tmsr - Log 2018-10-18

asciilifeform: in other minor noose, http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/hKCPp/?raw=true << preliminary db schema for node hunter ☟︎

asciilifeform: ^ comments from db experts welcome ( trinque , ben_vulpes , mircea_popescu ? )

asciilifeform: ^ and if anyone has a handy dumpblock-derived list with which to populate known_blocks , plox to sign & post, otherwise i'ma bake one laters

asciilifeform: i'm currently thinking of giving 'tx observatory' a rollover of 3 days ( i.e. drop all that have time older than 3d, nightly ) to keep the mass manageable there

asciilifeform: probe algo currently simple: 1) ip:port thrown in search box 2) probed 3) getaddr 4) all ip:port from (3) queued for probe

asciilifeform: when idling, N (parallel) threads select probe candidates from 'nodes', with highest priority given to 'untried', followed by 'live', followed by 'dead', in the latter two cases probed if and only if 'time_probed' is > hour ago

asciilifeform: candidates added via peer recurse (i.e. getaddr output) start with state 'untried'

asciilifeform: if node answers, it gets asked version, then getaddr, then given 10sec to issue 'inv' (for tx observatory), then (not baked this yet) gets asked to provide a block from known_blocks.

asciilifeform: prolly goes without saying, but i'ma perma-ignore anyffing that aint on ipv4

asciilifeform: and eventually nodes that show 0 symptoms of prbism will get priority in rescan queue.

asciilifeform: ( in prelim experiment thus far, virtually errything that aint a known trb noad, appears to show one or more obv symptoms )

asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'VMware ESXi, Fusion and Workstation contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.'

a111: Logged on 2018-10-18 07:01 deedbot: http://bimbo.club/?p=56 << Bimbo.Club - TMSR Log Summary - 10/15/2018

BingoBoingo: For some reason my tonsils got huge and they feel like they are trying to pull out the insides of my ears. Going to go test the socialized medicine.

mircea_popescu: too much dulche the leche icecream bb!

mircea_popescu: he never had it AND not vaccinated ?!

mircea_popescu: why the fuck ?

asciilifeform: tho i did think the 'vaccination, eh, so 19th c' thing were a recent ('90s?) fashion

mircea_popescu: i have nfi what you're talking about. as far as i know ~all white kids are vaccinated around 1 year and then right before kindergarten ; and have since about 1920.

mircea_popescu: i find this kinda hard to believe.

asciilifeform: i learned, for instance, that '80s-born folx in usa never got smallpox vaccine

mircea_popescu: in other lulz, http://thetarpit.org/uploads/2018/10/heraklion-15-thumb.jpg << is that serpentine a typical greek runway ? somehow seems oddly adequate...

asciilifeform: hmm, possibly ben_vulpes knows the troof re what vaccines still given in usa to schoolkidz.

mircea_popescu: in crete.

mircea_popescu: are you questioning their traditions ?

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in news from ivan :

mircea_popescu: "littlems_muffin 21F sub 6d Your fantasy of obtaining already serving woman is fucking sad mate! Not even close to a reality. Go fuck yourself instead. Do not disrespect me again. Master Ivan" "LordMPofTMSR 37M Master 6d Oh sorry, I thought it was Igor."

asciilifeform: wonder how many of those accts consist solely of ivan, and a paper cutout placeholder chix 'so others come'. sorta like duck hunt decoy.

mircea_popescu: i would guess about 60% or so of 2?F "sub" girlies exist on fetlife only as the fruit of the overactive imagination of a beta "M" somewhere.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! close to two thirds, really.

mircea_popescu: in this sense, "transsexualism" is merely conceptyual leakage brought about by the sort of leaky abstractions that go in the making of an ivan in the first place.

mircea_popescu: you know ?

mircea_popescu: we could restate the life narrative of the millenian in the terminology of "It may be argued that what is wrong with Soviet art is not that it restricts itself to the common experience but that its version of that experience is false; were it faithfully to reflect the true experience of the Soviet masses it might be valid art. But how can one speak of a common Soviet experience without taking into account that it itself is fo

mircea_popescu: rmed by Soviet mass culture? Mass-cultural statements are constantly in the process of making themselves true by causing people to experience their common lives in those terms." :

mircea_popescu: 1. teenager goes on journey. finds no mate.

mircea_popescu: 2. twentysomething "has learned something from his journey", proceeds to explore the vast echo chambers of "social" media with IMPROVED TOOLS!!! he has paper cutout placeholder chix 'so others come' nao, he is sly and urban nao, all those "other losers" that don't think of this (null set) be damned.

mircea_popescu: 3. thirtysomething has spent most of his formative sexual years pretending to be female. well...

asciilifeform: in sov. urban legendology there is a persistent, if not particularly plausible, tale, that some d00d had been given the job of dressing up in bear costume for brezhnev's safaris, and eventually shot

asciilifeform: ( 'played role to the end! growled as he expired! posthumous award of order-of-lenin!' )

mircea_popescu: apparently there's nothing quite as destructive of the human mind than insistently inculcated & socialized conviction that "there's a lot out there". i liveblogged how this fucked up argentina, ( http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-31#1442615 will have to do, i can't find the original discussion with the local dork now) and well... ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2016-03-31 15:52 mircea_popescu: and the start and end of it all is, these atrocious fucktards, who think "sadly there's too many bars" and the whole surface of club in buenos aires would fit in one sane club in a sane place,

asciilifeform: the aolization of the net created this illusion; is what gave us spam, 'marketing', pestilential ads

mircea_popescu: it's defo fucked up the worldview of the pleb. http://trilema.com/2017/fake-news-are-just-one-tail-of-the-failed-female-state/ doesn't even begin to do the topic justice.

mircea_popescu: there's just this baked in assumption that "LOT OUYT THERE!!!" when in fact there is ~0, not even epsilon, outright ~0, out there.

asciilifeform: in reality mostly bots talking to one another. with the occasional meatbot in the mix.

mircea_popescu: by the time you have to employ alien tech to extract some useful out of the pile, ocean-sifters of epic scale purpose built etc...

mircea_popescu: and yet, http://trilema.com/2017/i-think-they-might-be-overdoing-it-in-places/#selection-97.159-97.461

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform thinking about it, the discussed problem re spam, http://trilema.com/2015/you-know-what-gets-no-airplay-unflattering-truth/#selection-931.0-931.721 is exactly borne of the same fount that gave us "transsexuals", yes.

asciilifeform: imho biggest surprise re mircea_popescu's fetlife dig is that any actual chix turned up at all. i wouldn't have expected there were any.

mircea_popescu: this hallucination of the adolescent mind that "definitely lots of chicks in cemetery, now if only could find right place to dig".

mircea_popescu: a converse way to look at it would be to say that online atomization overrepresents schelling points

mircea_popescu: in fact, 80% or more of what passes fro "creative" these days, ie shitty cable shows and "stand up comedy" consist entirely of "recognition porn". turtles visiting tokyo, "hey, turtle from osaka, you too thought the tram was a large dog ?!" "yes turtle from kyoto, that's exactly what i thought when i first saw a tram, did you think so too ?!" "yes this is a brilliant idea to think".

mircea_popescu: buncha fucken turtles. but the problem is, as ~100% of the population is coming to town from the first time, well... ~THE TOWN~ ends up consisting of what first time towners think the town's like.

mircea_popescu: sadly tokyo doesn't enjoy a lengthy history APART from the moron invasion.

mircea_popescu: (of course it does, but "nobody knows" because "it's not in vice" and "nobody with a clue would be here anyway" etc.)

mircea_popescu: and i think w'ere really on cycle 5

mircea_popescu: i mean, 1993 was cycle 1. then there was the wikitardia thing, alongside "slashdot" and "fark" and so on. that was defo 2.

mircea_popescu: then there's a digg cycle, and then there's a reddit cycle. and there probably was a small one in between, with wordpress and "shoemoney" and "web20" etc.

mircea_popescu: so, 5.

asciilifeform: ( my model dun differ so much from mircea_popescu's, aside from where i lump the digg & reddit waves together in lump element, afaik they consisted of largely same lost souls )

mircea_popescu: you're familiar with how alphabet co pretends to have income ?

mircea_popescu: 100% of that entirely fictitious pile is built out of a generalized belief that there is such a thing as "adwords" and it does exchange money, and well... that guy was the early (and really, only) winner of that lottery market.

asciilifeform: aha, gets buckets of printolade and dresses up as 'income', like other usg.tbtf.corps.*

mircea_popescu: somehow hollywood had to pay millions in salaries to the few selected chumnps in its entire existence to keep the flow of waitresses going

mircea_popescu: not so for alphabet, paid that moron a mn a decade ago, its groupon is STILL GOING. and htey're claiming however many billions

mircea_popescu: but anyway, it's a refinement on paul graham's scam ( http://trilema.com/2015/investigations-in-the-bone-heap-of-the-lost-generation-today-mashable/#footnote_6_59020 )

asciilifeform: hey, 'spreading -- works!', subscribe to google ads and get the 'asked-for' number of 'clicks' (from bots, but who promised anyffing in particular)

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-12#1823658 << this item. 80 years worth of "highest paid man/woman/dog in hollywood" rolled into one ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-06-12 03:03 Mocky: ahahaha shoemoney and his mfa check for $130k made out to 'nextpimp', man what a decade

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the matter is extensively documented on trilema at that. cost me a few grand, but hey, can't have free science.

BingoBoingo: Walked to the emergency room after calling and finding every clinic appointment slot booked until next week

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you recall right off where the cannonical statement of "why pay 10mn dorks 50k each when could pick 3 to pay 10mn ea and let the rest hope" lottery tickets thread lives ?

mircea_popescu: pretty sure io had a write-up re hollywood, but now can't turn it up.

a111: Logged on 2018-06-12 20:38 mircea_popescu: ok. let's go back to the original tournament market, the hollywood studio.

a111: Logged on 2013-12-15 01:18 mircea_popescu: a tournament market, like typiocally the 1mn starlets waiting tables in hollywood is there to exploit labour.

mircea_popescu: very late restatement.

mircea_popescu: but... ima take it.

asciilifeform: 'tournaments' seem to work. in particular in that starving 'hopers' will jump livelier and higher than 50k 'it's my day jerb' folx.

mircea_popescu: they only work on low information voters ("coincidentally", the only sort of voter her most pantsuited hilarity ever wants).

mircea_popescu: ie, they're for young boys with little value.

asciilifeform: came up in the recent douchebag threads also. ( worx great, apparently, for keeping douchebag et al on the treadmill )

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so you get what, sulpha ? antibiotics ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which i count as a great benefit.

mircea_popescu: worx.

BingoBoingo: I was also asked if I wanted a note to take off from work, because apparently that is what 80% of the other ER walkins were there for

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform douchebag is pretty much the only thing i don't really want. "Once complete the children are sorted by score, and the bottom thirdi is sold by open outcry (the males are neutered first)." and all that.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo did you say yes ?

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I said no, I don't need the note. If I go back I'll get one the next time

mircea_popescu: keks.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have little confidence in this "all humans born human" hopes.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: near as i could tell, d00d had plenty of native intelligence. but grew up in the circus, and so knows nuffin but idjit acrobatics.

mircea_popescu: i do not belive, since we're doign disbeliefs, in this starry-eyed view of intelligence where it's a gift, like ambidexterity, or a property, like penis size, and "life can enhance or dishance it".

mircea_popescu: no such fucking thing, it's exactly like genetics -- genetically present traits may or may not phenotypically manifest. but if they do not -- THEY WERE NEVER THERE.

mircea_popescu: yes, but intelligence is not a thing.

mircea_popescu: intelligence is, imo, very much like the concept of "luck", or dreamlike causation : the retrofitted imaginary "cause", constructed retrospectively. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: really its only practical function is anxiety modulation in the waking state.

asciilifeform: it's a thing like agility, or strength ( rather than height, or cock girth, etc )

mircea_popescu: not at all.

mircea_popescu: it's a thing like "prescience" or "telepathy" : only exists through the process that sufferer's more likely to notice sustaining examples than disproving examples. ☟︎

asciilifeform: some lions can be trained to play 'tetris', others, no matter how much stick and cookie, not, mircea_popescu of all people i expect would know this

mircea_popescu: but this is established after the training and not afore.

mircea_popescu: therefore...

mircea_popescu: there's a difference between "cat is there whether you look or not" and "we'll put a cat in some boxes you look into, let us know which"

mircea_popescu: the latter "cat" doesn't exist, and intelligence is of the same ilk.

asciilifeform: same model as strength, agility. tho. where is strength before subj is asked to lift the weight.

mircea_popescu: same place.

mircea_popescu: we have mechanical model for strength, and i can make predictions BEFORE the fact, and built entirely on measurements unrelated to "please lift this weight"

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> in usa just walking through that door would be a $1000+ ding << For completeness, there was also the option to have a "radiodoctor" do a house call, but I figured the intel gathering opportunity on the hospital at a time when I'm a least several days removed for threat of mortality would be the higher return option

mircea_popescu: kinda rehash of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-11#1849373 discussion, at that. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-09-11 00:26 mircea_popescu: "i have this inorganic polymerization model which permits me to predict the behaviour of calcium-based matrices and also predicts that should you replace the calcium with strontium, the oxigen content cvadruples ans there's need for an item extra in there that's just like aluminum for so and so reasons"

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know you get a bunch of utri. should prolly not smoke.

mircea_popescu: (utri == upper respiratory tract infection", to help the future summarizers)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i obv dun have a reductive model, and dun know of any honest people who ever claimed to. but this is somewhat diff thing than 'to even try model is waste of time, it's rngolade'

Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-18#1863546 >> if this is true then "you're not smart enough be here" is as meaningful as "not telepathic enough" ☝︎☟︎

a111: Logged on 2018-10-18 17:09 mircea_popescu: it's a thing like "prescience" or "telepathy" : only exists through the process that sufferer's more likely to notice sustaining examples than disproving examples.

Mocky: I can see that view, but by evaluating it only education and experience, runs into the same >> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-18#1863542 ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-10-18 17:08 mircea_popescu: intelligence is, imo, very much like the concept of "luck", or dreamlike causation : the retrofitted imaginary "cause", constructed retrospectively.

asciilifeform: Mocky: yes it's an imaginary object. q is whether 'imaginary like devils' or 'imaginary like electron cloud'. i favour the latter, mircea_popescu , i think, the former

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not making either of those two strong statements. but it does seem to me that the reason you don't have a model is that you're trying to model somethingt that doesn't exist (not that the UNDERLYING PHENOMENA don't exist). much like people "didn't have a model" of earth-centric cosmos.

mircea_popescu: not because "planets don't move" but because "not around earth".

mircea_popescu: Mocky i actually distinguish between smarts (the reductive ability, that powers "i suspect there's no such thing as intelligence", and typified perhaps best by d. kyon) and "intelligence" (the constructive ability, that powers "more loc, more tech, more future", and typified perhaps best by "fm-2030" ). ☟︎

mircea_popescu: there ~certainly~ exists such a thing as "ability to see through bells and whistles", uniting with a strong red thread the 1800s definition of a man ( http://trilema.com/2013/a-very-unfair-perspective/#selection-31.205-31.374 ) and the 2000s definition of a man ( as say http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-19#1826859 ). ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-06-19 16:55 mircea_popescu: douchebag looky, the place's not for you. you're not smart enough to be here. what's so hard to grok about this ? some people are smart, some people aren't smart, you're not smart. what, you have to be dragged out, your legs don't work, what is it ?

mircea_popescu: and in fact the complaint wasn't "you're not telepathic enough to be here" in any sense, but quite specifically "after having been shown the bells and the whistles from different angles and being allowed some digestion time you ~still~ don't manage to recognize them, and therefore lack the fundamental ability required to participate in the affairs of humanity".

mircea_popescu: which i stand behind, ftr ; and it is also what informs the "if they had any sense -- they'd be here" stance. the fact that rando can't cut through fetlife to find the meat / can't cut through internet to find trilema / can't cut through femstate to find bitcoin / can't cut through pantsuitism to find republic etc specifically means that rando is dull, ie, not smart. ☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: but this seems scarcely what's being discussed when one talks of "intelligence".

a111: Logged on 2015-07-08 19:34 ascii_field: far more interesting is the trait hasn eysenck called 'psychoticism'

mircea_popescu: 90% of the time i try to read something, the attempt fails ; and almost always it is because the author is insulting my smarts, not my intelligence. they're all such intelligent men, from sf writers to hayek to what have you. the problem is that they're not smart. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: certainly not smart enough to be read.

mircea_popescu: yes.

asciilifeform: chinese examtaker , or the '2030' people mircea_popescu linked, resemble 'fast comp but without rng'

a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 17:34 asciilifeform: in related lulz, and iirc we had a thread ( tho can't seem to unearth it ), urandom is sufficiently sad that when asciilifeform was running genetic algos / monte carlo / etc. crapolade , yrs ago, from it... would regularly fail to converge

mircea_popescu: and yet -- very intelligent by any test.

asciilifeform: aside from the test where you actually gotta explore the solution space to converge on solution, lol

mircea_popescu: dumb as fucking rocks also, and i would like to introduce mission street in sf into the record as exhibit fucktards.

mircea_popescu: sorta like ny broadway or hollywood blvd.

mircea_popescu: the ground zero of some kind of intelligence.

asciilifeform: as i understand, it's a temple, they had'em in 3000 bc just the same, heathens pray to their peculiar gods

mircea_popescu: right ? but the priests were ~intelligent~.

asciilifeform: it isn't clear to me that priest gotta be esp. intelligent by any measure, any more than today's proverbial dmv clerk

mircea_popescu: but as a factual matter, are.

mircea_popescu: the issue with priesthood is that it offers perpetual masturbatory toys for the non-smart irrespective of their "intelligence" as irrespective of their height.

mircea_popescu: "does this dildo work on blondes as well as brunettes ?" "well... it works on redheads best, but it'll do the oooh-aaah job for anyone."

asciilifeform: in other minor noose, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-16#1863154 << uncrated it last night, and it's a success , a+++ sunlight display ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-10-16 00:19 asciilifeform will try again with 'samsung n150' box, with sadder kbd, but same chipset, and reportedly fitting

asciilifeform: sadly the box it ended up going in, is nuffin to write home about ( slightly slower than the goldstandard x60, and smaller, and sad kbd ) but it worx as described

asciilifeform: unfortunately photo dun really do it justice, gotta be seen with eyes to be believed

asciilifeform: ( contrary to the 'broken telephone game' on the net, the thing ~does~ show colour under sunlight, if backlight is set to minimum. if to 0 : b&w and ultralowpower ( whole day battery, in theory ) )

asciilifeform: total cost of proj is about 2benjie (~1 for sad lappy (used), ~1 for crystal (new/oldstock/china) )

asciilifeform: the only tool req'd : 1) ordinary philips driver 2) spudger 3) pair of hands

asciilifeform prolly will pick up a spare or 2, so as not to end up with 'rms longsoon' irreplaceable artifact

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: same as any other, theoretically if you have battery welder and cells, can rebuild

mircea_popescu: "I packed the above code as a .vpatch on top of the previous genesis .vpatch mainly for keeping my original promise of showing this being built as it is with detours and corrections on the way. Otherwise this could equally well be a genesis in itself given how radically it changes pretty much everything in there. Nevertheless, at least for now - meaning until a final version is achieved and a regrind makes perhaps sense - I'l

mircea_popescu: l keep growing the smg_comms tree." << this, ftr, eminently ideal republican code development process.

mircea_popescu: nevermind teh purpose of "how it'll eventually look", the future can be trusted to take care of itself, ESPECIALLY if you can be trusted to take care of present.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reminds me, i prolly oughta genesis 'horsecocks' aka mmap-for-ada

mircea_popescu: can't see why not.

mircea_popescu: i was thinking, has major chances of being pulled as a patch into eulora-something.

asciilifeform: ( bonus, it has no .c component, builds strictly gnatistically , tho it imports several unixisms as funct calls )

mircea_popescu: kinda funny how we're "slowly" (ie, 10x faster) recreating everything bsd was pretending to be about, huh.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the mmap thing is major labour-saving item, lets you fughet about db etc, you define the data structure you want and it gets persisted to disk / loaded as-needed into ram, transparently to proggy

mircea_popescu: anyway -- in this particular case it makes sense to genesis item so downstream can actually invite you to patch on their tree

mircea_popescu: illustrating a very interesting sorta backflow

mircea_popescu: (better than "i'll wait to patch it in directly at the right time" because the "right time" mioght never come seeing how the people in question don't know what you're patching)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only this, but if folx build on the right slab, they can get 9000x less complex proggy in the end

mircea_popescu: i think it's already evident this, in the serialization discussion

asciilifeform: aha. it's the basic labour of writing sane proggy -- tossing out the duct tape & replacing with sumthing that actually worx

asciilifeform: unrelatedly, while mircea_popescu is awake -- mircea_popescu do you still have a 'mpb' noad running on public net ? would like to try my exerciser on one

mircea_popescu: i dunno right off lol

asciilifeform: already turned up a buncha oddities re noades -- for instance, just about errybody not-trb still sends out gavinalert (with 'key compromised!' message. wai -- i have nfi )

asciilifeform: if you set your hello-version to 99999, they stop, if <=70001 -- they spam it

asciilifeform: aaaand some alarmingly large % of the supposed-nodes, can't or won't come up with old blox on demand..

BingoBoingo: AHA, this and not "be counted by derps" iirc was the reasons the knob got cranked to 99999 and left there.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the funny bit is that 99999 turns off gavinalertism but turns on heathen cmd's

asciilifeform: ( and really oughta be properly dropped, per http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1862873 bug they presently suck oxygen uselessly ) ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-10-15 15:44 asciilifeform: in unrelated noose, mod6 et al : loox like trb doesn't remove banned peers from its addr table ! i.e. offers their addrs up to others, as if they were proper noades!! i never noticed this previously, it had to wait to be found empirically. really oughta be fixed, and pretty simple patch.

asciilifeform: by my current estimate ( not fired the full scan yet, when proggy done it'll run continuously and present a phuctoresque www panel ) there are perhaps 100 actual noades on the net

mircea_popescu: well, on public net at any rate.

mircea_popescu: because of the exact problems you discuss i'd guess 1/4 or less of nodes are publicly adressable

mircea_popescu: but yes, it's painfully obvious the "p2p" nature of bitcoin went straight to nowhere, disabusing naive satoshi notions of "all the world's a huge wikitardia!!!" 1990s wank.

asciilifeform: ( re pockets, afaik erry half-serious user has at least 1 pocket noad behind his public one )

mircea_popescu: kinda informs the change of the tenor here, since his http://trilema.com/2015/the-news-in-brief-hearn-is-a-shitstain-mp-is-right-fuck-reddit-love-satoshi/ declaration a few years ago.

mircea_popescu: rather than like ~cunt~.

mircea_popescu: turns out, cunt more of a jewel of engineering than generally thought, yet ~another~ aspect of its normal functioning not reproducible by present technical means.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ever seen someone with a bag of cunts ?

mircea_popescu: that's the problem of bitcoin, right, the relay-mining cleavage. something that ~in spite of designatorial intention~ WAS done to bitcoin ; and NOT done to sexuate reproduction.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i mean fully functional ones.

mircea_popescu: right ?

mircea_popescu: right, but cunts are p2p.

mircea_popescu: and i have seen a tyre depot, which for my purposes here counts as "bag of legs"

asciilifeform: but yes, 'allcomers p2p' allows 9000 types of abuses ( if you think about it, the fact that one is able to build a simple mechanism to map out the net, is not actually a win , for that matter ) , noose at 11

asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu were to park his merc in johannesburg, orcs might steal the tyres, but not the cunt (can only borrow..)

asciilifeform: ( anybody recall the old film where there is 'fast motion' scene of airplane abandoned in some shithole, 'evaporating' part by part ? )

mircea_popescu: cunt works fine with allcomers p2p!

mircea_popescu: in fact, actually works better, if slightly.

mircea_popescu: (and deals with more tbs of data than any bitcoin node, but that's a story for later sadness.()

mircea_popescu: actually... why not now. so, human genome, 3bn base pairs, about 100GB ; per ejaculation ~500bn copies of this chunk.

mircea_popescu: im sorry, ~500mn, half bn.

asciilifeform: bandwidth, contrary to intuition, isn't where 'worx of man' necessarily fall down to the ant, but rather http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-20#1687613 ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 19:47 asciilifeform: ( this is called 'brittleness' by aficionados of 'meat-like machinery' )

mircea_popescu: dealing with a 500`000`000 copies (more or less exact) of the same 100GB file within half an hour... that's more than any node does ; and more than the collective of nodes did since the beginning of the ocin.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha.

asciilifeform: nobody's ever built anyffin with even close to the noise tolerance of meat. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: "even the easy tasks are too hard for you "

asciilifeform: my quite humble pipe here moves 100G in half hr . that aint the hard part.

mircea_popescu: half bn copies of a 100G each!

mircea_popescu: DIFFERENT. SLIGHTLY>

mircea_popescu: nightmare situation.

mircea_popescu: but not pick the ones with least gray pixels.

mircea_popescu: anyway. it's funny to me that the blockchain's approximately in the size range of the genome.

mircea_popescu: seems there's a MINIMAL complexity "For anything interesting", and we're finally just now getting togethert the tools to work with it.

mircea_popescu: table stakes, finally we're getting there.

asciilifeform spent some yrs involved in 'here's 100GB of genome, nao answer an interesting q about it' racket, it was depressing, even with custom iron most of the practically useful q's are unanswerable, there's fundamental algo problems in the way

asciilifeform: non-vonneumann machine potentially changes this, but $farm went broke before asciilifeform was able to fill 42U cabinet with fpga..

asciilifeform: current-day 'supercomp' biz is a sad cargo cult, ~errybody's building buckets fulla intelade rubbish.

asciilifeform: if anybody's doing sumthing actually constructive, it's a well-kept seekrit

asciilifeform: grr can't find thread, so at risk of repeat : there is a legend, where some nao long-dead sage ( ulam ? ) was in a room where the lesser mortals idly fucked around with q 'how to short bundle of sticks by length' fastest. d00d silently picked up the bundle of sticks and pounded them on table ends-down and then lowered palm onto the top, picking up longest with each move

asciilifeform: nobody in his right mind would try to empty swimming pool with eye dropper, but for some reason the computin' folx are still doing it.

mircea_popescu: aha!

asciilifeform: !Q later tell trinque i was learning from db dark arts, in yer http://btcbase.org/patches/logbot-genesis#L186 , and wondered re the orig logic behind the uuid-ossp / gen_random_uuid() item ( vs the ordinary 'serial' ), plox to enlighten asciilifeform