2015-01-28.log

--- Log opened Wed Jan 28 00:00:37 2015
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archelsAs of now, all individual members of AISB have a personal subscription to the Taylor & Francis journal Connection Science as part of their membership.01:49
archelshurrah01:49
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kanzuredoes taylorfrancis have anything actually interesting06:18
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kanzurehttp://edge.org/responses/what-scientific-idea-is-ready-for-retirement06:23
kanzure.title http://edge.org/response-detail/2554006:23
yoleauxEdge.org06:23
kanzureblah06:23
kanzureshould say "information overload is ready for retirement bitches"06:23
maaku_wtf. retire the search for a theory of everything?06:25
maaku_quantum physics doesn't work. it is broken at large and at massive scale06:25
kanzure"I think the altruism hierarchy should be retired. I do believe that people often help others absent the goal of any personal gain. Dan Batson, Philip Kitcher, and others have done the philosophical and empirical work of distinguishing other-oriented and self-oriented motives for prosociality. But I also believe that the reservation of terms such as "pure" or "real" for actions bereft of any personal gain is less than useful."06:25
maaku_general relatively is broken at small scale06:26
maaku_i don't think it's weird to say that there is a rule which the universe follows ...06:26
kanzurehm this page is longer than i expected06:26
kanzure"The apparent need to retire classical spacetime as a fundamental concept is profound, and confronts the reality that a clear successor is not yet in sight. Different approaches to the underlying quantum framework exist; some show promise but none yet clearly resolve our decades-old conundrums in black holes and cosmology. The emergence of such a successor is likely to be a key element in the next major revolution in physics."06:28
kanzureman what the fuck has gone wrong with john brockman06:28
kanzurecan't he just filter out all the bullshit (yes everyone has known for 100 years about some of these)06:28
kanzure"This leads all too easily to the idea that while someone is awake they must always be conscious of something or other. And that leads along the slippery path to the idea that if we knew what to look for we could peer inside someone's brain and find out which processes were the conscious ones and which the unconscious ones. But this is all nonsense. All we will ever find is the neural correlates of thoughts, perceptions, memories and the ...06:29
kanzure... verbal and attentional processes that lead us to think we are conscious."06:29
maaku_w. t. f.06:30
kanzurehaha06:30
kanzure"Recent studies in the booming research field of Mind Wandering show that we spend roughly two thirds of our conscious life-time zoning out—daydreaming, lost in fantasies, autobiographical planning, inner narratives or depressive rumination. Depending on the study, 30-50% of our waking life is occupied by spontaneously occurring stimulus and task-unrelated thought. Mind Wandering probably has positive aspects too, because it is ...06:30
kanzure... associated with creativity, careful future planning, or the encoding of long-term memories. But its overall performance costs (for example, in terms of reading comprehension, memory, sustained attention tasks, or working memory) are marked and have been well documented. So have its negative effects on general, subjective well-being. A wandering mind clearly is an unhappy mind, but it may only be part of a more comprehensive process ...06:31
kanzure... beyond the conscious self’s control or understanding. The sudden loss of inner autonomy—which all of us experience many hundred times every day—seems to be based on a cyclically recurring process in the brain. The ebb and flow of autonomy and meta-awareness might well be a kind of attentional see-sawing between our inner and outer worlds, caused by a constant competition between the brain networks underlying spontaneous ...06:31
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kanzure... subpersonal thinking and goal-oriented cognition."06:31
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kanzuresome of these are inconsistent06:35
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kanzuremaaku_: you died?06:47
kanzurehttp://openlab-blueprint.org/06:52
kanzureoh look they are kind enough to not conflate community labs with diy06:52
kanzuretheir equipment list is not comprehensive http://openlab-blueprint.org/equipment/06:52
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kanzure"spectro" doesn't even appear on this page06:53
kanzureare they just smelling their samples or what06:53
kanzureblah i hate people06:53
ParahSailinis using vim anachronistic?07:23
kanzurenah, still relevant07:24
ParahSailinsome consultant was complaining about not having vpn set up so that he can use sublime text or some shit07:25
kanzurelee smolin saying things http://edge.org/response-detail/2537107:26
kanzureParahSailin: haha, tell him to edit locally?07:26
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ParahSailinyeah, like with vim, and he said "i worked with mainframes 20 years ago, im done with that now"07:27
kanzure"what the fuck did you do with yourself since then?"07:27
kanzure"one genome per person" http://edge.org/response-detail/25363 "At the other end of the time continuum, in 6 people who died, unrelated to cancer, there was extensive mosaicism across all organs assessed, including liver, small intestine and pancreas."07:27
ParahSailindunno, i looked at sublime text, and let me tell you, hjkl, d c, i and escape is not all there is to vim07:28
ParahSailinif i were going to switch id probably learn emacs07:28
kanzure.to cluckj :/ john brockman published some weird anti-falsifiability stuff http://edge.org/response-detail/2532207:28
yoleauxkanzure: I'll pass your message to cluckj.07:28
kanzurehttp://edge.org/response-detail/25284 "Then why did the human brain double in size? Why is it much bigger than you might think it needs to be, to underpin our level of intelligence? There's no question that big brains are costly to build and maintain. So, if we are to retire the "obvious theory", what can we put in its place? The answer I'd suggest lies in the advantage of having a large amount of cognitive reserve. Big brains have spare ...07:29
kanzure... capacity that can be called on if and when working-parts get damaged or wear out. From adulthood onwards humans—like other mammals—begin to lose a significant amount of brain tissue to accidents, haemorrhages and degeneration. But because humans can draw on this extra reserve, the loss doesn't have to show. This means humans can retain their mental powers into relative old age, long after their smaller brained ancestors would ...07:29
kanzure... have become incapacitated. (And as a matter of fact the unfortunate individual born with an unusually small brain is much more likely to succumb to senile dementia in his forties)."07:29
kanzure" So, what evolutionary advantage does longevity bring, even the post-reproductive longevity typical of humans? The answer surely is that humans can benefit—as no other species could do—from the presence of mentally-sound grandparents and great-grandparents, whose role in caretaking and teaching has been key to the success of human culture."07:30
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ParahSailindid python3 remove tuple packing in for .. in stuff?08:02
kanzureyou mean "for (x, y) in enumerate(range(0,10))"?08:02
kanzure.py3 [(x, y) for (x, y) in enumerate(range(0, 10))]08:03
kanzure.py [(x, y) for (x, y) in enumerate(range(0, 10))]08:03
yoleaux[(0, 0), (1, 1), (2, 2), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5), (6, 6), (7, 7), (8, 8), (9, 9)]08:03
kanzureworks fine08:03
ParahSailini remember that python3 fucked up destructuring in some case08:04
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kanzurehttps://jagt.github.io/clumsy/ "clumsy makes your network condition on Windows significantly worse, but in a managed and interactive manner."09:14
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kanzure.tw https://twitter.com/ACSPublications/status/56046521357384499209:55
yoleauxWe are currently experiencing issues with Google search results; please be aware that we are working to resolve this ASAP. (@ACSPublications)09:55
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maaku_kanzure: ?10:30
maaku_just afk10:30
kanzureah i thought you vanished in a puff of dignified horror of the evils of edge.org10:34
maaku_oh hah. nah i'm at a conference. only on IRC when the talk is uninteresting :P10:35
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andytoshi exciting news everyone: my life insurance policy was approved. i have to mail in some forms to alcor now ... onto the "real" part of cryonics signup :011:28
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eudoxiahey congratulations on not cryocrastinating11:31
kanzureeudoxia: i may have found a way to make "skdb" work11:36
eudoxiakanzure: solving the incentives problem or a design thing?11:36
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kanzure... yes...11:47
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eudoxiaok well i'm listening12:01
andytoshikanzure: maaku suggests that my personal identity is really tied up in my body and i shouldn't do head-only cryopreservation. do you have any thoughts on that?12:23
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kanzureuhrm, i would have to see lots of evidence about that12:29
justanotheruserandytoshi: your identity is only a screenname to me, so as long as you cryopreserve your head containing the password, you should be good.12:30
andytoshijustanotheruser: i keep that in my keepass :)12:30
ParahSailinif you freeze the brain and the heart, chances are you've got the soul12:31
andytoshikanzure: well, for example a lot of hormonal stuff occurs in response to gut neurons right?12:31
andytoshii don't recall where i read this. it's something maaku brought up12:31
eudoxiaandytoshi: people with transected spines don't have a sudden personality change. and hormonal stuff is not too unique to a person, like brain structure.12:33
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andytoshihmmm12:39
andytoshiit is hard to mentally separate myself from my body. like i'm typing right now and i'm not consciously moving fingers, i'm just thinking into the screen..12:41
andytoshii guess, i could relearn all that stuff with a new body12:41
andytoshibut do the tactile sensations etc define my personality?12:41
andytoshias an extreme example, there are studies to show that if you give someone botox or otherwise reshape their face, this -does- cause personality changes12:41
archelssevering the spine means you'll have to relearn much of your motor control and sensory maps12:43
archelswhich might be a bit annoying and/or debilitating12:43
archelsas for the gut neurons, they should be pretty interchangable12:44
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archelsperhaps the bone marrow stem cells can be of use in the future, but then again by the time they thaw you, we can probably induce pluripotent stem cells from any tissue12:44
archelsthe idea is that they'll grow new bodies for the neuros based on their own DNA, no?12:46
archelsright, Alcor states that explicitly at least12:52
archels"A more likely problem could be joining the axons of the brain stem to the right muscles of the body. These connections might not be completely genetically determined. Various motor skills, such as walking or playing the piano, might have to be relearned."12:53
archelsof course Alcor is going to try and sound positive about everything12:53
kanzurecubespawn has 90k sq ft of industrial shop space and equipment... geeze.12:54
archels"Aubrey de Grey has theorized that neuropatients will be revived after procedures have been perfected on whole body patients, and therefore have better chances for revival."12:54
andytoshiok, well, i can do both those things and idk how quickly i'd relearn them. might be interesting to swap some nerves eg to swap my brain's view of my index and ring fingers to see what happens12:54
andytoshithat's a good point re revival, archels12:54
kanzurehormone thing is bullshit, you can derive some of that information from your genome and methylation12:54
kanzureas for muscles... that doesnt matter either. so you might have to learn new motor functions, big deal...12:55
kanzuremotor function is overrated12:55
kanzurepersonality being impacted by botox is probably just because people think the face expresses personality12:57
kanzurethere might be some personal feedback there, or feedback through others and how they treat you, but in either case i don't care12:58
andytoshikanzure: the botox study asked people how they were feeling12:59
andytoshiif they couldn't frown anymore they became happier12:59
kanzureyes people can feel differently.. but so what?12:59
andytoshii think how happy you are on average is a big determiner of personality13:00
andytoshii'm a happy person, and the sad people around me do incomprehensible things all the time13:00
kanzureso the concern here is something about your personality being different between two points in time?13:01
andytoshii guess.13:02
andytoshii think, i have always preferred my current personality (which ofc has changed dramatically many times over the years) to any other. the idea of changing is bad13:02
andytoshii guess, this is a silly argument about cryonics tho because there are many things (including factors i cannot forsee or influence) in life that change my personality13:03
kanzurealso most assays of personality are bullshit13:03
kanzurei would be much more interested in some sort of brain backup system where you can do rollbacks13:04
archelsgetting your own body back shouldn't really be much of a problem at that point13:05
archelsaccelerated growth of a zygote based on your own somatic cells13:06
kanzureperhaps13:06
archelsoh, and keep it from developing its own brain and personality, I guess13:07
kanzurethat seems like an annoying thing to try to do13:07
kanzurei think emulation is more likely13:07
kanzurei mean, more easy13:07
archelsprobably, yeah13:09
archelsI don't know, what's always struck me a bit about cryonics, is that even in spite of nanotech and WBE and all that good jazz, there's a nonzero probability that for some people... it's just going to work out of the box13:10
kanzureer, what strikes you in particular about that?13:11
archelsas in, you bring them up to temperature, follow the right procedure, restart their heart, and have them just essentially come back from the dead13:11
archelsjust as kindof a cute aspect of cryonics--whole-body cryonics, at that13:11
kanzureoh i don't think so. we haven't demonstrated that for anything bigger than a cat brain.13:11
kanzurei mean maybe if we get some experimental evidence...13:12
archelswell, a cat would already be pretty good13:12
archelswasn't the leitl working on snails last time we talked?13:12
kanzureyes13:12
kanzurei think another option would be to try it with human embryos13:15
kanzureat longer and longer stages of development13:15
kanzureand then over time select for humans able to withstand cryonics13:15
andytoshiwhat's a leitl?13:16
kanzure.g "eugen leitl" "two bits" "bryan bishop"13:16
yoleauxhttp://osdir.com/ml/diybio/2012-11/msg00333.html13:16
kanzure.g "eugen leitl" "bryan bishop" site:extropy.org 200813:17
yoleauxhttp://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2008-January/039764.html13:17
kanzurethere we go. that is better.13:17
kanzurewhoops no13:18
kanzurehmm. if i was less mobile at the moment then i would be able to fetch you the right link.13:18
kanzure.g site:extropy.org inurl:2008 "bryan bishop" "eugen leitl" "don't compile"13:19
yoleauxNo results found.13:19
kanzure.g site:extropy.org inurl:2008 "bryan bishop" "eugen leitl" "two bits"13:20
yoleauxNo results found.13:20
kanzureimpossible13:20
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nmz787_imy mom lost significant nerve function in her lower body, along with intense pain as a result of the damaged neurons, and this resulted in significant personality changes and unhappiness13:26
kragen.g site:extropy.org inurl:2008 sitaker13:38
yoleauxNo results found.13:38
kragen.g site:extropy.org inurl:2006 sitaker13:38
yoleauxNo results found.13:38
kragennmz787_i: that sounds shitty13:38
kragen.g site:extropy.org sitaker13:39
yoleauxhttp://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2005-July/018108.html13:39
kragenheh, it's about crowdfunding13:40
nmz787_ikragen: that is a mild term to describe it, at least13:41
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delinquentmekanzure, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=896289615:12
delinquentmemake happen15:12
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nmz787_idelinquentme: pretty neat15:14
delinquentmenmz787_i, and useful !15:17
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kanzureugh15:19
kanzureno that is not neat15:19
kanzurethat is a flippant violation of sensemaking15:19
kanzureand you should feel physically ill15:19
justanotheruserI for one would love to have my money secured by a group attempting to solve a problem that will make my money worthless.15:22
nmz787_i.dic flippant15:23
nmz787_i.dict flippant15:23
nmz787_i.g definition flippant15:23
yoleauxhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flippant15:23
nmz787_i.g definition sensemaking15:24
yoleauxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking15:24
nmz787_i.wik sensemeaning15:24
yoleauxnmz787_i: Sorry, I couldn't find article.15:24
nmz787_i.wik sensemaking15:24
yoleaux"Sensemaking is the process by which people give meaning to experience. While this process has been studied by other disciplines under other names for centuries, the term "sensemaking" has primarily marked three distinct but related research areas since the 1970s: Sensemaking was introduced to Human–computer interaction by PARC researchers  …" — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking15:24
kanzureeveryone knows at this point that proof-of-work is broken when used like that15:24
kanzureand it is disgusting that they are lying ot you15:25
kanzure*to you15:25
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kanzureand even more gross that you don't realize it15:25
nmz787_i?15:25
nmz787_ibitcoin sucks anyway15:25
nmz787_i:)15:25
kanzurethat doesn't mean you get to fuck up this channel with shitty ideas15:25
nmz787_iI don't parse what you mean by "that is a [lacking proper respect or seriousness] violation of [giving meaning to experience]"15:25
kanzurehow do you not parse that15:26
kanzureit clearly translates to "this is a complete rejection of every experience that anyone has about bitcoin"15:26
nmz787_iisn't it just saying the work is pointless and thus we shouldn't waste watts on it?15:26
kanzure"and is also clearly not very thorough and doesn't even address the actual issues, and instead just proposes some bad idea instead"15:27
nmz787_irather use those watts for a real problem?15:27
kanzureyes, it's saying that and a whole host of other things15:27
kanzurebut yeah, that's a good place to start15:27
kanzureproof-of-work is not useless15:27
nmz787_i.etymology flippant15:28
nmz787_i.etym flippant15:28
kanzuresee bottom of page 11 https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/alts.pdf15:28
kanzureand page 1215:28
nmz787_i'pparently an extended form of flip (v.). '15:28
nmz787_ihttp://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=flip&allowed_in_frame=015:28
nmz787_i'"to fillip, to toss with the thumb," imitative, or perhaps a thinned form of flap, or else a contraction of fillip (q.v.), which also is held to be imitative. Meaning "toss as though with the thumb" is from 1610s. Meaning "to flip a coin" (to decide something) is by 1879. Sense of "get excited" is first recorded 1950; flip (one's) lid "lose one's head, go wild" is from 1949, American English; variant flip (one's) wig attested by15:29
nmz787_i1952, but the image turns up earlier in popular record reviews'15:29
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kanzurethis phyical cost is exactly how bitcoin works in the first place15:29
kanzureand relacing it with something costless is bogus15:29
nmz787_icost meaning watts?15:30
kanzurecost meaning some physical scarcity of some sort15:30
nmz787_idrives/RAM to store hashes?15:30
kanzureand as maaku pointed it out, bitcoin is basically using the universal scarcity of entropy15:30
nmz787_iaren't those just getting cheaper and cheaper?15:30
nmz787_inot scarcer15:30
kanzurei don't know what you're asking15:30
kanzuredo you know how bitcoin works?15:30
nmz787_imechanical-turk?15:31
nmz787_imostly I just know it has to do with some crypto15:31
kanzureif you don't know how bitcoin works, why would you even for a moment think that "foldingcoin" is a good idea?15:31
nmz787_ibecause it sounds like it uses the hashing to do useful work in addition to just proving security15:31
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nmz787_ibecause that's how the website designers designed the website to be seen as15:32
kanzuresurely you're not that gullible15:32
nmz787_iat face-value it does seem that bitcoin is just a waste of energy, doing work for no reason other than to limit the inflow of new coins15:32
kanzureat face-value bitcoin should make absolutely no sense15:33
kanzureso it is curious that you think it is a waste15:33
nmz787_iright, and protein-folding being useful makes much much more sense15:33
kanzurejust because you haven't investigated how it works or why it works doesn't mean that it's wasteful15:33
kanzureand does not mean that protien folding achieves anything nearly similar15:34
nmz787_iidk man, if you know so much, write a bitcoin for dummies webpage, otherwise you shouldn't care so much that people don't know about it15:34
kanzurewhat?15:35
kanzurethat's unrelated15:35
kanzureright now i'm focusing on just you15:35
justanotherusernmz787_i: Not reading all this scrollback, but I'll say that bitcoin is secured by hashing which is designed to be irreversible and is mostly unoptimizable. Protein folding isn't a cryptographic hash and isn't designed by cryptographers and it shouldn't be used to secure things that require a hash.15:36
nmz787_iok, from my standpoint specifically, bitcoin hashing seems like it is some useless function that just wastes time, with the constraint on how much time depending on how many other coins exist at that moment. so switching that seemingly useless function into something that it beneficial seems like less of a waste of watts.15:37
kanzurebitcoin mining specifically exists to secure the bitcoin blockchain in the presence of malicious adversaries, without the presence of a central authority15:38
kanzureif you think that a distributed/decentralized consensus like this without a central authority is of zero value, then that's fair but you should say that, instead of that bitcoin's mining is a waste15:38
nmz787_ijustanotheruser: yeah but it is pretty much unknown and thus un-reverse-engineerable right now... when we get to the point where that is no longer true, then just switch back to the old hasher15:38
justanotherusernmz787_i: it isn't un-reverse-engineerable, it just hasn't been reverse engineered. That is security through obscurity.15:39
nmz787_ijustanotheruser: so what, we need to figure out protein folding15:39
nmz787_ijustanotheruser: which is why i said 'right now'15:39
kanzurethat seems to be unrelated15:40
kanzureso look, just because some function x needs to be solved in society does not mean that you should arbitrarily break security protocols15:40
nmz787_iwell that webpage delinquentme posted relates the two15:40
kanzurebecause they are fucking morons15:40
justanotherusernmz787_i: donate bitcoin to a solution. You can pretty much consider using this currency to be a donation to solving protein folding (but a very ineffecient one where most of the money goes to scammers/pumpers and a little bit going towards solving the problem)15:40
nmz787_ibut why not use an actual function (protein folding) which is as-hard-as-crypto-is-today?15:41
kanzurefool i gave you a list of reasons15:42
kanzureread the link15:42
nmz787_iyeah I don't have time for that15:42
nmz787_iI scrolled to pg 11 and 1215:42
nmz787_ididn't see much15:42
kanzurethere was a very specific list of reasons15:42
kanzureone very obvious reason (which was in fucking bold typeface, by the way) is that the verification needs to be relatively free or costless or cheap15:42
nmz787_i'Ease of verification' -- check the PDB database15:42
kanzureno15:42
kanzurepdb is centralized15:43
kanzureif you want a central authority maintaining a ledger then you should say that, instead of dancing around this issue15:43
nmz787_i?15:43
nmz787_iI never said anything like that15:43
kanzureyou just said use pdb15:44
kanzurelike two seconds ago15:44
nmz787_ifor verifying your protein folding algo was right15:44
kanzuresigh15:44
kanzureyes.... so that's using a central authority...15:44
nmz787_ithe whole blockchain would have to verify, that's distributed15:44
kanzureand if you are using a central authority like that then you might as well pack up and go home15:44
kanzurecentralized implementations are extremely efficient15:45
nmz787_iefficiency is gut15:45
nmz787_igūt15:46
kanzureif you are only interested in efficiency, and not decentralized consensus without the presence of a central authority, then you should not really be applying efficiency criticism to bitcoin's design or implementation because their goal is different15:46
justanotheruserkanzure: you should be happy, they're using counterparty :D15:47
justanotheruserhmm o_O15:47
justanotheruserI didn't realize the implications when I said that, but... the mining doesn't accomplish any useful task15:48
kanzureoh this isn't the one that talks about a separate blockchain of protein folding consensus hrm15:48
kanzurehey that makes them slightly less awful15:49
kanzurewho brought up mining15:49
kanzure15:26 < nmz787_i> isn't it just saying the work is pointless and thus we shouldn't waste watts on it?15:49
kanzurei may or may not have lead him to saying that though15:49
kanzureor he genuinely thought that's what they were doing15:50
kanzureand even if he did, all of my same criticism of his lack of reasoning still applies15:50
justanotheruserthere is a completely different set of criticisms for this15:51
justanotherusermining is for consensus15:51
kanzureright15:52
kanzureyeah i agree15:52
justanotheruserand donating bitcoins to folding at home should be equivalent to losing folding coins through inflation and mining15:52
kanzurei definitely did not see the counterparty portion15:52
kanzurebut to be fair, there have been some proposals in the past to do protein folding to achieve consensus15:52
justanotheruserso basically this is a speculative asset that loses value (considered donations) by funding protein folding15:52
kanzureyeah i'm not very clear on what the motivation is to want those tokens15:53
justanotheruserso in the end you can donate $100 in bitcoins to protein folding, or you can lose $100 in foldingcoins to donate to protein folding.15:53
justanotheruserwhich means this is just a speculative asset that has no benefits over bitcoin15:54
kanzureon a related note, i'm also not very convinced that folding@home is a good idea, even if it takes 30 years to achieve stronger results or something, i suspect that protein folding is either the wrong problem or we're going about proteins wrong15:54
kanzurei sent this long-ass email to freitas the other day complaining about the focus on protein folding15:54
kanzurei think that a subset of protein would be an interesting engineering project15:54
kanzurewith a reduced set of residues you could possibly restrict yourself to things-that-are-easy-to-predict15:54
kanzureand this might be easier to figure out15:55
kanzurerather than all possible combinations of all 20 residues and 100 residue variants15:55
justanotheruserI have no idea what can be accomplished and no opinion on it.15:57
kanzureeh, it is worth knowing that "protein folding algorithms are presently incapable of correctly predicting all types of folds"15:59
kanzure"and have been this way for a while"15:59
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ParahSailinhave there been any papers resulting from protein folding other than the distributed computing papers16:15
kanzurenot very sure. i haven't even been able to find a super-good review of latest protein folding "stuff".16:18
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kanzurebeep20:32
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fennkanzure: what do you use for ssh on android?20:49
kanzureconnectbot20:49
fennis there a way to increase the font size without messing up resizing?20:50
kanzuretmux has ctrl-shift-plus20:51
kanzureand ctrl-minus20:51
fenni just want to use terminal emulator but there is no ssh app20:53
kanzurethere is a thing on android to install debian into a chroot20:53
fennyeah that seems overkill20:54
kanzureit's a supercomputer in your pocket broadcasting the entirety of wikipedia20:54
kanzureof course it's ridiculous20:54
fennthis phone has no sd card slot so no wikipedia for me :(20:55
fennalso no usb host20:55
fennthere is a conspiracy afoot20:56
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fennvolume keys control font size in connectbot21:06
fenni'd rather have that mapped to ctrl like in terminal emulator though21:07
kanzureah whoops yeah i forgot about volume keys21:08
kanzurealso if you can figure out why terminal coloration is sometimes not present i would be appreciative21:08
kanzurebecause it for whatever reason also controls "(" and ")"21:09
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