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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well simple solution is allowing a slug of metal
to meet a satellite
moiety: <mircea_popescu> "work in pairs
to protect each other"
decimation: it's not fair
to have a WoT of robots
that ignore
the votes of
the disenfranchised
mircea_popescu: andthey're going
to somehow make a 100kg self moving robot
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: All reasons why civ security bots will bow down
to people with compasses, maps, and lasers
nubbins`: Crime has a $1
trillion impact on
the American economy, according
to Santana Li. “If we can show
that we can literally cut
that in half, we’re going
to have every mayor in
the country calling us,” he says.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more's
the point...
they can't make supermarket carts with working wheels
ozbot: Electronic Weapons: Making
The World Unsafe For GPS Jammers
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Remember
the Russia-Georgia conflict... GPS can go dark
decimation: yeah
they are going
to end up in a chop shop in
the ghetto within 10 minutes of operation
mircea_popescu: i can't begin
to imagine how
they figure
this
thing has a fucking chance.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In a
twist confounding most authors of robot oppressor scifi
the boards with critical operational components in
the bots are varied from unit
to unit.
decimation: Oh, I was hoping someone was going
to make a real RoboCop
ozbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
ozbot: Knightscope’s new robotic law enforcer is like staring at
the demise of humanity | PandoDaily
mircea_popescu: talk about bitcoin-mediated disruption of
the electroal system
nubbins`: <moiety> not much point in
trying anything if it ultimately doesn't matter <<< "No, Donny,
these men are nihilists.
There's nothing
to be afraid of."
decimation: of course
the leftists are having a fit because
this particular WoT ignores
thier votes
mircea_popescu: and
the
thing is going down in flames faster
than people can ditch it.
mircea_popescu: the irony here being
that an industry;s stability can be best measured by
the wot divergence (well really, by wot graph isolation)
decimation: shockingly
thousands of beta engineers are willing
to accept what
they are given
decimation: regardless of whether
the Intel employee first approached Google."
decimation: "Bill Campbell (Chairman of Intuit Board of Directors, Co-Lead Director of Apple, and advisor
to Google) was also involved in
the Google-Intel agreement, as reflected in an email exchange from 2006 in which Bill Campbell agreed with Jonathan Rosenberg (Google Advisor
to
the Office of CEO and former Senior Vice President of Product Management)
that Google should call [Intel CEO] Paul Otellini before making an offer
to an Intel employee,
moiety: not much point in
trying anything if it ultimately doesn't matter
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not in copumpkin's retelling. i was giving him space
to see if he mentiones it.
mircea_popescu: moiety you can do plenty of
things
that ultimately won't matter.
decimation: well, you can call
them "finishing schools", like
they used
to have
mircea_popescu: and one of
the best indications
that
this is actually
the correct approach would be
that
the impotent-by-design feminist movement will readily recognise it as
the ultimate evil.
mircea_popescu: but about 1bn dollars spent on "women in
tech"-esque programs dedicated
to highschooler girls would return about
the same net value for
the cause as about 600k spent on "fuck as many powerful people as you possibly can
take, as well as you possibly can, starting
today." programs for
the same.
decimation: most effective female 'leaders' I have seen are school-marm
types who know how
to connect
the right people and step away
mircea_popescu: it's not
the unshaven idiots blathering on
tv about "Rights" and other stuff
that do anything.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, most of
the power women have in western society comes strictly from
that bridging role.
BingoBoingo: Bonus, it pisses off
the liberal arts majors because
they can only
translate wrong languages
decimation: it's surprising
that
the internet hasn't linked
those WoTs...
decimation: well, each big corp has a WoT
that generally consists of
the CEO's drinking buddies
mircea_popescu: incidentally i suppose you've stumbled on a perfectly valid business model,
the
translators among WoTs will be
tomorrow's lawyers.
mircea_popescu: decimation i suppose it's like with everything else, blow
the website budget on css.
decimation: but
that's not listening
to anything...
decimation: Oh no,
they spend $$$ on facebook monitors
mircea_popescu: sadly, it's not within what
they can afford intellectually.
mircea_popescu: it'd be certainly within what
they can afford, financially
mircea_popescu: on a lark i'd venture a guess
that <1% of irl businesses have a
truely global internet listening program going.
decimation: I
think
they are building a good foundation before going big, unlike some out
there...
decimation: yeah it seems
that
this netagio is a spinoff of some kind. I'm surprised
that he or his staff hasn't contacted you
mircea_popescu: im still looking for someone
to run a delivered gold future.
decimation: but he also appears
to be interested in bitcoin
decimation: yeah he's a hardcore goldbug and
tries
to cash in on
that audience
mircea_popescu: i kind-of wonder how long reddit will
take
to digest
teh latest mpoe release.
BingoBoingo: Anymore a bj is cheaper
than a pack of smokes
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
the obvious response was
to offer
the whole pack for a bj
BingoBoingo: Eh, when people
too young ask me for cigarettes I usually
tell
them I have cancer and ask
them if
they really want a cigarette.
decimation: he's seen
the future and he wants in on bitcoin
mircea_popescu: decimation pounds and euro ? i already got a euro future and what are
these pounds
nubbins`: anecdote: a friend was approached by a young (~13yo) girl asking for a cigarette. friend says "you're
too young
to smoke"
BingoBoingo: Eh, seriously Russia being in Crimea is not interesting at all.
The only interesting point is how long
they can go without commiting regular forces
to
the endeavor.
mircea_popescu: and idiots aren't really assholes,
they're just idiots.
nubbins`: you don't
think
the people shouting over each other at general assemblies were assholes?!
nubbins`: it's funny
to you because you're rich ;D
mircea_popescu: ed and what you want, and
the media will always, relentlessly give you what you want. Do you know why you have such poor candidates every single election? Because you want
them, you want someone you can easily judge for some sexual indiscretion or because
they called latinos chicanos. "Well,
that matters
to us!"
Then you got what you asked for.
mircea_popescu: "We need a
third party!" Come on, do you
think
the media will allow you
to have a
third party? John Anderson, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader--
they let
them
through
to "show"
third party candidates aren't any more serious
than Howard Stern when he ran for governor. Poor Ron Paul pulls in more people
than porn but he can't get a break, sorry buddy, 100 years
too late for your kind.
There's a difference between what you ne
ozbot: The Last Psychiatrist: You Are
The 98%
nubbins`: "Astakhov said
the people in
the planes refused
to identify
themselves and waved off customs officials, saying
they didn't require
their services."
KRS-One: those jobs were my main motivator for going
to college.
KRS-One: you have
to be a
tough bastard
to work in roofing year round..i
think doing concrete work was actually easier.
KRS-One: gets so hot on
the roof
tops you can get burned by just picking up your hammer on
the metal side
nubbins`: popular for
the row houses here, most of which have flat roofs
KRS-One: i've heard horror stories where roofers fell off and into
the hot kettle of
tar
KRS-One: thats
the best
type of roof
to have..many commercial buildings have
that
nubbins`: prolly
the same
thing you're
thinking of