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by blamestross 6mo ago
So DHT robustness against censorship is superlinear of the number of participants. The "break point" is when a DHT gets big enough I can't realistically MITM all the links with nodes "closer to the target" than exis
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by blamestross 6mo ago
"Mainline DHT" is the primary one. It backs magnet links and has resisted censorship for over a decade. Largest most robust group of cooperating computers there is. You can reliably use it to store arbitrary key-value pairs up to
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by blamestross 6mo ago
I'm a fan of "face to face mutual qr code key exchange." I should implement that someday.
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by blamestross 6mo ago
I don't recommend DHTs with public participants being made from scratch. Use mainline bittorrent DHT instead. Small networks are really easy to eclipse and censor. DHTs of trusted participants are great.
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by blamestross 7mo ago
So every distro out there has a GOAL it exists for a REASON. If achieving that reason requires that compliance. Then comply. Ageless Linux exists for a simple reason. It does not comply for the benefit of that reason. Every other Linux dist
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by blamestross 7mo ago
"I'll let the system admin set a birthday for the user" is exactly how Linux should comply with this legislation. That is what this does. I disagree with this law. I like that https://agelesslinux.org/ is cha
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by blamestross 7mo ago
Its a thing that isn't part of the "subject", used with the subject, to manipulate the state of the "the subject" to be closer to what we want.
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by blamestross 7mo ago
"tit-for-tat" trading of chunks only happens between peers that both are actively downloading. Seeding nodes just let anybody leech. You totally CAN disable all uploads in the torrent protocol. Just set the "upload budget&quo
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by blamestross 7mo ago
Intellectual property laundering is the core and primary value of LLMs. Everything else is "bonus".
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by blamestross 8mo ago
Lets offer you a "trade up" on that "Golden Rule" In order of priority, if possible while maintaining the health and safety of yourself and your loved ones: - Treat others as THEY wish to be treated - Treat others as YOU
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by blamestross 8mo ago
"AI Safety" got suborned, then dropped when it wasn't needed anymore. Every misalignment/AI safety paper is basically a metaphor for how corporate values can misalign with actual human values under capitalism. The first
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by blamestross 8mo ago
When i started learning about prompt engineering I had vivid flashbacks to this story. Figuring out the deterministic series of inputs that coerce the black box to perform as desired for a while.
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by blamestross 8mo ago
Yeah, this strikes me as just selecting against conservatism, which in turn correlates with worse health outcomes.
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Lobsters(web.archive.org)
2 points by blamestross 9mo ago|1 comments
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by blamestross 9mo ago
mirror of: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera... (ctross, give your poor website more power) Seemed relevant to recent AI lobster fads
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by blamestross 9mo ago
I suppose brittle code is fine if you have cursor to update and fix it. Ideal really, keeps you dependent.
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by blamestross 9mo ago
A feature I have been looking for: Let me indicate a location and point an arrow at it!
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by blamestross 9mo ago
That is a dissociating mode, a more mindful one, but still intentionally distancing yourself from your experiences. It works great for improving your perception of yourself and being mindful. Its a meditation. It also isn't really avai
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by blamestross 9mo ago
> I can't imagine e.g. taking some time on Sunday afternoon to feel that panic I suppressed from the crisis on Monday. Almost literally that. Revisit the moments that made you "suppress" things. Think of it as a post-morte
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by blamestross 9mo ago
My journey with stoicism has been useful and powerful at every phase, but for future and fellow walkers of this path I leave advice: You you a mindful stoic or a dissociated one? I'd argue dissociation, at least in the short term, is a
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by blamestross 9mo ago
Am I the only person Moire patterns induce instant and intense nausea in? Is it just a personal "crucifix glitch?"
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by blamestross 9mo ago
I've called things shaped like this "polyentendre". In my head I think of it has just really high linguistic compression. Minus intent, it is just superimposing multiple true statements into a small set of glyphs/phoneme
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by blamestross 10mo ago
For an arbitrary block, nothing. It doesn't have to be arbitrary. You know when a block was "lucky" and you found it ahead of average by a given percentile. You leverage those blocks.
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by blamestross 10mo ago
Well yes on both counts. The only thing worse than intellectual property is a special exception for people rich enough to use it. I have hope for open source models, I use them.
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by blamestross 11mo ago
If it was actually being given away as an accessiblity tool, then I would agree with you. It kind of is that clear. It's IP laundering and oligarchic leveraging of communal resources.
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by blamestross 11mo ago
You have reasonably available context here. "This year" seems more than enough on it's own. I think there is ethical use cases for LLMs. I have no problem leveraging a "common" corpus to support the commons. If they
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by blamestross 11mo ago
Intentionally or not, you are presenting a false equivalency. I trust in your ability to actually differentiate between the machine learning tools that are generally useful and the current crop of unethically sourced "AI" tools be
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by blamestross 11mo ago
I feel obligated to point out that basically no commercial service that relies on a big tech company has better than 99.99% uptime anymore. Your example isn't just hyperbolic, it avoid the actual problem. It isn't that "a bit
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by blamestross 11mo ago
I worked in DHTs in grad school. I still double take that Google and other companies "computers dedicated to a task" numbers are missing 2 digits from what I expected. We have a lot of room left for expansion, we just have to rela
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by blamestross 11mo ago
With the caveat of safety and well-being it is on the list. But note that it isn't the highest one.

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