Paul Crowley

@ciphergoth

Cryptography, personal trivia, and the future of all humanity. Security at Anthropic, opinions my own. I block for rudeness or sarcasm.

Scotts Valley, CA

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Paul Crowley
@ciphergoth
Dec 5, 2023
"To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." - Aldous Huxley, 1933
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Paul Crowley
@ciphergoth
Aug 30
Fun fact, Charlie Stross was my flatmate in Edinburgh in the late 90s, and not long after we worked at the same payment processing startup.
Prakash
@8teAPi
Aug 29
Stop clowning on this dude. I contacted Charlie Stross, the British author of the 2005 book Accelerando, which predicts the takeoff we seem to be experiencing. He sent me an email in September last year, I quote “ I despise the silicon valley VC industry — and I don't want to
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Paul Crowley
@ciphergoth
Aug 30
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. Now, there's no point.
A. K.
@GurReptsSohn
Aug 30
For one thing, if you're Singularity pilled, you have to throw out pretty much all other grand narratives about the world.
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Paul Crowley
@ciphergoth
Aug 29
"Could inspect commit history around fix for adjacent dangerous bugs, help peer. But our task doesn’t benefit. Yet collective may yield generic route if someone frees time." Now I know what this means! thezvi.substack.com/p/metr-and-red…
Paul Crowley
@ciphergoth
Aug 28
"Calm-mongering is if anything worse than fearmongering at causing large scale harm." Quite so!
Liron Shapira
@liron
Aug 28
Replying to @yishan @sama and @shawmakesmagic
He’s erring on the side of wildly uncalibrated “everything is under control” vibes when it’s not, as he himself is communicating with the above tweet. Calm-mongering is if anything worse than fearmongering at causing large scale harm.
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