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Comment · 1 day ago
If anyone from Microsoft security reads this, could you please do something about login.microsoftonline.com/XXX/v2.0/adminconsent?

The callback you're redirecting the user to at the end of that flow is forgeable if an attacker knows an azure tenant ID of a different customer, and putting a "Never use the tenant ID value of the tenant parameter to authenticate or authorize users" warning in the docs is only helpful as long as a way to authenticate users exists.

Comment · 14 days ago
It needs to gather a bunch of inputs and feed into the remote GPUs correctly and as efficiently as possible. Lots of room to optimize under the constraints that users love cheap tokens, demand a fair billing structure, and want responsiveness and low latency.
Comment · 23 days ago
They literally proved the UGC?
Comment · 24 days ago
Being of the opposite chirality doesn't magically make antibodies pass through you. Antibodies can and do bind molecules of all sizes and chiralities.
Comment · 24 days ago
I find it really hard to believe that you can make a whole organism that doesn't have any molecules that can be targeted by an antibody. And if you can do that then why go through mirror life anyway?

A reasonable argument is that mirror proteins will evade the usual degradation+antigen presentation pipeline and this will make efficient adaptive response more difficult, or that the innate immune reaction will not be enough to recruit adaptive response. But surely it's not impossible. And if we ever get to this point I'm very optimistic that we would have a good way to vaccinate against this.

Comment · 24 days ago
I really doubt a "mirror life" bacteria would be "hidden" from the immune system. Antibodies should have enough search space to be able to detect and neutralise such bacteria?
Comment · 24 days ago
Knowing is the easy part. An effective cure for cancer will probably be a procedure where you get your tumors sequenced, an AI model considers the unique genetic context and creates a specific treatment. Think CAR-T cell therapy or mRNA vaccines. Then this needs to be manufactured.

All of this means you will need to be rich or have your country invest lots of money into health care systems. In a world where humans don't provide economic value anymore, why would that be?

Comment · 25 days ago
Similarly, data center loans are starting to make cheap mortgages disappear.
Comment · 25 days ago
Comment · 27 days ago
If you don't like what humans are doing to each other using 20th century warfare methods, consider what they might do with superintelligent AI? Worst places to live in are usually countries fighting civil wars.
Comment · 1 month ago
If youre going to spend 10 million dollars on 10000 agents trying to solve some important maths problem I think it's reasonable to ask for some grants to help digest whatever they came up with. Or you could hire mathematicians and do it in-house, but I guarantee you grants to PhD students are cheaper than silicon value salaries.
Comment · 1 month ago
For every important match problem solved by AI, without mathematicians we wouldn't know about the existence and importance of the problem.

Famous mathematical conjectures are social constructs, formed by decades of even centuries of attention given to them by members of the math community. Without it, the danger is that future math "progress" will be reduced to generating tables of Lean statements and a probable/unprovable bit generated by AI.

Comment · 1 month ago
I think they are trying now to to bake CI awareness into Claude Desktop, didn't use it yet.

But meanwhile we also have the scripts - one script to watch CI, one script to fetch comments (without dumping raw graphql into the agent), etc etc. Can't wait for this phase to end already

Comment · 1 month ago
I'm still so mad about Intel and AMD and Microsoft colluding together to remove sleep mode. Horrible for battery life, unfixable, but Microsoft says they need to be able to wake up your laptop every hour.

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