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New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

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359 points sdsykes | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 11:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Eliezer ◴[19 Oct 24 04:02 UTC] No.41885559[source]▶
lol, like the government doesn't have 3 more Mersennes they keep secret so they can verify potential First Contact situations
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jiggawatts ◴[19 Oct 24 07:59 UTC] No.41886377[source]▶
They're much easier to verify than to find. Just ask for the next one hundred unknown primes and check the response.
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1. Jerrrrrrry ◴[19 Oct 24 16:28 UTC] No.41888770[source]▶
This still suffers from the MitM / Two Generals Problem, and is existentially problematic if they also demand the simple, reasonable sum of the first BB(17) numbers modulo Grahams number, within 14 business local parsec-years.

Their spam filter may be an annoying ping acknowledgement, a directed gamma ray beam from soft gamma repeater, just to irradiate their own hoax-doers suspects.