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a111: Logged on 2017-05-25 15:19 mircea_popescu: it may not be
the end all be all, but if you fail
to impress me with your idea, you don't have an idea. absolute minimum bar,
the master's eye which fattens
the cows.
gabriel_laddel_p: also hard drive died last night, so have
to auth via a systemrescuecd + usb which sorta sucks
a111: to fix
the UNENDING STREAM of precious bull run
ben_vulpes: only
tool i need in
this life i keep between my legs
a111: and i didn't even need
to bring any
tools!
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, in
the dinner date conversation ideas, "who'd win a fight between
the greatest douchecanoe and
the worst shitlord ???"
ben_vulpes: "ah see you'd have
to be a cis het shitlord for it
to make sense."
mircea_popescu: how
the fuck
their
thinkers work i have no idea, but probably something with symmetrical scintillations.
mircea_popescu: right right, because it's irreproducible AND
THEREFORTE VALUABLE.
ben_vulpes: because you have no god, you athiest, and cannot
think for yourself, you american
ben_vulpes: you know,
the church of progress where you pray, self-flagellate,
to eudaly and hardesty et al for wisdom and guidance
ben_vulpes: it's progress you see,
they weren't going far enough before
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: didja see
the list of hated business i posted a few days ago?
mircea_popescu: "here's something else
than what i was
talking about doing something else
than what i was
talking about,
therefore."
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't want
to do it again.
this is a cosmo kramer idea.
mircea_popescu: you will... know because you measure
the distance, and because no masking epiphenomena may exist ? really ? because your clocks work so well
that
they can be used against photons
themselves, and calipers ditto ?
mircea_popescu: this is almost better
than
the nuclear pykrete submersible aircraft.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-24 22:16 asciilifeform: previously i
thought
that you could not have an auditable single-crystal rng, but possibly
this is not so : if you make it so
that only co-incident (on 2 detectors) gamma is picked up, you can 'yoke'-audit 2 units by placing back
to back around
test source.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger it's just "in principle", aka "only happens
to niggers, couldn't happen here, we're pravoslavniks!"
Framedragger: asciilifeform: on second
thought, i didn't have an idea in mind. i just
thought "huh, how
to have continuous/streaming verification of data, i.e. not have
to send data in signed *chunks* (if want
to have verified/signed data)"
Framedragger: i guess no way
to use luby code or equivalent on
tcp huh
jurov: um...signing
that would be problematic,
then
jurov: idea: what about providing fuckgoat output in realtime, as
tcp stream. maybe i'll do when i get some
trinque: I like
to live dangerously
trinque: imma just xor all your posts
together for
the rest of my life.
Framedragger: oooh nice. /me yet
to generate 1gb+ of entropy, will post when
that's done
a111: Logged on 2017-05-25 17:42 asciilifeform: while we're on subj, i'll say
that
there is probably a good reason why most commercial faux-rng makers don't offer a sample download.
jurov: i had and experiment
too, in 3 months went up
to 420k blocks, but found out
the cheapo ssd failed
BingoBoingo: In other news negrodamus finished sync experiment a few days ago for a roughly 6 month sync
time in
the wild with spinning rust. Is at present mostly keeping up (i.e. 3 blocks behind atm)
Framedragger: aha i guess
that's
the main uh political bottleneck
trinque: only use I'd have for such a
thing
NoMyName: Ok, I know what a lemma is, I have had
the occasional quandry, I don't know what
the
three premises are?
NoMyName: otay,
that was not a bot answer...
NoMyName: I have seen your name everywhere in
the blogs of record. Bingo! Boingo! Are you a person, or a bot?
NoMyName: My daddy is dead, but he was a very fine doctor, and
taught me
the value of knowing
things.
mircea_popescu: which is why "open source" is fundamentally useless.
the poor idiots
trying
to hallucinate
the poor idiot world where
they can't be cut down for being poor idiots.
mircea_popescu: the principle is solid :
the fact
that someone from stanford published a shitty piece means
THE WHOLE USG is now negrated, if
there's not a lower node
to negrate.
mircea_popescu: old царь-государь press law was plain : author, responsible ; if can't be found, editor ; if can't be fouind , owenr ; if can't be found -
typograpgher.
mircea_popescu: "the whole
thing, mp" "yeah well,
that happened
three seconds in."
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the overarching point is
that risk per se is not
the problem. unmanageable risk, of
the sort
that arises in poorly defined situations, is
the problem. which is why open source is fundamentally useless, be it in
the fdorm of ubuntu, or wikipedia. who do i negrate ?
lobbes: (+mircea_popescu) mod6 i can't imagine lobbes 's have any issue lending
the bot, once
this is all in place. << yeah, no issue here. I'd be honored
to have genuine entropy
traded via bot
mircea_popescu: "water -- literally falls from
the sky, and he BUYS it." afghan would have a lulz.