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by jdblair 3y ago
Oh sure, I don't think LLM are sentient. But this paper is about hypothetical "general intelligence," no?
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by jdblair 3y ago
Most people don't think livestock are "general intelligences." Those that do probably overlap with those you want to leave out of the discussion. Are we creating machines with just enough reasoning to be useful, or are we bui
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by jdblair 3y ago
Good point! On the other hand, we're not provably safe for social interaction. We have all manner of punishments for variance from expected behavior exactly because our altruistic tendencies are so unreliable.
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by jdblair 3y ago
Reading the abstract, the first thing I thought was this question: Is it moral to bring an artificial general intelligence into existence and then hobble the intelligence’s capability? This sounds a lot like creating a new sentience and the
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by jdblair 3y ago
This is way better than the "20 questions" identity verification that works by asking you multiple-choice questions about your credit report. I have about a 80% success rate with those.
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by jdblair 3y ago
but they’re already storing data off the IXs, why do they need to target my router?
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by jdblair 3y ago
still thinking… if the three-letter-agency has compromised the random number generator, then that means all traffic encrypted by the router may be easier to crack. What data is encrypted on the router? VPNs, for one. So a VPN, and all the p
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by jdblair 3y ago
Help me out here: if my network hardware is compromised, but all of my communication is encrypted, that leaves… traffic analysis? hoovering up the data and storing it to decrypt in the future when it becomes feasible? using the router as a
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by jdblair 3y ago
I got locked out of the lan network for playing a game in high school. I don't remember which game, but I remember the teacher who ran the lab found a game stored in my directory on the fileserver. I had to beg forgiveness.
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by jdblair 3y ago
A few links to references in the above post: PhoneNet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhoneNET GatorBox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GatorBox Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by jdblair 3y ago
Localtalk was great, RS-422 is a low-cost long-distance serial transport, and Apple took advantage of that to build networking into the Macintosh. Our computer lab in high school used Farallon PhoneNET transceivers, which made it easy to da
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by jdblair 3y ago
This conversion is cognitive load for the engineers, who eventually made a mistake with the mars climate orbiter. Now NASA uses metric exclusively.
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by jdblair 3y ago
Then there's the sad case of the Mars Climate Orbiter: 1999: A disaster investigation board reports that NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Martian atmosphere because engineers failed to convert units from English to metric.
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by jdblair 3y ago
It's so hard to give up your custom environment and keyboard muscle memory! (25 year emacs user here)
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Bluesky exploit modules by Jason Parker(fosstodon.org)
3 points by jdblair 3y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 3y ago
Easily the most disingenuous double-speak in the video. They aren't anti-union in principle, just against any union at Amazon?
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by jdblair 3y ago
The classic sci-fi "Mission of Gravity" explores what life would be like on a rapidly rotating planet where one experiences 3g at the equator and 700g at the poles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_of_Gra
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Beautiful Comet Nishimura (NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day)(apod.nasa.gov)
2 points by jdblair 3y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 3y ago
I left before the acquisition, and then re-joined the team formally known as Cobalt at Sun in 2002. I don't remember Thomas, but it has been a long time. I worked remotely, so unless I worked directly with someone I was not likely to k
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by jdblair 3y ago
We worked at Cobalt Networks at the same time, then a smaller software company in Berkeley for a short time.
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by jdblair 3y ago
Oh no, this is sad to read. I worked with ttn a long time ago, 1999 to 2001, and lost touch with him a few years later. The last time I saw him in person was in my kitchen in Oakland in 2001. He was one of the good ones.
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by jdblair 3y ago
The classic corporate PPT slide is a disaster of over-information! I try hard to keep my slides short, with text that is a jumping off point for my actual presentation, but my effort to teach this method has mostly fallen on deaf ears. When
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Geolocating Russia’s Disgraced General Surovikin(bellingcat.com)
3 points by jdblair 3y ago|0 comments
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Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists(arstechnica.com)
6 points by jdblair 3y ago|1 comments
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by jdblair 3y ago
This is the first time I see "Get it on F-DROID" on an app download page.
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by jdblair 3y ago
He must have really liked long words!
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by jdblair 3y ago
I really like this quotation attributed to Bill Atkinson "If you want to get it smooth, you’ve got to rewrite it from scratch at least five times." This is so true, and so hard to have the time and motivation to do in practice.
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Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science(psyarxiv.com)
1 points by jdblair 3y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 3y ago
I'm a little surprised the article didn't mention Mastodon. It has its warts and issues (i mean, ahem, features) like no full-text search and no quote-posting, but Mastodon does generate the small discussion forum feel, but with t
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by jdblair 3y ago
We had a Core War tournament in a high school programming class, about 1990, running on classic Macintosh computers. That was when I first saw how loop unrolling could speed up a program (used in the winning program). I remember we had an L

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