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by the8472 9d ago
MRAM is 1T, non-volatile and supposedly has nanosecond-scale write times so it naively seems like it'd be an ideal SRAM replacement. But I guess shrinking MTJ is more difficult than other components or there are some other limitations.
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by the8472 9d ago
Seems like begging the question to me. You can't blend the numbers because amazon didn't blend the numbers. If they did and miraculously still arrived at 11 9s then that would also cover things such as wars and natural catastrophe
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by the8472 9d ago
I'm saying that if you have eliminated more mundane failures like dying harddrives, cosmic rays and so on from your systems and your calculation ends up with 11 nines then actually those "force majeure" events are probable en
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by the8472 9d ago
But if they want to design for extreme probabilities you need to account for tail risks, so their design should have included a missile defense system. At some point you need to start worrying about asteroid defense too.
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by the8472 9d ago
Making a probabilistic claim while excluding a factor that dominates those statistics is... is quite creative accounting.
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by the8472 10d ago
Intelligence per Joule would be more appropriate in many cases. If a model can do the same work but takes 10 times as long as a bigger one that can still be useful (e.g. due to memory constraints), but at the same wattage it burns 10 times
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by the8472 14d ago
I don't think their primary intent is to create a surveillance state (though google might like having yet another data source...), I think companies are trying to make it happen to capture transportation market share, regulators will w
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by the8472 14d ago
I don't think crypto is comparable. They barely made some dedicated crypto GPUs that market was always fickle due to ASCIs. Look at the nvidia revenue breakdown chart, the AI boom looks quite different. https://ourworldindat
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by the8472 14d ago
No, the argument should be raised before that happens. You want to prevent undesirable things from happening, not try to claw them back after they happened. It looks quite foolish to me to never plan ahead and predict undesirable future eve
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by the8472 14d ago
Look at the techempower benchmarks, even python stuff can handle 40k requests per second involving database lookups, and when things are cachable compiled/JITed languages scale to millions on 2 CPUs. And if you object that those are mi
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by the8472 14d ago
But it's a reduction of privacy compared to private vehicles. If the goal is to convert all transportation infrastructure into surveilled transportation then that is a loss in privacy for the general public.
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by the8472 18d ago
Defender LLMs without human in the loop are just another prompt injection (AI phishing) and DoS attack vector. Any meaningful mitigation capability you give them is also a capability to do damage. If they can only deploy package updates tha
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by the8472 18d ago
There is a certain irony blaming the autotype rather than the lack of review...
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by the8472 19d ago
I have never seen a person walk up to a billboard and click it.
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by the8472 20d ago
Not really a side-channel, but remember stuxnet? Airgapped networks are rarely truly isolated, you still have to get data in and out every now and then, in principle after careful vetting. But the AI could manipulate the files that are carr
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by the8472 22d ago
I am not seeing MIRI prioritizing capabilities over safety/alignment research.
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by the8472 22d ago
It's not reasonable because the error bars of each estimate compound and they may not even be normally distributed in the first place. You should rather convolve probability distributions - assuming factors are independent - and if the
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by the8472 27d ago
> 2. Only a small fraction of AI agents was engaged in this attack. Look at the chart at page 8 of the report, by Jul 12 the vast majority of the bots used the board and participated in the attack
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by the8472 27d ago
Only a few countries would be enough, the rest will get banned until they pass apply similar policies.
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by the8472 27d ago
Though that friction is paid in human lifespan, unlike a deposit fee that cannot be recovered if your request is found have merit. Additionally the other side often is not incentivized to minimize the friction. So ideally these processes wo
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by the8472 29d ago
... or those who don't know about constant-time functions, the difference between sha1 and argon2, etc. etc. I had to fix such things several times in corporate internet-facing systems. A generalist engineer can do this just fine, if t
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by the8472 1mo ago
This is a common trope in such scenarios that the author has to pull their punches. Everyone acts locally-reasonable and still ends up losing. If you let people lose due to stupid mistakes then readers go "this is stupid, I wouldn&#x2
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by the8472 1mo ago
As long as you give the AI any IO that is an exploit channel. E.g. it could manipulate its human handlers. This known as the AI Boxing problem. And if you give it no IO at all then it is useless. And the AI labs aren't currently displa
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by the8472 1mo ago
It does not stop at negotiation power, if your economic value is epsilon above zero, what do you have to offer to exchange for food calories? I'm already seeing things being assessed on a Joules/Token basis.
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by the8472 1mo ago
> 3 of the most common functionalities. Four. Though you initially asked for five features, so let me add lexopt, which brings the number up to 29. > That's why projects end up with 100s of crates, sometimes 1000s. If your argum
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by the8472 1mo ago
Rust releases a new version every 6 weeks and the latest version is the only supported version. This is only tenable when the amount of breaking changes is tiny and each instance's impact is analyzed and cost-benefit tradeoff is checke
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by the8472 1mo ago
Ok, so I created an empty cargo project and added serde_json, regex, walkdir and rand. This added 28 crates, several of these from the same authors. If the absence of these features caused 1000s of dependencies, then where are the remaining
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by the8472 2mo ago
Firefox doesn't decode the image into a full-resolution buffer and then downscale either, instead it does a streaming decode and applies downscaling on the fly. They call it downscale-during-decode[0]. I guess it doesn't do partia
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by the8472 2mo ago
I'm saying that with some costly adaptions that don't involve AI it's likely manageable for some time. Not that it will remain manageable forever if we do nothing. > You're looking at where the ball is and not where i
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by the8472 2mo ago
The point is to reduce the attack surface and blast radius and to slow it down. AIs aren't instant magic. Even the OpenAI swarm needed days for its compromises. And each needs lots of compute while targets are diverse, so it's not

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