asciilifeform: good way reducing to zero, nine of those votes, can wisdom ever issue from your ten.'
asciilifeform: 'If of ten men, nine are recognizable as fools, which is a common calculation,' says our Intermittent Friend, 'how in the name of wonder will you ever get a ballotbox to grind you out a wisdom from the votes of these ten men? Never by any conceivable ballotbox, nor by all the machinery in Bromwicham or out of it, it will you attain such a result. Not by any method under Heaven, except by suppressing, and in some
asciilifeform: it's out of a bizarre lsd trip idea that 'crowd has wisdom' and voting can sum intelligence
asciilifeform: i just don't get it. people keep asking to bake 'democracy' in
asciilifeform: and what does one need to smoke to see the pluses of the concept of letting competitors vote on whether you can spend your coin ?
asciilifeform: pankkake: doesn't exist yet, and it already modified my crypto processes >> impatient man can, theoretically, make his own, just based on the description.
asciilifeform: i described this here when first found the channel, somebody (mp?) said, 'this is being built'
asciilifeform: idea was, you send, e.g. some btc to addr A, in n parcels. low bits of the parcels encode, e.g. an ltc address. to which the corresponding amount of ltc is then sent.☟︎
asciilifeform: 'if only one could slake hunger by rubbing stomach.'
asciilifeform: e.g. the plot of american tv series 'silicon valley'
asciilifeform: one of the few interesting things about our local turdmeister is how his scriptwriter was supplied with a defective 'world build' narrative by the brass. e.g. that folks in this channel eat, sleep, jerk off to, the eternal dream of being uplifted into the vc circus
asciilifeform: the exchange described above usually happened in class, where you can't square off
asciilifeform: mr spam & his claims reminds me of 1st grade in ussr. kid-1: 'my father can beat up your father' kid-2: 'my father is a general!' kid-3: 'my father is a general and has own tank!' kid-4: 'well! my father...'
asciilifeform: benkay: in the name of lucifer the all-merciful - why!?
asciilifeform: re: louis slot and his jamming screwdriver into slot << even more appropriate name, E. Забабахин (Zababakhin) - one of the authors of the russian h-bomb. roughtly 'bringer of big boom'
