homotoptheory.bsky.social
PhD in math. she/it. my views represent those of your employer.
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🎵 You hear her howlin' around your kitchen door
You better not let her in
Little puppygirl got mutilated late last night
Wolfgirls of London again 🎵
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feeld also introduced me to the term “homoflexible” which I just find straight up hilarious
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It also doesn’t solve the other question you’ve raised, which is “how do you know future-you didn’t give up the key under duress” but I don’t know enough about doing identity verification in the context where the real person is also colluding with the attacker so idk if that’s even feasible
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See my quoted post with a proposed protocol. It has to be done somehow in a room where they can be sure they are not being observed, which is not great, but I think it’s a solution
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Consider the following protocol: Alice travels back in time and says “Bob, I’m you” Bob can then simply generate some random bits and then ask Alice to repeat them. If Alice really is future-Bob she simply has to remember what the bits were
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this gave me a flashback to my late grandfather’s favorite joke about a guy walking into a cheese shop asking for gouda cheese and the italian owner saying “all-a my cheese is-a good-a cheese!”
you have to picture my grandfather trying to do the italian accent through his own thick glaswegian one
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like from balatro
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wow you’re a real joker
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I heard somewhere recently that in british acting schools they teach an american accent that’s basically what british theater audiences expect american accents to sound like and that’s why they all sound Like That
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Finally finished the book today, and I gotta say your ordering idea was maybe the right one. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I didn’t like The Masker, but it definitely felt a little flat compared to the richness of Stag Dance
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What if the verification she witnesses is the one she later (for her) does, going back in time. Yea I think that is a serious problem.
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Oh I see. We were talking about different problems: suppose Eve witnesses a verification, and sees that it works. She can’t now go back in time and do that verification because at that time we know Bob is talking to Alice, not Eve. That’s where the time dependence comes in. But you’re saying
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Oh I see what you’re saying. We’re using different frameworks for time travel—I was assuming one which didn’t allow for different versions of any particular moment.
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thank you. the sign is currently hanging in my apartment so I have to decide which edit to instantiate IRL
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i.e. you have to ensure that a viewer of the protocol can’t replicate the protocol, even if they’re allowed to witness a verification
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i think there needs to be some kind of hashing going on with current timestamps to prevent this exact sort of replication
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@hooktail154.bsky.social weighs in
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There’s a strange man-in-the-middle attack here for any protocol, where Eve could presumably locate her past self to witness the conversation so any prompt Bob gives you have to assume Eve will already know what it’s going to be at least initially since she will have already seen it
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secure identity verification protocol for future selves traveling back in time. How can Bob allow for his future self to prove her identity?
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but then we’re right back to square 1 re:security concerns because Eve can just replicate Alice’s tattoos before going back in time to meet Bob
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actually what am i saying. if its future you they’d already have the tattoo. so you’d need to randomly generate one somewhere you haven’t seen yet and then check if they have it? where’s david lewis when you need him…
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that still seems prone to abuse. what you’d really need is to have future you take you to a tattoo parlor. then you verify somewhere they don’t have a tattoo. then you get a tattoo there and verify that they have it now (as they would if they were really you in the future.)
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maybe this is better
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yea I was referencing this post. still can’t believe she blocked you btw.
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(wokely) mormon is like transgender
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did you like the part where she says “why is he giving me shit for wanting to be a woman? i don’t give him shit for being a mormon and thinking joseph smith had magic glasses”
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wow. i can’t believe you’d want to make such a distinction and divide the community like that! people who haven’t had srs face more discrimination btw
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High Sensitivity To Sugar diabetics vs Antibodies Going for the Pancreas diabetics
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no obviously you’d need a CT scan for that
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she’s literally little helen’s chew toy
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it’s okay hippo squishmallow she didn’t mean that you are loved
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(i also realized i have no idea if you’ve seen severance and so that riff may have just seemed bizarre and nonsequitous)
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what if you get to hang out with John Turturro though? and then you don’t remember that?