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by sterlind 3y ago
not to mention the Tu-144, aka the "Concordski": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144 though that one was so defective that even the Soviets didn't want to risk flying it. it could barely get int
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by sterlind 3y ago
eh, military contracts would become public. it became public that Google was building a computer vision system for targeting drone strikes for the Pentagon, and a number of executives resigned over it. If Altman were in talks to build a ver
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by sterlind 3y ago
It gets stuck forever on "connecting to stranger..." even though the "# strangers watching" text keeps updating. Is it down? Looks really cool btw.
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by sterlind 3y ago
lots of drug traffickers went with something homegrown (Anom), which turned out to be an FBI front. they'd have been a lot safer sticking to Signal. and you can audit the Signal client's source code, which is enough to verify its
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by sterlind 3y ago
You didn't touch on the "who will have them" part. Enforcing copyright on training data won't keep image, music and story generators from being built. It will only stop the open-source ones. OpenAI and Google can afford
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by sterlind 3y ago
Rowhammer is an electrical vulnerability though. PP specified non-electrical vulns.
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by sterlind 3y ago
I've heard Intel does use TLA+ extensively for specifying their designs and verifying their specs. But TLA+ specs are extremely high-level, so they don't capture implementation details that can lead to bugs. And model checking isn
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by sterlind 3y ago
Instruction-tuning isn't typically considered a guard rail. Raw pretrained LLMs are close to useless, since they just predict text. Guard-rails are when you train the AI not to obey certain instructions.
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by sterlind 3y ago
Tay got that way because it was effectively fine-tuned by an overwhelming number of tweets from 4chan edgelords. that's a little more extreme than "no guardrails," it was de facto conditioned into being a neo-Nazi. a generic
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by sterlind 3y ago
Science Translational Medicine is a very reputable journal. Science is up there with Nature, and STM specifically is the home of Derek Lowe's blog.
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by sterlind 3y ago
there's a huge leap between "Columbus was a good person" and "Aristotle didn't exist." the former is a matter of perspective, of how you read the historical record. the latter is a conspiracy theory, and requir
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by sterlind 3y ago
why would it be rough? boardrooms are pretty accessible, and surely his PT will come to him.
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by sterlind 3y ago
random font tangent as an ignorant Westerner, but the Arabic writing system is incredibly beautiful, and there are many incredibly beautiful fonts, yet I often see fonts that look like they're welded together from PVC pipes. no slant a
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by sterlind 3y ago
I'm confused, is the electrician in this example the Licensed Engineer(tm)? They definitely have to be licensed, since they can burn your house down if they don't know what they're doing. And checking that the plans aren&#x27
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by sterlind 3y ago
I think of applied physicist as something very different, closer to science than engineering. The kinds of people who research new battery chemistries, or the techniques to unlock new semiconductor process nodes. Basically, scientists do ha
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by sterlind 3y ago
I'm honestly surprised more wasn't made of it. There was no shortage of 9/11 conspiracy theories, but an anthrax attack was confirmed to come from a DoD lab, and they tried to pin it on Iraq initially, and... crickets?
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by sterlind 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean that effort was put in to keep the anthrax from spreading. This stuff wasn't your grandmother's anthrax. The spores were small enough to pass through NATO biofilters. They were mixed with high level
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by sterlind 3y ago
the 2001 Anthrax attacks are especially interesting because the Anthrax came from a DoD BSL-4 lab studying biological weapons. investigators eventually matched the Anthrax from the letters with a particular flask from the lab, and were clos
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by sterlind 3y ago
There was that prompt injection game a few months back, where you had to trick the LLM into telling you the password to the next level. This technique was used in one of the early levels, and it was pretty easy to bypass, though I can'
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by sterlind 3y ago
VMS was indeed ahead of its time on clustering. iirc, Leslie Lamport actually discovered Paxos while he was at DEC. DEC was building a fault-tolerant, distributed filesystem, but their protocols were unsound, and Leslie set to work trying t
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by sterlind 3y ago
there's a much easier way to create a global pandemic: wait for the next Ebola outbreak, hop on a plane, get infected, fly to NYC and spread your bodily fluids everywhere. I was (pleasantly) surprised that ISIL didn't try this. an
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by sterlind 3y ago
wait do you actually speak Klingon?
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by sterlind 3y ago
Pi is less brainy and better at conversation, in my experience. It gets details wrong but I had a conversation with it for a couple hours without getting bored, while ChatGPT has the personality of an oyster. Pi's also pretty sycophant
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by sterlind 3y ago
That sounds like the worst of all worlds. Killer robots and childproofed Alexas and nothing in between.
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by sterlind 3y ago
how is a 13-year old going to get access to a DNA synthesizer, incubators, growth media, and numerous kits for replicating and transfecting bacteria with a plasmid, or to incubate some virus, along with all the assays and such needed? even
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by sterlind 3y ago
I really appreciate how you've showed up quickly and given direct answers. It's an admirable level of comms for a company so large.
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by sterlind 3y ago
I know, but it's also critical of some of the regulations, for example: > Student: But a big chunk of the profits are due to regulatory capture. I mean, there's a ton of rules about certifying that your AI isn't raciall
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by sterlind 3y ago
I wish the plot twist of the story weren't that the compiler was too woke, to the point that it decided the student's code was racist for comparing color values. It's such a tired punchline, and it places the story as another
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by sterlind 3y ago
I'm so confuzzled, because later on, the story spins into a bitter, sarcastic rant about how preventing existential risk is considered regulatory capture and hence Bad. I know that EY is terrified of a "hard takeoff"-style si
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by sterlind 3y ago
there's been an issue with MAID being recommended or encouraged to people who don't want to die, but who have complex chronic illnesses that are expensive to treat. there's been a few really shocking cases of that happening,

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