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This is the good side of British politics

Jul 5, 2024 | accountingweb.co.uk | Paul Crowley

Swindon South, BBC election night part one 2hr 20m Swindon is the tide mark for UK elections. If a party wins both Swindon seats, they are the winning party. The speeches brought me to tears. Heidi Alexander, labour, won, defeating Sir Robert Buckland. Their speeches were so totally respectful of each other. Heidi followed Sir Robert as he exited the stage. Sadiq Khan, watching the scene, said 'you will not see two classier speeches'. He was correct.
Finally made it. 10K thanks.

Mar 27, 2024 | accountingweb.co.uk | Paul Crowley

A thank for all the thankers on this site. I am sure that the thankers would include the moderation team so thanks to all of you as well as the ordinary punters and contributers to any answers. I often get PMs based on contributions, The best come from the Aweb team.
Travelogue: Bhutan: It’s a small world after all

Mar 26, 2024 | columbiagorgenews.com | Paul Crowley

As a very young child, I attended the 1964 World’s Fair. The theme was “It’s a small world after all.” During a bike tour in Bhutan last autumn with some Gorge cycle mates and others from elsewhere, that point was driven home. The bike tour traveled a somewhat straight point-to-point route through mountain passes to high valleys ranging from around 6,500 feet to more than 13,000 feet, mostly over well maintained, narrow, windy roads.
Informal sampling of the Fatal Force Database

Feb 1, 2024 | mindsarentmagic.org | Paul Crowley

Police shot dead 1,160 people in 2023. What’s a typical shooting like? We learn about fatal police shootings through two routes. First, dramatic examples get in national news. However, these are clearly very atypical, or they wouldn’t be in the news. Second, we can compile statistics.
Effective Aspersions: How the Nonlinear Investigation Went Wrong — LessWrong

Dec 19, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Tracing Woodgrains |Paul Crowley |David Hornbein |Rafael Harth

Picture a scene: the New York Times is releasing an article on Effective Altruism (EA) with an express goal to dig up every piece of negative information they can find. They contact Émile Torres, David Gerard, and Timnit Gebru, collect evidence about Sam Bankman-Fried, the OpenAI board blowup, and Pasek's Doom, start calling Astral Codex Ten (ACX) readers to ask them about rumors they'd heard about affinity between Effective Altruists, neoreactionaries, and something called TESCREAL.
A pilgrimage to the Holy Land increased my appreciation of America

Dec 17, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Paul Crowley

Paul A. Crowley of Waynesburg touches the spot where Jesus was born inside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. This past Lent I had the privilege of visiting the Holy Land with my fellow Knights and Dames of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, a papal order of Catholic Knighthood of pontifical status headquartered at the Vatican. The order was established in 1099 by Godfrey de Bouillon in an attempt to protect Christian Holy sites.
Length-preserving encryption with HCTR2

Nov 1, 2023 | eprint.iacr.org | Paul Crowley |Eric Biggers |Nathan Huckleberry

Paper 2021/1441 , Google (United States), Google (United States), Google (United States) On modern processors HCTR is one of the most efficient constructions for building a tweakable super-pseudorandom permutation. However, a bug in the specification and another in Chakraborty and Nandi's security proof invalidate the claimed security bound. We here present HCTR2, which fixes these issues and improves the security bound, performance and flexibility.
Ideological Turing Tests

Aug 28, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Rob Bensinger |Paul Crowley |Nina Rimsky

The Ideological Turing Test is an exercise where you try to pretend to hold an opposing ideology convincingly enough that outside observers can't reliably distinguish you from a true believer. It was first described by economist Bryan Caplan:Put me and five random liberal social science Ph.D.s in a chat room. Let liberal readers ask questions for an hour, then vote on who isn't really a liberal. Then put [economist Paul] Krugman and five random libertarian social science Ph.D.s in a chat room.
Money: The Unit of Caring

Jun 13, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Eliezer Yudkowsky |Paul Crowley |Julian Morrison |Michael Vassar

Steve Omohundro has suggested a folk theorem to the effect that, within the interior of any approximately rational, self-modifying agent, the marginal benefit of investing additional resources in anything ought to be about equal. Or, to put it a bit more exactly, shifting a unit of resource between any two tasks should produce no increase in expected utility, relative to the agent's utility function and its probabilistic expectations about its own algorithms.