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by ori_b 5mo ago
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-ar... Two years old now, and as the cryptographers say, attacks only get better.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
The first thing we automated passably was art, even before programming. Were you not paying attention? This future still sucks. The tech industry is making the world a worse place.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
We're automating art and science so that we can flip burgers. This future sucks.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
I suppose it would not be in line with their business plans to make google search actually search again.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
Google search is just broken.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
This path was special cased used to allow restricted applications to access time zone files, which are needed for time functions. Not any symlink will do, it has to be the specific one shown in the example exploit, or one of a small handful
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by ori_b 5mo ago
OpenBSD doesn't have separate user accounts for sandboxes. These sandboxes are not linux-style containers, they're narrowed views of the full install. If you're root inside the sandbox, you're root outside it. This explo
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by ori_b 5mo ago
OpenBSD doesn't do different user accounts inside vs outside sandboxes; if you're root in the sandbox, you're root on the system.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
Sounds like they're not touching writing either.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
Note that this specific symlink was special cased because sandboxed programs still need to access timezones. Also note that you would need to be root to create that special cased symlink. It's embarrassing, but less catastrophic than i
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by ori_b 5mo ago
Sam Altman is too stupid to realize he's arguing for nationalizing the AI companies.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
You haven't explained why anyone should value education in the world we're building, other than as a hobby.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
Slop.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
Furthermore, if you try to make your own decisions, you would be outcompeted by someone who has outsourced their brain. And, of course, since intelligence and labor would no longer be scarce resources that humans can use as leverage, gunnin
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by ori_b 5mo ago
When people burn down their neighbor's houses to roast marshmallows, I think that it's worth taking a strong position against them. If you listen to what effects the companies building this claim their products will have, you conc
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by ori_b 5mo ago
AI.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
The plan 9 interface has evolved quite a bit, but it's largely invisible in screenshots. The differences are in things like triple click behavior, jumps to insertion points, effective use of mouse cursor warping, chording.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
We'd all be better off for it. I don't want you to take a shit on the table and call it dinner. Even if you don't cook.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
If that's constantly the thing your device is constantly used for... yes?
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by ori_b 5mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. If people constantly use your device to turn kittens into pulp, you have built a kitten grinder, even if the label you slapped on the side says "coffee beans only".
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by ori_b 5mo ago
You can keep telling yourself that. I have seen the results from others making the same arguments. The result is invariably trash.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
I find that the learning and iteration tends to lead to a simplified system, if you're willing to look hard enough at the shapes needed. When there's a lot of complexity, it's often repetitive translation layers, and not some
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by ori_b 5mo ago
How much calculus do you think you could pick up skimming a textbook without doing exercises? We mocked these "architects" from experience. We knew that if you weren't feeling the friction yourself, you wouldn't learn en
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by ori_b 5mo ago
It's deeper. We used to mock architects that stepped back and stopped coding, because they generated trash. There's a cycle that is needed for good system design. Start with a problem and an approach, and write some code. As you w
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by ori_b 5mo ago
Lessons for agentic swimming: What should we do when lead weights are cheap? Also: > It’s invigorating, rewarding, and deeply weird. It's mind-numbing, infanialising, and deeply dehumanizing. Which, I suppose, is a valid descripti
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by ori_b 5mo ago
True facts. My friend spent an entire day without weed once, and he killed 3 people, and abandoned seven babies. Four of which weren't even his!
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by ori_b 5mo ago
The amount of shit that I need to deal with so that I can pay the bills has gone up markedly, and promises to continue going up. The things the tech industry are building are making things worse for me. Please stop making my life worse.
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by ori_b 5mo ago
Yes, we're building a dystopia where AIs do the work humans enjoy, and humans get to hold on to drudgery. What's not to like?
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by ori_b 5mo ago
It's bad, not mid. And it's insulting to the reader.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Asking the LLM to spawn a subagent per file and look for bugs is a good way to waste a lot of tokens real fast for leaderboard success, and it's pretty defensible as useful work if someone tries to call you on it.

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