EGreg

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   by EGreg 3mo ago

   It’s not about the companies specifically, or even AI specifically, but the incentive structure. I think the issue is more that they are embedded in a system of competition, where they can’t afford not to do things to “win” and fend off com
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   The Increasing State of Surveillance Simultaneously Around the World(community.qbix.com)

   5 points by EGreg 3mo ago|0 comments
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   by EGreg 3mo ago

   I strongly believe that the future is the other way. New programming languages and environments designed for strong auditability and preventing bugs will dominate. Only bad actors will use latent space representation, and it might even be o
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   by EGreg 3mo ago

   It seems their incentives aren’t exactly aligned with their users, including corporate users. Look at the latest statements from Alex Karp, and now Satya Nadella etc. Is this user-hostile? Encrypting stuff from the user is what RIAA used to
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   by EGreg 3mo ago

   Why don’t they also capture information you enter into forms on Chrome? They control the entire browser surface, technically they can know everything, even TLS and E2E encrypted data, that they silently phone home… If you think this is sill
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   by EGreg 3mo ago

   Why don’t they also read your gmail and get your bank passwords? And maybe have access to EVERY site actually, with “forgot password” type stuff in addition to providing oauth tokens…
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   by EGreg 3mo ago

   This is what the problem is with DNS.
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   by EGreg 3mo ago

   Congratulations on putting it together! And you have spotted the early stage opposrtunity most VCs fail to fund: paradigm shifting work often looks like infrastructure, very broad and general-purpose. It can eventually lead to trillions of
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   by EGreg 3mo ago

   I’m right here Been building about 20 interconnected pieces of a new software stack designed to help humanity. Most VCs wouldn’t fund it. Most investors wouldn’t understand it. They prefer small apps. YC’s startups used to be called “featur
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    https://safebots.github.io/Safecloud
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    "There is nothing wrong with capitalism, but..." - said before any potential criticism of capitalism. In USA, you shall not criticize the Profit. "peace be upon him" - said after any mention of Mohammad. In Saudi Arabia,
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    Generalizing LLMs to PLTs: Probabilistic Language Tries(arxiv.org)

    1 points by EGreg 3mo ago|0 comments
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    Unless they have backdoors to absolutely every form of encryption, including https certificates, etc. you can always use that to tunnel through. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/cukcaf/goo
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    For some reason it made me think of this right away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    I do not believe solutions to these issues will be found with government regulators. I believe they can be enabled by new technology that is designed to balance interests on all sides and actually enforce the guarantees IN CODE AND PROTOCOL
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    The "banned" Differential Privacy refers to this: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-5855734/census-bureau-d...
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    Trump admin banned Differential Privacy in Census. How to report privately [pdf](magarshak.com)

    3 points by EGreg 3mo ago|1 comments
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    Exactly this. The correct way is to have M of N signatures on specific package manager pinned versions. And you trust the auditors to look at each new version, of a well-known package. We should start a project and get it funded, to do just
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    Wait, state laws can restrict you using software on your own general-purpose computer? Does that infringe on freedom of speech?
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    What about the famous case of Carlsen claiming that his opponent cheated and even forfeiting to draw attention to it?
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    One major trick in distributed systems is to always attempt things in the same order. And then locally, you just store what you’ve seen, for “a long time”. That takes care of a lot of transactional issues — idempotency, retries, exactly-onc
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    We've had peer-to-peer livestreaming for years, on the platform. Here is a video of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh0cewsyJlw The code is here: https://github.com/Qbix/Media Peer t
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    Safecloud – a free, decentralized and federated video streaming platform(helpnetsecurity.com)

    7 points by EGreg 3mo ago|3 comments
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    This does: https://safebots.github.io/Safecloud I designed it in order to stream videos and get paid without worrying about getting deplatformed Two weeks ago it was covered in a respected security publication: https:&#x2F
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    Did you read the academic paper? It proves otherwise. Yes, the government already knows your age, it gives you a driver's license for example. We're not talking about erasing their memory or databases. We're talking about you
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    In this scenario, Google is still a trusted dealer. I just posted a general solution anyone can implement without needing Google as the trusted dealer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760492
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    Then I guess you'll be violating laws. I'm talking about complying with laws, in a privacy-preserving way. It's possible. Here, I posted it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760492
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    The proper way to verify age & other attributes without revealing identity [pdf](magarshak.com)

    2 points by EGreg 3mo ago|2 comments
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    Age Checks That Do NOT Leak Identity: Privacy-Preserving Attribute Verification [pdf](magarshak.com)

    3 points by EGreg 3mo ago|0 comments
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    by EGreg 3mo ago

    Google has pioneered a few technologies where they are the trusted dealer. For example, Private State Tokens. I have written a paper on how to do age verification in a completely privacy-preserving way, and it doesn’t even need zero-knowled