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mircea_popescu: way to let one's own wounded narcisism get hold of the whole cart.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why exactly do we suspect very intelligent machines would reproduce ?
mircea_popescu: wikipedia goes through an entire bio article without resolving her relationship to the max more dude.
mircea_popescu: apaprently the future is with bad lipstick and weirdo muslim headwear.
mircea_popescu: i love these scientists that don't even bother putting magic numbers in the code anymore.
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."
mircea_popescu: In the mid-1970s F.M. Esfandiary legally[5] changed his name to FM-2030 for two main reasons. Firstly, to reflect the hope and belief that he would live to celebrate his 100th birthday in 2030
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: god im sick of fucktarded usians giving their name to random items.
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: Founder of the Extropy Institute, Max More has written many articles espousing the philosophy of transhumanism and the transhumanist philosophy of extropy,[6] most importantly his Principles of Extropy (currently version 3.11)
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: basically this is scientology bahai ? do they speak esperanto ?
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."
mircea_popescu: maybe humanity could go to transyale and get a transphd ?
mircea_popescu: check it out lmao, an international cultural and intellectual "movement" that aspires to one day... label soemthing!
mircea_popescu: "The most common thesis put forward is that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label posthuman."
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: "This article is about the futurist ideology and movement. For the critique of humanism, see posthumanism. For the pattern of seasonal migration, see transhumance. For persons experiencing incongruence between their actual gender and the gender assigned to them at birth, see trans man, trans woman, and transgender." << best part imo.
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: "Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities."
mircea_popescu: even patently retarded stuff like "Smart contracts" seem preferable by that experience.
mircea_popescu: once people try to be run by a bureaucracy however... god help'em.
mircea_popescu: for as long as bureaucracy = the slaves of peter, or julius, or w/e, that may well work.
mircea_popescu: the other thing is : bureaucracy makes an excellent woman and an applaing man.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the computer of meat approach may well explain why it sucks so bad since 1900s. not a bad heuristic.
mircea_popescu: voltaire was a great fan, what are you talking about ?
mircea_popescu: sorta like how wolves would make excellent guard dogs, if only they stopped going and killing all the sheep and stayed at the fucking door instead.
mircea_popescu: trinque bureaucracy has its uses. the problem is that the context it'd be useful in and the context in which it thrives are so wildly divorced.
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)
mircea_popescu: nonsense through and through, but whadda ya want, encyclopedists, ie transhumanists v1.0
mircea_popescu: god isn't the first warrior anymore, which all other warriors owe fealty too, god is now the first contract which all contracts are derived fro
mircea_popescu: markov how, all the dude was talking about before were genius biznis ideas and stuff.
mircea_popescu: interestingly enough, all the idiots are the same one idiot.
mircea_popescu: Jun 07 17:31:33 *ninjashogun (~User@catv-212-96-61-236.catv.broadband.hu) has joined #bitcoin-assets
mircea_popescu: srsly, random shitheads know what things are now. what is this, the future ?
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.
mircea_popescu: especially seeing how the ~60 or so nodes left running are really not enough for 2012.
mircea_popescu: to no-one's surprise except i guess a coupla code monkeys here and there who really bought the "doocracy" koolaid.
mircea_popescu: the bitcoin rules are defined by what important people use, and as it happens gavin & co are unimportant.
mircea_popescu: if that were the actual criteria, then "bitcoin" would be green and printed on paper.
mircea_popescu: and no, bitcoin's rules are not defined by "what people use".