[ExI] proto-bitcoin

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 22 22:06:26 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> Do you worry much about your microbiome in charge of your
> digestion? Rarely, I would imagine.

That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.  In fact there's now a pretty
strong meme to suggest that regularly giving a damn about that system
will help make the rest of them work better.

> Utility fog has serious deficiences due to the reconfigurability
> requirement. The amount of wasted volume dedicated to navigation,
> propulsion and relinking is considerable. It only makes sense
> as a poor man's reconfigurable environment for meat puppets, and
> falls short on about everything if there are none.

i already conceded that utility fog is mostly magic for the sake of
theater/hollywood.

> Virtualization assumes shared resources, and saving and restoring
> state. In case of provably optimal computers there is nothing shared,
> so saving and restoring N bits of state requires twice the number
> of hardware, and considerable delays.
>
> Which means there will be no virtualization, and no cloud.

Then what the heck were you talking about when you said, "Oh it'll be
cheaper and easier to have fantasy worlds"?  You didn't _really_ mean
people would be playing pretend, did you?

>> someone is still running physical machines, yeah?
>
> Nobody is running anything. No more than you are running your
> body. You *are* your body. Nothing is going to change about that.

Ok, you ARE your body... and you might get high on drugs and not care
about it for a while... but that's hardly sustainable.  You will have
to take care of it; even if you've externalized the cost of that care
to pharmaceuticals or medical technologies that you didn't
discover/invent yourself.

I don't understand how one might BE physically bare-bones hardware and
unconcerned about the processes of physical reality.



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