--- Log opened Tue May 09 00:00:55 2023 01:20 -!- darsie [~darsie@84-113-55-200.cable.dynamic.surfer.at] has joined #hplusroadmap 01:24 -!- pharonix71 [~pharonix7@user/pharonix71] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 01:24 -!- pharonix71 [~pharonix7@user/pharonix71] has joined #hplusroadmap 01:35 -!- pharonix71 [~pharonix7@user/pharonix71] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 01:37 -!- pharonix71 [~pharonix7@user/pharonix71] has joined #hplusroadmap 02:07 -!- pharonix71 [~pharonix7@user/pharonix71] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 02:07 -!- pharonix71 [~pharonix7@user/pharonix71] has joined #hplusroadmap 02:28 -!- pharonix71 [~pharonix7@user/pharonix71] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 02:29 -!- pharonix71 [~pharonix7@user/pharonix71] has joined #hplusroadmap 02:46 -!- L29Ah [~L29Ah@wikipedia/L29Ah] has joined #hplusroadmap 03:20 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@idlerpg/player/Malvolio] has joined #hplusroadmap 03:42 -!- TMM_ [hp@amanda.tmm.cx] has quit [Quit: https://quassel-irc.org - Chat comfortably. Anywhere.] 03:42 -!- TMM_ [hp@amanda.tmm.cx] has joined #hplusroadmap 04:55 -!- stipa_ [~stipa@user/stipa] has joined #hplusroadmap 04:57 -!- stipa [~stipa@user/stipa] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 04:57 -!- stipa_ is now known as stipa 06:12 -!- yashgaroth [~ffffffff@c-73-147-55-120.hsd1.va.comcast.net] has joined #hplusroadmap 06:32 < hprmbridge> jasoncrawford> I've posted the answer to this quote quiz: https://rootsofprogress.org/quote-quiz-answer 06:33 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@idlerpg/player/Malvolio] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 06:39 < hprmbridge> kanzure> seal playing video game https://v.redd.it/0jk804l2unya1 06:43 -!- CryptoDavid [uid14990@id-14990.uxbridge.irccloud.com] has joined #hplusroadmap 06:55 -!- darsie [~darsie@84-113-55-200.cable.dynamic.surfer.at] has quit [Quit: Wash your hands. Don't touch your face. Avoid fossil fuels and animal products. Have no/fewer children (later). Protest, elect sane politicians. Invest ecologically.] 06:56 -!- darsie [~darsie@84-113-55-200.cable.dynamic.surfer.at] has joined #hplusroadmap 07:46 -!- TMM_ [hp@amanda.tmm.cx] has quit [Quit: https://quassel-irc.org - Chat comfortably. Anywhere.] 07:47 -!- TMM_ [hp@amanda.tmm.cx] has joined #hplusroadmap 08:06 < alethkit> jasoncrawford: I think my opinions regarding the Unabomber are similar to geohot's 08:11 < alethkit> https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2022/10/13/a-hope.html 08:23 < hprmbridge> Eli> It's totally crazy that the unabomber could be so smart and yet believe that he could change the path of technological advance by mailing bombs to people. If anything, we are far more reliant on technology than ever before, and a lot of people would be ready to kill people without technology. 08:24 < hprmbridge> Eli> very few americans today could readily accept living like an amish person. 08:35 < alethkit> Eli: I think the plan was to inspire other people to rise up 08:36 < alethkit> Who knows, maybe people have finally had enough of smartphones.. 08:40 < hprmbridge> Eli> It was such a profoundly stupid plan 09:06 -!- cthlolo [~lorogue@77.33.23.154.dhcp.fibianet.dk] has joined #hplusroadmap 09:49 < nsh> it crazy how often doing something is something more done than doing nothing 09:50 < nsh> the warsaw ghetto uprising also didn't succeed 10:36 < docl> una-bee unfortunately succeeded at an egotist's dream, being talked about and recognized / name dropped all the time. and seen as an intellectual (mainly from being a big fish in the small pond of terrorist scumbags) 10:42 < docl> https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm 10:43 < docl> "The manifesto appeared in The Washington Post as an eight-page supplement that was not part of the news sections." 10:45 < docl> OK I'll admit I did not know he got 35k words published in the Washington Post. that's kind of impressive 10:58 -!- cthlolo [~lorogue@77.33.23.154.dhcp.fibianet.dk] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 10:59 < kanzure> in the coming AI-generated spam apocalypse, proof-of-work/hashcash could be used to stamp items (doesn't particularly matter if a human really wrote it, as long as someone thought it was worth enough to pass your difficulty threshold) 11:20 < superkuh> I bet you can avoid 99% of it by just turning off javascript when browsing the web. 11:20 < superkuh> The non-JS web will remain mostly the product of human persons. 11:21 < kanzure> hm? like the chatgpt-generated text won't be pasted by humans into plain html pages? 11:22 < superkuh> The people, and non-human persons, seeking to make money will follow the rest of the money seekers and use JS for everything. It takes a concerted effort and intentional choice to develop JS free. 11:45 < L29Ah> meh hashcash, i only accept bitcoin 13:16 < docl> kanzure: problem with arerosols is you can't really localize them to one spot in the atmosphere. makes it tricky to cool just one spot. not a problem for the reducing the global temperature overall, but I think we want more control than that 13:21 < docl> https://foresight.org/the-weather-machine/ 13:24 < docl> .wik SEAgel 13:24 < EmmyNoether> "SEAgel (Safe Emulsion Agar gel) is one of a class of high-tech foam materials known as aerogels. It is an excellent thermal insulator and among the least dense solids known." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAgel 13:24 < docl> "SEAgel can be made lighter than air using hydrogen, causing it to float or hang in the air. It insulates against temperature, noise, and electric current." 13:24 < nsh> the problem might also be that we have very little appreciation for complex multidimensional nonlinear dynamics with chaotic regimes and wouldn't know what and wherefore to be controlling if he had the agility 13:24 < nsh> *we 13:25 < nsh> one can concoct dozens of scenarios where some indicator which would naively be thought to be moving in the right direction precipitates some catastrophe due to a feedback mechanism almost nobody knows about let alone understands 13:26 < docl> stuff gets exponentially easier if it's more localized and you can turn it off as needed 13:27 < docl> I thought AI was supposed to solve that problem :P 13:28 < docl> seriously though I am not a fan of things you need to rely on an AI to model to avoid catastrophic failure. design with failsafes, limited damage potential, etc. 13:37 -!- Llamamoe [~Llamamoe@46.204.76.162.nat.umts.dynamic.t-mobile.pl] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 14:44 < alethkit> kanzure: Wouldn't you just get botnets to do the PoW for you? 14:49 -!- CryptoDavid [uid14990@id-14990.uxbridge.irccloud.com] has quit [Quit: Connection closed for inactivity] 15:20 -!- faceface [~faceface@user/faceface] has joined #hplusroadmap 16:09 -!- Jay_Dugger [~jwd@47.189.8.217] has joined #hplusroadmap 17:28 < Jay_Dugger> Hello, everyone. 18:14 < fenn> why didn't medieval witches breed bioluminescent moss and fungi to read at night without depending on the catholic monasteries for beeswax candles 18:15 < fenn> ... or did they? 18:51 -!- Malvolio [~Malvolio@idlerpg/player/Malvolio] has joined #hplusroadmap 18:53 < nsh> having access to books and having access to the ability to light rooms in the evening seems like it might have been somewhat well correlated 19:06 -!- yashgaroth [~ffffffff@c-73-147-55-120.hsd1.va.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 19:13 -!- darsie [~darsie@84-113-55-200.cable.dynamic.surfer.at] has quit [Ping timeout: 250 seconds] 22:26 -!- Gooberpatrol66 [~Gooberpat@user/gooberpatrol66] has joined #hplusroadmap --- Log closed Wed May 10 00:00:56 2023