zebomon
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Comment · 7 days ago
Seconding this. Maniac is a beautifully written book about von Neumann. It also led me to Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, another great read.
Comment · 9 days ago
I was glad to see the direction this essay took. I agree with you: it's the old challenges that are gone and there's a whole new class of challenges (the former impossibilities) in front of us.
Comment · 2 months ago
Posting for visibility a reminder that this type of watermarking is comically easy to beat. See Scott Aaronson's 2023 research in which he coined the term "pineapple attack": one must simply prompt the model to add the word "pineapple" after every other word and then do a search + replace to remove the word, to obliterate the watermark altogether.
https://www.youtube.com/live/2Kx9jbSMZqA?si=0QgCPBX2_KPZ0QTU...
Comment · 3 months ago
I built and open sourced something similar between 2024 and 2025.
https://github.com/humthentic/itypedmypaper-v1
As others have pointed out, it's relatively a lot of effort to create an artifact that realistically current systems can pretty well forge.
I don't know that there is a scalable and comfortable solution to this problem (or at least one that is scalable and comfortable proportional to the demand for it).
Comment · 3 months ago
I think you're thinking of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow.
Comment · 9 months ago
This exactly. I don't understand the argument that seems to be, if it were real intelligence, it would never have to learn anything. It's machine learning, not machine magic.
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
I saw him perform 26 times in my life, and still those were rookie numbers. Still I thought there would be so many more too. Thanks for all the music, Bobby Weir.
Comment · 10 months ago
I've been doing pretty much the same thing since 2019. The only big change I made was in early 2023, when I started saving a new version of the long txt file each day. It works very well for me but I recognize it isn't the right system for everyone!
Comment · 10 months ago
I won't be providing my full name and email without more information, like at least a peek inside. Interesting legal argument regarding the brand though.
My personal webpage is at gardnermcintyre.com
I'm also tracking how close we are to Star Trek tech at arewetrekyet.com