Einstein’s insight for general relativity was that acceleration and gravity must be the same thing, since a simple instrument can’t distinguish them. From this, he arrived at the curvature of space-time.
Cryptography offers a similar dichotomy. Whether an algorithm is brute-forced, or the user knows the private key, the simple instrument (proof) can’t tell the difference.
In a sense, force and knowledge must be the same thing. But what is our space-time curvature? #asknostr #philosophy
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2025-02-05 13:09:32
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