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2008-06-13 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's rather more rule-heavy, so not a bad fit. I think I'll try >> writing up a Werewolf contest, though (anyone want to take over Enigma?) >> > Jus

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2008-06-13 Thread Roger Hicks
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's rather more rule-heavy, so not a bad fit. I think I'll try > writing up a Werewolf contest, though (anyone want to take over Enigma?) > Just make it a PRS member contest. BobTHJ

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2008-06-12 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Goethe wrote: >> >>> Or, we could bring back mafia, that was nice. >> WANT. (They've been doing the Werewolf variety at the local gaming >> conventions for a year or two now.) > > Or how about a round of "Bang

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2008-06-12 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Goethe wrote: > >> Or, we could bring back mafia, that was nice. > > WANT. (They've been doing the Werewolf variety at the local gaming > conventions for a year or two now.) Or how about a round of "Bang!"? -root

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2008-06-12 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: > Or, we could bring back mafia, that was nice. WANT. (They've been doing the Werewolf variety at the local gaming conventions for a year or two now.)

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2008-06-12 Thread Zefram
Geoffrey Spear wrote: >How confident are we that MD5 doesn't have collisions between >"FOR".$somehash and "AGAINST".$someotherhash? It does inherently have collisions, and there's a known attack that has demonstrated actual instances of collision (though not with meaningful strings yet). The next

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2008-06-12 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact is that no matter what seed you > choose, it's possibe to find a seed for the opposite vote that > collides with it, so such a rule would simply require us to invalidate > all votes. I think if we limited seeds to a r

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2008-06-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Quazie wrote: > ooh, i miss the card games. Didn't you end up winning the last one by > usinga card to draw another card, and then that card allowed you to > undo your last card played? Yah, that was the first win-by-paradox. The contest I was talking about was not those

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2008-06-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/12 Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ah. > > Is MD5 really that easy to brute-force? hmm... > > How about if each ballot also includes a proof-of-work? This should > make searching for collisions harder. > > That is, instead of random noise as your salt, include the MD5 hash > of a string be

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2008-06-12 Thread Ben Caplan
On Thursday 12 June 2008 3:52:35 Ian Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Ben Caplan wrote: > > > > > "FOR /*8947521705932789*/" > > ("AGAINST /*8947521705932789*/" hashes to .) > > That doesn't prove anything. > > Of course, all this indicates to me is that we should u

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2008-06-12 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:00 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know... to fake a vote in this manner (have your collision be not > meaningless junk but a desired value), you would need a pretty amazing > supercomputer. I don't think most Agorans have those to play with. I don't know the

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2008-06-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/12 comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Compromise on SHA-1? > Probably. Or... SHA-512. It's no harder to implement than SHA-1 (mostly), it is a lot slower, but meh. Note that 2ch BBSs get quite well with a short substring of a crypt() call! Though, they can be cracked in about a week. Their defe

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2008-06-12 Thread comex
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, all this indicates to me is that we should use something > stronger than MD5 for this. You know... to fake a vote in this manner (have your collision be not meaningless junk but a desired value), you would need a pr

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2008-06-12 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We can just legislate that if you use a colliding hash, your vote > doesn't count. Thus the reveal would look like { > > > "FOR /*8947521705932789*/" > ("AGAINST /*8947521705932789*/" hashes to .) > } That doe

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2008-06-12 Thread Quazie
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Ben Caplan wrote: >> Now, to discourage private collaboration ("I'll vote FOR, you vote >> AGAINST.") > > Instead of discouraging, how about setting up a game where it's beneficial > to lie and backst

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2008-06-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Ben Caplan wrote: > Now, to discourage private collaboration ("I'll vote FOR, you vote > AGAINST.") Instead of discouraging, how about setting up a game where it's beneficial to lie and backstab during private negotiations, Diplomacy-style (eg. points that make backstabs w

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2008-06-12 Thread Ben Caplan
On Thursday 12 June 2008 3:14:10 Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Ben Caplan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > B: I vote on it with md5 hash . > > > > (The string hashed as would have to include cryptographic salt: > > rather than "FOR", it would be "FOR /*8947521705932789*/

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2008-06-12 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Ben Caplan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> B: I vote on it with md5 hash . >> >> (The string hashed as would have to include cryptographic salt: >> rather than "FOR", it would be "FOR /*89

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2008-06-12 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > B: I vote on it with md5 hash . > > (The string hashed as would have to include cryptographic salt: > rather than "FOR", it would be "FOR /*8947521705932789*/".) How confident are we that MD5 doesn't have collisions between

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2008-06-12 Thread Ben Caplan
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 8:11:33 Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Nick Vanderweit wrote: > > But then people would know how many FOR and AGAINST votes there had > > been, and would simply use that to judge how they would vote. > > That's ok. Games to play: >-So who votes first? >

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2008-06-12 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/12 Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can we just stick to contested proposals plz? > > No. :-P ehird

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2008-06-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Nick Vanderweit wrote: >> But then people would know how many FOR and AGAINST votes there had >> been, and would simply use that to judge how they would vote. > > That's ok. Games to play: >-So who votes first? >-What if you vote as a decoy and change

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2008-06-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Nick Vanderweit wrote: > But then people would know how many FOR and AGAINST votes there had > been, and would simply use that to judge how they would vote. That's ok. Games to play: -So who votes first? -What if you vote as a decoy and change your vote at the last min

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2008-06-11 Thread Nick Vanderweit
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Elliott Hird >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> You couldn't talk about it, in public or private (that's the >>> unenforcabl

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2008-06-11 Thread Quazie
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Elliott Hird > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You couldn't talk about it, in public or private (that's the >> unenforcable part), and all votes must be sent privately by email to ? >> (I think t

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2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/11 Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unless there's some way to double-blind it, that's a lot of power for > the assessor (assessor conspirator is what scammed it previously). > -Goethe A double blind proposal system both makes no sense at all and sounds totally awesome. ehird

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2008-06-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: > Perhaps we should try Insaner proposals: all of the above, plus the > proposal's title, text, author and AI are secret as well. Unless there's some way to double-blind it, that's a lot of power for the assessor (assessor conspirator is what scammed it previ

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2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/11 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Perhaps we should try Insaner proposals: all of the above, plus the > proposal's title, text, author and AI are secret as well. > > -root > Very yes. ehird

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2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/11 Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The ID number should be secret too, and should be assigned after those > given to the other proposals in the same batch, so only the Promoter > knows just how many Insaner proposals are being voted on until the > next batch is sent out. > This would

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2008-06-11 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps we should try Insaner proposals: all of the above, plus the > proposal's title, text, author and AI are secret as well. The ID number should be secret too, and should be assigned after those given to the other proposal

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2008-06-11 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You couldn't talk about it, in public or private (that's the > unenforcable part), and all votes must be sent privately by email to ? > (I think the notary). The Assessor. > If you proposed an insane proposal which got no

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2008-06-11 Thread Nick Vanderweit
Nevermind. There was already a thread on that. avpx On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Nick Vanderweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone explain this to me? I vaguely recall something about a > former rule that made discussion of voting on these things illegal, > but that rule no longer exi

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2008-06-11 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/8 Nick Vanderweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Could someone explain this to me? I vaguely recall something about a > former rule that made discussion of voting on these things illegal, > but that rule no longer exists, right? > > avpx Insane proposal: proposal ALL IN UPPERCASE You couldn't talk

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2008-06-10 Thread Nick Vanderweit
Could someone explain this to me? I vaguely recall something about a former rule that made discussion of voting on these things illegal, but that rule no longer exists, right? avpx 2008/6/6 Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING PROPOSAL (TITLE: "AGORA") (AI=1, II=1): > {{{ >

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2008-06-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, comex wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, comex wrote: >>> Who wants to propose bringing insane proposals back? >> >> Weird tactical voting promotion of any/all kinds... good. Ones that >> depend on making

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2008-06-07 Thread comex
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, comex wrote: >> Who wants to propose bringing insane proposals back? > > Weird tactical voting promotion of any/all kinds... good. Ones that > depend on making it illegal to discuss votes even in private

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2008-06-07 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, comex wrote: > Who wants to propose bringing insane proposals back? Weird tactical voting promotion of any/all kinds... good. Ones that depend on making it illegal to discuss votes even in private... unenforceably unworkable (previously demonstrated). -Goethe

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2008-06-06 Thread Roger Hicks
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:14 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> You're about 6 years too late for this proposal to be insane. >> >> Who wants to propos

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2008-06-06 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/7 Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, first we'd have to bring sane proposals back, since it just > wouldn't be the same without the play on words. But the way sane > proposals worked back then is pretty much exactly the way regular > democratic proposals work now. So I think we're stuc

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2008-06-06 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:14 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You're about 6 years too late for this proposal to be insane. > > Who wants to propose bringing insane proposals back? Well, first we'd have to bring sane prop

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2008-06-06 Thread comex
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're about 6 years too late for this proposal to be insane. Who wants to propose bringing insane proposals back?

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2008-06-06 Thread Ian Kelly
2008/6/6 Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING PROPOSAL (TITLE: "AGORA") (AI=1, II=1): > {{{ > AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA. > > AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA > AGORA AGORA AGORA. > > AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA. > }}} >

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2008-06-06 Thread Taral
On 6/6/08, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING PROPOSAL (TITLE: "AGORA") (AI=1, II=1): Ahh, nostalgia... -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknown