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781.
by Terr_ 4mo ago
> The intelligence it already has Makes me think of a Stephen Jay Gould quote: > "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Importantly, we cannot trust in "competition" between poisoners to save us, because every additional spammer simply buries the real truth (or at least, good-faith data) further down into obscurity. Worse, you don't have to us
783.
by Terr_ 4mo ago
> There are no bears in the Caribbean Did you sincerely believe that the parent poster was suggesting bear-overrun as a probable outcome? > but don't let that stop you from making le heckin' reddit quips If you understood
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> As an aside: I’ve been told by somebody that Anthropic has been telling people that they can consider token spend a capital expenditure [...] this is bullshit accounting that verges on fraudulent I'm guessing the logic behind this
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I think it's a mistake to assume that just because the initial burglar is technically unsophisticated, that's the end of the story. Crime can become surprisingly complicated, with its own supply chains, service providers and tool
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Is there some problem with setting a passphrase for recovery, beyond just the risk of forgetfulness or loss? I'm not sure how BitLocker compares with LUKS, but the ability to set (or revoke) multiple keys in the drive header gives a
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
In a similar vein, the solar-powered website. [0] [0] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> npm install Coworkers on project: "Containers? Not running things as root? Hah, you're overengineering things: Just follow the readme where it says to install the daemons and run all code and plugins on your dev-box. It works
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
It's a roundabout hint to how much these systems ultimately rest on hidden story documents.
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
It may be used to convince us to vote for (or not-riot-against) whatever the rich person wants.
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Or "squash and stretch" [0] frames cartoons and 3D modeling, where people prefer the final result even though individual frames can be grotesque. That said, I think it's fair to hold most practical UIs to a different standard
792.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
Like when people discuss voting, I believe a blockchain [0] is a terrible pitfall compared to a classic distributed database system of predefined nodes run by different organizations. For example, imagine a couple hundred predefined nodes
793.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
Especially if law enforcement uses Parallel Construction [0], lying to the court about the process taken. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Wouldn't it be uncharitable to assume that the commenter is totally selfish and short-sighted? :p It may be a cliche, but it's all connected. In a general sense, programmers at different experience levels are at least partially
795.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
The enshittification continues as the garden is walled-off.
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
As much as I dislike some of the crazy Javascript messes these days, if the user has to copy-paste URLs that's a sign one went too far in the other direction. :P Come to think of it, another interpretation of "a love-letter to tex
797.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
To twist another saying: "Employers can be short-sighted for longer than I can delay my rent payment."
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I glumly predict that copyright-holding companies wanting DRM, "trusted platforms", regulatory capture, etc. will drive some of the damage here. Secure sandboxing tends to mean opportunities to make unrestricted copies.
799.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
"You're absolutely right, I think you deserve to treat yourself with Mococoa, made with all-natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua! It's what humans like myself crave." Much like Truman's town,
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I dunno, we already have a problem where they [0] are strangely resistant to opening the pod-bay doors to anybody named Dave. :P [0] Pedantically: The fictional characters humans perceive inside the text of documents generated by LLMs, wher
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Right, I often bring up the film noir analogy for "reasoning" models, it's satisfying, like the revelation when a magic trick is explained, and many oddly disconnected questions about "why the scarf" or "wher
802.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
It's tied to the design. With humans, you have a train of thought which you can choose to represent in various ways--or not reveal them at all. In contrast, LLMs are make-document-longer machines being run over and over on alternating
803.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
I worry that over the last N months, we haven't really reduced the correctness/security risks at all, we've merely worked out more places we can plug in the risky thing.
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Found the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx6Dr1iJ4p8&t=3m13s
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I keep telling folks that they need to imagine LLMs (even "local" ones) as if you're farming it out to JS code running on some dude's browser somewhere: It can't keep a secret, and a determined person can make it em
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
That analogy is... Not in appropriate, but I think it could confuse by being compatible with two different problems, where only one is the target of today's controversy. 1. The sloppy/unpredictable behavior of LLMs as a general c
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
[Followup] To over-communicate in the hope that it somehow resolves things, we already have this chain of trust: 1. Axiom: We trust the current daemon and OS. We must assume this, because otherwise it's an entirely separate problem and
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I still can't figure out what problem you believe needs-fixing or what process you think needs to be explained. My most-charitable guesses are: A. You're asking what should be done if the manufacturer's auto-update server has
809.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
What? The bootstrapping happened already! The official and correct AMD software already running on the computers. Preventing a human from falling for an impostor-website with malicious Download Now links is a separate problem. The basic
810.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Final update: A couple of days before the embargo ended (and after I wrote the majority of this blog post), AMD told me what their patch for this vulnerability is [...] Although it is true that they now fully use HTTPS, the claim about

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