Okay, so here's the deal with quantum. @Snowden leaked in 2013 the existence of a program called Penetrating Hard Targets. The NSA was working with defense contractors and the University of Maryland to build a quantum computer for the purposes of breaking public key cryptography. They've likely spent billions on this program in all its years of existence, though we can't know if that's true unless we have more patriots like Snowden step forward to call out the deep state on their evil shenanigans. NIST has also been working on post-quantum cryptography. The shield against the sword. No cryptography gets published by NIST that doesn't also get approval from the NSA. They're joined at the hip. It's possible that the NSA spent billions breaking cryptography just to give us cryptography to replace it. They want to create the disease and sell the cure. This is your deep state tax dollars at work. The spooks are at it again fellas. And quantum computing is not sovereign computing, they cost billions to make and millions to run, so good luck with that "don't trust, verify" principle. What does this mean? Well, for one, Bitcoin will be under threat someday. Could be that one day PsiQuantum or someone like them will be approached to fill the SBR with Satoshi's coins. Or maybe China wants to get in on the action after being late to the party. The NSA is infamous in Bitcoin circles because Satoshi famously used the lesser-known and less popular secp256k1 curve despite the existence of the more widespread secp256r1, aka P256. P256 turns out to use hardcoded "random" constants that may have been suspiciously chosen. We can't prove they were randomly chosen. secp256k1 used the Koblitz curve as its starting constant, which is just simple multiplication and doesn't look suspiciously chosen. This is part of a larger concern around kleptography, where cryptography is introduced that deliberately compromises secrets. They have in the past supported the distribution of a deliberately flawed RNG (Dual_EC_DRBG) and as far as I'm concerned, as a result, NIST has zero trustworthiness. So what do we do? Well, we can't cargo cult NIST cryptography, for one. I think SLH-DSA is better because we can base it on SHA-256, which is not what the NSA recommends but Bitcoiners know it works perfectly fine and isn't anywhere near being broken, either cryptanalytically or via Grover's algorithm (@dallairedemers says we would need a quantum computer bigger than the Moon to run Grover's over a 256 bit hash). So, it makes sense to base signatures on them using hash-based cryptography approaches like SLH-DSA. Fortunately we've had people like @n1ckler, @roasbeef, and @conduition_io have done deep dives into SLH-DSA and have found it to be solid. Also, it's worth noting that it was partly designed by the goat, DJB, @hashbreaker, who also built the curve used to secure Monero and Signal, and lots of other good and useful stuff. Anyway, that's why I think the good "gold standard" case for cryptography we understand well and can use to our advantage is for SLH-DSA (also known as SPHINCS) to be used with BIP 360 in a tapleaf, along with a hybrid approach where we do not stop using secp256k1. We would base it on SHA-2 because we know that works well. We would probably not modify other security parameters in order to maintain hardware compatibility and acceleration. For NIST I level security, which is the same level of security that secp256k1 offers (@_weidai says it offers only 128 bits of security, despite its name), if used with BIP 360 and accounting for the witness discount, pk sig size in the witness will be about 2,000 vB. For comparison, pk sig for Schnorr is about 25 vB. Yes, this will reduce the throughput of Bitcoin. We are actively planning how to handle the problem of scaling post-quantum cryptography on Bitcoin, but that's a separate problem, and judging by the mempool these days, I'm certain Bitcoin can handle that for some time. Besides, there's no reason to select a PQC option before Q-day is confirmed. Long exposure attacks will occur before short exposure attacks, and PQC is only necessary to protect against short exposure attacks. (For more on these definitions, please see the glossary for BIP 360 on bip360.org) I think we have a solid strategy around this and we will be working hard to execute and communicate it next year. Basically we want to get BIP 360 finalized, then come up with an SLH-DSA BIP, and deploy that to secure real money on the Anduro sidechain that leverages a specially designed quantum resistant bridge. We will also work on what to do about coins held in exposed public keys, fleshing out the Hourglass BIP more, also linked on bip360.org. There's a ton of work left to do, but we have a solid and talented team and have received a lot of support from the community and among Core devs. If you want to help now, please read the recently rewritten version of BIP 360 that now has a third co-author, @isabelfoxenduke. You can find it on bip360.org. More updates and info coming soon! Thanks to everyone involved for their help and support and please enjoy the holidays! Merry Christmas, everyone! Also, I realize there are lots of conspiratorial claims in this post that don't always have a lot of evidence. Consider it part of a threat model with plausible incentive structures and reasoned speculation. Also remember, the spooks probably know a lot more than we know. That's just how spooks are. Additionally, it's also fair to disclose that I now earn a living working on solving this problem that the NSA had a part in creating. I work for @andurobtc, which is incubated by @MARA. They have 5% of the hashrate and run Slipstream, which is essential for the design of a quantum resistant sidechain bridge, which is why I joined them a year ago. They've been incredibly supportive of my work so far, I even lead a small team of devs to help build all these solutions. I remain a contractor and not an employee so that I can speak up if I see something I disagree with and I do not have a stake in the company itself so that I can maintain neutrality. Stocks are a boomer meme anyway (although I do appreciate the enthusiasm of the "MARA pigs" who sometimes pop up in my mentions). I'm a Bitcoin only guy and if I ever want to retire, then Bitcoin must surmount this threat, and the next. Bitcoin is antifragile and a civilizational imperative. Stay prepared, not scared, my friends.

You are not immune to propaganda.

SITUATION DETECTED: The city of Rio de Janerio has post-trained a model. Based on Qwen 7/2, Rio 3.5 Open 397B adds SwiReasoning on top of the base Qwen model — a framework that dynamically switches between standard chain-of-thought and latent-space reasoning, guided by entropy-based confidence signals, so the model only "thinks out loud" when it needs to and otherwise reasons silently in hidden space for better token efficiency.

As stupid as I think lefties are for trying to claim the fandom as a whole by gatekeeping it based on sexual identity, I believe there's a better, more valid argument to be made when it comes to excluding communists from furry communities. The furry fandom functions in a strongly anarcho-capitalist manner because it operates through decentralized, voluntary exchanges in which creators trade their labor in the form of art, fursuits and other goods or services for money, while participants form voluntary private communities. Communism rejects private property, monetary exchange, and the non-aggression principle in favor of collective control. As a result, communism is incompatible with these values and principles, so individuals and private groups within the fandom have every right and incentive to withhold association from those who advocate for it or identify as communists.

Fiat Code @saifedean

You know, I asked Ed Catmull if we could still create this, and he said to me no, we don't know how to do it anymore

The only one who can truly judge you for your actions is your creator Elon understands this quite clearly D. Lemon does not

Some people are a thousand times better at furiously improvising than other people. Some are a million times better.

ESG funds are just when they let the HR department pick the stocks

JUST IN: EL SALVADOR NOW OFFERS 0% TAXES ON #BITCOIN GAINS AND FOREIGN INCOME ONLY 90 DAY RESIDENCY IS REQUIRED GLOBAL GAME THEORY AT WORK 🚀

The real blackpill is not that AI will produce nothing of value AlphaFold (and AlphaEvolve), the Human Immunome Project, and Rosie the Dog are good examples of AI genuinely disrupting paradigms and long-held assumptions and this is just the beginning These thought amplification mechanisms could decimate several multi-trillion dollar industries (even if they aren't sapient or even conscious, they don't have to be) And even worse, if healthcare gets so affordable since we're curing chronic illness instead of just treating it, that reduces demand for socialist "solutions" and starves the media of one of its biggest sources of funds (big pharma) This is why we hear so much loud, impotent leftist screeching these days. Death rattles from an ideology nobody is buying with real money anymore. The Democrats do not have a deep bench. Anyone with a brain has either been pushed out and been embraced by conservatives, and the only ones who are left are tired partisan hacks, with the exception of maybe Josh Shapiro but he's disqualified since there's so much antisemitism amongst the political left in this country now (finding common cause with muslim grifters and also why so many homosexuals are leaving the democrats) Insurance, entitlement spending, academia, paper mills, all the grift and fraud exposed, Brandolini's bullshit asymmetry principle is disrupted by truthseeking technology alone Maybe Jevon's paradox will apply... recall that demand for medical imaging has only increased even as costs have been dropping The AI bubble narrative is getting tired, there's really no comparison to what happened in 2000 The real bubble is the structural leverage built into our economy already, so more like 2008, but only because the grifter economy bubble is so much worse (people selling fake solutions to fake problems), which is exposed by AI, but not the underlying cause

i know you’re mad at the US government for taking mythos away, but remember, in europe you’re not even allowed to use siri

I think we should tax Elon, steal all his money, so the government can use it to invest in meaningful projects like space exploration, AI, Solar, and EV's.

I can't believe what what happened yesterday!

GRECO-DECO

it's not lack of compute that's the issze. it's that in Europe, it's unthinkable to pay a guy in his mid 20s $600k salary and give him resources and freedom to train models without having oversight by a committee of gerontocratic professorswho don't keep up with the research

Can’t wait for liberals to figure out the reason @elonmusk is a trillionaire is because of big government.