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'''The team’s obfuscator works by transforming a computer program into what Sahai calls a “multilinear jigsaw puzzle.” Each piece of the program gets obfuscated

by slack3r 13y ago

'''The team’s obfuscator works by transforming a computer program into what Sahai calls a “multilinear jigsaw puzzle.” Each piece of the program gets obfuscated by mixing in random elements that are carefully chosen so that if you run the garbled program in the intended way, the randomness cancels out and the pieces fit together to compute the correct output. But if you try to do anything else with the program, the randomness makes each individual puzzle piece look meaningless.''' I know nothing about crypto and AI and even less about neuroscience and this probably sounds stupid - but, is it possible that all the sensory input we receive is just random "sensible nonsense" and our brains partially solve this "multilinear jigsaw puzzle" using a vast neural network? Considering the fact that brute force AI has been a total failure in recognizing anything, I wonder if our world is similarly obfuscated by sensible nonsense (from the robot's perspective).

kordless 13y ago
It doesn't sound stupid. Given we may exist in a shared CPU space which renders this universe, it would make perfect sense for implementing said universe and our awareness of it. Obfuscating the universe's rules would keep people from jacking with it to the detriment of others. It's bad enough we can screw up other's lives in here as it is. Being able to alter the universe's infrastructure at will wouldn't work out so well.
asgard1024 13y ago
When I read the article, I thought the opposite. Our brain is an obfuscated computing device (due to evolution and its "holographic" nature), and we're trying to deobfuscate what it does on rather simple inputs. Mostly, we don't succeed by analyzing it fully, but only by observation and attempts to build an algorithm on our own. I think one could approach breaking such schemes with similar strategy.
placeybordeaux 13y ago
That seems to propose a lot of crazy shit without anything back it up to explain something that is already pretty well explained: The world is complex.

by slack3r 13y ago

kordless 13y ago

It doesn't sound stupid. Given we may exist in a shared CPU space which renders this universe, it would make perfect sense for implementing said universe and our awareness of it. Obfuscating the universe's rules would keep people from jacking with it to the detriment of others. It's bad enough we can screw up other's lives in here as it is. Being able to alter the universe's infrastructure at will wouldn't work out so well.

asgard1024 13y ago

When I read the article, I thought the opposite. Our brain is an obfuscated computing device (due to evolution and its "holographic" nature), and we're trying to deobfuscate what it does on rather simple inputs. Mostly, we don't succeed by analyzing it fully, but only by observation and attempts to build an algorithm on our own. I think one could approach breaking such schemes with similar strategy.

placeybordeaux 13y ago

That seems to propose a lot of crazy shit without anything back it up to explain something that is already pretty well explained: The world is complex.