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mircea_popescu: you can't train into being moon ; and if you are moon you can train while playing civ or golden axe. i know i did.
asciilifeform: in the b00k, it was described that they were selected & trained, and somewhat rare ( i.e. if yours got killed, it was an expensive problem , to replace )
mircea_popescu: i was busy with girls by then.
mircea_popescu: i did not read the sequels.
mircea_popescu: yes, i did read the original coupla books, as a 15yo boy.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 13:24 phf: but i think it was cool as a kind of roleplay toy "learn all these tricks and you'll be just like a mentat from dune"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704886 << my understanding of " a mentat from dune" was "a guy who takes a lot of showers", rather than what i discovered later was the general us view on the matter, "guy who does lots of xword puzzles". i have nfi where that typically 80s idea "xword puzzles make you smart" came from. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 12:57 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704716 << i don't think it matters which faction of ultra rationalist posthumanists you belong to. either way the nature of your misunderstanding of tmsr take certain predictable shape, and so are your interests, etc. nobody thinks that you literally suck yudkowsky's cock, but personally i don't even care.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704883 << i had nfi the *humanist crowd was large enough to have factions. ☝︎
kanzure: i see
kanzure: (i didn't. it was someone else. but you get it.)
kanzure: BingoBoingo: i unloaded the FIB from a trailer, if that's what you mean.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-28 23:39 kanzure: you could safely argue it would look like a plot of the sha256 function against a graph, but i would also be surprised to hear that
BingoBoingo: <kanzure> it's literally the answer i was given << I can't find this re-reading log at all
shinohai: "I put all my mETH on a rooted Google pocket surveillance device, how could it possibly all be gone?" http://archive.is/sL9Rj
kanzure: i pretend to read all kinds of languages, but mostly english
asciilifeform: so that instead of the specified circuit, it instead does something different. and such that i and the buyers, do not immediately find out .
asciilifeform: kanzure: believe or not, i keep up with the literature. tell me how to boobytrap fpga.
kanzure: i forget what the response was to the response though... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=14848708327718832242&as_sdt=5,44&sciodt=0,44&hl=en
kanzure: no i don't have an answer, i just have peripheral knowledge of this type of attack, not specific masks to go attack RNGs
asciilifeform: because i am an engineer ( for bread -- reverse-engineer ) , not an emperor
asciilifeform: kanzure: i've always wanted to discuss, with clueful folx, what specifically one ought to put in 'doping trojan' to sabotage an fpga
kanzure: anyway what was the goal, i thought it was established that circuit was insufficient, given doping layer trojans (yes there was a follow-up article but it was dumb)
asciilifeform: i don't recall him ever going from micrograph to fpga bitstream format
kanzure: "oh no i'll have to figure out an acid bath" siliconpr0n.org guy seems to do it regularly
asciilifeform: which means NO black boxes, NO ic for which i did not personally approve the gate layout, and NO c/cpp code anywhere inside, as well as machine arch which boundschecks all array accesses.
asciilifeform: trinque: i don't disagree
trinque: I still hold that wording it that way is ass-backwards.
asciilifeform: kanzure: mp insists that he 'has no goals', but i've got a few. one of them, is a 100% nato-free workstation comp. ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( and yes, i am no stranger to buying surplus instruments. but they only SEEM cheap. what if you needed 25 of them ? or a guarantee that they continue to work for six months, without major interruption ? then welcome back to seven-figure list price. )
asciilifeform: ( i assumed 'goon house' means warehouse with 'infinite' floor or similar )
asciilifeform: ( nuffin' wrong with that, i suppose, if you have infinite floor space )
kanzure: yes i am not sure why everyone wants to obsess over 28nm these days.
kanzure: i bought a FIB recently btw. have you played with one?
asciilifeform: i'd buy a desktop atomic force microscope, say.
kanzure: that's a reasonable request. i'll make catalog. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i'd buy
kanzure: that's not something 've been working on. so i'm not sure it merits surprise that i don't have one?
asciilifeform: electroporator is trivial, i can get surplus one or make own for a hundy
asciilifeform: so far i see only the page where i can read his noise
kanzure: it's literally the answer i was given ☟︎
asciilifeform: where is the www where i can order kanzure's physical product ?
kanzure: apparently you forgot the reason why i entered. i had a question and it has been answered ("nah we only do noise- it's intentional though, so it's okay to be worthless.")
asciilifeform: if -- as i understand -- you're a money man, kanzure , what the hell are you still doing in the heart of the shitreich ? ☟︎
kanzure: ugh i hope not. that would be the stupidest reason. ☟︎
asciilifeform: can't say that i do
asciilifeform: kanzure: if you're selling kilowatt 1000nm diode -- i'll buy !
kanzure: i think generally we should prefer less breakable things; i'm not convinced that the non-tubes should be expensive.
kanzure: i thin there are >1 kw laser diodes ☟︎
asciilifeform: the 1 item i'm still curious about, before the floor hatch opens to eject kanzure , is why the hell he is here
shinohai: This is a single achievement btw .... asciilifeform is responsible for `V` which I also consider a product.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 15:30 kanzure: yes i'm sure things are usually like this (asciilifeform making up bullshit)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704931 << i designed, make, and sell, a physical product, kanzure . what do you sell ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: kanzure: largest ir laserdiode i was able to find on nongoldentoilet market, is 30w.
kanzure: like i said, this all seems like a bunch of noise. you're welcome to haphazardly flounce around but at least be honest with as much.
kanzure: yes i'm sure things are usually like this (asciilifeform making up bullshit) ☟︎
kanzure: interesting how you dismiss the possibility of "hand work" by some irc logs. i guess his equipment is totally fake, huh. (wtf?)
asciilifeform: there's 50x moar gem material in that there linked log, but i will spare the reader.
asciilifeform: i can't decide if this is more or less hilarious than gaseous food. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i dun even live in fucking califuckia
asciilifeform: even i have a working co2 setup. and i'm not even '1%'.
asciilifeform: 15:06 < kanzure> uh, my complaint about lasers isn't about the laser itself, but rather the optics usually associated (or, in cases where i need to maintain a co2 tube, i also mean co2 tubes)
asciilifeform: 17:13 < kanzure> i am probably 1%
phf: but yes i still think that you're a rationalist, without quotes. i don't think you would object to it, i mean, if you go by definition (opinions and actions based on reason and knowledge) rather than "rationalwiki" "rationalist". ☟︎
phf: but i think it was cool as a kind of roleplay toy "learn all these tricks and you'll be just like a mentat from dune" ☟︎
phf: there was a wiki in 2005 or so, called "mentat wiki". i think it was cool not so much for the content as the premise. it was supposed to be a collection of techniques for memory recall, arithmetic, problem solving, that sort of stuff.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 03:26 kanzure: if operatig the yudkowsy parody twitter account for five years is insufficient to convince you that i absolutely hate the person, then what would?
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704716 << i don't think it matters which faction of ultra rationalist posthumanists you belong to. either way the nature of your misunderstanding of tmsr take certain predictable shape, and so are your interests, etc. nobody thinks that you literally suck yudkowsky's cock, but personally i don't even care. ☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: in trouble seems heartless to me. She’s much more politically active than I am, and I finally asked if she did that to avoid the possibility of giving money to someone who voted for Trump, and she admitted that was one of the reasons. I think that’s awful, and we’ve been fighting about it ever since. She thinks as a gay woman I should see her side, but I just can’t."
BingoBoingo: From the WhatTheFun mines: "I come from the Houston area and have been heartbroken about the damage and scenes from Harvey. I decided to donate $250 and asked my girlfriend if she would match it. She agreed, and then when I asked if she had given to the Red Cross or someone else, I learned that she donated to the Humane Society. I know she’s absolutely nuts about animals, especially our own dogs, but to give to animals when people are
mircea_popescu: anyway. kinda not so much there that i want to read other days on its basis.
mircea_popescu: 16:53 < nmz787> hmm, there's a new biotech thing starting on the floor below genspace (or at least where genspace was) << i wonder if this sorta thing ever gives them any pause.
mircea_popescu: nobody's doing it. this is like "i want him so shot fulla lead, it's practically a 2x2 lead sheet he impacts with".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i live to see the thermoablation of shitifornia, i will have lived long enough.
mircea_popescu: i think one of the major advantages of my not living there is starting to shape itself pretty clearly. you're rather reactively allergic, aren't you alfie.
asciilifeform: whole thing reeks rancidly of 'bay aryan'. whether there is something of substance buried beneath the kilometres of sludge -- i cannot say.
asciilifeform: ( so far is all i saw )
mircea_popescu: ah, i didn't specifically exclude that. lessee.
asciilifeform: #gavins or wherever, about same, i suspect ( if largely part-join spamola )
mircea_popescu: o lol, what was that, i recall something in this vein
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, why would they want to study it! can simply 'unhappen' it. i suspect they will not even flinch when we start formatting their hdds
mircea_popescu: not specifically. but it's common, i see it lots.
mircea_popescu: there's no semantic manipulation, i mean it quite literally. when i say chains i mean chains ; when i say whips i mean whips.
mircea_popescu: i actually dun have goals. if you measure an absence you'll get noise definitionally, what else.
kanzure: i don't mean the log i just mean your goals and behavior
mircea_popescu: kanzure i'll tell you, i read the log every day, first thing, chiefly because it's the higherst snr item i know of. so not really noisy, no.
asciilifeform: i particular the sentence containing ' i will sink any ...'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, i didn't get very far in.
kanzure: yes i understand it's merely a metaphor; i think asciilifeform did too.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was not able to discern these folx's priors -- other than 'we suck thiel's cock on command, like every good redditpilltaker'
mircea_popescu: i used the term metaphorically. the convo sounds like noise to you because you don't accept/have the priors. which priors he'd propose are a different authority structure.
mircea_popescu: i don't even claim to be particularly disciplined.
asciilifeform: kanzure: i must've missed something : hash functions ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you ever had the opportunity to see lung tissue under good magnification, but it's a wonder.
kanzure: yeah i don't think existing lungs would be a good thing to subject to that. i haven't given it much thought.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cuz we're patient and tolerant and i have a houseful of teenagers, mr grouch.
mircea_popescu: ie, "why do you know so much about string theory ?" "because im on this biker forum and this guy steve keeps posting articles about it" "yes but... it's neither that important nor interesting" "i dunno"
asciilifeform: 18:29 < kanzure> yeah i don't know anymore
kanzure: if operatig the yudkowsy parody twitter account for five years is insufficient to convince you that i absolutely hate the person, then what would? ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so far in my reading all i see is http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-16#1699409 . ☝︎