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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 September 2014 09:09:07PM 1 point [-]

it's discounted entirely as a useful technique

I don't think it's true, that it's generally considered not useful. One of MIRIs interviews was with one person engaged into provably-secure computing and I didn't see any issues in that post. It's just that provably-secure computing is not enough when you don't have a good specification.