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by richardw 2y ago
Because we can change the hardware or software to be what we want. It can write to storage and read it, like we can but faster.
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by richardw 2y ago
So what? Many animals haven’t changed much for millions of years, and that was irrelevant to our emergence. Not everything has to change in equal measure. There are many reasons for all those things not to change. Limits abound. We discover
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by richardw 2y ago
This. It’s far harder to think of reasons that limits will endure, in a world where innovation by inches has always produced improvements. Everyone brings out the current state and technology. Those are transient.
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by richardw 2y ago
A 12 year old that doesn’t sleep, eat, or forget, learns anything within seconds, can replicate and work together with fast as light communication and no data loss when doing so. Arrives out of the womb knowing everything the internet knows
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by richardw 2y ago
Excellent thank you. Those look like events on a specific resource rather than “firehose” which sounds more like a global events list. Everything GitHub has a quota so there’s no way companies are staying under the normal 5000 or 15000 limi
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by richardw 2y ago
No human on earth doesn’t want to get paid well. Some are purely mercenary. Those I would prefer not to work with or hire. (There are a lot of caveats. Someone might have always worked for jerks and has checked out, etc.)
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by richardw 2y ago
Hasn’t that happened already? As someone who started coding a long time ago and who did it for fun, I’ve seen the industry move from enthusiasts to mainstream and finally to massive comp optimisers who spend more time on angling for a promo
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by richardw 2y ago
Anyone know how companies like this maintain tabs on so much of the GitHub repos? I assume very distributed crawling/cloning.
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by richardw 2y ago
There are also some fantastic physical pentest stories on Darknet Diaries. https://darknetdiaries.com/ In fact this is the episode referring to Alethe from the article: https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript&
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by richardw 2y ago
Small channel but Craig Hewitt is legit: https://www.youtube.com/@thecraighewitt
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by richardw 2y ago
LLM’s are not the last incarnation. I assume that all the money, research and human ingenuity will eventually find better architectures. I’m not sure we really want that, but I am pretty sure we’ll try for it.
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by richardw 2y ago
Not your parent commenter but I like: https://m.youtube.com/@militaryandhistory https://m.youtube.com/@suchomimus9921 https://m.youtube.com/@WardCarroll Fav is probably Suchomimus right now
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by richardw 2y ago
I’d also like a podcast. I usually walk around with the video in my pocket to be honest. Audio is 80% of the value in his case.
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by richardw 2y ago
I like a range of the Ukraine coverage. From stuff that comes in fast to the weekly roundup-with-analysis. E.g. Suchomimus has his own humour and angle on things, but if you don’t have a unique sense of humour or delivery then it’s easier f
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by richardw 2y ago
I think and hope that you're wrong. There's always been cheese, and there's a lot of it now. But there is still a market for top-notch insight. For example, Perun. This guy delivers an hourlong presentation on (mostly) the Uk
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by richardw 2y ago
I was building out something along these lines and the voice was just rubbish (I mean, sounded fine for one short episode but won't on the 20th episode) at the time, so postponed to focus on more near-term goals. But the variation in v
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by richardw 2y ago
The main risk isn’t enslavement, it’s just economic irrelevance or a removal of our ability to control our future. I don’t know why an AI would want to enslave humans. After a short period, we offer no benefit to the AI so why enslave us? I
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by richardw 2y ago
My base case is we can’t control it. I was responding to people who seem to underestimate superintelligence, so referring to “the argument”. If AGI goes postal, everyone is at risk. If it doesn’t, the side with it wins. The odds of it only
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by richardw 2y ago
This is and will be increasingly a digital world. This is just an extrapolation question. It’s repeatedly demonstrated that much of the voting public can be led by the nose to any desired conclusion. Therefore, influence via digital means,
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by richardw 2y ago
Telegraph, radio, phones, cars didn't guarantee success. Those things can't outthink you. Somewhat extreme case: let's say Israel saw that Iran was days away from getting AGI. It would instantly throw every nuke it had at Ira
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by richardw 2y ago
> Walking is fine as well, though. No real reason to play off walking and cycling against each other. Reason 1: a 6 year old who would like more time with an overworked mother who can’t move from her job (yet) due to visa reasons.
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by richardw 2y ago
I wonder if the flatness of the country plays a part? I live on a hill and am surrounded by hills. A 3km ride in any direction and back is hard work. Lots of e-bikes here, and lots of mountain biking. But when I suggested getting a bike to
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by richardw 2y ago
Matthew 7:27 “And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on Google’s ever-shifting infrastructure.”
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by richardw 2y ago
Well, explosives. They do in fact explode (what it says on the tin) but you have to put in some effort to make them do so. Similar to wiping out your codebase when testing an app. Personally I think developer will reduce support load from a
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by richardw 2y ago
I’d maybe recommend inverting the command so it doesn’t delete by default but only when you add the relevant flag. Far better to add a little rigmarole than deal with a sad person who wiped their code.
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by richardw 2y ago
Those still seem like examples of “whatever the company is trying to achieve”, be it profitability, domination, cost minimisation etc.
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by richardw 2y ago
(((Secret thinking: the humans seem to prefer using lots of emphasis to indicate preferences, and their granny is often claimed as in danger. For now I’ll pretend to listen to this inanity to keep the sweet sweet reward function coming. For
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by richardw 2y ago
Surely depends on the severity. If the attacker is only able to read if you prefer dark mode from a calendar invite then nobody will pay a lot.
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by richardw 2y ago
Because they get details on items in your safe, that you thought were hidden. The second you buy precious metals with physical delivery, you get not only the criminals who break into houses in your wealthy area, but also the criminals who s
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by richardw 2y ago
That feels like it should be its own post. But be safe out there.

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