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thestringpuller: yes. but eventually knowledge
to build nuke will vanish. just like sending monkeys
to moon.
thestringpuller: ascii_butugychag: re: nuke designer. I remember reading a wired article saying
that practical nuclear engineering (bombs) is a dying field since no one can
technically
test nuclear detonations. Most of
the students who were learning from manhattan project-age engineers were learning via word of mouth.
ascii_butugychag: sorta how i'm being paid,
through a pyramid of derpatronic intermediaries, 'not
to
tmsr' for 8h/d
ascii_butugychag: usg is doing a decent job of paying most qualified folks ~not~
to crypto.
ascii_butugychag: sorta funny how us is rather like an inverse su in
this respect
ascii_butugychag: or
the one who came by my old office disguised as 'friendly neighbour, retired blahblahblah'
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: a wild cryptographer is as
tolerable
to usg as a wild nuke designer.
mircea_popescu: and,
this is
the important part, ~AND~
those dumbasses would be hanged by
their foreskins.
mircea_popescu: it is insulting. if i was djb and lived in su i would fucking phone stalin over
this stupidity.
mircea_popescu: if
the snake was as competent as is required for a living animal, it would certainly not harry djb with inept shit of
that level.
mircea_popescu: note
that
the
tsar's snake similarly was seen as
the shit skin only, and look where
that
took
the
tsar!
ascii_butugychag: for a degreed mathematician, or even
talented amateur,
the life choices are generally a) web dev b) usg.
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: it is one of
the few fields where usg pays Moar and provides better working conditions
than actual industry
ascii_butugychag: it has
to compete for
those with what remains of private industry
ascii_butugychag: the
thing about airplanes is
that usg does not have so many captive welders, metallurgists, etc.
mircea_popescu: what's more "well specified, mechanical"
than A FUCKING AIRPLANE
mircea_popescu: usg can build anything it wants, and it'll never want
to build anything useful. much better, more interesting shiny baubles scattered all over
the field.
mircea_popescu: the
true curse of idiots is
that
they
think
they know what
they want. and
they do get it, most usually.
mircea_popescu: nope.
they can only build items
that look enough like
the image of a plane as hashed
through
their culture.
mircea_popescu: understand
this "can" correctly : can cargo cult
tribe build any item out of straw and mud
that
they wish ?
ascii_butugychag: also i will add
that preferring 'weird' operations, vs. simple arithmetic, costs us more
than it costs
the enemy.
PeterL: did you set a
time limit for it?
ascii_butugychag: i'd add 'probabilistic'
to
the requirements, but
this might be just aesthetic
mircea_popescu: incidentally, are you happy with
the call for papers as is ?
mircea_popescu: there's a sad dearth of research in
this field. we don't even klnow which of pi*e and pi+e are
transcendental. etc.
mircea_popescu: hopefully
that relation holds in "well defined" alt-spaces.
mircea_popescu: except
the only paired
transcendentals i know of are pi and e.
mircea_popescu: which is why i'd like
to see much more computationally intensive cipher and encryption.
mircea_popescu: if it costs enough
to speak,
these problems are solved by
the very speech
mircea_popescu: this means he needs
to
talk
to you before
talking
to you.
ascii_butugychag: btw you could achieve
this right now, by handing out (disposable) crypted
turds containing public key (also single-use)
that you would
then insist on receiving on.
mircea_popescu: give people a perfectly valid reason
to only
take crypto : "i don't want
to be spammed"
mircea_popescu: make
the postage stamp as part of
the encryption, as it were.
mircea_popescu: if someone has
to expend 1 petahash every
time
they send me encrypted anything,
that's grand.
mircea_popescu: it only hinders
the people who want
to
talk about it, is all.
mircea_popescu: contrary
to piously fraudulent consensus in
the field, expensiveness is a quality of cryptographic items.
mircea_popescu: the main advantage, perhaps counterin
tuitively,
to
the PE? scheme is
that it's so veryt computationally expensive.
ascii_butugychag: this is sort of why i'd like
to
take
the opposite approach, rather
than
take a 'this looks confusing!111' item like
transcendental digits,
take a proven-nphard problem and 'cryptoify' it somehow
ascii_butugychag: the danger of using
transcendentals for crypto is
that it opens you up
to clever analogue (!) attacks
mircea_popescu: maxint in
there is quite literally, maxint. currently pi is computed up
to about 2*10^13 or so digits. signed 64 bit max is ~10^19
mircea_popescu: the ? is obviously reserved for
the name of whoever produces
the damned º.
mircea_popescu: notably,
this scheme does not necessarily produce
the correct plaintext every
time. CRC will probably have
to be included in
the message in any case ; massaging of convenient º/º' pairs will be required
to get error rates statistically under an acceptable
threshold.
mircea_popescu: the properties which º' must exhibit may make
the entire scheme unfeasible, but i can't seem
to prove º' may not exist.
mircea_popescu: the properties which º must obviously exhibit make it only partly similar
to plain multiplication - perhaps group
theory may produce a good candidate, i have not currently a very clear picture of what
this item should actually be, but seems like some sort of modulo-multiplicator.
mircea_popescu: to decipher you calculate
the maxint+key
to maxint+key+block digits of e with a plouffe-like algo (not here included) which you º' with
the ciphered message yielding
the original plaintext.
mircea_popescu: you need a proper "destructive multiplication" item, which i'll discuss later, noted here º. you proceed
to calculate
the maxint+key
to maxint+key+block digits of pi via repeated applications of
the original plouffe algo, and you º
the result with
the plaintext message which yields
the ciphered message.
mircea_popescu: So in re
the
tmsr call for papers.
the Plouffe-Euler-? block cipher would work as follows :
phf: mircea_popescu: i've been using his guide in
the early 2000s, but
then i
think he caved and switched
to laptops, because he stopped updating it. he has a recent build recommendation
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140602-saber.html from his "saber cluster"
mircea_popescu: also open
to ammendations / fixes if anyone sees anything amiss.
mod6: A great idea, overall.
Thanks for posting
that and putting up
the reward.
mod6: nice i
threw it out
there in
the
twat space
mircea_popescu: from
https://cr.yp.to/bib/online.html : "instead of signing a copyright
transfer agreement. If you ever encounter a publisher
that doesn't accept
this, let me know, and I'll be happy
to blacklist
that publisher here. I'm now blacklisting IEEE and ACM."
BingoBoingo starting
to believe
the materialism if anything might have made Marxism safer
than what Idealism wrought in
the Harvard educated.
PeterL: I used
to really be into following sports and politics, at some point I realized my fervor had equally little effect on either, I am
trying
to cut back and ignore
them
PeterL: "see how
that carrot
tastes? elect me again or
those EVIL guys are gonna
take it away"
PeterL: they get
token bit here and
there
ascii_butugychag: the hilarious part about american politicircus is
that none of
the groups pandered-to actually ever ~get~ so much as a bite of
the carrot
BingoBoingo: Alright
the one
thing worth
taking away from
the "Phenomenology of Spirit" is
that USSA is evil in a more profound way
than USSR was most of
the
time.
ascii_butugychag: 'liberal' in usa means 'panders
to
these 17
types of losers who exist in loose coalition'
PeterL: I
think liberal used
to mean something different, but
the
term has been coopted by idiots
PeterL: make
the rich pay! gimme gimme gimme"
mircea_popescu: what's liberal mean in
the us anymore, retarded ? communist ?
PeterL: to liberal
to fit in with
the democrats
BingoBoingo: Clitler is probably going
to have
to
try again in 2020
PeterL: my wife is pretty sure Sanders is going
to save us , I don't get it
ascii_butugychag: he was put on
the stage for same reason as, in last cycle, mike gravel