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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
think what was being contemplated was more akin
to a synthetic amoeba
than a mechanical sheep.
ben_vulpes: especially and in particular
the underwater stuff.
gabriel_laddel: ^ ascii, I've mentioned
this idea
to 3 people - all reject it on grounds of "it can't be
that easy, my school had all sorts people working on
these problems and
they never
thought of it"
ben_vulpes: you still have
to program
the meta layer.
mircea_popescu: afaik
the woman's idea was "hey, what if we made robots capable of altering
their own geometry,
that way
they won't have
to be pre-programmed"
mircea_popescu: MUCH better
than
the buffett out. "i leave my money
to bil lgates"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform:
this is not
the war you grew up idolizing. it's war, which means it's going
to be horrible and unpleasant for all involved.
mircea_popescu: but now
that i did look, it seems clearly
that
the
thing works.
ben_vulpes: <decimation> what's wrong with enslaving yourself
to someone better?, <asciilifeform> decimation: nothing - it's called army << do reconsider la serenissima in
this light
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, what's
the objection
to macarthur prizes ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah merely reference
to a discussion in logs a few days ago
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: is
that *your* harem's burn rate?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you didn't end up beaten as a result of
this ?
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> if someone sent me 100k (magically,
tax-free) i'd do... what?
take 3 mo. off, spend
the next 9 looking for next gig ? << good grief your burn rate, man.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: sets
the
tone, you know?
gabriel_laddel: He presented someone else's program as his own.
They didn't check, being fuckwits, but eventually found out.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel
thgat
the adults are not going ot be happy.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> and blondy in black dress over
there's almost hawt. << reminds me of
the intro line newcomers
to pdx-burningman were subjected
to without fail for years, presumably if
the political correctness mob hasn't gotten
to
them yet still are: "are you hot?"
gabriel_laddel: the 'adults' are not going
to be happy about you writing a program
that converts all books in libgen.info + all papers you can get of school networks into a useful format via a combination of OCR and heuristic hackery
decimation: what's wrong with enslaving yourself
to someone better?
mircea_popescu: da fuck are some kids gonna suffer from
talking
to adults ?
gabriel_laddel: it seems
to me
the model is
to find smart, angry people, fund
them and
then when
things go
to shit, stand behind
them and keep
them out of
trouble.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform:
they don't want
them
to e.g., make a napster
mircea_popescu: best way
to get a bright kid killed is by giving him
ten bricks of benjamins.
gabriel_laddel: well, in
truth
the
Thiel fellowship doesn't even give it all away at once
mircea_popescu: ah, i a) didn't actually need
the money ; b) wasn't really about
the money per se anyway
gabriel_laddel: 2 years
to play with Mathematics sounds wonderfully useful
to me.
gabriel_laddel: the neat people in
the
Thiel fellowship are
the mathematics kids, who are sort of
the odd ones out
mircea_popescu: "Fifty-eight organizations and startups have been founded by fellows, employing over 200 people, and creating new
technologies
that are being deployed around
the world."
gabriel_laddel: "If we show up at
the border with
That We're going straight
to prison!"
gabriel_laddel: I, with
the devil's own smile, invite
them
to
take pictures
mircea_popescu: "Alum and current fellows have produced more
than $100 million in economic activity including investments, exits, revenue, and grants. "
gabriel_laddel: but yes,
there are a lot of indians, which I didn't previously notice
decimation: the purpose of
the game would be
to 'sink' hours of
the otherwise idle usg employees