Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com> wrote:
See also the bobble: http://extropians.weidai.com/extropians.3Q97/4356.html
quote: "The reason I bring up cryptography, however, is to show that it IS possible to defend against adversaries with enormous resources at comparatively little cost, at least in certain situations. The Singularity tunneling problem should not be dismissed out of hand as being unsolvable, but rather deserves to be studied seriously. There is a very realistic chance that the Singularity may turn out to be undesirable to many of us." just wanted to share the view that 'the singularity' may be an ideological concept unless grounded in a model of empirical truth, whereby 'many worlds' or parallel experiences are actually issues of relativistic frameworks that are not aligned and instead exist in different, faulty models of partial- or pseudo-truth, whereas 'the singularity' would involve annihilating all reigning and ruling falsehoods via a single integrated model of empirical truth for all people to function within, thus the non-fiction approach to this idea as it also involves psychology and awareness and these effecting computation and softwared reasoning/rationalizations. akin to, in some sense, the issue of various religions and deities that are competing and contrasted, versus 'one truth religion' where truth survives and is the religion. everything aligned with itself and coherent, as cosmic order. then if someone doesn't get their way or privilege or status due to grounding part with whole, it would be for the better, and certainly people will in this way be falsified and not allowed specious grand beliefs in denial of shared reality and instead this would be mediated through hypotheses, debate, and evidence, logical reasoning, and not now today via ideologies, beliefs and opinions shared by individuals and groups as if reason, which instead functions as powerful entities that are more powerful, determining events via their truth, which manages interpretation. also of note: forgot to simplify about the box. no technology in the box. start with a pencil and paper, not a personal computer for crypto, and each step involving the outside or reliance on the outside introduces vulnerabilities. the more complex, the more can go wrong, etc. thus the heavy reliance on computational technology itself becomes the insecurity in the system though also, interaction with others. the bobble observation prescient in that, in the above comment about truth, if the tunneling is considered to be happening in a realm of truth that is beyond external observation, that is effectively security, even if against a more powerful adversary. which seems to have been your point, much appreciated.