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by ciphergoth 8y ago
What is a C/C++ programmer? I've written fairly large amounts of C/C++ over the course of my career and I continue to do so. I totally concur with this and am eager to see Rust take its place over time.
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by ciphergoth 8y ago
This is a group selection based argument.
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by ciphergoth 8y ago
We have a stream cipher based proposal, but it's a much bigger change and needs much more review, so it can't be landed for P. A drop-in replacement for AES is a much simpler change to make.
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by ciphergoth 8y ago
The headline should be "Ashur advocates that it is better that a device be unencrypted, than encrypted with Speck". Ashur argues for that position and you can read his reasoning in detail in the above link, but that's the que
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by ciphergoth 8y ago
It's worth bearing in mind that it's poorer people and people in poorer countries who don't have AES-supporting hardware, and are currently without encryption as a result.
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by ciphergoth 8y ago
We need a drop-in replacement for AES, and Gimli doesn't have a 128-bit block size.
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by ciphergoth 8y ago
See ebiggers' comment above - ChaCha20 isn't on its own suitable for disk encryption. We need something that is a drop-in replacement for AES to use in XTS mode.
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by ciphergoth 9y ago
Right, exactly as Eliezer says. There are plenty of examples in all four quadrants, so as a way of working out how near a technology is, this works less well than you'd like.
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by ciphergoth 9y ago
This is an error Eliezer has also written about: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ph/youre_entitled_to_arguments_but_...
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by ciphergoth 9y ago
Bulverism is a poor substitute for actually thinking about the future. See Scott Alexander's excellent recent essay: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/09/in-favor-of-futurism-be...
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by ciphergoth 10y ago
FWIW I still don't know of any good hand ciphers.
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by ciphergoth 10y ago
That would make sense :)
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by ciphergoth 10y ago
Without my article saying it, the submission had no way of knowing I think.
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by ciphergoth 10y ago
Yes, I agree that would have been wise, sorry about that! These days I'd use blogging software that would date things automatically. However I'm sure this dates from 1999 or before, because it was as a result of writing this that
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by ciphergoth 11y ago
Indeed. If by "brain death" you mean "massive ischemic damage", then cryopreservation under good circumstances also takes place before brain death.
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by ciphergoth 11y ago
They didn't wait for the end of HPMoR to publish this book - they made an extra effort to have it ready in time!
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by ciphergoth 12y ago
If I learned that a co-worker believed that nuts were invariably fatal to me and gone on to hide some in my food, the nuts would do me no harm but I would still take the whole incident seriously.
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by ciphergoth 12y ago
Last time I heard this particular bark, the bite was remarkably weak. [This Physics Overflow question]( http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/23785/what-errors... ) didn't turn up any "outright mista
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by ciphergoth 12y ago
I have edited that post to recommend the book over my ePub. You can always read my compilation after finishing the book, if you want to read the articles the book leaves out.
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by ciphergoth 14y ago
Here's some they didn't find, from /usr/dict/words: Paraná, Zürich, attaché. Not sure of the encoding, but I'd guess UTF-8.
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by ciphergoth 14y ago
This is an incentives problem and won't change for as long as we blame the delivery companies. Blame the company who chose the delivery company.
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by ciphergoth 15y ago
What stops you signing up? If it's "cryocrastination", read this: "I know more people who are planning to sign up for cryonics Real Soon Now than people who have actually signed up. I expect that more people have died while cryocrastinati
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by ciphergoth 15y ago
NB to the casual reader: the above was always intended as satire.
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by ciphergoth 15y ago
You seem to be implying that if a philosophical position has a name, it is not stupid. I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you but that's far from being so.
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by ciphergoth 15y ago
That's the opposite of my understanding; Sandberg and Bostrom discusses this and at least as far as compute resources go, simulating the brain is by far the harder problem. http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/selected_outputs/fohi_publications/b...