beardedwizard

If you stop labeling things neuron and just call them imperative code, or a PID controller are, you still making the same argument for intelligence?

A line follower with 5 photodiodes and a simple loop steering towards bright or dark lines (pid or not) works, just like the example of following light with two neurons.

When I did hobby robotics competition, some would train neural nets for this, many just had crude for loops, and most often it was PID.

this ascribes a level of premeditated intent that does not exist. humans are just selfish and bad to each other. This is the current emergent behavior.

AI coding does not inherently come with that tradeoff, engineers make a decision to accept it because they think they are 10x more productive.

If there is money to be made, and if frontier models already know the domain I do not understand what this position can possibly buy other than a bit of time before it happens anyway.

It's been a long time (5 years?) since I encountered this last. Despite the idea making total sense to me, I am no clearer than I was then on how to actually do this in any org I have been a part of or managed. Where does this work? How did you do it? Does it work?

But TUIs make me feel smart, and my work feel important and esoteric.

Umm shouldn't that be "search the web and read the docs for pi4 to answer: ..."?

> And please, God, let me die with my wife like John Nash did in that NJ Turnpike taxi crash.

amen brother.

+1, been all the way to fed ramp high and this is a huge part of the security theater that is fedramp.

The second best part is either getting really good at patching every single thing, or playing the POA&M game.

I did some work at a large saas company where HSM as a big part of what we did. In the early days, we paid for full HSMs that we managed and eventually had to make a decision on whether or not we would used managed HSM and HSM-like services like KMS across various cloud providers.

We did an analysis across all the HSM hardware vendors and found, unsurprisingly in hindsight, that all of these hardware vendors had all the same awful security practices as every other enterprise hardware vendor, and each had vulnerabilities that leaked private key material.

The conclusion was that cloud providers fronting managed HSM had more to lose than the hardware vendors did, and would be more likely to patch and address these kinds of issues.

What surprised me was my own reaction, I thought for sure managing our own HSM hardware had to be a better guarantee over the key material, but like many things, it turned out to be unscalable security theater.

Can you imagine ransomware that targets these logs?

HTTP is a text based protocol, nobody is arguing websites are muds.

Let's skip the strange purity tests and engage in good faith discussion.

Simply untrue.

There have been hundreds of MUD clients and many of them were not purely text based at all. Many had images and map screens built in.

People start talking to llms all day, suddenly text based games are interesting again...