Topics covered in this episode:

* 1:00 Legibility, and an overview of the rest of the episode.

* 2:50 What is fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)?

* 7:28 Some applications of FHE.

* 8:15 Contrasting this with MPC.

* 11:50 Why you shouldn’t need to care about implementation details for applications.

* 14:28 Why I’m annoyed when people conflate Machine Learning and computing.

* 23:20 The legibility problem, and why these kinds of conflations are inevitable.

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