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mircea_popescu: every programmer ever has basically played
this with compilers and errors and blabla.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was going
to say, basically
this game is
the game of fucking life.
ozbot: Anonimity : not for
the poor. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
benkay: hey mircea_popescu where's
the essay in which you explain why proles can't afford privacy?
mircea_popescu: basically
the player becomes an exercise
to measure
the fuzzer parameters
mircea_popescu: and are fuzzed
to different (and unknown
to players) degrees
mircea_popescu: than
to switch and perhaps get a very entropic string.
mircea_popescu: seems
to me a better strategy may be
to stick with a not-so-entropic string
mircea_popescu: it is a given
the bot would contain
the dictionaries, sure.
mircea_popescu: cause
that's what i was wanting,
to see if
this is original or i'm just ineptly stumbling on well known (to everyone else) history.
mircea_popescu: he wins with
the highest score once all players have read all strings.
mircea_popescu: if
the player completes a line or a poem, more bonuses.
mircea_popescu: the word on itself is worth something. if
the word is actually part of one of
the player's poems on
their
table, it's worth more.
mircea_popescu: whenever a player has read a natural language word (ie, from
the dictionary) out of
the string (exact match, no mixing of letters or anything scrabble-ish) he now has
that word.
mircea_popescu: each player has a pre-given "Table" consisting of a number of natural language poems.
these are actual literature.
mircea_popescu: each player gets
the same copy of
the same list of strings. at any point each player has
the choice of either reading one more character from
their current string or advance ot
the next string.
mircea_popescu: each string has its own per-character entropy, from epsilon
to 8-epsilon
mircea_popescu: the key here, of course, being
that
the strings are not all created equal
mircea_popescu: i was just describing what your bot is supposed
to do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform obviously player can only eat a word if
the whole word has been read.
BingoBoingo: I just caution against
the spring anchored portable poles unless you like driving drunk girls
to
the ER at odd hours of
the morning because
they flew into a wall.
mircea_popescu: then you give everyone strings, and
they can read one char at a
time
mircea_popescu: you define actual words in
the dictionary as "good stuff", and each player gets a selection of poems
to complete. words
themselves are worth points, filled lines are worth more points, filled poems even more.
moiety: thats just along
the road from me!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know
this inspires me ? one could formalise
the problem with strings.
mircea_popescu: and
the shit got like 200 votes and comments and whatnot. which clearly shows
the importance of social media voting.
mircea_popescu: "ono, someone said mean
things
to me ON
THE INTERWEBS! PLS CARE"
moiety: chinese pole dancers use
two
moiety: looking at wiki, i
think it just depends on
the venue
benkay: disease
transmission's it's own peculiar set of
tastes
too.
mircea_popescu: the problem with
that is
the solvent isn't so kind on
the sensitive skin of
the
thigs
benkay: which is why
they wipe it down with solvent between performances, non?
mircea_popescu: the problem with fixed poles is
that girls want
to lube it up
benkay: somewhere
there's a cutoff.
benkay: i
think not. strippers can't handle rotational inertia.
mircea_popescu: it can be about as difficult or easy as you want
to make it for yourself.
mircea_popescu: attn all present jpm bankers.
the girl won't leave
till she's bled you dry!
moiety: i
think we can all safely assume
thats not going
to happen
moiety: when you have collected
them all from
the first
cads: moiety: A one armed bandit is a slot machine, while
the multi-armed bandit problem considers
the best play in a situation with multiple slot machines with uncertain odds.
mircea_popescu: moiety it's a formulation of
the explore/exploit dilemma
moiety: please say its online somewhere
ThickAsThieves !
ThickAsThieves: Dancing Queen was
the first cover song in my first punk band
moiety: i
thought most bandits had multiple arms
cads: Hey guys, are you familiar with
the multi-armed bandit problem?
mircea_popescu: which will likely get you sued and congress pass a law saying dollars have
to be just as big as anything else on
the
tag!!1
mircea_popescu: the way
to skirt
this, for fun and profit, is obviously
to open
the 5th avenue shop with prices prominently displayed in bitcoin and a
tiny print usd value underneath, like "We also
take
this shit if you absolutely must"
mircea_popescu: nor are you allowed
to pull
the "this is just as good as usd" liberty dollar scam.
mircea_popescu: but you're not allowed
to open a shop on 5th avenue which lists all prices in bitcoin and doesn't
take usd,
mircea_popescu: diametric
the other interepretation is,
that as long as you price your goods in dollars you're fine, and as long as you accept someone';s offer of doobaloos for your items you're also fine,
moiety: ah i forget
those, go wandering into all kinds of sentences unwittingly
mircea_popescu: you see, bois are fully allowed
to love mac clintock, but god forbid a woman mentions abba like she heard of it.
moiety: i also learned
today
that ABBA admitted
they wore
the outfits
they did for
tax deductions
cads: yes,
the views,
the views, gotta count
the views...
cads: hmm, so
the service boasts half a billion users
mircea_popescu: if i recall
the original actually had good new england grammar
moiety: aw i
think i find something good and it just
turns out ive beenunder my rock for a while again lol
moiety: of course not! I've been banished from proper internetting for years! I loved his response
though, fresh
to me.