Rationality Quotes April 2012

Oscar_Cunningham

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Have some third party (or several) that LW would trust hold on to it in secrect.

Nitpick: cryptography solves this much more neatly.

Of course, people could accuse you of having an efficient way of factorising numbers, but if you do karma is going to be the least of anyone's concerns.

Factorization doesn't enter into it - to precommit to a message that you will later reveal publically, publish a hash of the (salted) message.

0wedrifid14y

But somewhat less transparently. The cryptographic solution still requires that an encrypted message is made public prior to the actions being taken and declaring an encrypted prediction has side effects. The neat solution is to still use trusted parties but give the trusted parties only the encrypted strategy (or a hash thereof).

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