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by bo1024 11mo ago
Thanks for these references! I imagine the numbers would be entirely different in our context (20 years later and web serving, not email sending). And the idea of spammers using bot nets (therefore not paying for computer themselves) would
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by bo1024 11mo ago
One issue is just the sheer amount of such traffic.
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by bo1024 11mo ago
Instead of setting a cookie, can you do things like start serving dynamically generated nonsense with links to more dynamically generated nonsense, or even JavaScript that wastes time and energy, etc?
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by bo1024 11mo ago
I wonder if a proof of work protocol is a viable solution. To GET the page, you have to spend enough electricity to solve a puzzle. The question is whether the threshold could be low enough for typical people on their phones to access the
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by bo1024 11mo ago
Yes, I think that's part of the point of the post. One intuition is that allocating only a little bit to a highly volatile asset creates a not-very volatile asset. Investing a little bit is the same as scaling the asset down until it&#
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by bo1024 11mo ago
So I guess if you authorize the entire world to read the data, it’s not a breach.
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by bo1024 11mo ago
I think the point is that if the footage is unsafe to release publicly, then it is also unsafe to give cops access without a warrant.
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by bo1024 1y ago
> What's worse, many plaintext HTTP connections today are entirely invisible to users, as HTTP sites may immediately redirect to HTTPS sites. That gives users no opportunity to see Chrome's "Not Secure" URL bar warnin
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by bo1024 1y ago
Sure, but the executive order is not a law.
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by bo1024 1y ago
"The Coming War on General Computation", Cory Doctorow (2011). Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg Transcript: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Com...
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by bo1024 1y ago
Tragedy of the commons
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by bo1024 1y ago
I think you could shut down a framework, swap the battery, and boot back up in probably 3 minutes or maybe only 1.
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by bo1024 1y ago
One not-so-fun place this could go is mandatory voice recognition commands, leading to everything said in the car being recorded and stored by the manufacturers.
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by bo1024 1y ago
Yes, this is just bad advice if your audience is fluent in mathematical notation. There's another piece of advice that is bad for formal mathematical writing: > And don’t use the same word repeatedly — it’s boring. If the word has
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by bo1024 1y ago
It's already hard to verify if a phone number is legitimate, and I think it will get harder. And on the other hand, easier to get a search engine AI to incorrectly spit out the wrong number.
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by bo1024 1y ago
There's a lot more to adapting than that. "Project-oriented creative work" builds on foundational skills. Basic knowledge, logic, numeracy, etc. That stuff all needs to be developed in the brain before you can use it to do in
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by bo1024 1y ago
This is also related to the philosophical definition of bullshit[1]: speech intended to persuade or influence without any active intention to be either true or false. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
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by bo1024 1y ago
I had a funny picture recently of a future where most everybody has a pet crackpot or conspiracy theory they're working on with their AI companion, and it's considered normal. "Hey Bob, how's the physics going?" &qu
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by bo1024 1y ago
One straightforward thing you can do (this is old research at this point, from google) is simply have the advertisers provide their own LLMs and the more they bid, the more weight their LLM gets in producing the next token.
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by bo1024 1y ago
When I was starting with Linux (15 years ago) with Fedora, Ubuntu, etc., for all of my questions I kept finding answers on the Arch wiki. So eventually I just switched to Arch, so the answers would always work. That was an era when searchin
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by bo1024 1y ago
Yeah, this is odd, a bit like calling out the percent of registered web domains that don’t generate revenue.
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by bo1024 1y ago
Aw, I really wanted this to be a tool to produce your own misleading vibecharts
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by bo1024 1y ago
Your second paragraph doesn't match the dialogue around the topic that I've encountered. I generally agree with your first paragraph. My summary of the critique on "safety vs ethics" is that the push to focus on "no
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by bo1024 1y ago
You might not be aware of the context (actually the author of the article might not either). There has in fact been a big push by major AI companies to focus on quote safety unquote while marginalizing (not citing, giving attention to, etc)
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by bo1024 1y ago
This fall, one assignment I'm giving my comp sci students is to get an LLM to say something incorrect about the class material. I'm hoping they will learn a few things at once: the material (because they have to know enough to spo
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by bo1024 1y ago
Yeah, this is a classic honeypot trick and very easy to do with pure HTML/CSS. I used a hidden "Name" text field which I figured would be appealing to bots.
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by bo1024 1y ago
Is it by chance open source?
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by bo1024 1y ago
Agree, one thing that brought this home was the example where the student asks to learn all of game theory. There seems to be an assumption on both sides that this will be accomplished in a single chat session by a linear pass, necessarily
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by bo1024 1y ago
I'm not seeing why there's a clear line where GET cannot be authentication but POST can.
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by bo1024 1y ago
What do you mean by accessible without authentication? My server will serve example.com/64-byte-random-code if you request it, but if you don’t know the code, I won’t serve it.

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