wedrifid comments on Against easy superintelligence: the unforeseen friction argument - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 July 2013 01:47PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 17 July 2013 08:49:01AM 1 point [-]

"In theory" is a bit of a slippery term, since all encryption can be cracked in theory.

This is what we call The Fallacy of Gray. There is a rather clear difference between the possibility of brute forcing 1024 bit encryption and the utter absurdity of considering a DRMed multimedia file 'secure' when I could violate it using a smartphone with a video camera (and lossless proof-of-concept violations are as simple as realising that vmware exists.)