asciilifeform: be happy, while their Oprah-bots listen to them talk about their problems and simulate interest.'
asciilifeform: 'The in-laws won’t be as much of a problem either because the male in-laws will be preoccupied with sexbots of their own, therefore they will have less time on their hands to spend meddling in the lives of their relatives. At family gatherings, the men will gather around to trade sexbot programs, while the women will gather to complain about the men’s sexbots. Or may women will play with their catbots and
asciilifeform: moietybot: someone ought to cross-breed manul with the argentinian 'colocolo' - to get a thicker-yet beast
asciilifeform: 'Some women might, however, choose to coexist with sexbots, just as some European women as they get older tolerate their husbands taking up with younger mistresses. The aging wife gets to keep her status and her stable home. She has all the trappings of marriage, but she no longer functions as her husband’s sexual outlet.'
asciilifeform: 'Social skills will decline markedly after the advent of sex robots, much like the way electronic calculators degraded arithmetic skills. Because sex robots will finally allow men to be themselves. This will make men even less desirable to real women than they are already, driving men to seek solace with sex robots even more. The cycle will be vicious and I can’t wait for it to start.'
asciilifeform: anyone have the ancient link to the piece re: korean students who go through 2-3 of the 'androids' per year?
asciilifeform: then you get folks who go 'well, if we're already broadcasting, let's make exact position radio mandatory, like lights'
asciilifeform: bought out in short order, and in the higher millions << might be a little problem once the car behind/in front/side of yours has emitters
asciilifeform: one can get a pick'n'placer for $20-40K (USD), but it isn't magic - someone clueful has to run it
asciilifeform: not that 'vertical integration' is unheard of, but it rarely makes sense for a small electronics firm to buy pick'n'place apparatus, ovens, etc.
asciilifeform: think of it this way - some people are prepared to pay double, triple, the 'usual' cost for btc, so long as they aren't using an exchange
asciilifeform: i've always wondered if folks interested in mining despite the negative ROI are really just looking to convert fiat to btc by whatever means possible.
asciilifeform: hence 'lifecoin'. you're stuck with the RAM
asciilifeform: why brute force. it's like nobody gives a rat's arse enough to even try
asciilifeform: 'Current/Next gen bitcoin/sha256 asics are already at the forefront of manufacturing process, they cannot get more power efficient without waiting for a new manufacturing process to be available (14nm)' << nah
asciilifeform: any surprises therein for folks who understand the algos?
asciilifeform: except when linked here - and even then, every 50th time or so
asciilifeform: MisterE: nope. i pretty much never see bitcointalk
asciilifeform: anyone who has the apparently common distaste for the asic folks should give this some thought.
asciilifeform: likewise, scaling the difficulty in time and space becomes trivial.
asciilifeform: unless p == np, rocks fall, crypto dies
asciilifeform: and people are stuck having to compute the state transitions for the whole field, as many times as specified
asciilifeform: so long as you use an automaton that has been proven turing-complete, and use a reasonably entropic starting field state, you're pretty much safe from shortcuts
asciilifeform: (yet another 'discovery' by people long ago that herr W claimed for himself)
asciilifeform: most possible cellular automata degenerate to a steady state rather than give the kind of 'soup' one normally looks for.
asciilifeform: although it would need to be called something else
asciilifeform: one could make an arbitrarily hardware-unfriendly 'hash' using automata, merely by demanding a large and well-entropic (crypto hash of payload, bit-spread) playing field☟︎
