[rcxdude]

Only if those similarities are indicating more than 'generic internet hacker' for both of them. You only need 23 bits to identify a person but those are 23 uncorrelated bits, and all the 'similarities' presented here are extremely strongly correlated with themselves.

[FarmerPotato]

Yeah, but as Wordle fans know, some clues yield more bits than others. The search space is not balanced.

The search space of hackers is a small subtree of all humans. So it's like a smaller tree of groups in Wordle that contains the letter "H".

However, in reality there is no binary "hacker" bit, so maybe we're back to the brute force 33-bit space. And then, you don't know Satoshi's unique signature, and it's worse if Satoshi is a group.

Come to think of it, do all hacker news posters even share a hacker bit?

I still rely on information-theoretic proofs at work, they just don't involve messy humans.

[extraduder_ire]

Where are you getting 23 from? That's only 8-ish million values max.

[bnjemian]

Suspect it's a typo. 33, not 23, gives ~8.6*10^9.

[rcxdude]

D'oh, yeah.

[emmelaich]

Probably used logn not log2.

   >>> math.log(8_000_000_000)
   22.80270737862625