aspiring neurocryptographer, security nerd

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  keep going. believe in yourself

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  you can have a fully hiding (information-theoretic) commitment, or a fully binding commitment, never both. pedersen commitments using elliptic curves provide info-theoretic hiding and computational (through discrete log) binding. even a quantum adversary can't unhide.

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  recommender systems are actually existing misaligned machine intelligence

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  i don't much like that there are increasingly two separate worlds in the culture: one where "AI" is slop videos from 2 years ago or slop images from 4 years ago, and one where "AI" is giving huge productivity improvements in coding and recursively solving open research problems

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  it would be pretty cool to be able to do actions in the world by thinking a json string