asciilifeform: might, for a spell. and then sell it to some weirdo who might, for lulz, eat it on camera
asciilifeform: normally when people contemplate 'superintelligent' whatevers, if they use their imagination well, the machine is to us as we are to the bacterium
asciilifeform: (attributed to warsaw ghetto death diary)
asciilifeform: 'and when we had nothing remaining to eat, they gave us a turnip, they gave us a beet. 'here have some mice, have some fleas! here, have some typhus! die of disease.''
asciilifeform was palpably dismayed, felt that the place must be in dire straits
asciilifeform recently visited a restaurant he frequented as student, and noticed appearance of placemats with (very spammy) ads.
asciilifeform can't immediately picture who might see wot the way he sees ads on site, but admittedly hasn't tried hard
asciilifeform: being in wot doesn't void yer starfish warranty.
asciilifeform: a bitcent a day << more than i'm willing to spend on lotto
asciilifeform: pertinent proverb, 'if guard knew [what's in the box] he'd pinch it himself.'
asciilifeform: notably absent from menu is 'retain army of thugs who know that spheres are interestingly secret'☟︎
asciilifeform: if you (org.) want to keep secrets, the menu is roughly: a) employ incorruptible fanatics b) keep all henchmen incommunicado, in 'шарашка' prisons c) there is no 'c.' tertium non datur.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'A security officer informed him that the orange he left on his desk was, in fact, a classified object. He learned that any spherical object became a nuclear secret once it passes over the line...'
