Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 30/05/2026These are in fact both socialism in the pejorative sense, though Trump is worse. 010
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 14/10/2025Cipherpunk is more of a technical/political movement than a literary genre I think! 000
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 24/07/2025What 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. 010
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 06/05/2025Oh how frustrating :( Is there a way to preview the Editors Copy or is the only way to build it myself? 100
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 06/05/2025Ah yes, it has been renewed - thanks! However on github.com/dconnolly/dr... "Editor's Copy" is still a 404 :(github.comGitHub - dconnolly/draft-connolly-cfrg-xwing-kem: I-D for a general purpose KEM (key encapsulation mechanism) that includes a hash at the endI-D for a general purpose KEM (key encapsulation mechanism) that includes a hash at the end - dconnolly/draft-connolly-cfrg-xwing-kem 110
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 05/05/2025@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? 140
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 05/02/2025@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. 060
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 24/01/2025You can't, and it's bizarre that so many seem to believe you can. The nonlinear components are central to how the AI works. 000
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 17/01/2025Link to the story here? If I search for "asmongold dms" what I find says Elon "leaked" DMs between Asmongold and Elon. 000
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 17/01/2025Astonishingly, the unsubscribe link in such emails practically always works! 110
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 17/01/20253.5 trillion honey bees theconversation.com/honey-bees-a...theconversation.comHoney bees are suprisingly abundant, research shows – but most are wild, not managed in hivesWild honey bee colonies outnumber those managed in commercial hives. 030
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 17/01/2025Where does this number come from? Isn't "several trillion" closer to the correct answer, even if we only count bees in beehives? 240
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 11/01/2025This 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. 040
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 11/01/2025How do you relate the hardness of the instances you generate to the hardness of the hardest instances? 120
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 11/01/2025I 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. 161
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 11/01/2025I think discrete logarithm is a better example than factoring for this! 040
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 11/01/2025Many 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. 1112
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 11/01/2025But 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! 170
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 11/01/2025Yes! 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. 2121
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 10/01/2025I gave him kisses and told him they were from the Internet 120
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 09/01/2025we have a large, a medium, and a small! Thor is the large! 020
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 09/01/2025I want them to support the Democrats but push back on their excesses, towards being a more electable party. 110
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 09/01/2025he is in fact a lovely sweet baby and allows us to huff him right in his middle 140
Reposted by Paul CrowleyJessamy Barker (they/she/he) @jessamybarker.bsky.social · 08/01/2025At this difficult time it is important to have a large cat 2833914
Reposted by Paul CrowleyNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph... 7825168114114
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 09/01/2025Sadly 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. 100
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 03/01/2025I have listened to the podcast where he said this, but unfortunately I now have no idea how to find it, sorry. 020
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 31/12/2024I think with a writer like Taleb that isn't always straightforward! 010
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 30/12/2024What makes this worse than general impersonation is that eg I will have already made tweets etc saying that the bsky dot social address is my real address. 120
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 30/12/2024Update: a friend says the imitating account messaged, saying "How’s it going, trust you’re good?" - so it's definitely a scam :( 2120
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 30/12/2024There are several other names on this I would be unsurprised to see resigning. ffrf.org/about/staff-... 020
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 30/12/2024right here right now kotaku.com/the-makers-o...kotaku.comThe Makers Of 'Leeroy Jenkins' Didn't Think Anyone Would Believe It Was RealIt was one of the first memes ever, a viral sensation that went mainstream back when people still used dial-up internet. Yet the cameraman behind “Leeroy Jenkins” still seems stupefied that anyone fel... 041
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 30/12/2024Honestly you shouldn't have replied to this at all. It can't be topped. 010
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 30/12/2024Honestly I sometimes wonder how much of the appeal of sex parties is that we get to play silly games. 020
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 30/12/2024My id used to be ciphergoth dot bsky dot social, then I changed it to ciphergoth dot org. Now my old ID is ... retweeting my posts? What's going on? Surely when I move my ID, it sets up a redirect rather than letting someone take the old ID? 3140
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org · 24/12/2024I'm not sure about the others but all functions can't be pure. Even setting aside I/O, how do you do a Fisher-Yates shuffle efficiently? 010
Reposted by Paul CrowleyWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Some people sort of absurdly rotate between this posture of being nice in person and then dunking online for the approval of their friends, then apologizing and say they don’t really mean it, then doing it again, and you quickly realize they are simply unable to resist any social pressure at all 4543
