More people do X makes X more done.

why does it fail so horribly for X = protecting a secret? or does it?

(I’m not 3, by the way…)

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    5 hours ago

    this way of phrasing is reasonable but it feels like those should cancel out. i mean why taking a situation of 1 person protecting a secret and multiplying it by N changes it.

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      5 hours ago

      oh i got it now.

      if it’s 1000 people protecting 1000 different secrets (each their own) then it does cancel out.

      note that it does get worse if the secret-guesser knows something about the statistical distribution of those secrets, and the value of each secret is kind of interchangeable to them. then things like rainbow tables exist.