From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 05:47:59 MDT
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:02:42PM -0700, Spike wrote:
> Happy birthday Anders! May you live loooooong and prosper, bud.
Thanks! It feel good to be among friends who I have no qualms whatsoever
spending a loooooong time prospering with.
I just got home from my brother's wedding in Kalix, right at the
northernmost tip of the Baltic sea and 100 km south of the polar circle.
A wonderful contrast to New York and New Haven, my previous
destinations. After seeing the summer "night" up there I realized that
1) Stockholm summer nights actually are dark, and 2) if I ever settle
another planet it better have a good axial tilt and I will live near the
poles - one gets so much done with a 23 hour day! Who needs Provigil?
:-)
> One of the things I will miss the most in our world of ever increasing
> transparency will be those funny, pithy and insightful comments made by
> dash anonymous. Since we will know more and more who said what,
> when he said it and where, good old dash anonymous will get credit
> for ever fewer sayings.
This is another reason to keep up cryptographic research. I wonder if
there is quantum anonymity, where quantum cryptographic techniques makes
it impossible for an outside observer to detect who said
something? Sounds very likely (quantum dining cryptographer protocols?)
but google did not find anything (!).
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