Wednesday, June 10, 2026

The meaning of life through post-quantum encryption


They say that quantum computers are coming.
Commentators make them sound almost infinitely powerful.
Either way, quantum computers should be able to solve uncountably many simple equations in parallel; more than any conventional computer. Including the kinds of equations used to encrypt our online activities and security.

This means we will need so-called post-quantum encryption. But how?
The only kind I can think of is a "one-time pad": the one code that absolutely can't be decrypted. Every character in the file to be encrypted is altered by a different number, that was randomly generated in advance and can be used only once.
Even if a quantum computer DOES decrypt such a message by chance, there's no way to know it got it right. It could be decrypted into ANY message up to that length.

But one-time pads are big and slow. Since they can only be used once, they have to be as big as the message itself.
Post quantum decryption may rely on vastly "simplified" one-time pads, that are just as good but smaller.
Instead of being able to encrypt anything, these codes could only encrypt the types of data humans are likely to generate with their habits and traits. A minuscule fraction of all possible data.

Eventually, every user will have their own optimized post-quantum encryption codes.
This coding method would be automatically improved and further compressed, creating an "alphabet" of billions of unique "perceptual atoms" representing all your personal thinking methods and biases.

Thinking a bit further ahead, this could be used to directly define and encode all your meaningful lives at increasing levels of detail.

a good article about Scientology practices


Everyone should try to get educated about religious matters. The spiritual lifestyle can be quite a challenge though:

* https://tonyortega.substack.com/p/how-scientology-destroys-a-family/

Church folks can have a lot to deal with in their various clerical procedures.

The meaning of life through post-quantum encryption

They say that quantum computers are coming. Commentators make them sound almost infinitely powerful. Either way, quantum computers should be...