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truffles: now
thats a
twisted way of
thinking
fiat500: imagine your paranoia
then
fiat500: imagine
the alternative, no scammers at all, every single fucking
thing is 100% legit
fiat500: and
then when it crashes and you default i can say scammed
fiat500: ThickAsThieves:
technically, i could calculate
the value of
the shares i own in your AM 100PT and list
that as risked BTC
Uglux: is
there a
theymos post about
the new
trust system?
mircea_popescu: it ha sexactly
the lack of byte you'd expect from
two lezbos named julia
that failed in ny and so moved
t la
ThickAsThieves: i googled "sarah jessica parker new york false hope sex in
the city ruined new york"
mircea_popescu: supporting
themsleves on
the occasional piece accepted by
the occasional magazine while going shopping daily
mircea_popescu: by making a bunch of retarded midwesterner housewives
think
they can just move
there and be "writers"
error4733: wow, never saw
this feature of btctalk
mircea_popescu: for
that matter you could go "bitcoin is great and it happens on bitcoin-assets"
dub: the problem with bloging on
the intertown is less
time
to blog on irc
truffles: i see
that u mean well so if u do it, best of luck
truffles: just cuz ppl dont have ur level of intelligence doesnt mean u need
to rub it in
Namworld: I wonder if SDICE will do a second plunge when
there's no dividend, assuming
the current
trend for
the month keeps up.
mircea_popescu: I ended up losing lots of BTC at BTCJam.com,
thinking
that loans are "safe".
That's a holdover from
the physical, regulated banking world. Not
true here. I'm actually a fairly good judge of "character", so I didn't lose all, as I saw
that many did
there. But I did lose about 30% of what I loaned out.
The site itself is fairly good, but
the "borrowers" are often not...
dub: my peers are people
that don't sit on
the internet all day
to pick out
the good stuff
truffles: worrying about what people
think
dub: for fear
they will
type bitcoin into google and assume I am retarded
dub: bitcointalk is why I don't
talk
to my peers about bitcoin
truffles: bitcoin full of scamers will
take down banks YAY
dub: I can say
that hes a shit eating
toolbag
mircea_popescu: bcb is prolific and
that's
the most you can say about him
dub: even
the most prolific otc-wot users are completely retarded
dub: this is really
the root of
the problem
dub: <BCB> Winklevoss: are you
the real Winklevoss
mircea_popescu: tell me it allows sql injections and you're going
to delete
the btctalk db
ThickAsThieves: i'm
trying
to use
this
Trust
thing and getting a db error
fiat500: im going
to wake up
to AM having peaked at 3.0 arent i
fiat500: guess
the correction is over
mircea_popescu: these are
to date
the only
two
tripwires
the devteam managed
to bumble over resulting in bitchslaping etc.
mircea_popescu: on
the other hand no matter what you do you don't go into
telling users how
to use your output.
mircea_popescu: and i raged at
the dev
team for behaving idiotically. if you're blind you don't run and if you don't comprehend your code you don't add more.
this on one hand
mircea_popescu: i understand your concern and honestly believe
that it's being misplaced.
mircea_popescu: the sea per se is about as interesting
to you as
that much sand.
mircea_popescu: understand : going fishing is a process directed AT
THE FISH. you don;t care about
the sea.
dub: you rage against
teh dev
team for slowing adoption
dub: you expend signficant effort
trying
to educate
these same noobs with angruy women
mircea_popescu: the government can
then make 50000 sockpuppets, scam itself and kill btc
this wya ?
mircea_popescu: suppose
this reputational
thing is actually a bitcoin weakness as you propose.
dub: its abad
thing for bitcoin
dub: and when
the googlenet
tells you which website
to get bitcoin from and you go
there and see highly
trusted guy and he scams you
dub: you are far more likely
tp be able
to recognise fake ratings
dub: as I said before, at least with otc wot you have
to be slightly smarter
than brain dead
to use it
mircea_popescu: it's just
there so you have a reference for your
thoughts. it doesn't put
thoughts in your head.
mircea_popescu: a
trust system is a notation, like paper. it won't do your work for you in any circumstance.
dub: mircea_popescu:
trust systems
that are
too easy
to game
ThickAsThieves: here's another angle I 'm realizing, omg
there will be SO much whining when noobs get
their first -1
trust
mircea_popescu: wait wut. what;'s been proven broken you mean,
the wot ?
dub: one
that has been proven broken
time and
time again
ThickAsThieves: i dont
think any of us want a world where we forgo new ideas because hopeless idiots wouldnt get it
mircea_popescu: there's like... one douche
that inhabits 9.95 bn of
them
dub: bitcointalk is
the single biggest impediment
to people learnign about bitcoin
mircea_popescu: but
they're different physical vessels of
the same one idiot.
dub: I
think we get a lot more value from a bullet delivered
to
theymos face
mircea_popescu: idiot person comes in. mpoe-pr
tells him he's an idiot gives him a reading list.
ThickAsThieves: once a noob relies on
trust and gets burned enough
times, guess what, he no longer
trusts so easily
fiat500: dub: bitcoin has been getting a lot of attention recently, its
to be expected
mircea_popescu: people gotta have
their choices.
there's no education w/o choice.
mircea_popescu: i am paying people
to educate noobs. let
them be scammed. both work : either follow
the light or go into
the shitfest
dub: mircea_popescu: in one breath, let
teh noobs be scammed, in
the next you're paying people
to educate noobs
fiat500: i mean, its more likely
that
they are all just idiots
than
there being a massive conspiracy behind every
thread
mircea_popescu: i have been paying
top dollar for one person
to
try and educate legions of idiots.
ThickAsThieves: if you dont like it, go out and educate
the legion of idiots