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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
mircea_popescu: you're trying to sell this conceptual model where in alt-nazi germany one can be hung for being a jew ONLY IF working as a clerk.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's provably false : if they did, you'd know what the definition of aryan is.
mircea_popescu: mod6 he has 6 of em. they're rated 280ish to 310ish ea
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because they can't afford to pay smart people enough.
mircea_popescu: so like 2.269 satoshi/day or did i just broke the maths ?
mircea_popescu: X-Rob well, i dun know em, i dun trust em, and we have a similar problem : you're not in the wot.
mircea_popescu: but i guess the lower one would work. how'd you feel about a longer term deal ? willing to move on the price a little ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, so get the guy in question to come here. we were looking for someone to rent from anyway
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well not rly, just, get diff more in line with mkt value
mircea_popescu: however, it's purely academic. so it takes more blocks. same deal.
mircea_popescu: mod6 he has a point, it doesn't move more than 4x either way on a recalibration