JoshuaZ comments on Open thread, Jan. 19 - Jan. 25, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 20 January 2015 04:34:35PM *  5 points [-]

Precommitting to a secret prediction which I'll reveal on April 15. MD5 hash for the prediction is 38bd807a6872f6a5622aa2b011fd8f03 .

Comment author: gjm 20 January 2015 05:45:19PM 7 points [-]

This is advance notice that unless your prediction is a short bit of plaintext that obviously doesn't have more than a few bits' worth of scope for massaging, your use of MD5 is likely to be taken as showing that you cheated.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 20 January 2015 06:04:46PM 5 points [-]

Valid point. Here is the SHA-1 hash: f886dee5be3192819b3cd596cd73919f5c1e0a2c .

Comment author: gjm 20 January 2015 06:07:00PM 11 points [-]

Copy of JoshuaZ's SHA-1 hash as of 2015-01-20 18:06 GMT: f886dee5be3192819b3cd596cd73919f5c1e0a2c .

Comment author: Vaniver 20 January 2015 05:36:55PM 1 point [-]

Hash copy: 38bd807a6872f6a5622aa2b011fd8f03

Comment author: JoshuaZ 20 January 2015 04:36:14PM 1 point [-]

I just realized that editing the grammar above was an issue since it doesn't show when the edit occurred so repeating the hash here in a comment which will remain unedited: 38bd807a6872f6a5622aa2b011fd8f03 .