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Thu Mar 17 14:55:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform just because one whore was easy doesn't mean all whores are going to be as easy.
Thu Mar 17 14:54:52 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> IF you can stay carefully out in a domain where the newtonian approximation is close enough, THEN you'll be ok with that idea of intelligence.
Thu Mar 17 14:54:52 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> however, it appears pretty narrow.
Thu Mar 17 14:54:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yes, mass. see qm.
Thu Mar 17 14:53:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> how does it do that ?
Thu Mar 17 14:53:44 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 17-03-2016 13:46:44; mircea_popescu: this underscores the principal point about intelligence, which is to say that it is an ex post facto construction outside the object, and consequently it can not either be objective, or objectively measured.
Thu Mar 17 14:53:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435057 << he has a good point.
Thu Mar 17 14:51:01 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "The suburbs are doomed. Go rural or stay urban, where you at least have structurally defensible enclaves, as opposed to getting caught in the suburban net that was designed to put you at the mercy of teenage criminals when you are in your eighties." << to the uncharitable eye it'd seem south africa was actually an experiment rather than happenstance.
Thu Mar 17 14:41:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435055 << they should at least wear those cute see through frilly socks! if they can't go all the way to http://41.media.tumblr.com/a512c6749b02295db8b4c267a379a075/tumblr_nlayqenekm1u2r4a0o1_1280.jpg
Thu Mar 17 14:32:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ;;google know-nothings
Thu Mar 17 14:32:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435051 << ahahaha.
Thu Mar 17 14:32:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in fact, that's eactly how engineering ISN'T done.
Thu Mar 17 14:32:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i mean i know gavin-moore law will "fix this in the future", of course, but this isn't how engineering works.
Thu Mar 17 14:28:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> danielpbarron an important point to consider is the data & i/o meaning of "1 petahash". if each single hash requires 256 bits of data to proceed, you are looking at 32 petabytes of data that has to move. in a second ? ouch.
Thu Mar 17 14:26:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435048 << if the nonce is not shifted at all, each digest is good for exactly one nonce. if the nonce is shifted one bit, each digest is good for 2 nonces. if it is shifted 10 bits, 1024 nonces. etc.
Thu Mar 17 14:24:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435045 << you';re better off with digital storage than analogic. even for the narrow cases where analogic usually wins (film archival) it's on the grounds of "preserving the original item, which was analogic rather than transform it in some manner the lossy-ness of which we can't evaluate", nothing more.
Thu Mar 17 14:23:19 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i'm shocked. SHOCKED! i say!
Thu Mar 17 14:23:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435036 << you mean he didn't move to argentina ?!
Thu Mar 17 14:22:33 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435032 << pretty lulzy.
Thu Mar 17 14:13:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ;;google liber-schimbist