waynecochran

vor 13 Tagendiscuss

I wish I lived in a world were you didn't have to sign contracts, lock your doors, or have X11 security. It is so fun to run xmeltdown a new user's display.

waynecochran

vor 13 Tagendiscuss

Of course not. You can melt things w thermite without being malicious. Like my friend's toolbox for instance.

waynecochran

vor 13 Tagendiscuss

      Do NOT, under any circumstances, use any material in this repository
      maliciously. This is good-faith, open-disclosure vulnerability 
      research intended to get more people interested in exploring 
      this area of cybersecurity.

Reminds of the message in the The Anarchist Cookbook before one the recipes that essentially said: "This is really dangerous, don't ever do it, here is how you do it."

waynecochran

vor 16 Tagendiscuss

Maybe I like my characters to be in worse situations but inspire me by overcoming them and giving hope. Dostoyevsky leaves you in a pool of gray melancholy and dispair.

waynecochran

vor 16 Tagendiscuss

I have never read a book I hated more than The Brothers Karamazov. I never read a book that depressed me more than Crime and Punishment. No more Dostoevsky for me.

waynecochran

vor 18 Tagendiscuss

I blame 8086 segmented memory and the rest of its horrid architecture on why no one liked programming in assembly language. There were other elegant RISC machines with flat memory models and large general register sets that were a complete joy to program. Memory paging allowed you to do everything you needed to do that segmented memory provided and left the programmer unbothered for the most part.

waynecochran

vor 20 Tagendiscuss

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waynecochran

letzten Monatdiscuss

What is the legal precedent for this statement? I am not disagreeing, I just would like to know what the law is.

waynecochran

letzten Monatdiscuss

Mao would have been great w AGI.

waynecochran

letzten Monatdiscuss

I don't see it either, but there are folks smarter than both of us that disagree.

waynecochran

letzten Monatdiscuss

Somewhere in all this it is crazy that the choice could be between a US company creating an AI that could doom civilization or letting China create the AI that dooms civilization. Do we want to be the first to "summon the demon" in our own fashion or let China manifest it first. Not saying this is the choice, but it would be a crazy dillema, albeit easy choice imo, if it was.

waynecochran

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I believe you are correct. Way too close to use pulsars…

waynecochran

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Very cool. On Voyager 2 we placed a map on the side of the probe that places the position of our sun based on an array of Pulsar stars (the map was designed by Carl Sagan). I noted in the PHM movie Rocky and Dr Grace made similar 3D maps (I think they were pulsars(?)). I guess pulsars form natural beacons that can be detected at large distances.

waynecochran

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Was there a conclusion?

waynecochran

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

This explains why so many AI chat tools suck at text selection on MacOS / iOS. They got the streaming and markdown part right … flicker free, but at the cost of text selection.

waynecochran

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

As the article states, right now Anthropic does not have the compute capacity. I suppose they could charge an enormous amount of money, but if it is indeed that powerful there are folks that would pay and they would degrade everything. To make matters worse, bad actors could use it to find zero-day exploits in the power grid and banking system.

waynecochran

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Conclusion: both are true which makes sense. The KV cache scaling yields both the emergent power and requires the enormous capacity.

waynecochran

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

This is kind of what I already do with Claude which can employ a multitude of languages, libraries, and platforms. I write text files with detailed specs in English of what I want and Claude makes the plans which include testing regimes w datasets I have. Why do I need a less flexible tool for this?

waynecochran

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

"14x times" to me sounds like statistically "zero" since I assume the sample size would be in the millions "at least."

waynecochran

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Yes. I don't know if this is exactly the recipe, but something akin to this could have .. no should have .. existed. Probably 1¢ is too much. Also, full public key encryption and digital signatures should be easily integrated by now as well. I know the whole trust problem ... yadda yadda ... I don't even read my email hardly at all anymore -- I want everyone that needs to get a hold of me don't rely on email.

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