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mircea_popescu: decimation some other guy got
a job as area supervisor of kfc, you know ? nothing wrong with it.
decimation: well, insofar as it acts as
a bezzlar sink, no
poli_: Is Milk here? I have
a question regarding Bitbets.
mircea_popescu: The concept of the technological singularity, or the ultra-rapid advent of superhuman intelligence, was first proposed by the British cryptologist I. J. Good in 1965: "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as
a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever."
decimation: asciilifeform: hey, they have
a research program
mircea_popescu: "Extropy also attempts to describe the nature of the order, so
a crystal , although highly ordered would have low extropy, but an organism or machine would have high extropy because of the informational structure contained within it. "
mircea_popescu: "Extropy is
a proposed opposing concept to entropy. As entropy decreases , signifying more order, so extropy would increase in the manner of negentropy."
mircea_popescu: "Max More (born Max T. O'Connor, January 1964) is
a philosopher and futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on advanced decision-making about emerging technologies."
mircea_popescu: "Influenced by seminal works of science fiction, the transhumanist vision of
a transformed future humanity has attracted many supporters and detractors from
a wide range of perspectives." aaahahahaha
mircea_popescu: "This hypothesis would lay the intellectual groundwork for the British philosopher Max More to begin articulating the principles of transhumanism as
a futurist philosophy in 1990 and organizing in California an intelligentsia that has since grown into the worldwide transhumanist movement."
trinque: there's gotta be
a damn circuit for this shit in the head
mircea_popescu: maybe humanity could go to transyale and get
a transphd ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how the world works. "nobody's using bitcoin, nobody could have foreseen their using
a plane as
a rocket and nobody's doing anything better nor anything better could exist than ... you know, raising awareness"
mircea_popescu: why so shy you know ? what's wrong with "Transhumanism is Thiel's stab at b-
a. He thinks Omidyar's stab at qntra failed for reasons unrelated."
mircea_popescu: once people try to be run by
a bureaucracy however... god help'em.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the computer of meat approach may well explain why it sucks so bad since 1900s. not
a bad heuristic.
trinque: but doing the accumulation as
a good in itself seems to be where the insanity lies?
mircea_popescu: voltaire was
a great fan, what are you talking about ?
trinque: I can see the point;
a space is declared within which rules and processes accumulate
trinque: person was
a fucking moron who worshipped big govt
mircea_popescu: (the Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts, et des metiers. was essentially
a b-
a of the time fork of human knowledge of the time. it was wildly successful in spite of being mostly wrong)
trinque: mircea_popescu: sounded like
a nothing term to me, meaning "accept that this is so"
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 02:38:35; trinque: PeterL: I was looking for
a definition of the phrase
mod6: yeah, and .01337498 and
a bunch of other small amounts
brendafdez: If that was
a feature, we'd be using Freicoin
brendafdez: <Luke-Jr> if there is
a nominal inflation that is automatic (beyond the very low percentage caused by mining) that would incentivize spending, and since people want to spend it, adoption (people will accept it). << sounds like keynesian braindamage
trinque: PeterL: I was looking for
a definition of the phrase
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <n3xtb1gthng> is there
a philosophical reaosn you don't build some level of seigniorage into bitcoin? (as some alt's have)? << about the same sort of philosophical reason as not building
a tail into you.
n3xtb1gthng: cazalla you can both spend money and get money? The definition of
a 'currency' is just
a unit you do this in?
n3xtb1gthng: danielpbarron, I disagree. if twenty people are trading seashells at
a rate of twenty trades happen per day, that is high adotpion. at the rate of 1 seashell gets traded per year, that is low adotpion. adoption = spending.
Luke-Jr: n3xtb1gthng: such
a thing would violate the social contract; altcoins don't have
a preexisting social contract to adhere to
n3xtb1gthng: danielpbarron, I'm totally unclear. spending literally == (=========) adoption, when it comes to
a currency?
n3xtb1gthng: I mean
a low percentage of seigniorage, not like 10% inflation or anything.
n3xtb1gthng: Luke-Jr, I mean if there is
a nominal inflation that is automatic (beyond the very low percentage caused by mining) that would incentivize spending, and since people want to spend it, adoption (people will accept it).
n3xtb1gthng: seigniorage would incentivize spending and usage/adoption. (even at
a very moderate leve.)
n3xtb1gthng: is there
a philosophical reaosn you don't build some level of seigniorage into bitcoin? (as some alt's have)?
BingoBoingo: n3xtb1gthng: Well,
a bitcoind build that is bigendian friendly for PPC, SPARC, and 68000 would be the tits
danielpbarron: why does gribble's vwap go away whenever there's the slightest volatility? and why does the vwap work if you get
a quote in terms of ounces of gold?
mircea_popescu: to no-one's surprise except i guess
a coupla code monkeys here and there who really bought the "doocracy" koolaid.
brendafdez: Oh, that's sad, I though I knew eho they'd just hired to look for them. "Yeah I suppose the sad story in here is that if you show supposedly literate teenagers the insides of
a USB stick they may be seeing it for the first time, and if you demand they point out the actual memory cores to save their lives they may well not be able to."
http://trilema.com/2013/how-to-airgap-a-practical-guide/#comment-95546 mircea_popescu: i wouldn't ask cisco for their own heads on
a platter.
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2014 04:49:54; asciilifeform: all you have to do, then, is to pile on the meat puppets, until suddenly there is
a 'controversy', and there are 'points of view', and eventually -
a 'consensus.'
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 02:28:39; asciilifeform: 'On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such
a question.'
Luke-Jr: it's managable with
a single implementation
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1058664 << contrary to what you might have erroneously come to believe
a) 0.5.1 version as printed by the bitcoin foundation is the cannonical version of bitcoin ; b) various groups of scammers trying to attack bitcoin are continuously pushing their own versions of solidcoin, which has all the importance of ms boring's bitcoin chamber of commerce.
☝︎ BingoBoingo: Anyone have
a link for britania's private key siezure turding?
mircea_popescu: through
a bunch of ignorant twerps using words they don't understand the meaning of, in the context of their self-allocated importance ?
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 01:06:01; asciilifeform: how does
a db end up thought of as part of the protocol ?
BingoBoingo: At the time of the 2013 fork I humbly though resolution would be possible. I mean it is just making DB's agree. Yet... LevelDB is
a mess.
BingoBoingo would rather not have to run
a Bitcoind in -leper mode if he gets more powerful sparc hardware
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: M:N threading was
a solaris-like, more-performant-than N:N threading model that nate committed to netbsd, but due to its complexity had to be backed out because nobody could maintain it or reliably fix bugs in it.
midnightmagic: like the really unfortunate backout of the M:N threading model on NetBSD. that was
a sad time.
midnightmagic: yeah, kernel devs. In context, running bitcoind on -current, probably not
a great idea given extensive -current history of breakage
BingoBoingo: Luke-Jr> OSs are not
a consensus system << No but every OS fork is
a far less grave experiment actual onsensus systems must consider
Luke-Jr: OSs are not
a consensus system
BingoBoingo: The entire FreeBSD 10 series is
a replay of the 5 series retardation on steroids
midnightmagic: asciilifeform: they dodged
a bullet and nobody's called them on it