Cipherpunk is more of a technical/political movement than a literary genre I think!

What was this meant to be a link to, do you remember?

What caused you to believe that Eliezer Yudkowsky is wealthy? His salary is public info in MIRI disclosures, and it's vastly below what Silicon Valley people at his level make.

Oh how frustrating :( Is there a way to preview the Editors Copy or is the only way to build it myself?

GitHub - dconnolly/draft-connolly-cfrg-xwing-kem: I-D for a general purpose KEM (key encapsulation mechanism) that includes a hash at the end I-D for a general purpose KEM (key encapsulation mechanism) that includes a hash at the end - dconnolly/draft-connolly-cfrg-xwing-kem

Ah yes, it has been renewed - thanks! However on github.com/dconnolly/dr... "Editor's Copy" is still a 404 :(

@durumcrustulum.com There are several Internet-Drafts I'm excited about on your Github (X-Wing, PQ HPKE) but sadly they all seem to be expired and the "Editor's Copy" goes to a 404. What's happening here, will these efforts come back to life?

@katyha.bsky.social I'm no fan of Eigen, but he's not being serious. The lack of punctuation before "chat is this real" is a tell. The reply is continuing and intensifying the joke.

You can't, and it's bizarre that so many seem to believe you can. The nonlinear components are central to how the AI works.

Wow only 707, I would never have guessed it was so few!

How are you seeing this number?

Link to the story here? If I search for "asmongold dms" what I find says Elon "leaked" DMs between Asmongold and Elon.

Astonishingly, the unsubscribe link in such emails practically always works!

Honey bees are suprisingly abundant, research shows – but most are wild, not managed in hives Wild honey bee colonies outnumber those managed in commercial hives.

3.5 trillion honey bees

theconversation.com/honey-bees-a...

Where does this number come from? Isn't "several trillion" closer to the correct answer, even if we only count bees in beehives?

This is a good negative example - it shows that you can meet this spec without really making progress. You need a stronger form of uniformity, like random self-reduction.

How do you relate the hardness of the instances you generate to the hardness of the hardest instances?

I think Paul's observation cuts against that, that the richness of structure required to be NP-complete is the opposite of the uniformity required for average-case hardness.

I think discrete logarithm is a better example than factoring for this!

Many have tried to build cryptosystems out of NP-complete problems, but it repeatedly turns out that the actual instances of the problem generated by the cryptosystem are not hard in the average case.

But this reflects that it just doesn't have much internal structure. An instance of an NP complete problem has so much internal structure you can use it to encode any other problem. That strongly cuts against any hope of proving anything useful about average-case hardness!

Yes! I asked Paul Christiano this question and his answer has stayed with me since. The discrete logarithm problem (eg) can't have "easy" and "hard" instances, because you can do "random self-reduction", so you can use an algorithm that breaks 1% of instances to break any instance in 100x the time.

I gave him kisses and told him they were from the Internet

we have a large, a medium, and a small! Thor is the large!

I want them to support the Democrats but push back on their excesses, towards being a more electable party.

he is in fact a lovely sweet baby and allows us to huff him right in his middle

At this difficult time it is important to have a large cat

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A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

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Sadly the Bulwark folks seem to have abandoned their roots and are all-in on whatever the Democratic Party thinks. I would love it if those guys genuinely represented anti-Trump right-wing opinion.

I have listened to the podcast where he said this, but unfortunately I now have no idea how to find it, sorry.

You can't say he doesn't have a point.