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Unless you want to convince me that zcash does double-entries without reconciling them. It is not possible for the outside observer to reconcile double entries. So, the basis of the privacy properties of Zcash is that when we spend a note, we only prove that some commitment for it had been revealed...

strings are more free? if there are a finite number of memory spaces created (as huge a number as that is) within all the connected computing devices, how could a number that is infinite actually fit? -Imp Suppose there is a finite number of memory spaces. Suppose there's a single address even. Sup...

In zero-knowledge arguments only one side has zero knowledge. The side that expects the proof. The side doing the proving has non-zero knowledge. Look at how the zcash protocol works. The prover has no clue as to where the money comes from. He knows the amount and where it goes to. The largest part...

Look at how the zcash protocol works. The prover has no clue as to where the money comes from. He knows the amount and where it goes to. The largest part of the message is encrypted even for the prover. He intergrates something that he does not understand into what he is writing. So, a good part of...

Absolutely nothing like it. You don't even know what it is that you are encrypting. You don't even know where it is. So how are you encrypting it? That happens in the brain. It is not known how. Type error. Again. Why do you keep confusing whys, whats, wheres and hows? The data owner knows EXACTLY ...

<holy fuck, what a load of bullshit> A priori categories of moral understanding?!? There's no such thing, you fucking retard. There are no categories a priori the moral categories. The a priori connotation of every damn word you are using. Understanding - GOOD! Moral! Misunderstanding - BAAAD! Immo...

That is exactly how it works. No, it isn't. The representation is not the message. Type error. Again. I didn't ask you WHAT the message being represented is. I asked you WHERE the message being represented is. We don't know the message itself. We only know some of its representations. We? You and a...

So how are you getting the content of your message across if the above is nothing more than a representation of the content? The content is just another representation, i.e. a mental one. Instead of magnetized disk sectors, it is probably something like activated neurons, or whatever. The details o...

The map is not the territory. If it were, it would be unique. Type error. I did't ask you a "What is/isn't it?" question. I asked you a "Where is it?" question. Where is the message? You have a representation in your mind. Then, you represent that as symbols. Then, as a signal o...

godelian wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:22 pm

Skepdick wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:19 pm If this is a representation, where's the message?

Das Ding an sich ist ein Unbekanntes.

How do you know it's unknown?

How can you possibly represent an unknown?

It is a Platonic abstraction. I didn't ask what it is. I asked where it is. If the above is only a representation of the message - where is the Platonically abstract message? You can only view its many representations. So if all I can view is the representation, how am I receiving your messages? Yo...

So the above sentence is NOT the message. I've received nothing more from you than the above. It is a representation of the message. 👆 If this is a representation, where's the message? You can only communicate a representation of the message. 👆 If this is a representation, where's the message? Ever...

The map is not the territory. The physical incarnation of a message is not the message. So the above sentence is NOT the message. I've received nothing more from you than the above. So how come I am receiving a message? The symbol "1" that you can see on your screen is not the mathematica...

Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:47 am

Skepdick wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:41 amIf she's talking to me - she's going to be learning logic.

Aren't you lucky? Next time you see her - she'll be able to teach you even more.

Well done Skepdick, you've stumbled across another wikipedia page. Now you can tell Immanuel Can all about it. I am telling you. It's pretty ironic that a "philosopher of science" has to start at Wikipedia. The same place my 8 year old niece starts. Get your niece to teach you some logic ...