Vitalik Buterin

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How do FHE practitioners deal with the fact that whenever you mention "homomorphic" anything, stupid people on the internet act like it has something to do with homosexuality? Is there some other term that we're supposed to use? Use "FHE" without ever unrolling the acronym? Something else?

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Since a lot of people are interested in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) recently, re-upping my article from 2020 that goes into how the math works in depth: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/07/20/homomorphic.html

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Github's contribution tracker seems to be very misleading. It shows very little activity, but I've made many commits to ethereum/research each day in the past week alone. Any idea what's up?

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2 + 2 = 0 2 * 6 = 11 3 / 5 = 9 3² + 8² = 11² 420 * 61779 = 1 It's the new math. If you use it, it becomes much easier to make proofs of things. If you know, you know.

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I actually think we're probably already at the point where the marginal bit of anti-wokeness is on balance more bad than good. (Not the same as wokeness being good, because anti-wokeness doesn't just fight wokeness, it also has many, IMO mostly bad, side effects) https://twitter.com/0FJAKE/status/1783928239099875386

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There is nothing "ZK" about ZKasino except that it lives on zksync, correct? I guess we have to adapt; even "ZK" is now a mainstream-enough buzzword that full-on scammers are adopting it.

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This is bad. Crypto is not just trading tokens, it's part of a broader ethos of freedom and privacy and keeping power in the hands of the little guy. These values unfortunately continue to be under attack, globally. https://twitter.com/LizaGoitein/status/1781546937675657392

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A quick test of the new llama3 models (and old ones): L3 70b: https://i.imgur.com/HPgNLnW.png L3 8b: https://i.imgur.com/HTxZmy9.png Mixtral 8x7b: https://i.imgur.com/qjEk93V.png ChatGPT: https://i.imgur.com/DIQ5loP.png ChatGPT is correct, L3 70b almost; others are wrong.

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Cryptanalysis is fascinating because it's one of the very few areas where the accelerationists are cheering when the algorithms turn out to not work. (Context today: https://twitter.com/GuyZys/status/1781190098823807293 )

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This is the rarely-expressed exact opposite of DST abolition: literally do micro-DST every single day to keep local time adjusted to sunrise (though I would just do sunrise = 0:00). I actually... kinda respect it? Some precedent in ancient chinese timekeeping:

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* meters * kg * lean celsius but don't care too much either way * abolish seasonal time changes * for online calls/events specify time in UTC * YYYY-MM-DD date format * ground floor is 0th; don't skip 4 and 13 * don't put sugar in cold tea Simple rules for a civilized society.

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If everyone around you often says "we live in a thoroughly X-ist society, it's horrible, and we need to switch to Y which is a refreshing new alternative", consider that you might actually be living in a thoroughly Y-ist society.

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"What more could Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev have done?" Post by Mike Orcutt on the recent past and future of financial privacy https://www.projectglitch.xyz/p/what-more-could-tornado-cash-developer

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Privacy is normal. Railgun uses the privacy pools protocol ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4563364 ) which makes it much harder for bad actors to join the pool without compromising users' privacy. https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/status/1779813061060391246

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https://twitter.com/inversebrah/status/1779367565942468871 I would challenge the premise: English is "the BTC of languages" in some ways (mainly: network effect), but not others. I think the best candidate for "the BTC of languages" in spirit and design philosophy is toki pona.

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Excellent work by Toni Wahrstätter, replicating and expanding on my analysis last month on cross-validator correlations and adjusting validator incentives to favor decentralization: https://ethresear.ch/t/analysis-on-correlated-attestation-penalties/19244

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This (extremely off-putting) answer reveals a key thing that's beautiful about markets: They let people express the strength of their preferences without needing to always justify their values in front of a committee. https://twitter.com/DylanMAllman/status/1776649146675712146

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Excited to see work on solar geoengineering: https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/1775705471078293875 Maybe global-south nations who will be most hit by climate change will start threatening to do this unilaterally; even if other techniques are ultimately better, perhaps they need the push to get to the finish line

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Re-upping my post from 1.5 years ago on "layer 3s": https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2022/09/17/layer_3.html The summary is that layer 3s don't magically improve throughput even more, though they can reduce some fixed costs of batch publishing and deposits/withdrawals.

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Degen communism: the only correct political ideology https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/04/01/dc.html

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