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The color-conductivity of money
by professor rat 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

As a graduate student at Columbia University in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he discovered several of the most important ideas in quantum information theory, including quantum money (which led to quantum key distribution), quantum multiplexing (the earliest example of oblivious transfer) and superdense coding (the first and most basic example of entanglement-assisted communication). Although this work remained unpublished for over a decade, it circulated widely enough in manuscript form to stimulate the emergence of quantum information science in the 1980s and 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wiesner

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Don't shoot the armless piano-player
by professor rat 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

Don't shoot the oncoming cybernetics messenger. For here is yet another case of the Austrian school being made laughing-stocks again. The few dead-enders in there must be gluttons for punishment. I was walking along the road with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with hilarity – and I sensed the internet of things becoming effectively self-conscious. Now you don't have to like the idea of NFT's everywhere and associated emergent luxury-communism to realize some practical benefits from this quasi-dystopian, emergent stigmergy. For example we could give declining entities such as nation-states, religions and large -corporations a cybernetic rating. That is a technical metric of how well they are coping with their loss of command and reach and control. Sort of like running a deadpool in a hospice. Just the thing to warm the cockles of the hearts of every anarcho-nihilist. What say you, Zolgo? Give us your answer here, oh mighty one!

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Giving yourself a task in the future
by professor rat 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

Learning quantum PKI, computing and underlying theory presents as a steep curve for many. Lateral thinking about psychedelics and liberal use of social mnemonics might help. Maybe. Or ' Let the machines do it ". Especially quantum AI machines full of loving grace and kindness. https://josephnoelwalker.com/141-intellectual-exoskeletons-andy-matuschak/ Reposts not authoritarian assumptions often made but seldom remarked

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A Santa bearing a hidden gift, cybernetics.
by professor rat 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

The song was prompted by a visit to Santiago from a British consultant who, with his ample beard and burly physique, reminded Parra of Santa Claus—a Santa bearing a “hidden gift, cybernetics.” https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LqNkGP0mN08J:https://… Cached reposts the Devils putwillies

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First we kill all the economists
by professor rat 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

Who will miss any of the few remaining Austrian and Marxist types anyway? Ludwig von Mises argued that it was logically impossible, others that it was merely impractical. But Oskar Lange suggested it could be done: if an economy could be described as a series of simultaneous equations for supply and demand, then the central planner could solve those equations, if only by trial and error. This proved easier said than done. Nobel laureate Leonid Kantorovich spent six years gathering the data and performing the calculations necessary to optimise Soviet steel production in the 1960s, far too slowly to be useful in an ever-changing economy. Computers promised more. In an essay published after his death in 1965, Lange wrote: “Let us put the simultaneous equations on an electronic computer and we shall obtain the solution in less than a second. The market process . . . appears old-fashioned.” https://www.ft.com/content/6e81b0ea-d439-11e7-8c9a-d9c0a5c8d5c9 Let us put our faith in that urge to destroy that is also the creative urge

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A Santa bearing a “hidden gift, cybernetics.”
by professor rat 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

The song was prompted by a visit to Santiago from a British consultant who, with his ample beard and burly physique, reminded Parra of Santa Claus—a Santa bearing a “hidden gift, cybernetics.” https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LqNkGP0mN08J:https://… Cached reposts the Devils putwillies

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[spam][spam][spam][spam][crazy] a thread dedicated to being spam
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 26 Dec '22

26 Dec '22

Once, long ago, I invented spamming lists. Now, this may sound boastsome, but I can reveal the truth: I "invented" this only because I was in a tiny dissociated context. Other people had invented it prior.

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The last big secret of Western Intelligence
by professor rat 26 Dec '22

26 Dec '22

Why is this taking so long? Where are all these black-box machines that kill secrets hiding? The 5-VEY ( Hawaii Five Eye ) that often grows other temporary ' eyes' in Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Africa, Europe, Latin America, etc has a neat arrangement that negates all local laws forbidding domestic espionage. Its like a perfect ' Strangers of a train ' murder. But why is it taking so long to get the details of this? Such as how many domestic spying excursions were requested by the US and fulfilled by the UK? ( Or Canada's spy service. Or another's ) And how many went the other way? Presumably these black-bag jobs are ' safe, legal and rare ", only without the ' legal ' part. TL/ DR Any word from Western Intelligence? IF THERE IS SUCH A THING!

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It may be hard to imagine that ESG, now a hotly debated topic in American politics, traces its roots back to a former UK tabloid reporter and a 45-minute meeting in a fifth-floor office in Geneva (United Nations).
by professor rat 26 Dec '22

26 Dec '22

ESG = environmental, social, and governance What are the 3 pillars of ESG? Use of or dependence on fossil fuels. Use or management of water and other resources. Pollution levels. Term dates from 2004 after global demonstrations ( including anarchists ) shut down the WTO, WEF and turned around the World Bank. A new world economic order FROM BELOW enabled by net communications and coordination. Not so much anti-globalization and anti-free-trade as pro sustainable globalization and pro fair-trade. As for that useful journalist - we ought to have them stuffed - THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM.

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New Organized Syndicate Termination Rewards
by professor rat 26 Dec '22

26 Dec '22

NOSTR sending one sat - killing Elon Musk never looked so economic https://twitter.com/walletofsatoshi/status/1607187310596206597 Reposts not assassination platforms for wannabe mass murderer's

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