Earlier quoted context omitted.
Death Note ended when L died.
This is a significant spoiler for those who haven't seen the show. Please delete it.
Do spoilers for a decade-old comic book/tv show really matter?
Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
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Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
#102This is somewhat related to a thought experiment of mine. Suppose you had a means of transmitting information back in time - a one-node network that effectively could email to itself with a timestamp (in the past) being the message's "recipient." Suppose such a thing existed in the world today. Assume the individuals in possession of such a thing were very intelligent, very careful and very guarded about its use. Cou…
It depends dramatically on two things:
1. the type of time travel in effect. I'll assume Marvel-flavor time travel, where going back is really jumping to a different universe that shares the same history till the arrival time. But if it's something more complicated then relaying info back might Marty McFade the prognosticator out of existence.
2. the level of information available to the prognosticator (future communicator). Is it near-total, so they could tell the recipient to "duck… now!" or is it just public info like stock prices, weather, and what's on the news?
Best case for the recipient is that for each change they make, they still have an ally relaying valuable info from the future that includes those changes. And also that said ally has near-total information to help protect the recipient.
Worst case for the recipient is that after they make one change, they are now in a timeline where their future ally no longer communicates with them. This is also the most detectable for others in the recipient's time because the recipient will likely make some big bets based on the one-shot info they receive, and won't have additional info to help avoid detection.
To continue the thought experiment: if you developed that technology in the year 2120, how would you use it, and would that be detectable in the year 2020?
Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Death Note ended when L died.
This is a significant spoiler for those who haven't seen the show. Please delete it.
lol wow and people were agreeing with me for a few hours there too but looks like consensus flipped! oh well too late for me to do anything about this decade plus old spoiler
@dang do your thang
Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
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Is that really meant as the tragedy? I'm not sure to what extent it's really intended that way. Light's attitude to criminal justice is a distressingly realistic one in a country where 99% of arrests lead to confessions . Just a little light reading that's close at hand from a few years back: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2015/12/05/forced-to-confe... https://www.economist.com/asia/2015/12/03/silent-screams See a…
I can't speak to the intent. Upton Sinclair's Jungle was a socialist manifesto that accidentally missed America's heart and hit her gut instead. What I can say is approximately 100% of material that gets popular is simply the retelling of something like 7 archetypal stories that our human minds resonate with. Watch Moana and Wreck it Ralph, they're the same story: the Resurrection of the Spirit of the Father. Watch H…
I always hated this sort of statement because it confuses story with theme. Sure Harry Potter and LOTR and the 5th Element all might have some superficial similarities, but each of them is very different in ways aside from mere set dressing.
You can call anything equivalent if you pick and chose what factors matter
Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
#105This is somewhat related to a thought experiment of mine. Suppose you had a means of transmitting information back in time - a one-node network that effectively could email to itself with a timestamp (in the past) being the message's "recipient." Suppose such a thing existed in the world today. Assume the individuals in possession of such a thing were very intelligent, very careful and very guarded about its use. Cou…
A fun read where the "could you still detect" portion turns out to be a very important plot point: Thrice Upon a Time by James P Hogan (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/849488.Thrice_Upon_a_Tim...)
Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
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Agree wholeheartedly. It's rare to find a website today that is so abjectly different than the rest of the web.
Abject =~ despicable
I find 'abject' an amusing adjective to apply. It makes one imagine the author writhing on the ground in despair after loading a standard website, and despondent - o tempora! o mores! - resolving to be different.
(Not entirely wrong, as it happens.)
Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
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It's a very cool format, for sure.
Scrolling through it quickly makes me feel like like I loaded a webpage that hasn't loaded images properly and show a little X icon instead.
There aren't any images, so I'm not sure what you mean. Are you referring to the sidenotes?
Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
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The deathnote game is played iteratively. Satoshi ceased publishing before running out of bits.
This is true. I would very much like an article in this style examining Satoshi and how many bits he theoretically had left.
I have written one but haven't posted it for obvious reasons. In Satoshi's case, it's vexed by the problem that it depends heavily on what datasets you have access to. For example, the California IP leak reduces Satoshi's anonymity to perhaps 2 or 3 bits... but only if you know the location/identity of everyone in California and also where that IP was assigned to at that time.
Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
#109Someone on HN linked to a list of the best anime - and I can't find it now, because I foolishly thought I would remember the name of the website. Anyone know what I am talking about? The "winning entry" was, I think some kind of pretty abstract anime story. If Death Note was on the list at all (the list may have been compiled before Death Note was aired), it was not on the top of the list. The list was written by a s…
You could try https://hn.algolia.com/
Re: Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
#110I would frame things a little differently. Light makes a lot of mistakes because the Death note is incredibly powerful and there would be almost no reasonable way for L to catch Light without Light making obvious mistakes (and would also make for a boring story). Undoubtedly, the biggest mistake Light makes is revealing the existence of the Death Note, and all the rules therein, which not only gives L (almost) all th…
The notes opponent could always do a fragmentation of the public. Given enough time such a binary search over people + your search providers knowledge over your searches would tighten the net.