asciilifeform: Darkstone1: if this is even remotely possible to do to you - and probably necessarily so if your bot is less complicated, than, say, 'eurisko' - give up.
asciilifeform: to continue the oscillator analogy: nitwits running simple bots will show up as 'line spectra'.
asciilifeform: berndj-blackout: nope. to run with the mechanical analogy, the system has a certain amount of 'dampening'.
asciilifeform: other people - who have hammer - should be presumed to have worked on it, as well.
asciilifeform: and yes, i must admit i worked on this. but let it go, from lack of hammer.
asciilifeform: in fact, even if you do not know the actual strategies - you can discover the system's 'resonances' by repeated hammer blows.
asciilifeform: then you can, if your 'hammer' (ability to move price) is large enough, manipulate.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall how self-proclaimed (or accused...) alchemists were treated. do you mean to say that, if they were put through the right punishments, they would have discovered neutron bombardment synthesis of Au at economical price?
asciilifeform: low intrinsic complexity - yes. encrusted with 'accidental complexity - also yes.
asciilifeform: this is the fundamental reason why 'software sucks'
asciilifeform: unless you can actually build 'borg' that share a mind, rather than just army or clan, the organization cannot understand mechanisms too large for the cleverest member to understand. for any useful value of 'understand.'
asciilifeform: but the analogy falls apart here. what we have, in organization, is cray's 1024 chickens.
asciilifeform: well sure - ultimately all organization is based on this
asciilifeform: one can chop heads if job is not done, but if it isn't doable given the available constraints - you just end with a tall pile of heads
asciilifeform: until the entire machine stack (chemical, electronic, os, etc) fits in a human mind - doesn't have to be that of alcoholic bum off the street, could be six people alive - then you have a system a reasonable man will sign his life under.
asciilifeform: also it is possible that i used a bad example. man has indeed invented hydrogen bomb. but securing 50 years of turdolade by 'fixing mistakes' is more akin to jumping 1km. no athlete has jumped 1km, and beatings will not create one.
asciilifeform: conceivably, most of the mass present.
asciilifeform: to create the bullet from shit-diamond, it is necessary to remove most of the extraneous matter.
asciilifeform: notice that the analogy is closer than one might like
asciilifeform: but if engineer tells you this, you will kick him.
asciilifeform: russian saying 'you can't mold a bullet from shit' isn't strictly true - you could, had you sufficient energy, convert the shit into diamond and have bullet
asciilifeform: feminist environmentalist dies of contradiction - hormonal pills, pissed out into the ground water, destroying rare fish - etc.
asciilifeform: (and yes - we know author of 'heartbleed.' and he's alive and well and still contributing code to public projects, afaik. why? don't ask me)
asciilifeform: so when do we learn the name of the malicious-c-contest artist who gave us 'shellshock' ?
asciilifeform: (fingers were already published, for anyone who needs my fingertips to unlock a nuke or whatever)
asciilifeform: wanted to see if anyone would notice.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell ben_vulpes puzzle, because am n00b: http://imgur.com/a/JggcG << why does parting tool produce a spiral finish? and what determines the geometry of the spiral?
asciilifeform: it is really a unique sort of retardation when people pretend like airplane was just invented now.
asciilifeform: argentina drones, unregistered real estate << and none of this happened with ordinary piloted airplanes ?
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: they'll easily be seen again when another wretch, like dpr, is captured and sat upon an anthill until he coughs up private key
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: at present, the door opens when i open it. just end up having to go back inside to eat.
