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> Pretty soon people won't be able to distinguish between noise and signal. People suck at randomizing things and computers are stupidly good a processing huge
by titzer 3y ago
> Pretty soon people won't be able to distinguish between noise and signal.
People suck at randomizing things and computers are stupidly good a processing huge amounts of data and recovering the signal from the noise. The solution is not to add noise, but to remove signal. Generally adding noise is the first thing laypeople think of. Too bad there's whole fields of signal analysis, information theory, noise modeling, and the persistence of side-channels with over a century of work that make plucking the weak signal from noise relatively easy. Oh, and did I mention they have COMPUTERS?
- bena 3y agoIt doesn't even have to be random, just wrong. And much like running from a bear, you don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other guy. You don't have to be perfect, just more effort than it's worth.