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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Indeterminate at
this
time nubbins` is down a bishop
though
dub: asciilifeform: in
the case of
the famous one, its pow bootstrapped
jborkl: I guess
the hippies and Amish would like seedcoin, renewable and all
jborkl: Heh, maybe he could apply
to seedcoin
jborkl: Really one of you guys needs
to help. He is broke
benkay: who's
the NSA stooge in -assets?
benkay: then some new poor soul gets hired on
to
the
team, can't figure out why no 'work' is happening and starts writing reports.
benkay: their superiors look at
the proposal and say "sure. nice distraction."
benkay: i find
that
the more plausible story.
dub: you know
this is all about some NSA kids justifying getting paid
to play games
jborkl: Pwned.nl ftw for
the NSA
dub: no wonder
they are after me
nubbins`: son, uncle sam wants
to have a word
jborkl: You suck camper, I am going
to report you
to
them in and get you banned faggot
jborkl: Counterstrike, how fucking out of date is
that doc
benkay: nubbins`:
there was something making
the rounds about spies spying on spies in SL.
nubbins`: next
thing we'll find out
they were
the flying dicks in SL
benkay: oh and also mircea_popescu
there's some secret padding in
the call collateral requirements not mentioned in
the faq, correct?
benkay: mircea when future lot sizes change we can expect
the collateral required for puts
to change at
the same
time riiiiight?
kanzure: maybe our
two attentions can merge
together
benkay: methinks
the lady etc etc
kanzure: benkay: i have a high capacity for attention i
think
benkay: that's a lot of
things across which
to split ones attention
kanzure: and it's useful
to communicate with
the people i work with ?
kanzure: because i actually contribute
to
these projects?
nubbins`: if anyone wants
to play along, grab a board
kanzure: [freenode] -!- Cannot join
to channel #bitcoin-pit (You have joined
to
too many channels)
Ogedei: whats
the chan with only
ticker again?
BingoBoingo: Though I imagine some people would spend more
to get Rybka
benkay: asciilifeform:
that's wrapping up human skill at game with human skill at computer
nubbins`: unsurprisingly, it came down
to
the software and not
the cpu.
ozbot: The Chess Master and
the Computer by Garry Kasparov |
The New York Review of Books
benkay: "Weak human + machine + better process was superior
to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior
to a strong human + machine + inferior process."
nubbins`: i mean, it was only within
the past 5-10 years
that checkers was solved
ozbot: PUGBOT - Brought
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benkay: could always implement
turn
time limits
dub: used
to play cstrike pick up games organised by an IRC bot
benkay: a chaotic upper zone with good players and good computers but bad process with bad players and good computers and good process,
to mangle a
thing someone once said.
dub: you could do an irc/wot/pug4btc
type
thing
benkay: potentially a
third
tier
too, augmented pros.
benkay: parsed "the former" as referring
to games of skill
benkay: why does chess work in
this scenario and not go?
benkay: and how
the heck does bitcoin play into either go or chess?
mircea_popescu: there does seem
to be a disproportionate population of carnies in bitcoin
☟︎ benkay: it's marginally better
than
that
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It almost seems like
the Bitcoin Dev's "X.509 is perfect for signing payment requests" in spite of all of
the
times CAs have signed certs purporting
to be controlled by one party while actually having been controlled by another party.
The biggest difference is
the FreeBSD devs might actually not know better.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Yeah
the now feed
the borked RNG data
through a borked schneier algo
jurov: ofc :) just
to have something
to compare