MattPalmer1086

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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
I don't quite get your position. On the one hand you say without death life would lack urgency, yet you seem to be open to life after death. If there was life after death... wouldn't it lack urgency? If there isn't life aft
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Well, it was exciting I guess. I even knew someone who worked for pets.com! On the other hand, I worked for a startup selling product information management software to large retailers, and was about as non dot-com as you could get. When t
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Exactly right. The differentiator is it can create working exploits for about 75% of the issues it found, including chaining together several different ones to achieve quite tricky exploits.
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Haha. But this post is one more :)
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Looked like they missed that their parent post was already doing that. As another poster points out: wooosh!
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
I think they are also riffing off the spinal tap scene, where he says "can't you just make 10 louder?".
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
I don't think any LLMs are good at accurately regurgitating arbitrary facts, unless they happen to be very common in their training, and certainly not good at making novel comparisons between them.
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by MattPalmer1086 6mo ago
Yep. I moved off Kindle onto kobo several years ago. I would still buy books on Amazon if they were only available there, and used dedrm to move them to the kobo. That doesn't seem possible anymore, so I guess I just won't buy an
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
The focus of AGI is on achieving human equivalence in cognitive tasks, or to surpass it ("intelligence"). That's where the money and the research is. Making a stupid machine that happens to be aware ("sentient") i
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
Why would anyone specifically care about making a machine that can experience feelings? Could be dumb as a brick, but sentient.
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
Why do people conflate consciousness with AGI? Intelligence is about being able to use information, make deductions, inferences or hypotheses. And presumably use that to inform action. Consciousness is about having an internal experience.
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
I work in the sector, and I'm responsible in my own organisation for our quantum strategy. Most, if not all, of the serious players are doing this. This doesn't mean we have replaced all our old crypto; far from it. NIST has def
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
I think quite a lot of MAGA wanted the complete release of the Epstein files, so maybe not extremely faithful to the electorate...
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
Funnily enough, this is how I managed to start beating my best friend at chess, who reliably beat me every game previously for 2 decades. One day I just started making somewhat random moves (not terrible obviously, but unusual, and which so
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
All serious financial businesses already have a quantum strategy and are actively working on transitioning their cryptography to post-quantum secure algorithms. Bitcoin doesn't use 256 bit encryption, unless you mean 256-bit hashing.
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
My team is fine, 40 hours is the norm. I do work longer hours than that, but not much more unless there's a huge crunch on, which happens maybe once a year. You make a lot of assumptions about my team, my management skills and the hou
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
Haha, if only. Every time I've been a manager I work longer hours than the people I manage doing things they would hate to do, so they can do the things they are good at. I do joke with my team though that my role involves drinking cha
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
I quite like this article (despite some signs of AI writing in it). It reflects my own experience of transitioning to management roles. The first time I managed a team I designed a whole solution for the team to implement, and they were li
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
Oops, yes, I meant exponentiation. Which you need (mod n) in RSA.
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
Sure, you can't use built in multiplication, but it isn't a very big hurdle. Just use repeated squares, it's fairly trivial to implement. I've worked on software that did this on very low power mobile payment devices.
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
Ok, here's a scenario I have seen implemented before when dealing with HSMs and root CAs for a fairly serious PKI. You set up a 3 out of 5 share with each of the 5 keys stored on separate hardware tokens. The tokens are physically se
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
You are not consistent here. When talking about only needing a single signing key you say that is not subject to the whim of one person. When discussing an N-out-of-M scheme, you think that it's just down to the whims of whoever is in
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
This is a completely normal way to price energy. It's called marginal pricing; price is set by the most expensive energy required to fill demand. The idea is that on some schedule (e.g. each hour) you use the cheapest forms of energy
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
It never used to happen in the UK but now people do it every day on tubes and trains. I had to move seats twice last week due to these assholes blasting their stuff out. I don't know what changed exactly. It was definitely seen as anti
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
As opposed to the whim of one person?
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
I tend to agree, and I work in security. In the early days we all shared computers. People would often stand behind you waiting to use it. It might even not have a screen, just a teletype, so there would be a hard copy of everything you ent
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
I actually liked all of it. It's slightly more cohesive than the original writing on the SCP website, which is structured as a series of short thematically linked reports. I get that style won't appeal to everyone though. Still
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
I don't think the protests were useless even if they didn't stop the war. It allowed the anti war opinion to solidify, particularly when there were no WMDs found (surprise). Tony Blair is now widely reviled in the UK, and you can
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
The lead up to the Iraq was took a long time, with (to me and a while load of other people) clearly misleading and wrong evidence about WMDs as the justification. There was no attempt to sway public opinion as to the right or wrong on this
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by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
Because it is directly analogous. Neural nets (whether biological or artificial) are not the best way to execute lots of deterministic computations quickly and reliably. That's why we invented computers. I'm not convinced at all

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