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by lukev 2y ago
This is not possible in the transformer architecture.
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by lukev 2y ago
I am in full agreement that LLMs themselves seem to be beginning to level out. Their capabilities do indeed appear to be following a sigmoid curve rather than an exponential one, which is entirely unsurprising. That doesn't mean there&
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by lukev 2y ago
The entire “Florida man” phenomenon comes down to particularly strong public records in Florida. But also, lol.
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by lukev 2y ago
Or, hear me out... instead of selling it to the military, you could perhaps form a nonprofit or public benefit corp and focus on hiring the top experts in the field, devoting all your resources on learning as much about these things as poss
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by lukev 2y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again... any company that actually cared about AI "safety" or "alignment", or had any belief that we are on the threshold of AGI, should steadfastly refuse to let it be used
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by lukev 2y ago
I mean they’re making the code public and inviting external auditors. There’s literally nothing else they can do as a private company. What evidence of the integrity could possibly satisfy you? And again, the benchmark isn’t “theoretically
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by lukev 2y ago
If Apple is doing what they say they are, it is in fact better. No maybe about it. If they’re not, that means they are acting and intentionally deceiving the public security community which they are inviting to audit it. Is that something y
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by lukev 2y ago
There's something missing from this discussion. What really matters isn't how secure this is on an absolute scale, or how much one can trust Apple. Rather, we should weigh this against what other cloud providers offer. The statu
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by lukev 2y ago
Settings > Privacy and Security > Analytics and Improvements
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by lukev 2y ago
The odds that I make a mistake in my security configuration are much higher than the odds that Apple is maliciously backdooring themselves. The PCC model doesn't guarantee they can't backdoor themselves, but it does make it more d
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by lukev 2y ago
Colorado requires automatic risk-limiting audits on its election systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-limiting_audit
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by lukev 2y ago
This might have something to do with the fact that young women skew so heavily democratic that there isn't any need to lie; it's already the default position for your social context.
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by lukev 2y ago
You are saying a lot of words but none of them negate the point that Apple has a better security posture for users than any of the other big tech cos. For any meaningful definition of the word "security." Sure I use gmail, I'
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by lukev 2y ago
I think "could a creepy admin see my nudes" or "can my messages be mined to create a profile of my preferences" are much more practical working definitions of privacy than "can someone see that I've installed a
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by lukev 2y ago
If you're going to claim that random hacking groups routinely do something the FBI and NSA claim to be unable to do... citation needed.
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by lukev 2y ago
End to end encryption by default, such that the cloud provider cannot access my data. Easy.
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by lukev 2y ago
It's not really buried... their headline stat is that it's 1.8x faster than the M1, which is actually a bigger improvement than the actual Geekbench score shows (it would be a score of 4354).
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by lukev 2y ago
That's a fine bit of goalpost shifting. They state that they will make their _entire software stack_ for Private Cloud Compute public for research purposes. Assuming they go through with that, this alone puts them leagues ahead of any
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by lukev 2y ago
They do not. Edit: I have not posted a source for this claim, because what sort of source would be acceptable for a claim of the form "X has not occurred"? If you are going to claim Apple's security model has been compromised
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by lukev 2y ago
I mean, the security features are pretty well documented. The FBI can't crack a modern iPhone even with Apple's help. A lot of the lockdowns are in service of that. I'm curious: what hardware and software stack do you use?
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by lukev 2y ago
This isn't true. edit: also, unless you are the digital equivalent of "off the grid", I would argue most people are going to need some sort of cloud-based identity anyway for messaging, file-sharing, etc. iCloud is far and aw
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by lukev 2y ago
Of course I wish the hardware were somehow more open, but to a large extent, it's directly because of hardware based privacy features. If you allowed third-party components without restraint, there'd be no way to prevent someone s
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by lukev 2y ago
I really respect Apple's privacy focused engineering. They didn't roll out _any_ AI features until they were capable of running them locally, and before doing any cloud-based AI they designed and rolled out Private Cloud Compute.
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by lukev 2y ago
Actually it makes perfect sense. They see that climate change is an issue, but are eager to find some solution that doesn't involve them giving up any of the luxuries to which they have become accustomed.
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by lukev 2y ago
Oh, and to be pedantic: > he observation that a O(n^2) problem can be broken down into n separate O(n) problems is ultimately due to system 1 reasoning: it is obviously true. As the parent of a third grader just learning this stuff, I ca
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by lukev 2y ago
So, in one sense I agree with you. There is zero evidence that the human brain runs separate systems for separate types of cognition. On the other hand, the reason this idea is sticky is because it matches our conscious experience. In some
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by lukev 2y ago
I think we're agreeing here. Sane regulation would create a system where liability could exist for certain products, and consumers would have some idea of what they're paying for.
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by lukev 2y ago
Well, it's an analogy and that's where it breaks down, as all analogies do. A hardware store lock might protect a single shed, locker, or house. A software "lock" on a critical system is more equivalent in importance to
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by lukev 2y ago
Except for the 20 million people Trump says he's going to deport. No love for them.
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by lukev 2y ago
I mean, to use the same analogy: 1. A lock maker does not have liability if someone uses a battering ram on my door, or if I give a key to the wrong person. 2. A lock maker may certainly have liability if the lock has a design defect and ca

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