asciilifeform: (in place of the earlier homogenized scrap-gristle slurry)
asciilifeform: incidentally the old mircea_popescuine prophecy re ersatz-phoods proceeding on schedule, reportedly a mcfood chain has finally swapped in synthetic chicken
asciilifeform: e.g. the synthetic nitrate that makes feeding 'mayo' possible, is a ww1 product
asciilifeform pessimistically observes that laziness is the dominant force, and historically 'sit on arse, eat fruit' is not even limited to tropical monkey men, and much of what today thought 'modern tech' dates to the last 2 population-pressure megawars
asciilifeform: ( with the interesting twist that church, at least, presided over quite a bit of productive lands / serfs, whereas 'scientocrat' presides over... what? cube farm fulla monkeys on 'powerpoint' )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik was simple plug-in replacement for the old relation b/w the royalty and the church
asciilifeform: there's nearly 200gram of fly, i think, nao
asciilifeform: water, great. but what use for e.g. that jar of flies asciilifeform has hanging on balcony. (y'know, the kind with funnel and jam, 1way valve).
asciilifeform: '[global notice] Hi all. We'll be restarting services in 5 minutes' << what btw happened to the 'migrate from fleanode' proj ?
asciilifeform: 'naked eye' fooled by 'looks random!111', whereas process that actually gotta walk the solution space uniformly -- not.
asciilifeform always found it interesting that e.g. evolved nn sim, and many other related problems, work pretty well as distinguishing litmus for prngism vs trng
asciilifeform: it's an actual problem, and incidentally was quite obv. even prior, in ye olde warez-apocalypse days. simply happens that all the would-be 'solvers' gabriel_laddelized their 'solutions'
asciilifeform: this is tru, i dun have a perfect circle on my desk either
asciilifeform: i dunno where exists this frictionless horse, the market with no entry cost. at the very least one needs working legs (or , in mechanized market, a working comp & net pipe ) neh
asciilifeform: dunno re 'not market' tho, plenty of market require substantial ticket to get in (very same mpex, or the old nasdaq et al etc)
asciilifeform: i'm not 100% sold, but haven't with what to seriously disagree, so will buy
asciilifeform: so per mircea_popescu's model, problem of 'btc bazar' is 'uci-complete' ?
asciilifeform: only in the sense that e.g. a concrete, particular electron is 'centralized'. but it is readily idempotent with other electrons. and simple board that does 0 moderation or faux-wotism is similarly idempotent.
asciilifeform: that was the meaning of 'centralized' contemplated by asciilifeform
asciilifeform: as, e.g., 'sr', 'localbitcoins', 'ebay', all do
asciilifeform: imho there's nuffin wrong with a board where folx post 'will buy', 'will sell', etc. problem starts when board operator purports to substitute own hands for users' correct use of wot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu himself had a piece re 'silk road' where 'some markets dun belong centralized, even if this makes for 9000x headache for user'
asciilifeform: hanbot: i suspect that the entire idea of centralized bulletin board for 'buy & sell coin' is as intrinsically usgistic as that of a gox (i.e. centralized coin/fiat exchange). it makes for an irresistible target, and is why all to date eventually were killed & replaced w/ honeypot taxidermy of self
asciilifeform: ('r4000' is the earliest ~64bit~ mipsoid)
asciilifeform reminded by this of the time he went to bmore and was shown around various ruins, 'wouldja like to buy the whole block? why not?' then added up the cost of terraforming...
