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mircea_popescu: one way to get in may be to just buy bitcoin, if you don't think it's overvalued atm
mircea_popescu: robonerd i don't think anyone's lookingto give away hardware atm
mircea_popescu: wouldn't be the sole client. you've seen the faq right ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even if he had, it'd hum just as nicely.
mircea_popescu: otherwise i don't trust them things personally, but ymmv.
mircea_popescu: robonerd perhaps asicminer if it's not overvalued iyo.
mircea_popescu: and if you choose to be...well... nothing wrong with that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think mpex quite clearly showed you don't have to be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually there's a lot of macos surprisingly
mircea_popescu: my suits are handweaved by teary eyed slves out of their own hair!
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla house. i got a garden and there's also a 2nd floor
mircea_popescu: point being : to attack the internet today you need to contend with something 1 trn worth of large.
mircea_popescu: and how it sucks to be the emperor and not be able to have a motherfucking glass of water
mircea_popescu: they forbid him drink water. he has this elegia about water somewhere, about how great it is
mircea_popescu: thing is much like btc, the net doesn't have a fixed purpose.
mircea_popescu: yes well, if you define the purpose of the net as "exchanging research papers" then it's totally hydropizic.
mircea_popescu: there's like 1 trillion worth of equipment deployed in support of the net atm
mircea_popescu: anyway, im really looking forward to more peeps with business / financial / legal / whoring / etc experience joining btc
mircea_popescu: coding is a high civilisation adventure, which means quite perverted
mircea_popescu: he proceeds to just code, never check, never design for fault tolerance, nothing
mircea_popescu: anyway, benkay : new kid wants to impress everyone with his cool skills. is warned about what the failure modes are and what is expected and what to check.
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv this is a point, they're unwittingly/unintentionally short both asic and btc
mircea_popescu: i've not yet actually fired anyone at mpex. it's not quite large enough to have a hr to do mishiring
mircea_popescu: this discussion re hiring/firing ppl has nothing to do with mpex, it's my larger experience
mircea_popescu: in general the way things work in the western world is if you wish to be hired by X you wil be
mircea_popescu: new kid wants to improve X with Y supertechnology we old stuffies don't know abou
mircea_popescu: benkay in general it goes EXACTLY like the bitcoin shit went down.
mircea_popescu: that's i think the motivating factor : one clever idea, lots of value in it.
mircea_popescu: this isn't a universal np problem they're approaching but a well defined subset
mircea_popescu: this is the problem with "Devteam". they're not devs, they're kids looking to impress.
mircea_popescu: i guess we will have > 9000 of them by the time year's out
mircea_popescu: This week meets more stagnancy of deploying. But in the last few days we poured 0.5TH/s into our mining farm as the installing of power cables in the new place goes on. The total hashrate grows much less than this, mostly possibly because of the bottleneck in our local network setting. We are still identifying and fixing the problem.
mircea_popescu: if it loses another 6k or so it'd just make things "fair"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla listen, this is how conferences work in any biz
mircea_popescu: ai isn't wits, really. but anyway, i always imagined the headlines. "bitcoin provokes singularity"
mircea_popescu: but ai won't exist until there's an edge application which makes money.
mircea_popescu: because i always thought that minsky & all may be nice and good
mircea_popescu: but i always suspected this is going to be the one way we end up with ai
mircea_popescu: you know you can work on other people's ideas just like you can work on other people's daughters