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ben_vulpes: i discern
that people are really bad drivers
mircea_popescu: now,
that
this quest is doomed should be obvious. but what's
the emperor
to do, accept facts ? no
teenager yet has admitted his inferiority
to
their archnemesis cum rival yet. it's just not
the way of
the highschool. and so...
mircea_popescu: for as long as reality resists formulation,
there can't be properly speaking globalization in any meaningful sense ; just
the pretense of it readily defeated in practice.
mircea_popescu: you may find a maximum, but it will be localized.
this is no good.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes some basis upon which a single authority may stand. see
the problem with
the reality function is
that it does not have calculable maxima.
mircea_popescu: similarly here, every socialist state since hobbes' leviathan made some attempt
to subjugate aquitaine,
that horrifying heterodox place where riches spring from
the very soil.
ben_vulpes: 'ai'
to handle
the unexpected situation/'unknowns problem'?
mircea_popescu: so
they did what
they could do, invest in immortality pill research.
mircea_popescu: much like ancient chinese emperors had a very firm limit on
their reign. no matter what anyone said,
their divinity however described still ends one day.
mircea_popescu: that common
thread is nothing novel -
the socialist state
through its central planning committee encounters
the unknowns problem. for as long as
that is not resolved,
the socialist state is doomed in principle.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's a common
thread going
through
the google go ai, attempts
to "secure
the banking system against risk",
the surveillance state / internet of
things / smart cars and so on.
☟︎ ben_vulpes rummages for
the ultralight 'bigdog' sketches
ben_vulpes: i don't hafta
toss my sims out
too, do i?
mircea_popescu: other
than
the (actual) fact
that
there's nothing necessary about existence, perfectly sound AAA+++ science. would worship again.
mircea_popescu: how exactly "in order for you
to exist, water must be pink and freely float in
the atmosphere"
turned into "fact: water is pink and freely floats in
the atmosphere" has a lot
to do with
the hidden "i necessarily must exist" prior.
mircea_popescu: this is correct, but also hardly a fact. just
the constraint.
mircea_popescu: in simple words, "the only hope of an our democracy surviving
the republican age is if some mechanical method
to
turn noise into sense is devised"
mircea_popescu: yes yes, except it's as far from a fact as it could possibly get. it is, in nucet,
the HOPE of usg "ai" work.
ben_vulpes: "Fact: Adversarial examples generalize across models
trained
to perform
the same
task, even if
those models have different architectures and were
trained on a different
training set.
This means an attacker can
train
their own model, generate adversarial examples against it, and
then deploy
those adversarial examples against a model
they do not have access
to."
BingoBoingo can't wait
to hear what
the SADFAG of
the day is!
mircea_popescu: hanbot
that's a pretty freaky series you got going
there
mircea_popescu: i
thought new york chartered
towns get ceos not mayors.
mircea_popescu: "and
tonight in Department of State and Ginzu Knives, CHER AND SONY BOOOONOOO!!!!"
hanbot: why not Cher, at
that rate
mircea_popescu: "i have
this guy, and if you don't like him... i have another."
trinque: in
the particular instance mentioned, guy was what, "oh I'll
tell everyone about
the aliens once I get in
there!11!"
trinque: carter could get
thrown out of anywhere
mircea_popescu: total and utter despair,
the 15yos going "dad owns
the house, he could
technically chop down
the
tree, and
there's nothing we can do
to prove
to him it's really ygdrasil!!1"
mircea_popescu: “The president is
the original classification authority so he has enormous discretion about when and under what circumstances
to do
that,” Zach Goldman,
the executive director of NYU’s Center on Law and Security,
told Gizmodo. “If he decides he wants
to read classified documents in
the open, I don’t know what
the intelligence community can do about
that.”
mircea_popescu: besides, if he has it on him, you know, like in a "sikrit place" like
the whitehouse
tree fort or under
the covers, it could stagefright/illuminate
teh "sikrits" usg supposedly has.
mircea_popescu: well ostensibly not logging into an account
that everyone now watches, because if it gets hijacked jets may get scrambled.
mircea_popescu: also he's
tweeting off an ancient samsung galaxy. much
to everyone's aghast anger.
mircea_popescu: "and it'll piss a little on
the courts
too. seems like a great move. are you ready
to suck
the cock yet ?"
mircea_popescu: "hey, guess who wants
to spitroast you all ? i... could put him in charge you know."
mircea_popescu: that's such an epic dead cat
to hold over
the libertards lmao
mircea_popescu: btw,
trump actually gave state
to petraeus, at least on
the declarative front.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes but
this is supposed
to be done prior not ex post facto.
mircea_popescu: experiment = 1. statement of phenomena being observed ; 2. description of experimental set-up and measuring
tools ; 3. explanation of working
theory and 4. statements of fact
that stand
to be falsified. all 4.
mircea_popescu: "this is an experiment
to establish
the density of water. we will be using a densometer
to measure it, expect
to see values in so and so range, for so and so reasons" etc.
mircea_popescu: you know,
they usually do some statement of what's being experimented when
they do an experiment.
mircea_popescu: that's
the moral here : just how resilient
the shit is. amorphous
therefore eternal.
mircea_popescu: specifically because it was contrived.
the gcc shit is a conceit, not real shit.
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm not
trying
to persuade, i am merely stating
the possibility.
mircea_popescu: moreover, it was historically
trivial
to predict
their predicaments and ambush.
mircea_popescu: specifically because
the llvm heads discussed earlier apparently don't get very far.
mircea_popescu: we got more
than its weight in gold,
to date, from
the happenstance
that bitcoin is made of ~pure shit.
mircea_popescu: the jungle is a shitty forest no civilised man would wish
to live in
mircea_popescu: which is what i meant re contemplation. not
the sort of problem you usually enjoy, ergo not
the sort of system you'd of your own choice make.
mircea_popescu: perhaps. but
the CORRECT cut in
there is a very high paygrade item.
mircea_popescu: "wtf anti-civilised non-engineered process is
this
then!" "words are given man
to hide his
thoughts, bro"
mircea_popescu: take
this "send
tx" "well bro...
there's no guarantees" item.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it may be worth
the contemplation
to consider
that bitcoin is
the specific sort of
thing you'd never have actually made specifically because its strengths are
the sort of
things you personally hate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider it one of
the many benefits of single-node "man and his fortress" outlook.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why you're doing
this skidding
thing anyway, not like
there's some sort of emergency.