Against ignorance

A Vaccine Against Ignorance?

One of the greatest challenges facing humanity is ignorance—the lack of reliable information about and knowledge of the natural world we live in. Those who have studied the workings of the universe realize that the physical laws that govern our planet are the same as those that govern activities throughout the universe. This generalization certainly applies to the laws of physics, chemistry, an...

3-Message Zero Knowledge Against Human Ignorance

The notion of Zero Knowledge has driven the field of cryptography since its conception over thirty years ago. It is well established that two-message zero-knowledge protocols for NP do not exist, and that four-message zero-knowledge arguments exist under the minimal assumption of one-way functions. Resolving the precise round complexity of zero-knowledge has been an outstanding open problem for...

Egalitarianism against the Veil of Ignorance By

Circumscriptive Ignorance

In formal systems that reason about knowledge, inferring that an agent actually does not know a particular fact can be problematic. Collins [l] has shown that there are many different modes of reasoning that a subject can use to show that he is ignorant of something; some of these, for example, involve the subject reasoning about the limitations of his own information-gathering and memory abili...

Does ignorance of the whole imply ignorance of the parts?

In this appendix, we provide a detailed derivation of our results. To this end, we first provide some more detailed background on the entropic quantities we use in Section I. In Section II we show that the splitting inequality (16) is satisfied in any deterministic non-contextual hidden variable model (NC-HV model for short). This is a minor twist on the existing classical proof [1] due to Wull...