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mircea_popescu: a shit what some random bureaucrat thinks on any topic. I asked the DA if he thinks he has it in him to survive once the world which I control is no longer tolerant of him."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing is easier than
http://trilema.com/2017/my-ai-problems-a-humble-confession/#comment-121016 "I didn't ask the girl if she thinks I'm any good or not. This is neither her business nor something within her purview. I asked the girl if she thinks she has it in her to try and survive once the world (WHICH I OWN) is no longer friendly to her. I didn't ask the DA for his evaluation of me. I couldn't give less of
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha. but the article makes a very solid point : the current "start-up culture" is EXACTLY this. as discussed in the trilema "sv pedos" piece and ailleurs.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, the farmer's faith in the functional ability of their institutions, fbi or whatever, is entirely misplaced. about half my friends throughout my entire ro period were "underground" or "on the lam" ; for that matter the italians recently arrested that dude with the cesar ciphers ? he was "hiding" for 30 years by then
mircea_popescu: mod6 kinda the thing with prototyping, we end up with redesigns
mircea_popescu: it can even be a collective key, perhaps not in the sense of actually sharing the privkey, but perhaps trbf/holder signs items at request ; with the understanding it's all foundling crap anyway
mircea_popescu: mod6 i expect the correct solution going forward is : a) for someone (maybe trbf ?) to make a Wildman McFucksticks key which b) will be used to sign a compliant rebase of tinyscheme / anything else anyone finds in the woods and wants to sign.
mircea_popescu: the odds of something being imported to break the structure because hey, convenience are nil.
mircea_popescu: this wedge will not prevail. i'll do without any milk, forever.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there isn't two different someones out there in a reliable sense.
mircea_popescu: see the discussion of boeck's alleged "contributions" etc.
mircea_popescu: the concept of identity in the fiat world has come under scrutiny every single time.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, i am saying, flatly, that this isn't a knowledge. as per lieberman.
mircea_popescu: i caqn readily see why this irritates your otherwise very well developed and entirely respectable respect for knowledge.
mircea_popescu: there's no way to meaningfully assert "this leaf was made by $somenonpeople".
mircea_popescu: to put it in more direct terms : remove fog of war around authorship yes, but this can ONLY be done through denying the franchise to anyone outside of wot. only wot people can be authors of things, so in this sense anything, tinyscheme included, until and unless its meatspace authors fess up, is literally "found in forest" and will have to bear an actual man's name
mircea_popescu: historically this isn't so accurate, everyone lived in the ~same shit.
mircea_popescu: there is no such "oh, we'll represent local-batshit in our system"
mircea_popescu: but understand that the only correct solution is to steal the natives babies and give them roman/spanish names.
mircea_popescu: corectness, and corectness only, is the goal. if it produces no children so be it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, not like patches can't be rebased into conformancy.
mircea_popescu: not sure it wasn't ; pretty sure that was always there, but yes i guess before the expliciting
mircea_popescu: wife changes her name, becomes daughter of her husband's father.
mircea_popescu: speshul snowflakes need not apply ; they may be own trees, or leaves in extant trees, or not at all.
mircea_popescu: the project is named after its tree's genesis, and conceptually exists as and only as descendancy from that genesis.
mircea_popescu: this is not a matter of "style", it is a matter of identity.
mircea_popescu: vtron that presses a tree containing more than one genesis is, by that very fact, a broken implementation.
mircea_popescu: vtron that presses a multi-root tree is, by that very fact, a broken implementation.
mircea_popescu: well, i get it that you think you did, except you didn't, because, note this, BECAUSE it didn't crash your algo.
mircea_popescu: the concept of "a press" towards more than one root is actually devoid of content.
mircea_popescu: it should respond with "broken tree, fix seals" error and not press.
mircea_popescu: trb-shiva should be trb-shiva ; if shiva-genesis also exists nothing is hurt thereby.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform an item can exist in two copies : as its independent tree AND ALSO as a patch imported in a project.
mircea_popescu: v links add value ; which couldn't have been made by "an ai"
mircea_popescu: but an important point here i must stress is the COGNITIVE LOAD of a v tree. these aren't mechanical "oh, it changed x file so it goes with x". you think, as the author, and exactly in the manner of scoring wot members : what should this item be anchored on ?
mircea_popescu: just because it works(tm) ie could be got away with is no good reason to actually try.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is one of those cases of "sit on side of sanity ask what can get away with".
mircea_popescu: all patches to trb tree must refer to an antecedent in the trb tree. no exceptions. if "nothing comes to mind", genesis is a fine default.
mircea_popescu: the criteria for root/leaf are the same : anything false, root. anything non-false, leaf.
mircea_popescu: rule is very simple : all items with false inputs create a project. whole, independent.
mircea_popescu: either it builds in its own independent tree, or else it declares an antecedent in the trb tree.
mircea_popescu: yes i'm aware that forcibly works and their own heads don't. so ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider ben_vulpes 's latest article. the choice is very clearly available ; the sort of mind who nevertheless opts for idiocy truly deserves it.
mircea_popescu: not even that. i don't perceive they're actually hurting. yes they're fucking up the lives of idiots. so ?
mircea_popescu: the ONLY reason they're still here is that i've not decided to end them.
mircea_popescu: and this isn't just re derpy "democratic" forum or herpy "free" sexploitatation venue. this applies to the fucking guardian, or to wikipedia.
mircea_popescu: takes me all of half an hour to organize a 10% chargeback pile, which is the immediate end, for isntance.
mircea_popescu: nothing easier than to turn off cc processing for one of these "website businesses"
mircea_popescu clearly recalls that when i showed somethingawful.com the cat they immediately stfu and ran away.
mircea_popescu: heh. they should have thought of THAT before being annoying.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes what's the "everything should be free" thing ?
mircea_popescu: broken shit is what you get when you don't let the "overly agresive Alphas" beat shithead manning into a bloody pulp.