mircea_popescu: which is why they're so attracted to software (it never fails)

mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform is not equipped with the evidence needed to agree (or not) with 'it's mostly ok' << the problem with the mostly ok thing is that intelligent people tend to build but loathe to maintain.

mircea_popescu: " regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish"

mircea_popescu: anyway, you perhaps remember the history of how that plays out. after all, the tsar tried it.

mircea_popescu: yeah, that now matters, because alternative universe.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, that's about three days before the random shootings of anyone known to be associated with usg start.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: >Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. <<< like you know, turn everything on its head, making current arrangements obsolete

mircea_popescu: what, you though it's about the social media ?

mircea_popescu: what is the internet, but a vast training program.

mircea_popescu: this may require particular grips, depending on how the lever happen to be constructed. the hands will adjust.

mircea_popescu: no, the political goal is to allow people who are interested in doing things the right way at the levers where things are done the right way.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes technical choice ? these are all political choices.

mircea_popescu: which is the usg diddle-ops arm.

mircea_popescu: and the people trying to hire you to review their code would crowd the shit out of the only buyer currently,

mircea_popescu: moreover, by putting the sexy back into reading code, it actually directly addresses the problem. currently people only read shit AFTER a bug was found.

mircea_popescu: my model will allow a specific list to be created. this was read in fact by 5468 people. these ones :

mircea_popescu: the entire "foss is better because read by millions of eyes" fetish needs to be put to rest already. opportunity does not equal actualisation.

mircea_popescu: between these two, the budged for recruiting pencildicks goes from constant to hilbert's hotel.

mircea_popescu: and i want the record of accidental "dropped on my toe" events recorder permanently.

mircea_popescu: i would like the difference between "dropped plate on my toe" and "fell on naked woman holding her heels while naked" to be obvious to the naked eye

mircea_popescu: that's pretty much the only thing. "we print money, and you can pretend you just fell on her while your pants were off"

mircea_popescu: in short : it makes the cost of nsa covert ops in foss go from O(log(t)) all the way up to P,N

mircea_popescu: you wish to see whom you're hanging and why.

mircea_popescu: the difference is huge, because when a bug like the numerous bugs in openssl/bash/etc pops up in the open

mircea_popescu: as opposed to the current X Y only so-called open source thing going on atm.

mircea_popescu: X submitted this, Y merged it, K L M N K and Q read and approve.

mircea_popescu: the thing i asked for is to sign on READ lines.

mircea_popescu: testing is the one thing bitcoin needs more of

mircea_popescu: he did need to do the life-fire test.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: considering [blabla] you probably did not need to do the live-fire test. << stom motherfucking corrupting the youth!

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform something like that.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: i believe this excises all upnp mentions. my build hops on the network and downloads blocks. <<< yay wd.

mircea_popescu: just take some magic bytes on trust and call it good.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla but how is a single machine going to catch up when it falls behind ? never ? << the idea is to stop these persnickety machienes from validating the blockchain at all.

mircea_popescu: BLOCKCHAIN ALL THE