dmantis

I see it this way in layman sense:

- you feed the model with data;

- you run the query;

- you activate a network and it gives you most probable token, refeeds it back and generates next and so on;

- nobody knows exactly why and how this next token comes and can tell strictly which input data gives which output data without running the exact query with 0 temperature.

So yes, it's not an exact copy, but you also can't say that a particular repo is not reflected anyhow. And I mean that the weights are reflected by the particular logic, not a syntax.

Otherwise why all the hassle if we can just feed the language reference doc to 100mb model and it should be able to produce everything just fine if only the syntax connections are needed and everything else is freshly derivated and not based on the actual implementations.

I have a living permit and legal status in the country I live in, but only few banks open accounts to people like me, most just deny anyone but citizens of the country.

The ones that open all work in GrapheneOS though, so not big deal for me in my particular case.

So that's what I'm saying, the business incentives are changed, there is no more room for the ignorance of the security. You either maintain it or you are out of business. Brutal period, but now everybody is forced to update, fix and improve the isolation because every script-kiddy can deploy a 0day every week. That helps to fix things against actually dangerous actors who had resources for 0days before the AI boom and used this negligence to harm people worldwide.

I'm very positive about the change. If we don't look at it purely technical, vermin from ransomware gangs and Russian/Israeli/USA spy agencies already knew a subset of these things. That shows how vulnerable we were, actually. What's a stupid bug for one, might be life and death question for another. Before, from business side of things, there was no urgency to maintain proper security and fix things, now we have a more equalized grounds and everyone has to invest both in security assessment, sandboxing/better isolation on system level and formal verification.

That will literally improve small countries and individual sovereignty against the spies and improve the humanity in the long term.

While it's a pity for many maintainers during the transition, after some time we will have much better world where you can trust your computer regardless of who you are.

You can use 9.9.9.10 - it has no filtering.

But even malware filter is supposed to cut malware, not pirated content. Cutting piracy while saying that you cut malware is def lying because pirated resources might not provide anything malicious for the end user.

And nobody would pick a piracy list, why'd you do it as a user.

And relay operators (not exit nodes) don't face any issues. Don't let the unreasonable fear blind you.

Laws prohibiting explicit recording of a person and espionage exist in many countries and they work fine.

I'm pretty sure some high-risk customers around the world with money would be happy to have no-brain "choose a proper car without a snitch inside" button.

Maybe a quick public way to drop snitch options from customer choices would slightly improve the situation. Right now it requires a full-time research it seems.

I have a feeling that many young people sit behind the screen all the time.

My point doesn't work if you don't even try to socialize. Still have to make an effort and go through the uncomfortable awkward stage when you are shy or lost for words in most interactions.

I know enough no-drinkers who are just fine even with drinking people, that's the matter of empathy and being able to relax and being open without stimulators which is something not a given to people without a practice.

I disagree.

Communication is a skill like everything else. Having a constant workaround just reduces your ability to be good at it. Why would a healthy young adult make his own skills worse?

You can either get short-term gains with long-term worsening of your daily life by being incapable of new connections and genuine communications or cut the short-term low-level improvements, suffer for a year or two, learn a bit and have a better life for years to come.

It's like going to gym or do other sports. It's often hard and unpleasant at the start, but the more you're doing it, the fitter you are and the more benefits you bring to yourself in the long-term.

A few years ago I installed MacOS in a VM on linux host in virtualbox and it was slow as hell. I don't claim that MacOS is not ready to be used though.

It's just not related to drug consuming acts and more about sports, poker, board games, etc.

I believe that drug-related communications are flawed and closer to animal level than to actually joyful ones. It's better to have a maturity and social skills to communicate, joke and maintain a conversation with interesting people without stimulators.

I'm not from the US though so it's not about the US social scene which is mainly discussed here.

I've always though that about tinkering as in "being in love to work with inner working of things and understanding the internals, mastering stuff". Nothing pejorative.

Entrepreneurs currently are in heaven, and tinkerers are in hell.

Between something opensource and trusted, and a proprietary potential backdoor that can send the data back to the Zuck himself you'd probably want to choose the former (cause you never know with closed sources).

I'm glad that he has shared the link as for me it's definitely useful. It's not a competition and I don't care what media talk, that's not about money.

That actor has to know that you have something to be touched for in the first place. Which is not the case if you buy crypto without KYC unlike with the classical brokerage, for example.

> State actors can setup a shadow bitcoin infrastructure and give you the feeling that your wallet is a save bitcoin wallet. They can Hijack the website you download the initial bitcoin wallet, the nodes you talk to.

Is paranoid and not serious. Yes, they can do a lot in theory, but on practice even basic level opsec avoids it.

In reality if somebody from the state is already after you explicitly for real, you are going to die or be in prison. I can't really argue with that. Most people are not under active confrontation with the governments, but under passive snooping and pity everyday legal risks that make their lifes miserable.

In most cases they don't send hitmen neither for "foreign agents" labeled people from Russia, nor for sanctioned Russians outside from the US, for example. My point is about people who are not active fugitives, but, you know, want to keep their stuff with them without risking neither their country bank freeze, nor western-based financial infra freeze because they hold the wrong passport.

Well, if only we had something like that with a proper liquidity!

USDT/USDC are useful for the exchange to fiat, but have freeze function in their contract, thus posing a risk for big longterm savings, and they rot under the inflation (which btc generally beats).

There are indeed a couple of unfreezable stablecoins, but they don't have mainstream adoption and proper liquidity. USDT kind of captured the market by being first, and USDC is heavily pushed by the major institutional players, so here we are.

But that's true, it's more about crypto in general.

From western perspective, maybe, but there are many people in the world who don't trust neither their government, nor western ones: Iranians, Russians, some Chinese, etc.

BTC is a nice safe place for money, which can't be touched by neither of state adversaries. Underperforming some other asset classes is totally acceptable, when your expectation for the brokerage account is effectively zero after arrest/freeze/sanctions.

Money is just a number and far less precious than personal dignity and privacy. I don't even get the idea why people really would compare something around 1k usd range in developed countries, it's a no brainer.

Say, you have 98 people who have literally nothing and no established way to obtain basic needs, and 2 people who has something based on whatever.

Say, these 2 people can close their needs by asking a magic machine to do something for them, or even exchange some goods between each other, but there is no economic sense to hire anybody.

Those 98 left aren't going to sit and die, watching.

The whole modern society and capitalism exist on assumption of meritocracy: an entrepreneur takes the risks and provides the organization and gets the reward. If there is some perfect machine that always brings profits, there is no risk. Everybody can make such "organization" saying "/goal make me money". The current model also assumes that if you learn and work hard enough, then you get a success of some level. That assumption of the meritocracy also breaks.

If there is no organizational work, nor risks, nor meritocracy, nor "fair reward for hard work" the whole model fades. There are might be different rational choices. One is probably to liquidate the owners of the companies; nationalize the model's output and distribute the profits, for example. Still many questions about everyday life for completely jobless society will arrive then. It might be something else, but people generally do what they see fair, and they also want to eat something.

Ownership is a fragile idea, Russian Empire shows that pretty clearly. It exists only when most of the society agrees that the ownership is fair or when you have enough force to maintain it against those who don't, which is not the case when the majority is on the other side.