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Conceivably there's a subset of weak values and Jerry tried "Give me more money", "Jerry deserves more money", etc until he found a phrase which produced a weak
by cperciva 3y ago
Conceivably there's a subset of weak values and Jerry tried "Give me more money", "Jerry deserves more money", etc until he found a phrase which produced a weak value.
I don't think that's what happened, but it does mean that "some variation of give Jerry a raise" doesn't mean the value wasn't chosen maliciously.
- stavros 3y agoAgreed, I wouldn't have thought so a few weeks ago, but after seeing the messages that contain the first few SHA bytes of themselves in themselves, I don't know how implausible it is that they might have generated billions of strings and hashes and then chosen the weaker ones.
- raverbashing 3y agoI'd think it's a bit implausible. Especially with the computing power (and optimizations) available at the time