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by j2kun 5mo ago
> Luckily AI can speed up defenders as well as attackers here, allowing embargoes that would previously have been uselessly short. This is an important facet of the problem space: security risks turning into an arms race for who wants to
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by j2kun 5mo ago
I use Jetski.
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by j2kun 5mo ago
There are only some 700 open Erdos problems left, so when they're all solved you can finally rest.
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by j2kun 5mo ago
The blog post has many links to papers and preprints discussing this exact question.
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by j2kun 5mo ago
I for one can't tell the difference between Claude and Gemini for coding. And the internal agent tooling is many times faster than Claude Code in my experience.
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by j2kun 5mo ago
Rather than "the book explains how bread is made" say "the book has a recipe for baking bread" and do not say, "the book is my soul mate"
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by j2kun 5mo ago
The people who know what a "child process" is are under no false pretenses about the humanity of the underlying system. The people who are writing op eds in major news publications about how their favorite chatbot is an "asto
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by j2kun 5mo ago
Python programming with 156 MHz and 3.5 MiB of RAM? Can a Python REPL even start up with that profile?
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by j2kun 5mo ago
If you write an article shitting on a popular thing because it eclipses the popularity of your favorite thing (and essentially calling the people who use it ignorant sheep), chances are good you are part of a self-fulfilling prophecy, pushi
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by j2kun 6mo ago
It's less that I think they would take the other side of the argument, than that they would lend some credence to the content of the analysis. For example, I would not particularly trust a bunch of AI researchers to come up with a repr
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by j2kun 6mo ago
The article heavily quotes the "AI Security Institute" as a third-party analysis. It was the first I heard of them, so I looked up their about page, and it appears to be primarily people from the AI industry (former Deepmind/
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by j2kun 6mo ago
In that case, the US was worried about espionage, not violation of civil liberties.
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by j2kun 6mo ago
I work in an esoteric compiler domain (compilers for fancy cryptography) and we've been eyeing e-graphs for a bit. This article is super helpful seeing how it materialized in a real-world scenario. An interesting move in this direction
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by j2kun 6mo ago
It reads to me as a cogent and measured response to a very clickbaity advertisement about the result. > Not tested. Proved. For every possible input. Finding inputs that crashed and then saying, "be clear about what is in the scope
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by j2kun 6mo ago
To be clear, I'm not advocating for the behavior here, just explaining that, for most tech companies, the risk of liability is a huge motivator. Liability for poor use of ad targeting would induce similar behavior (and I think that&#x2
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by j2kun 6mo ago
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742386829/netflix-edits-out-c... And that was in 2019. Explicit depictions are the target in most of these controversies.
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by j2kun 6mo ago
Self-harm (especially when depicting minors) has special standards. The recent court ruling on child safety against Meta probably led directly to this decision.
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by j2kun 6mo ago
Self-harm (especially when depicting minors) has special standards. The recent court losses on child safety for Meta and YouTube probably led to this.
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by j2kun 6mo ago
How often are you playing as black?
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by j2kun 6mo ago
A comment not about the article, but rather about the perceived quality of the HN comments.
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X suppresses posts from people you follow in favor of algorithmically boosted posts, so at scale the follow counts don't matter as much.
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by j2kun 6mo ago
My favorite class of HN comment: bringing concreteness to a vibes fight.
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by j2kun 6mo ago
Similarly, we have a technical concept called "rollback" that is unrelated to a reverted commit.
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by j2kun 6mo ago
> I personally care more about using Bitcoin than its price I suspect that the author is in a pretty drastic minority here.
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Which bug? [edit]: this bug: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/025_s...
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by j2kun 6mo ago
As an aside, participating in April Cools Club for the last 5 years has been very fun and invigorating as a writer. https://www.aprilcools.club/
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by j2kun 6mo ago
Or perhaps, the underlying threat is personified by Altman, in that our country has repeated and widespread institutional failures to hold the wealthy accountable for wrongdoing. The threat of AI is, after all, driven by the people who use
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by j2kun 6mo ago
Elon was always problematic. His increasing social media use removed the natural filters that prevented people from seeing it.
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by j2kun 6mo ago
Fatalism will also not fix anything. But I suppose death comes for us all, yes? Why do anything at all?
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by j2kun 7mo ago
Classic HN comment: ignore the article and respond directly to its title

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