Quote from: monsterer on February 09, 2016, 10:32:33 AM

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on February 09, 2016, 10:22:45 AM

I wrote about the 'number/count of' not the 'set of' (where the latter requires knowing which of the generals are the traitors, not just the count of traitors).

There is no fault in my logic. Sorry dude.

Both the set of, and the count of traitor generals are unknown in BGP; that is the specification of the problem.

Yup but the 'set' remains unknown in the conditional solution (conditioned on only the 'count') offered by that white paper. You are wrong and there was no "poor conclusion" on my part. And what is with your condescending use of the word "another" since your prior attempt of presenting a white paper was also rebutted successfully by me.

And that it is conditional, is why I rebutted smooth upthread that he was stating the problemnot the solutionin the decentralized context because the count can only be conjectured (e.g. probabilistic estimates of hardware failure which was the focus of the paper) in a centralized (non-Sybil attacked application).

monsterer you are boastfully filling the thread with errors and useless noise. Stop the boastful and condescending and take more time to think over your points, so our discussion can remain high S/N and mutually respectful. When I asked you in the past to please cut down on the noise, you might have taken this personally. Sorry but I have limited bandwidth and time. So do readers. Try to make high quality contributions. I am suffering from an illness and it doesn't help when you shoot my cortisol sky high! And make very strong statements which require me to go read a white paper that I don't have time and energy to read. At least show that you aren't wrong most of the time, so you aren't being disrespectful of my limitations.

Edit: I can sincerely appreciate your contribution and also be totally unable to accept it if the S/N ratio is too low, because I have finite resources to expend here.