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Paul Crowley

@ciphergoth

Cryptography, personal trivia, and the future of all humanity. Security at Anthropic, opinions my own. I block on a first offense for rudeness or sarcasm.

Scotts Valley, CA Beigetreten Kasım 2008
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Paul Crowley
Paul Crowley@ciphergoth·
"To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." - Aldous Huxley, 1933
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Henry Kozachkov
Henry Kozachkov@hkozachkov·
Assume an experimental falsification of free will. Should you *chose* one box or two? >Are you people retarded? Ha ha, you have foolishly assumed that causes precede effects! Without that added assumption there is no contradiction! >Are you people retarded? OK, but if the free will falsifier only probabilisticly falsifies free will, there is again no contradiction. Paradoxically, you are left with two equally good options: 1) the one that assumes that causes precede effects, and 2) the other one! > Are you people retarded? Ha ha, have you considered that you may be in an ancestor simulation? What then?! > Are you people retarded?
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Paul Crowley
Paul Crowley@ciphergoth·
@hkozachkov oh my God I didn't know this dog but this brings tears to my eyes, I am so sorry.
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Henry Kozachkov
Henry Kozachkov@hkozachkov·
Goodbye Jake. Beloved, loyal dog. Guardian. Confidant. Goodbye buddy. You were a sweetheart to your last breath, greeting your new friend with the vet bag at the door, wagging. Your last new friend. After unknown years of unknown trails, after being a stray and then a deteriorating shelter dog, you were rescued, fostered, and finally you found your reprieve: my wife and me. You got a well-deserved half-lifetime of peace. We got four+ incredible years. And then you got prostate cancer. Today--a few months, many pills, and many steak dinners later--it was time. Before the cancer's pain became too great, you left this world from your home, held and comforted by both of your people. While you still had enough energy to wag, to squeak a toy, and even to dig a tiny bit. While you could still live with dignity, fastidiously clean as always. While you were still yourself, in other words. Still our beloved dog. The best dog. We love you. I love you. It's only been a few hours and I miss you so much, buddy. Goodbye.
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Aella@Aella_Girl·
On the topic of sex worker rights: one time a guy tried to kidnap (and prob murder) me cause I was a sex worker. They gave him a plea deal for only 5 years (!!!). He accepted. And then when it came to final sentencing the judge was like 'actually let's just give him 18 months'.
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Paul Crowley
Paul Crowley@ciphergoth·
@politicalmath @kendrictonn @MorlockP This is entirely from memory but I'm pretty sure it's word perfect. Kay and I became firm friends and occasional lovers; tragically he died in 2011 of a pain medication overdose.
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PoIiMath
PoIiMath@politicalmath·
I need some blurbs for the back of my book but I'm lazy and I don't want to bother my more successful and intelligent friends thinking about just taking the meanest things people have said about me on twitter and slapping it on there without permission
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Paul Crowley
Paul Crowley@ciphergoth·
@SarahTheHaider As a poly person, I also wish they'd stop it. The fury and hate on my timeline every time is so tiresome.
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Paul Crowley
Paul Crowley@ciphergoth·
Jesus, is monogamous Twitter talking about us *again*? I do wish they'd stop it.
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Paul Crowley
Paul Crowley@ciphergoth·
It's exactly this kind of maundering donkeyflop that stops me even glancing through most zines. Paul Crowley, though you may be dear to someone, in my jaundiced and frightfully over-educated eyes, you are a misguided, tedious, cerebrally-flatulent little jerk, and the sooner someone buggers you with a halberd using your own vomit as a lubricant, the better for the world it will be. Your opinions are in no wise part of any solution; you, my child, are the problem. -- the late, great Kay Dekker, ~1988
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Paul Crowley
Paul Crowley@ciphergoth·
@CathyYoung63 @benryanwriter I tried to read Philosophy in the Boudoir once. Obviously every man fantasizes about beautiful young women swooning over the brilliance of everything they say as they bloviate, but it doesn't mean I want to read it.
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BlueWin99
BlueWin99@VCMU99·
@admcrlsn I think the Dem party really needs to back way some from this. It has done nothing but hurt us.
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Adam Carlson
Adam Carlson@admcrlsn·
Searchlight did an extraordinary job with this polling. This is not an easy issue to test, and this is an excellent resource for candidates and the public. I was deeply saddened by a lot of the results. But harsh truths are still truths. It’s critical to know where the American public is at on these things so we can figure out the best path forward on codifying protections on anti-discrimination/safety, persuading the public, and determining the most effective strategic path forward in advancing the cause of trans rights.
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Searchlight Institute@SearchlightInst

We just published a year's worth of polling on transgender rights and acceptance in America. Voters across both parties express a consistent preference for equal treatment of trans people in public life and the workplace. We also find broad support for protecting trans people from discrimination and for ensuring that adults have access to the health care they need. That said, Americans hold conservative attitudes where certain policies related to gender identity and trans rights are concerned. The findings reveal the need for a reset in trans advocacy, public education, and policy development. searchlightinstitute.org/research/the-p…

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Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱@CathyYoung63·
@benryanwriter Yikes. So the immorality superfecta (I looked it up! it's like trifecta but with four!) would be a gay, married porn addict having an affair that results in an abortion 😜 (what? a gay person can have an opposite-sex affair)
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Jeffrey Ladish
Jeffrey Ladish@JeffLadish·
Please consider donating to Palisade! We have 900k of SFF matching that runs out in 14 days. We are quite funding constrained and donations now will both help free up my time and help us expand our comms team.
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Paul Crowley
Paul Crowley@ciphergoth·
@JaEsf @TheSimonEvans I absolutely think that quantum computers are physically possible, but "scaling" really undersells the difficulty of the challenge. No-one has a way to build something that has a sufficiently low error rate and enough qubits for robust error correction yet.
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Jacob Eliosoff
Jacob Eliosoff@JaEsf·
@ciphergoth @TheSimonEvans But this is only due to lack of scale, rather than any fundamental obstacle, right? That is, if we just manage to build the current quantum computers but somewhat bigger, they could solve eg prime factorization?
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simon evans
simon evans@TheSimonEvans·
I have heard of Willow and this seemingly impossible feat and one question I have is given that it is impossible for any other computer to solve this problem. How do they know that Willow did so?
Massimo@Rainmaker1973

Google’s new quantum chip is so powerful it might be tapping into parallel universes. Google's groundbreaking quantum processor, Willow, has achieved the seemingly impossible: solving an extraordinarily complex computational problem in under five minutes—a feat that would require the world's most advanced supercomputer approximately 10 septillion years to complete (10²⁵). This mind-boggling performance has revived one of the most provocative ideas in physics: could quantum computers like Willow be performing calculations across vast numbers of parallel universes? Hartmut Neven, founder and lead of Google Quantum AI, believes the answer may be yes. He argues that Willow’s results align strikingly with the many-worlds (or multiverse) interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which every quantum measurement causes reality to branch into multiple, equally real parallel universes. In this view, a quantum computer doesn’t just calculate faster within our universe—it effectively distributes the workload across countless parallel realities simultaneously. The idea traces back to physicist David Deutsch, who, as early as the 1980s, suggested that the exponential power of quantum computation could only be fully explained if the machine is exploiting resources from many coexisting worlds. Yet the interpretation remains deeply divisive. Many physicists and quantum computing experts insist that no multiverse is required. Willow’s breakthrough, they argue, is fully explainable through standard quantum mechanics—leveraging superposition (qubits existing in multiple states at once), entanglement, and the mathematics of high-dimensional Hilbert spaces—all within a single universe. So what has Willow truly demonstrated? It has pushed quantum technology into a regime so extreme that it compels us to re-examine the deepest foundations of reality itself. Whether or not Willow is quietly borrowing power from alternate universes, one thing is clear: practical, large-scale quantum computing is no longer science fiction—and it is forcing us to confront profound questions about the nature of the cosmos, computation, and existence.

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Mike Lyons
Mike Lyons@AlignedLoss·
@ciphergoth @TheSimonEvans To be fair, I think D-Wave had a machine that was very efficient at “predict what this particular D-Wave machine will do.”
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Paul Crowley
Paul Crowley@ciphergoth·
@TheSimonEvans People are explaining P vs NP to you, but those people are wrong. No-one has come up with a problem that *current* quantum computers can solve more cheaply than classical ones, such that we can classically verify the solution is correct. Well-known open problem in the field.
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Paul Crowley@ciphergoth·
@Jayseki I agree, in the sense that that was also wrong.
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Private Tier
Private Tier@Jayseki·
@ciphergoth this seems similar to the elizabeth bruenig measles article from a couple weeks ago, that some people criticized on similar grounds and some people defended
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Paul Crowley
Paul Crowley@ciphergoth·
@NelsonEdmundb sure but this is like saying "he shouldn't have smashed her in the head with the bat, but otherwise I think baseball is cool".
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Edmund Nelson
Edmund Nelson@NelsonEdmundb·
@ciphergoth The disclaimer should have been at the top and not the bottom but LLM generated fiction like this is fun to think about, I probably would have tried an LLM generated interview with napoleon though to make it clear it's obviously fiction.
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