Huh, I never imagined Wikipedia would have such a thing. Thanks!

To be fair the more imaginative ones have entire educational models built around teaching the societally transformative power of bitcoin.

I remember one time in a research project I switched out the tokeniser to see what impact it might have on my output. Spent about a day re-running and the difference was minimal. I imagine it's wholly the same thing.

*Disclaimer: I don't actually imagine it is wholly the same thing.

The only viable use case, in my opinion, is to utilise its strong abilities in SolidGoldMagicarp to actualise our goals in the SolidGoldMagicarp sector and achieve increased margins on SolidGoldMagicarp.

If they can somehow shoehorn in Blair's favourite ID card scheme into it they might win some sort of internal Labour bingo game.

Funnily enough that was the bit I wrote last just before hitting post on Substack. A kind of "what am I actually trying to say here?" moment. Sometimes I have to switch off the academic bit of my brain and just let myself say what I think to get to clarity. Glad it hit home.

Thanks for the link. I'm going to read that piece and have a look though the ensuing discussion.

Oh god it's real? I saw pictures and there was a lot of "it's AI" claims which I kind of hoped were true.

Fascinating to see that the politics of the old crypto hype train have carried over to the new hype train.

Ah OK, so it's sending the email draft in process not sending off the content of incoming messages or your final sent messages. Now I understand. Also, that's still bad....

I don't really understand how it's possible to both not store data in plaintext, but also be able to siphon off some of it in plaintext. Like is this technically possible in the way they suggest it? We shoot off the plaintext before it gets to our storage servers?

Like at some point that means the communication is not encrypted right? But if you're using https and all good normal security standards that should never be the case from the moment it departs your terminal?

I have a small amount of knowledge about this but it's the dangerously small type so any illumination would be appreciated.

Thanks for the positive feedback! I have a tendency to over explain things (so much cut text already) partly because I'm never too sure of how far down the rabbit hole I've gotten and if a general audience would be lost without it. Glad I was able to pull it together with a flourish though!

Thanks for the welcome, and yes please watch first!