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Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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This is one of those things that seems like a nerd snipe but would be more easily accomplished through brute forcing it. Just get 76 people to manually type out one page each, you'd be done before the blog post was written.

The first week of my PHD was accurately copying DNA sequences from an old paper into a computer file. 10 pages in total. I used OCR to make an initial version then text to speech to check it

76 pages is a couple of months of work

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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post #5

Why not just try every permutation of (1,l)? Let’s see, 76 pages, approx 69 lines per page, say there’s one instance of [1l] per line, that’s only… uh… 2^5244 possibilities… Hmm. Anyone got some spare CPU time?

Easy, just start a crypto currency (Epsteincoin?) based on solving these base64 scans and you'll have all the compute you could ever want just lining up

Please don’t give ideas to Nvidia.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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To protect the people in power, as always.

what is insane is that everyone just accepts it, knows that this happens, and dont go lynch the ones in charge immediately. There was a time when the guy making the cannon had to sit on top of it for the first shot. Perhaps this kind of policy could be adapted to other situations aswell. Take the job to guard epstein? take the consequences when things go wrong. Protect criminals? take the very real consequences if fo…

> what is insane is that everyone just accepts it, knows that this happens, and dont go lynch the ones in charge immediately.

For a while, my pet conspiracy theory was that this was Epstein's real cause of death: a lynching by a prison guard made to look like suicide.

I never took it too seriously, because no actual evidence; now I'm more inclined to think it was a coconspirator hoping it would mean no more evidence getting out.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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post #187

> Then my mom wrote the following: “be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here! Since you don’t care that much about money, they can’t buy you at least.” I'm lucky to have parents with strong values. My whole life they've given me advice, on the small stuff and the big decisions. I didn't always want to hear it when I was younger, but now in my late thirties, I'm really glad they kept sharing…

I think this was meant to be a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903929 ?

Indeed! Thanks for pointing that out. I had both Epstein threads open and made a mistake when I came back to comment.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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I wish I could believe in more conspiracy theories. At least then I might believe there was some sort of master plan, that some individual or group had some image of a better world (to them) and that the world was being steered somewhere. Unfortunately no, it just seems to be greed, incompetence, and incompetent greed. At least when a tank drives over a protestor somebody gets to be on the side of the tank. When the…

The owner of 4chan met with an Epstein associate 3 days before reinstating /pol/ which lead to the destruction of America. Epstein was trying to remove tax on banker bonuses in the UK for some reason. There might not be a single master plan but holy hell is this stuff intertwined with everything that happens.

Schizos would be schizos anywhere else. Widely available access to information which are biased towards your own bias mostly did that. Most of the people don't understand technology in general nor the algoritmic content suggestion. That is what the real problem is.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

#206

This is one of those things that seems like a nerd snipe but would be more easily accomplished through brute forcing it. Just get 76 people to manually type out one page each, you'd be done before the blog post was written.

As TFA says, the hard part is that "1" and "l" look the same in the selected typeface. Whether your OCR is done by computers or humans, you still have to deal with that problem somehow. You still need to do the part sketched out e.g. by pyrolistical in [1] and implemented by dperfect in [2].

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906897

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916065

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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I will certainly feel less confident ridiculing conspiracy theories. I’d never believe Bill Gates would secretly slip antibiotics into his wife’s cocktail to treat an STI he got from a Russian prostitute on convicted pedophile estate. But here we are.

I wish I could believe in more conspiracy theories. At least then I might believe there was some sort of master plan, that some individual or group had some image of a better world (to them) and that the world was being steered somewhere. Unfortunately no, it just seems to be greed, incompetence, and incompetent greed. At least when a tank drives over a protestor somebody gets to be on the side of the tank. When the…

Absolutely. It’s not some grand replacement theory. It’s not an intellectual master plan. It’s mostly plain greed and cynicism from the powerful, plus ignorance or a resigned belief that people cannot be changed from everyone else.

I’m in the second group. When a majority of people miss the basics, when a large chunk treat internet content as daily reality rather than algorithmically served rage bait, it feels like there’s nothing you can do.

A friend once told me, “I wish I were more schizo like before, it was much more fun,” and in a bleak way, I get it. I’d almost prefer it if there really were a coherent plan, some deliberate attempt by the mighty to steer civilization. But right now it mostly looks like greed and cynicism. These days, a lot of it seems to be coming out of Silicon Valley but it will change as it always does like it did before.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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post #82

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looks like we have it. in the end it's pretty mundane...

Which begs the question why was it censored?

They censored Dont in one location. The current Thought process is they were redacting mentions of Don T.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what is insane is that everyone just accepts it, knows that this happens, and dont go lynch the ones in charge immediately. There was a time when the guy making the cannon had to sit on top of it for the first shot. Perhaps this kind of policy could be adapted to other situations aswell. Take the job to guard epstein? take the consequences when things go wrong. Protect criminals? take the very real consequences if fo…

> what is insane is that everyone just accepts it, knows that this happens, and dont go lynch the ones in charge immediately. For a while, my pet conspiracy theory was that this was Epstein's real cause of death: a lynching by a prison guard made to look like suicide. I never took it too seriously, because no actual evidence; now I'm more inclined to think it was a coconspirator hoping it would mean no more evidence…

Epstein being murdered is the one conspiracy that I personally still think may be possible/probable.

All it takes is a single actor paying off some guards to ‘fall asleep’, a camera to be disabled, and a 15 minute window of opportunity. It’s much more probable than something like the US Government planning 9/11 and somehow keeping thousands of co-conspirators silent.

I don’t really spend a whole lot of time thinking about it since as you said, we’ll never know for sure. It just seems at least probable if he actually did have kompromat on powerful people.

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