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What is a C/C++ programmer? I've written fairly large amounts of C/C++ over the course of my career and I continue to do so. I totally concur with this and am eager to see Rust tak…

This is a group selection based argument.

We have a stream cipher based proposal, but it's a much bigger change and needs much more review, so it can't be landed for P. A drop-in replacement for AES is a much simpler chang…

The headline should be "Ashur advocates that it is better that a device be unencrypted, than encrypted with Speck". Ashur argues for that position and you can read his reasoning in…

It's worth bearing in mind that it's poorer people and people in poorer countries who don't have AES-supporting hardware, and are currently without encryption as a result.

We need a drop-in replacement for AES, and Gimli doesn't have a 128-bit block size.

See ebiggers' comment above - ChaCha20 isn't on its own suitable for disk encryption. We need something that is a drop-in replacement for AES to use in XTS mode.

Right, exactly as Eliezer says. There are plenty of examples in all four quadrants, so as a way of working out how near a technology is, this works less well than you'd like.

This is an error Eliezer has also written about: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ph/youre_entitled_to_arguments_but_...

Bulverism is a poor substitute for actually thinking about the future. See Scott Alexander's excellent recent essay: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/09/in-favor-of-futurism-be...…

FWIW I still don't know of any good hand ciphers.

That would make sense :)

Without my article saying it, the submission had no way of knowing I think.

Yes, I agree that would have been wise, sorry about that! These days I'd use blogging software that would date things automatically. However I'm sure this dates from 1999 or before…

Indeed. If by "brain death" you mean "massive ischemic damage", then cryopreservation under good circumstances also takes place before brain death.

They didn't wait for the end of HPMoR to publish this book - they made an extra effort to have it ready in time!

If I learned that a co-worker believed that nuts were invariably fatal to me and gone on to hide some in my food, the nuts would do me no harm but I would still take the whole inci…

Last time I heard this particular bark, the bite was remarkably weak. [This Physics Overflow question]( http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/23785/what-errors... ) didn't tur…

I have edited that post to recommend the book over my ePub. You can always read my compilation after finishing the book, if you want to read the articles the book leaves out.

Here's some they didn't find, from /usr/dict/words: Paraná, Zürich, attaché. Not sure of the encoding, but I'd guess UTF-8.

This is an incentives problem and won't change for as long as we blame the delivery companies. Blame the company who chose the delivery company.

What stops you signing up? If it's "cryocrastination", read this: "I know more people who are planning to sign up for cryonics Real Soon Now than people who have actually signed up…

NB to the casual reader: the above was always intended as satire.

You seem to be implying that if a philosophical position has a name, it is not stupid. I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you but that's far from being so.

That's the opposite of my understanding; Sandberg and Bostrom discusses this and at least as far as compute resources go, simulating the brain is by far the harder problem. http://…