Both math and crypto contain errors. Are they the result of sloppiness? the kind of sloppiness Stuart Armstrong attributes to mathematicians?
According to Stuart, in math there are often errors where “beginning will be true, the middle completely wrong, and the conclusion correct”. I was saying that this kind of error doesn’t seem to occur often in crypto, and trying to figure out why, with no bragging intended. Do you have another hypothesis, besides the one I gave?
LF is said to be repeatedly wrong (in crypto? in another field?).
My working hypothesis is that math and crypto are very similar, this kind of error occurs frequently, and you just don’t notice. What little crypto I know could be called complexity theory. I’ve read very little and heard it mainly orally. I’ve experienced this kind of error, certainly in oral complexity theory and I think in oral crypto. Of course, there’s a difference when people are trying to reconstruct proofs that are stamped by authority.
I thought it possible you were talking about the person LF.
According to Stuart, in math there are often errors where “beginning will be true, the middle completely wrong, and the conclusion correct”. I was saying that this kind of error doesn’t seem to occur often in crypto, and trying to figure out why, with no bragging intended. Do you have another hypothesis, besides the one I gave?
What is LF?
My working hypothesis is that math and crypto are very similar, this kind of error occurs frequently, and you just don’t notice. What little crypto I know could be called complexity theory. I’ve read very little and heard it mainly orally. I’ve experienced this kind of error, certainly in oral complexity theory and I think in oral crypto. Of course, there’s a difference when people are trying to reconstruct proofs that are stamped by authority.
I thought it possible you were talking about the person LF.