/3 of it. Another 1/3 is "Holy shit I'm on so many drugs what's even going on, how do I survive, OMG this is so fucking awesome I wanna run around and do nothing cause I have no obligations or worries at the moment." Another 1/3 is "Holy fuck that giant thing is burning holy fuck holy fuck that is fucking awesome." IMO Burns are probably the
punkman: http://qntra.net/2015/02/tour-of-a-chinese-bitcoin-mine/ << so I tried this Path of Exile game mentioned in the article
punkman: maybe I've never seen the good Java
BingoBoingo: I dunno that hadoop does anything that can't be doen better with key value stores
ben_vulpes: i must learn more incantations, apparently.
ben_vulpes: i would rather be working on satoshi c++.
ben_vulpes: do you know what i'm doing right now?
asciilifeform: and i say to him 'no, and probably never, need 1+ yr when i don't have to think about work even once;
asciilifeform: i have a friend whom i see very rarely, and often asks about 'the elephant trunk'
asciilifeform: and i sincerely hope they do.
mircea_popescu: "if you're willing to pay for ten million of these, i can prove to you that in any conceivable situation no less than 3 will be useful to your purpose"
asciilifeform: because i spilled it here, for one thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think what was being contemplated was more akin to a synthetic amoeba than a mechanical sheep.
gabriel_laddel: ^ ascii, I've mentioned this idea to 3 people - all reject it on grounds of "it can't be that easy, my school had all sorts people working on these problems and they never thought of it"
asciilifeform: (yes i can buy a 4-axis arm from fujitsu, and it'll do same thing as in 1969, whoopie)
asciilifeform: when somebody so much as asks, i'll believe there's life in 'robotics';
ben_vulpes: i'm more interested in underactuated systems.
ben_vulpes: i'll *keep* looking
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm actually pretty disgusted with "modern" "robotics"
asciilifeform: i.e. if you can get printed there, you're suspect
asciilifeform: and i use extant academia as an antiwot
asciilifeform: same problem as aids test meaning here, that i'm much more interested in the folks left bugling in the dark
mircea_popescu: MUCH better than the buffett out. "i leave my money to bil lgates"
mircea_popescu: but now that i did look, it seems clearly that the thing works.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yup. which is why i had a vague positive idea about it. never bothered looking.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc the way it worked (works? i think, still exists?) is via a kind of secret wot
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: when do i get to die in a tank
asciilifeform: just that none of the folks involved, afaik, coughed up anything i'd miss if it were thermonuked
asciilifeform: thought i wouldn't find out.
asciilifeform: which was painful because he was a family friend and a man i respected
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had to refuse the client
asciilifeform: did i ever tell the tale of how i was once about to do a little consulting for an engineering prof, and discovered that the code that implemented 'his' algo was plagiarized wholesale by his students?
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> if someone sent me 100k (magically, tax-free) i'd do... what? take 3 mo. off, spend the next 9 looking for next gig ? << good grief your burn rate, man.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i bet you could toss 19 out of 20 of'em for this
gabriel_laddel: ^ I know of one in particular...
asciilifeform: i bet they're NDA'd etc. but if you turn the screws, can probably find out.
asciilifeform: i for one would like to know if any thiel folks have been 'fired'
gabriel_laddel: Oh, I've teh insider information
gabriel_laddel: but I don't know anything
asciilifeform: but evidently i was wrong!
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i didn't think the thiel thing could get -more- snoreworthy
asciilifeform: i thought that was the point
mircea_popescu: ah, i a) didn't actually need the money ; b) wasn't really about the money per se anyway
asciilifeform: if someone sent me 100k (magically, tax-free) i'd do... what? take 3 mo. off, spend the next 9 looking for next gig ?
gabriel_laddel: I, with the devil's own smile, invite them to take pictures
gabriel_laddel: but yes, there are a lot of indians, which I didn't previously notice
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i sent her an email. iron a shirt in case shows up.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking wtf that many ?!
asciilifeform: i came up with this based on the more well-known 'schrodinger jail'
gabriel_laddel: "let me tell you a story about a mouse I caught in a field..."
asciilifeform: i can picture that if mircea_popescu ever opens a jail, all of the cages will open from the inside with a 32-bit combination lock. nobody will 'have to' sit in this jail
mircea_popescu: anyway, i was cheating a little ( http://trilema.com/2010/nuditatea-la-copii-si-sugari/ << original article where scene above is described). it just so happens that in that culture, kids are supposed to be naked pre puberty.
mircea_popescu: i doubt this is inborn.
asciilifeform: what 'work' means in the gypsy palace, i haven't any notion
mircea_popescu: in the shape of the sun, i guess.
mircea_popescu: did i ever tell you about the naked gypsy girl ?
asciilifeform: must confess, i don't know him in person
asciilifeform: i've no reason to doubt the fact of it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is true in that, technically, i could cough up tomorrow's lottery number and play and then 'not have to' and no physical law prevents it
mircea_popescu: for all i care the wot world can result in the sky combusing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, that's not it. if i were in prison, would i HAVE TO be in prison to keep the lights on ?
asciilifeform: iirc i described the kinds of thing i do for living..
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i dunno, i dun tend to spy on people writing code that much, i'm prolly the most ignorant in the room on that score.
mircea_popescu: i dun follow ?
mircea_popescu: i dun see what "in his place" would mean.
asciilifeform: i, in his place, would come up with something quite else
asciilifeform: i don't expect it tested in mouse or man in own lifetime
asciilifeform: ^ i had a physical, testable hypothesis
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i gather, intelligence is only slightly heritable, but stupidity - is very
mircea_popescu: ftr, i dun actually credit the race/intelligence theory. not that i have strong feelings either way
mircea_popescu: i was all prepared to hear 300 and say "rubbish"
asciilifeform: i, (in my mental card catalogue, naturally) call this 'the green pill'
asciilifeform: one of the mega-lulz re: 'paleoconservatives' is that most of these folks (that i've had the fortune of reading) struggle with a mental bug - they yearn to roll back to some known-good state where various old-school religions were still strong, but don't personally subscribe to them
mircea_popescu: i dun think this is controversial.
mircea_popescu: no idea why this'd be "murray's law", but at least i see something.
mircea_popescu: THIS is a fine example of what i fucking mean by educated.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I gotcha
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: this is, as far as I can tell, roughly the equivalent of reading your blog.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the intelligence vs education thing. i wish i had words to express my meaning in intelligible english. let's try by saying that a good mark of one's education is what sort of thing he fills his space with.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i meant the berkshire bet.
asciilifeform: unless i catastrophically misunderstand, ^ the bears inevitably get the coin unless a fully bitcoinized supply chain materializes for mircea_popescu and others to use
mircea_popescu: (by nh i mean, a statement which has no content)
mircea_popescu: for instance i said null hypothesis as part of a deal with my brain to allow me to continue to exist.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll add a third
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i was speaking of work in the economic sense rather than physical
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i'm not even fully certain if i hate only programming specifically or work in general
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gabriel_laddel i just parsed it as "a weird way to say mountebanks"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i appreciated your point about hating programming recently