[ExI] proto-bitcoin

[Mike Dougherty]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> I'm objecting to virtual in the virtualization layer, as in
> VM, hypervisor, and such.
>
> VR (Lem's phantomatics) implies that there's still a physical
> monkey in the loop. Whether you're using a HMD with tracker or
> direct neural stimulation is merely an issue of rendering
> fidelity.

understood.

> This not to say that you don't need a control layer for
> interactions across domains, which needs to be provably secure.
> It wouldn't help the hapless animat to be hack-proof by
> virtue of running directly on the hardware layer only
> if the control plane is wide open to h4x0r shenanigans.

we are so far from provably secure.  Ironically, the digital
equivalent of evolution's product would probably also fail a security
audit.  ex:  Application of sodium pentothol defeats basic
secret-keeping?  That's a ridiculous design, fix it.  :)

> For an internal observer, artificial reality is supposed to feel
> exactly like the real thing, with modifications like unreal estate and
> alternative physics, of course.

That's an interesting situation if/when proprioception is directly manipulated