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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 شامل ہوئے 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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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@ciphergoth·
Jesus, is monogamous Twitter talking about us *again*? I do wish they'd stop it.
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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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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·
@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 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱@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@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@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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The Short Straw
The Short Straw@short_straw·
@LabGrownNeet @hlntnr Did you, or Helen, actually donate a kidney? GTFOOH with your statistic nonsense anybody can and everybody does fake these days. Helen helped unleash a commercial and anti-human monstrosity on the world. Fact.
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Helen Toner
Helen Toner@hlntnr·
As someone publicly associated with EA, it was very funny to watch SV tech world try to use it to destroy my reputation in DC - because the main association policy people had with EA, if they'd heard of it at all, was thinking EAs are shills for big tech 😂
Ben Brody@BenBrodyDC

It continues to confuse me that the Valley thinks its strong feelings about EA resonate in DC. I go to every congressional vote to talk to lawmakers about tech. Not one has ever brought up EA

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Henry Shevlin
Henry Shevlin@dioscuri·
Idea: a bar called The Situation Room. Like a sports bar but for politics. Cable news and live feeds on the screens instead of football. Atlases and copies of Jane’s Defence Weekly on every table. Multiple sets of Risk and Diplomacy behind the bar.
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thebes
thebes@voooooogel·
@ciphergoth if it was possible to manufacture wormholes, it'd probably make sense to spam them to parallelize singularity shots on goal, though. but i assume it's an omega situation.
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thebes
thebes@voooooogel·
you are sent back, 临高启明-style through a wormhole, to december 25th, 2010, with just the clothes on your back and two DGX sparks holding a copy of Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507. what do you do? how do you change the world? state of play: - alexnet's groundbreaking 8-layer CNN is still over a year away. - if you want to train new lms, nvidia has just started making the GTX 580, which has a groundbreaking, (and "seemingly unnecessary" according to contemporaries,) 3GB of VRAM. good luck! - or try to serve qwen commercially from the sparks, and hope your users don't stumble into any mentions of a global pandemic... - the rationalist community is still small and uninfluential. yudkowsky finished writing the sequences last year, and just started writing HPMOR. beliefs about ai risk are much more malleable. you could influence them, maybe? - openai won't be founded for another 5 years, unless you intervene.
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AG@AGHamilton29·
Just so people understand what happened here: These women claimed asylum because they were likely to be tortured and killed for a gesture standing up to the regime. The regime then started kidnapping their families instead to force them to come home and face likely execution.
New York Post@nypost

Captain of Iranian women's soccer team is latest to withdraw asylum bid: 'Family members are missing' trib.al/aAsA6f7

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