Some other math/crypto sci-fi

[dmolnar]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alan Olsen wrote:


> WotC said that they were not going to press the patent.  I have not heard
> much more about it since the original flap over the patent being granted.

That's a relief. 

> > between the two as appropriate. Special cards ("Blum Speedup Theorem")
> > affect resource consumption. Maybe offer other cards which give benefits
> > at a cost ("Superstitious Mathematician" - halves time required to run
> > algorithms, but doesn't believe in randomness so you lose all randomness
> > counters...)
> 
> This could get quite silly very fast.

Yup! That's a bad thing? 

OK, maybe it would lead to too many in-jokes...

-David