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ozbot: Bet on: Ethereum
talk > 10.000 views on YouTube
benkay: although if you foot
the bill for
travel
to romania you can have a go at
talking her into your dungeon.
mircea_popescu: speaking of lays : benkay
take
the girls pic, post it, have her come by i'll give her a bitcoin so she can build her independent wealth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform keeps giving us
these immortality pills, we'll be here forever.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke you'll ahve
to put
that in
the form of a question.
mircea_popescu: the only difference being
that in
the 2000s humanity is fed by
technology, whereas in 1900 it was fed by politics, which meant, of course, deploying
the force of arms
to acquire wealth.
mircea_popescu: ie, could we say
the same
things we say of our current fashion (ie, large scale
tech project) about yesteryear's fashion ?
mircea_popescu: now, can we
transpose
the manhattan argument in
terms of novemberverbrecher argument ?
mircea_popescu: Dolchstoßlegende is
the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918,
that
the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by
the civilians on
the home front, especially
the republicans who overthrew
the monarchy. Advocates denounced
the German government leaders who signed
the Armistice on November 11, 1918, as
the "November Criminals" (German: Novemberverbrecher).
ozbot: The conference, second edition pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mjr_: i am starting
to
try and make plans
mjr_: do you have
the link handy for
the romania
trip?
mircea_popescu: "Even if
the initial miners in
the "Satoshi Gang" were not initially part of
the USG -
they would be hunted down and forced
to
turn over
their Bitcoin at gunpoint." oh for
the love of christ.
mircea_popescu: "it's disposal"
that's not how you spell
the possesive.
mjr_: went public on
the pink sheets...as i was recommending bitcoin companies do a year ago
benkay: you could've jumped straight
to
the mockery!
benkay: if you'd read
the gist it woulda saved so much
time mircea_popescu
mjr_: did you guys see
that guy from btc shop?
mircea_popescu: "and
the remaining states are all allies of
the US" < ahaha what!
benkay: i
think
the ltcmgmt is great!
benkay: you're in
the litecoin biz nao
benkay: well, sweeping now but general domesticity. what's
the domain?
mircea_popescu: "A group of people associated with multiple world powers." << no. actual internationalisation happened in 2013, was announced on
trilema.
benkay: hackin migration scripts, watching
the babe do dishes in heels
mjr_: i just got
the coolest new domain
benkay: mircea_popescu: i pointed
this out already.
mircea_popescu: " Anyone intelligent enough
to create Bitcoin will have aligned
themselves with some sort of governmental body." <<
this is a weak assumption.
mircea_popescu: half
the
time when i select something a final char is omitted
mircea_popescu: in a world where every "idea" is in fact chewed and spit and chewed so many
times by so many generations by now all
that's left is
the spit itself, in which vaguely one can recognise
the marks left by
the spit of whoever long ago, in
the manner new spits mix
today because of
the presence of
that old saliva of yore,
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: See my gist. However, I
think
that it's clear I need
to read
the Bitcoin sources and more history.
The 'reasoning' in said gist may not correspond
to reality.
dexX7: mircea_popesu: yea, i guess it's not very accurate, but interesting
to see an estimate
mircea_popescu: it's neither large scale nor important in
that context.
pankkake: bitcoin,
the first released version, was certainly written by one lone guy
francis_wolke: asciilifeform: I don't believe anything. I'm asking here because you all know more
than I.
benkay: venice et al pwn
the us anyways
mircea_popescu: if every great painting in history is a manhattan project
then venice and
the low countries own
the us in manhattanness, srsly.
mircea_popescu: a manhattan project is like escavating a
tunnel under
the nunnery.
benkay: francis_wolke: have you read
the source?
mircea_popescu: creating a new currency is like fucking an altar boy. nobody needs
to know anything.
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: Ah - but
that's what I'm getting at - I
think it was.
mircea_popescu: "go fight in
the arena for glory or rot in
turda salt mine boi"
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: You simply don't have
to
tell all
that many people when you're creating a new currency - and even if you do, who is going
to listen?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly,
the romans used
the salt mines (in
transylvania)
to much
the same effect.
francis_wolke: Still not sure why you both
think we live in a world devoid of Manhattan projects btw.
mircea_popescu: benkay
tiikoni and
tis. you
tease you. what happened
to cunny and
tits ?
benkay: mircea_popescu: on
the subject of
the feed you've been yammering at me about
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: I don't know you well enough
to say.
mircea_popescu: i got lucky, cause btc came around, but how many cycles do you
think i can
take ?
mircea_popescu: that aside, i do believe we'll probably be
the first immortal generation,
mircea_popescu: i mean marginally, like i'm interested in whatever new chick
takes her
top off, but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: why do you
think so ? i wouldn't personally be interested in such.
francis_wolke: asciilifeform:
To clarify, I'd imagine
that anyone with enough money / power would be interested in
the possiblity of radical life extension (Peter
Theil, MP, Satoshi) if / when
the
tech is
there. As such, if I were smart enough
to create btc, I'd certainly
team up with
the most powerful country, so
that if
the
tech does get 'there', I'll be ready.
mircea_popescu: your average
tattoo "artist" doesn't do so well with letters.
mircea_popescu: they never got far, i imagine cause
they're so hard
to make and unwieldy
to weart
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and legal
to import into
the us in your luggage, but
then again illegal
to export
mircea_popescu: well not
THAT man in
the street. not
the mobile vulgus,
the beasts of
the field, strictly interesting for
their flesh,
the cockroaches in your fabled ny apartment.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
thought we were strictly discussing secrets as "man in
the street" affairs.
mircea_popescu: whereas
the nsa is leaked yearly, in spite of supposedly being better.
mircea_popescu: which is why
the fsb does not have documents leaked, in spite of it sucking,
mircea_popescu: when
the options are a1, an you will not find out of a population of k, k <n, a single person capable of keeping secret X.
mircea_popescu: when
the options are a1, a2, you will out of a population of 100mn find 50 people able
to keep secret X
mircea_popescu: the limits on
the largeness of scale and importance are placed by said law of large numbers.