ghostbrainalpha

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Comment · 3 days ago
Sounds like Elizabeth Holmes next project.
Comment · 4 days ago
That's the definition of a White Hat to me.
Comment · 8 days ago
I was involved in the an incident like this, and the intense pressure for public immediate action led to the (firing or resignation) of multiple people who were actually needed for the investigation.

Something that could have been fully analyzed with those people in a couple weeks ending up taking two years with an independent outside auditor.

The independent auditor would have been needed either way, but if we gave the original crew the opportunity to respond, THEN fired them, the outside auditor could have just verified the story much more quickly.

Comment · 9 days ago
Can’t wait for my AWS region selection dropdown to include "us-pacific-active-magma-1"
Comment · 11 days ago
So one person single-handedly knocked out 10% of the entire Tor exit network over an SSH port redirection?
Comment · 15 days ago
If you are talking about take a screen shot, analyze move the window a bit, take another screenshot, move the window, repeat until they have seen enough of the map to make a decision, then decide what to click on, issue order.... this could absolutely be done. It's very similar to how LLM's have driven a car on a safe track.

But right now the response time would be so slow that the bot would not be close to competitive except with the most low level players. Especially because its hard to click on things that are moving at the same time as well.

Sometime soon, I'd like to see an LLM be competitive using only computer vision, mouse movement, and locked into a human possible number of actions per minute.

Comment · 23 days ago
Sam Altman helped bring us the future, but you can tell by double layered polo he also has deep connections to the past. To be doing that in 2008.......
Comment · 24 days ago
Acceptable.
Comment · 24 days ago
I don't know how close you have been following but she did get shut down.

And she had to do a lot to get it permitted and set back up.

Comment · 1 month ago
I love all these books especially Sam Harris, but from one atheist to another, are you ok? This is a really heavy dose to be doing in one year. And if your fun reads are Cormac... it looks exactly like my reading list when I'm depressed.
Comment · 1 month ago
Starting Goblin Emperor based on your recommend.
Comment · 1 month ago
Counterpoint: Restaurants have ALWAYS had dynamic pricing. It is called "Happy Hour". Dynamic pricing for an eatery serves an important purpose besides just gouging the customer. It moves customer traffic away from the intense surge at standard breakfast, lunch and dinner times which is a hard problem for businesses to work around.

You DESERVE a discount for patronizing them during their slower periods.

Comment · 1 month ago
There is a TV show called "Alone" where people have to live in a remote area using basic survival skills and very minimal tools. It's interesting, but I've always wanted to see a version of that show where small communities are competing against each other.

If we practiced for these Armageddon scenarios what would a highly prepared group of 20 be able to accomplish in a year. How fast could they get humanity back to the bronze age?

Comment · 1 month ago
This is the type of movie I would be so excited about until I found out it was made by Seth Rogan.

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