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mircea_popescu: given X as
the
total count of moduli bytes, what is
the formula
to extract
the
time for ideal machine running ideal algo
mircea_popescu: i find it particularly concerning
that at
the one point in history science fiction need not
to any degree and in any sense mean future
mircea_popescu: and
then well...
takes over
teh world and
there you go
mircea_popescu: with an ex uni rector shooting cannon rounds at
the duma
mircea_popescu: imagine - as a plot for a very cool sfish
thing -
that real-world 1984 SU actually had bitcoin invented by one of
the guys
there, and
the cause of
the collapse was
the fight between
the intellectuals and
the bolsheviks
mircea_popescu: which is why i'm fuckign
thankful
the obedient horde country collapses already.
mircea_popescu: we'd be in
the position were we'd be humble followers on
the much cooler
tmsr bbs.
mircea_popescu: better off in
the sense of same exact bitcoin maaaaaybe coupla years later [or coupla decades earlier ?] and we wouldn't be in
THIS position
mircea_popescu: it's writen by a windows imbecile
that nigh on put lamp in
there!
mircea_popescu: neither c, nor unix, nor lisp for
that matter were written by people who had computers at home. you understand
this, right ?
mircea_popescu: and also back when going on
the internet was,
technically, fraud and
theft,
the internet WAS ACTUALLY WORTH FUCKING STEALING
mircea_popescu: which is exactly hoiw all
the shit we use now was written i nthe first fucking place.
mircea_popescu: at
the absolute very least you should be able
to get a university in fucking brazil with a key ffs.
mircea_popescu: but if you ARENT
they why
the fuck whine, clearly your notions aren't worth
the fab
time!
mircea_popescu: there is ~no possibility of
this sort of evolution, and what more can be said.
mircea_popescu: the only specious
thing here is
the strange notion
that somehow
they'll get aliens
to do
the work in alien ways forever.
mircea_popescu: "but
those fucking hurt" "fuck you, evil guy" "but i need
them for dentistry, for uterine retraction, for" "FUCK YOU!!!!"
mircea_popescu: this argument is rapidly collapsing into a "these damned dentists moved from using fireplace
tools
to actual dentist's chairs, and i won't have one at home and i won't ever be able
to have
teeth or chew now"
mircea_popescu: because same board with
the signed bios can be made with... different key.
mircea_popescu: there's very good scale effects
that deeply favour us.
mircea_popescu: the factories will be
there
to make
the shit, and an eight hour run in one will still be 1/1000 or less.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand something fundamental. if
the whole blockchain
takes 200 yottahashes
to dig up, one block still only costs you 200 yottahashes / 60 * 10, ie 0.15%
mircea_popescu: so all
the grannies will buy
the shitstation. all
the better.
mircea_popescu: da fuck i care
that
the mpstation is 500 and
the just-as-good shitstation is 19.95
mircea_popescu: we specifically do not care of
this nonsense, we are not feeding
the consumers.
mircea_popescu: in
the sense
that if it's for > 9.95 it might as well not exist
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform>
this is why
the existence of nintendos was not an evil until
they approached becoming
the ~only available~ machine. <<< "only available machine" here means something very marketing-driven
mircea_popescu: as it is
today, chinese plants run
two shifts a day
to make iphones for apple and one shift
to make bootlegs for
themselves.
mircea_popescu: we've already agreed
this "general computer" is idiocy, what's all
the agitation about. it still is.
mircea_popescu: in short, we're ideologically in
this funny position where on one hand we want
to bake bitcoin miners straight into silicone, and
this is fine and good ;
then enemy wants
to make signable hardware and
THIS IS EVIL. but it is on one hand what we do, on
the other hand unavoidable due
to
the idiots and on
the
third hand perfectly ignorable. so
they make
theirs and we make ours and whoopdedoo.
trinque: would his experience of
the
thing be general purpose, or would it be constrained by me
trinque: so
then, perhaps *I* own a computer and he may use it via gossipd if he doesn't piss me off
trinque: and if nobody's around
to love you enough
to kick your ass, you suck
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for
the same reason roman youth was retarded. because people are born retarded and it washes off slowly.
mircea_popescu: no,
the reason
there's no folks younger
than 20 here is because folks younger
than 20 are retarded.
mircea_popescu: so you find a discarded mp-signed bios and
turn it on and it prompts you
to make a key and heck... wtf is
this.
mircea_popescu: maybe she meets phf at
the weekly chaikowski
teas or whatever
they do.