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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i recall we discussingsomething similar months ago
mircea_popescu: which is, if this switch can either kill me or kill the world, throwing it is even odds.
mircea_popescu: and by what's missing, i mean ego. the bots must consider themselves equally important to the whole world.
mircea_popescu: by crap i mean, i suspect the academic used WAY TO FEW bots. use 100s of each type, and do millions of rounds, for goof statistics. similar things.
mircea_popescu: punkman i would be very interested to see what happens if someone were to take the guy;'s idea, clean all the crap off it, and then add what's missing.
mircea_popescu: and so you can't have any sort of "conservative morality" predicated on anything in the set of ("women not being sluts", "god fearing", "wealth and power by age rather than with and connection")
mircea_popescu: i know for one i would never marry in other way than through making some old fart pay for it thus, were i living in 1814
mircea_popescu: and in principle, to make the point whole, for all those who wish the "good old days" were to return : they can not. they have been defeated in the field, through being weak to such things.
mircea_popescu: women being a... consumable commodity, which once consumed has very strong incentives to stick
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, this scam has a history older than steam. entreprising young american fellows used to canvass old world ads for girls looking to marry, then forward the details to old rich american to pay for thepassage
mircea_popescu: which is a degenerate form taken by sybil attack in the degenerate wot that escrow is
mircea_popescu: dignork even if you take the banks out of it, the escrow model is still weak to distributed identity attacks
mircea_popescu: and by now yuour defense has reduced to trying to implement a broken sort of wot anyway
mircea_popescu: that's the most you get here, a sort of up and down and all around maybe.
mircea_popescu: yes, they have to be clinically brain injured, as you say. guess what ? they fucking are
mircea_popescu: now how many "escrows" on the "market" have the sense to include a "Issued for use of X" thus defeating this mitm ?
mircea_popescu: dignork for that matter, x can simply convey d's request for proof to e
mircea_popescu: thus creating a one million btc headache for me and everyone else seriously comitted to making btc the end of western style government.
mircea_popescu: think of it, this is a space where fucktarded "community members" aptly represented by the "bitcoin foundation" and well catered for by the power rangers a) gave half a million btc to trendon shavers and then b) gave half a million btc to silk road
mircea_popescu: both are true to sufficient degree for the practical needs of the swindle in question.
mircea_popescu: escrow deals are easily defeated by triangulation, which is why wot is still a thing where escrow is a noob toy.
mircea_popescu: x sends bank acct to d, d pays to account, s receives it, s says so to e
mircea_popescu: d contacts x, x contacts s, sets up deal with e, obtains bank acct.
mircea_popescu: you (D) want to buy LTC. Seller (S) and scammer (X) and escrow (E) are the other players.
mircea_popescu: does anyone feel like putting some work into python simulation ?
mircea_popescu: to everyone other than you?). << dpends if you're aiming to lead or to follow.
mircea_popescu: Even though the measures acquit themselves well in this particular tournament, it’s admittedly easy to construct scenarios where the prescriptions of eigenjesus and eigenmoses alike violently diverge from most people’s moral intuitions. We’ve already touched on a few such scenarios above (for example, are you really morally obligated to lick the boots of someone who kicks you, just because that person is a saint
mircea_popescu: "So for example, even if someone is unfailingly nice to you, if that person is an asshole to everyone else, then the eigenmoses moral code would demand that you return the person’s cooperation with icy defection."
mircea_popescu: the proposition that it's borne by history seems also quite defensible
mircea_popescu: incidentally his definition is both a) quite strong and b) what i actually use
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you can cut off the part past 1st of may 2013, mthreat can prolly use more copies for coherence.
mircea_popescu: i aspire that one day the taxpayer should spend more on this than on finding a cure for cancer.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many privately retained vexual interpretation experts exist so far.
mircea_popescu: btw, do we have any earl of dorset/rochester / pre-"glorious" revolution experts in attendance ?
mircea_popescu: once you're on list X and they say list X got membership that's it, you got it
mircea_popescu: i didn't get what specifically is involved, other than being on an approved list
mircea_popescu: but it'd prolly be pretty sad, rather frustrating and quite boring
mircea_popescu: for that matter, i don't know how one can go through highschool thus.
mircea_popescu: Vexual i have no idea how one can go through a lifetime and fuck less than a coupla dozen people.
mircea_popescu: "A 1994 study in the United States, which looked at the number of sexual partners in a lifetime, found that 20% of heterosexual men had only one partner, 55% had two to twenty partners, and 25% had more than twenty partners."
mircea_popescu: back when she had only fucked a regimen and snorted a pail