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mircea_popescu: i was thinking of gving you a pool to point at and forgetting about it.
mircea_popescu: so since i like you now, you can have 2 btc for the 2 month aus3 miner contract.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i considered it but it'd kinda make it only 1 guy.
mircea_popescu: MolokoDeck and also there's no cruft, perfectly standard tx, can use any webwallet, it's perfect. look no further, this is what i want.
mircea_popescu: because anyone can spend the something, and in so doing super-prove the whole charade.
mircea_popescu: MolokoDeck actually i like the model whereby the actual string to certify is hashed as a privkey then made into a bitcoin address then have a little something sent there
mircea_popescu: MolokoDeck if the worst comes to worst, hash it into a bitcoin address and send there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure, but then <mircea_popescu> does everybody know about it ?
mircea_popescu: but mind ye that all through the middle ages about half the bastards were sons of monks.
mircea_popescu: now, in usual high fiction this is resolved as a bizarre order of sworn monks and so on
mircea_popescu: and this is why wrestling any away is enough to kill the thing.
mircea_popescu: this is why the government needs both the power to kill people and the power to inflate the currency,
mircea_popescu: if they are, then they have had to have kept it historically. this is also overwhelming.
mircea_popescu: if they are not, the number of problems that appear is overwhelming.
mircea_popescu: well, either the SU keepers are in (absolute) power, or else they are not.
mircea_popescu: you're doing the psychic thing now, where you try to flee the experiment.
mircea_popescu: tales tend to all go alike for the reason that they're tales.
mircea_popescu: but if they are not in power absolutely, what keeps central government from investigating this vault as a possible alien landing site ?
mircea_popescu: what keeps central government from investigating this vault as a possible alien landing site ?
mircea_popescu: we are already accepting your hypothesis, im asking you q's as if your h was reality.
mircea_popescu: well counterfactuals are problematic, but let's see if you can get painted into a corner.
mircea_popescu: which makes jurov's fap observation quite on point : you're not describing a real, live human female here, you're describing a mythological beast abstracted out of miles of pr0nz reel.
mircea_popescu: this is directly contradictory to how the world works, and specifically because your abstract objects tend to be contextless, which requires too large an expenditure of "meaning" for them to exist.
mircea_popescu: which both, independently, work, for the greater glory of theoretical abstraction
mircea_popescu: your hypotethical is a brain in a jar separated from a pile of muscle in a barrel.
mircea_popescu: if you take "meaning" as a rough equivalent for entalpy, your thing is too meaningful to exist.
mircea_popescu: while in principle any configuration is as possible as any other, the configuration you propose is mod2. ie, if the cell index is odd, cell is dead, if not, alive.
mircea_popescu: it's not plausible. it is entertaining, but it lacks a fundamental point for plausibility :
mircea_popescu: your "mastermind", provided he exists, is drunk and insane.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a brain devoid of spinal chord can not work.
mircea_popescu: imagine if you went to hibernate like a bear, and when you came through all your shit was broken and unresponsive.
mircea_popescu: the sadest fate in the world would be for such a set to exist, ina bunker somewhere.
mircea_popescu: the gods shall strike us down thing is mere eschatology.
mircea_popescu: it somewhat shares the fate of "frustration" in the hands of popidiocy. but outside of what the reddit horde thinks, frustration is a major psychological process, the fundament of all volitive activity.
mircea_popescu: the notion that there exists an unseen reality behind the seen reality, whether right or wrong, is the very substance of mysticism.
mircea_popescu: i foresee that when you;ll be old you'll write a great kids book.
mircea_popescu: you're possibly the most mystically inclined engineer i know.
mircea_popescu: so that people couldn't like, you knoiw, steal his selfies from his plaintext gmail acct ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let me put it some other way. wouldn't you expect that if mp is conversant in pgp, so would be obama ?
mircea_popescu: you'll find much less pituitary cells in a random biopsy than muscle tissue
mircea_popescu: the stuff you want to know about, three people know. unless one of them is the source, it's not leaking.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the stuff that was leaked so far mostly follows the "brain percentage" criterion.
mircea_popescu: right now, this is faster than blockchain propagation. Basically, it will be amazingly difficulty for the coin to agree on a valid chain, because there will be any number of chains that are almost the same length.
mircea_popescu: For those that are unaware, Unattanium is a newish limited-number-of-coins SHA coin. They've recently had to fork the chain, because the difficulty calculations were broken, and it went far too high. Sadly, they've now broken it in the other direction, and the dev seems intent on ignoring this, and abusing or hand-waving the problems away. It's now running at an 8 second block time. For everyone who is NOT facepalming