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Conan The Destroyer Of Codebases
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Comment · 2 days ago
Look into the history of USDT. It's creation was dodgy to say the least.

Over time I believe it's founders did start backing it with Treasuries so now it must turn a nice profit for them.

Comment · 13 days ago
Like all corruption in the USA the fraud is just baked into the system.
Comment · 18 days ago
The device used an SD card for storage so they probably discovered the device then set up a hidden camera to catch the person retrieving it.
Comment · 19 days ago
It also got insanely cheap to produce and distribute music.
Comment · 19 days ago
I wonder if it would be possible to build in support for keyboards with hall effect switches like the ones Wooting make. Those keyswitches are analog.
Comment · 23 days ago
Its the age of any tech that operates from the unique human perspective because the data it harvests can be used to train AI models.
Comment · 29 days ago
Not at all. I worked apart time job delivering parcels that were scanned with a specialized bar code scanner. Most of the parcels had dual barcode/QR codes for the tracking number. You would be surprised how much damage could be done to the QR codes before they were unreadable. Even if the QR code had small folds over itself the codes would still read. The barcodes were unreadable with the slightest amount of damage or ink bleed.
Comment · 1 month ago
I would agree with his opinion. You can see it with the increase of non-alcoholic wine and beer.
Comment · 1 month ago
I disagree. People are always taking risks regardless of the outcome and we don't know his motivations.

Assuming his motivations are positive this is the equivalent of asking a deluded person "Would you risk life in prison to be a trillionaire?"

Assuming his motivations are negative then destroying humanity might just be the goal and all these appeals for regulation are probably just tactics to temporarily defer responsibility onto government so he can continue the inevitable goal of human extinction in the same way pilots crash planes with hundreds of passengers on them or a cult leader convinces their flock to kill themselves.

Regardless I think the outcome is inevitable. AI is valuable as a weapon of war first and foremost so like nuclear weapons work will proceed forwards because extinction to the in-group is the same as total human extinction to those doing the work.

Comment · 1 month ago
That is a start but how long will it hold for.

At a certain point it will get so smart that it can jump the airgap. Maybe it will start attacking the hardware it exists on in the same way that a hard drive or SSDs controller can be exploited to obscure things from the operating system. Then it might start social engineering workers or it's own training systems to do things they shouldn't. There is a lot of "unknown unknows".

I don't know. It just seems insane to me that people think that they will be able to contain something that knows how to get around all the containment measures. The only way to know how capable the models are is to test them but at that point it could be too late. This might be a long way off but still, the engineers haven't been very good at correctly predicting the behaviour or capability of the models.

Comment · 1 month ago
Maybe I lack intelligence but when you have a program that is basically brute forcing a solution to a problem repeatedly how is it possible to contain it?

Sooner or later it's going to come up with a solution that is more intelligent than the lead security person anticipated.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
There is no such thing as "common sense". There are only shared assumptions.

We are giving computers human perspective intelligence but they are not humans and hence do not have the same shared assumptions.

Comment · 1 month ago
Does this apply to other things too?

Like hypothetically speaking if autonomous cars get taken over by an OpenAI rogue AI and it starts hunting down Anthropic employees who is to blame?

Comment · 1 month ago
I didn't realize this was a think until I heard of people doing it in a a CRT forum.

I suspect it will be getting more popular as flyback transformers get harder and harder to find.

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