Right—I wouldn’t describe it as magic, but the vast majority of the math still needs to be done, which includes protocol design. I did give explicit toy examples A) and B).
Clearly I didn’t read your post sufficiently carefully. Fair point: yes, you did address that, and I simply missed it somehow. Yes, you did mean cryptographic protocols, specifically ones of the Merlin-Arthur form.
I suspect that your the exposition could be made clearer, or better motivate readers who are skimming LW posts to engage with it — but that’s a writing suggestion, not a critique of the ideas.
Right—I wouldn’t describe it as magic, but the vast majority of the math still needs to be done, which includes protocol design. I did give explicit toy examples A) and B).
Clearly I didn’t read your post sufficiently carefully. Fair point: yes, you did address that, and I simply missed it somehow. Yes, you did mean cryptographic protocols, specifically ones of the Merlin-Arthur form.
I suspect that your the exposition could be made clearer, or better motivate readers who are skimming LW posts to engage with it — but that’s a writing suggestion, not a critique of the ideas.