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James O’Beirne

May 1, 2026

29:29
Um, and that's my two cents.
29:31
So, so my, I, I agree with that.
29:32
My only, uh, refinement, or not even revi- but like my objection to that would be the more that we give it attention and space, the more we reinforce the severity of the, the perceived threat.
29:55
They're already here
29:56
... harden our grid to..." We're say- you know, we, we need to devote like 40% of humanity to hardening the grid against the alien EMP attack or something, and it's like i- i- if you can't at some level just, uh, like reject the premise of the argument, then you're gonna be giving more credence to everything.
30:13
But Tad Dryja, along those lines, Tad Dryja has an interesting point that like maybe all the quantum attention will actually spur some kind of classical innovation in algorithms that winds up breaking or harming ECDSA somehow.
30:25
And so, you know, maybe having these hash-based backup schemes that Jonas Nick is, is working on reducing proof size for, you know, maybe that's good.
30:33
But I, I, I think it just rankles me because I'm a curmu- curmudgeon, you know, to begin with, uh, and I just see this like absolutely moronic, uh, argument being fo- put forward.

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