You’re safeguarding against the wrong thing. If I needed to fake a prediction that badly, I’d find a security hole in Less Wrong with which to edit all your comments. I wouldn’t waste time establishing karma for sockpuppets to post editable hashes to deter others from posting hashes themselves, that would be silly. But as it happens, I’m not planning to edit this hash, and doing that wouldn’t have been a viable strategy in the first place.
Edited comments have an asterisk after the date, the lack of this asterisk indicates the comment has not been edited. Though this does not work for top level posts.
Maybe they are all someone else’s sockpuppets. At a given date, they will coordinatedly change some whitespace in their comments (but not the hash itself), thus framing Quirrell. Fortunately, now that I unmasked the plan, it is not really viable anymore.
And another one as backup, because this is Professor Quirrell we’re talking about here:
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Obviously, though, this is all misdirection from his real scheme.
Of course, he would have two sockpuppets, to quell suspicion of the first one.
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Constant vigilance!
You’re safeguarding against the wrong thing. If I needed to fake a prediction that badly, I’d find a security hole in Less Wrong with which to edit all your comments. I wouldn’t waste time establishing karma for sockpuppets to post editable hashes to deter others from posting hashes themselves, that would be silly. But as it happens, I’m not planning to edit this hash, and doing that wouldn’t have been a viable strategy in the first place.
“Clearly, the way to make our safeguards super-secure is to make yet another comment with the hash.”
“Clearly, the way to make my safeguards super-secure is to make yet another Horcrux.”
Somehow, you could only see through one of these strategies.
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How do I know you’re not all sock puppets of him? Clearly, the only solution is for everyone to keep a copy of it themselves.
Edited comments have an asterisk after the date, the lack of this asterisk indicates the comment has not been edited. Though this does not work for top level posts.
Maybe they are all someone else’s sockpuppets. At a given date, they will coordinatedly change some whitespace in their comments (but not the hash itself), thus framing Quirrell. Fortunately, now that I unmasked the plan, it is not really viable anymore.
I never noticed that before.
Here is the sha512sum of his sha1sum:
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