it feels incredibly trippy to be reading about quantum physicists (an evil science) using group theory (a lovely beautiful field misused by the horrors) to do just their normal average everyday sort of evil as opposed to the horrors
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@hipsterelectron I am an evil scientist muahhahahaha
@jackielovescompchem32 you can do evil science without being evil. but you can also be evil without being bad
@jackielovescompchem32 i like lenstra's and schoof's papers a lot even if they specifically focus on factoring methods and the hellman paper where he advises the use of a prime q = 2p + 1 was also doing some evil math but it was necessary to demonstrate the good math
@jackielovescompchem32 i wonder whether/how slight deviations from periodic standing waves might manifest in quasiperiodic or intermittently high-period behavior. i suppose that would largely agree with the periodic-as-discrete view by e.g. briefly introducing the next largest prime factor
so i'm learning that neural nets are also precisely the kind of thing you would create to calculate discrete logs
also learning that the guy stallman fell over himself to defend against any allegation was potentially the most average MIT "AI" loser ever
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky
While working at Bell Labs in 1952, Minsky proposed a design for a useless machine he called the "ultimate machine". When switched on, a device emerges from it to switch it back off. Claude Shannon, Minsky's mentor at the time, built the first working prototype.
@hipsterelectron
I wanted to defend the Useless Box, but I'll take “Death of the Author” for $100.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#Association_with_Jeffrey_Epstein
@dzwiedziu i cannot possibly express enough that this is a frighteningly recurrent theme among evil cryptographers
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@hipsterelectron I’m learning a lot about John McCarthy lately and it’s really not looking good for the “you can’t say all AI is bad” people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_Neural_Analog_Reinforcement_Calculator
hmmmmm
Prompted by a letter from Minsky, George Armitage Miller gathered the funding (a few thousand dollars) for the project from the Office of Naval Research of the U.S. Department of Defense in the summer of 1951 with the work to be carried out by Minsky, who was then a graduate student in mathematics at Princeton University.
GRADUATE STUDENT IN MATHEMATICS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
like this is so much more likely to be a cryptanalytic hardware module. in 1951???? that was barely out of world war 2. i don't know why that would need to be hidden
this is from the princeton dean in question and he specifically said einstein disproved this prof's theory about planetary orbits like that was einstein's fault. princeton is so bad dude this is like a parody
