asciilifeform: learn which bits to put my hands on << i find this - in essence - to be the most handy test of who is worth dealing with as human vs meat
asciilifeform: if you want something your grandchildren might be able to copy, even if they cannot read - chemical photography. - that, or ink...
asciilifeform: error coding is a trivial problem - to any desired degree of redundancy
asciilifeform: very few things store as much (relatively) high fidelity data, and are at the same time as easy to duplicate, as film.
asciilifeform: just skip the nitrocellulose, none of this problem then
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, it decays. but this is why the young apprentice must copy film he inherits, etc. [insert post-apocalyptic hypotheticals]
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: film lasts a good while, easy to copy and compare via low tech means
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do confess that at one point i toyed with the idea of rom-like storage on consumer 35 (or 16)mm film.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just gotta bring back antifuse. it doesnt really get much simpler than antifuse.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i recall - szabo disagreed
asciilifeform: how many times i see zooko triangle brought up as if it were physical law.
asciilifeform: if all but a few lost the chain << no problem if we have... singable checkpoint hashes.
asciilifeform: to deliberately torment the btc-is-eeekvality crowd: WORM storage gizmo suggested as gedankenexperiment earlier could easily accept updates signed with hardcoded key from liege-lord
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one day, people will encode checkpoint hashes of blockchain as human poetry.
asciilifeform: one basic function in such a gadget is that it ought to be able to compare itself, via direct electrical wiring, to another one purporting to be identical.
asciilifeform: storing bits that never need to flip again ought to be technologically simpler - on basic physical level - than the normal kind.
asciilifeform: standardize calendar sync. and snippet length - so if you own one, you will always know if it works - compare to another one for same time period
asciilifeform: wonder if anyone else has toyed with the idea of hardware purpose-built to store blockchain. think ssd, but write-only (antifuse! etc)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: advantage of making both in same batch -> you do it whether you want to or not. process yield.
asciilifeform: Namworld: not entirely nonsensical. see the story of the intel 486 dx - and many subsequent chips
asciilifeform: 'How long can something be held as wrong before its practice is discontinued? A long, very long time, much longer than we think.' << from mp's taleb page. in our case, synchronous logic.
asciilifeform: mike_c: you couldn't find one example of ascii promoting s.nsa shares << well, let's be fair, i never said 'don't do it' - hence, wagen.
asciilifeform: wait since when does this work in calvinism
asciilifeform: calvinism always sounded like a pretty easy religion to follow. i.e. just do whatever you want
asciilifeform: i've always wanted to ask an actual live calvinist! : wtf do they bother to attend church, carry out services, etc. if predestined.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: taleb link << mighty interesting
asciilifeform: same animal that appeared to tunnel under house (cat, afaik, cannot actually tunnel)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: on the contrary, i should like to tame this one. he likes to sit in the window box (once contained plants) near my work room.
asciilifeform: hurting the very thing that made it possible << thermodynamics suggests that this is kinda inevitable for just about anything worthwhile
asciilifeform: benkay: so drill first, if dry -> safe ?
asciilifeform: isn't ar one of those places where they love expropriation/dekulakization?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mike_c: transformer/bird hypothesis: beautiful, but one problem. wrong room.
asciilifeform: either that or mp has defective u.s. implant and i have a defective nsa camerabird.
asciilifeform noticed that bird is still at work - and beginning to destroy expensive mosquito nets, tearing with beak, shitting continuously. i go out and set five mouse traps on its shit perch plank. two minutes later: unrelated bird whacked. i pick up carcass to throw to the kittehs, it comes back to life & rockets away, leaving glove full of feathers.
asciilifeform: to be fair, 'render unto caesar...' was written before caesar was synonymous with 'batshit'
