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Honestly I had been thinking more in terms of a crossbow/harpoon type attachment. Fire, rewind, tension up, fire again etc.

The impressive thing about that post is it managed to use so many words and says nothing at all.

People are far better at subconsciously processing the consequences of something than they appreciate, and the consequences of the AI wave being real are so insane people just clam up and back track to "it's obviously not happening".

If people actually did appreciate it the economy would collapse immediately long before we've adequately "replaced" it, so there is something to be said for temporary denial until people working on the actual consequences have got something semi viable to deal with them in place.

Getting it to be forceful enough would be a bit interesting. Could certainly slowly strangle you in the cabling.

The single biggest/best thing Intel could do is get back into memory. Their entire remaining business is now throttled on everyone else being able to supply memory, on top of whatever other competition they were already experiencing.

For the same reason that during the era of x86 dominance all x86 competitors were not valued as highly as Intel.

Now I'm getting my hopes up of someone porting OSX Tiger to Apple Silicon natively . . .

Provincial governments are way too happy with sin taxes in general, to the point of encouraging the vices they supposedly want to reduce.

The entire concept of sin taxes distorts the incentives for govs too much. If something is to be discouraged then do that, but do not have government revenue attached to people performing the discouraged activity.

Standard regulator strategy: try to make the one thing you actually want to comply be the odd one out and then point at them going "but why not you too?" (The FTC do this as well).

4chan was absolutely the defining target of this wave of noise, but X is what really bothers the UK establishment.

Basic property rights. If they weren't breaking Dutch laws then the server shouldn't be seizable.

Let's see the Dutch get a US based server that is violating Dutch laws. It will never happen.

That's exactly what the US do though. We recently saw server seizures in Amsterdam, there is the US Cloud act and so on.

The US fundamentally disagrees with other countries on the limits of their own jurisdiction to include basically anything tangentially related to the US.

Again, I am far from anti-US but any outsider can see this for what it is: a one way street.

While Ofcom were barmy to even try this there is a level of understandable annoyance outside the US that the US does get to project what it wants and other countries don't, and somewhere that will have contributed to supporting the effort to do this.

While the US isn't perfect it is also far from the worst conceivable entity to be in that position (and current UK and Australian governments provide easy examples). If they want to use their influence to promote free speech then good, because we need it. Just less of the mass surveillance of absolutely everyone at the same time, then we'd be good.

Same phenomenon as all the godfathers of AI that were apparently oblivious to the plot of the Terminator franchise until after their paychecks had cleared.

I'm only posting like this because they already are.

Then why not turn this around and say which (hopefully small set of) specific classes of curves are known to be avoided, but otherwise have a free for all?

> If that many curves are bad, then ECC was a mistake.

I mean that is the logical conclusion from the behaviour around this approach where a few good things are effectively endorsed without justification.

The fact is any application of an algorithm that involves so much "trust me bro" on the selection of what are a large number of opaque quasi random but not quite or provably so numbers only has as much trust in it as you have in the people that created it.

Exactly.

When they made the changes to the s boxes for differential cryptanalysis resistance the entire concept of that was essentially secret, so who knows what they know about elliptic curves.

It doesn't prove anything about the core part of the suspicion, which is they were selected using some undisclosed criteria, which may make them weaker or stronger than some other random numbers.

You are entirely familiar with the precedent of the DES s boxes of course, where that is exactly what happened.

While this confirms the method of production it doesn't say anything about their selection, especially since they were, apparently, generated over a period of months. Specifically you cannot see those candidates that were generated and discarded.

"It is still conceivable that these curves were selected to have a specific property in principle by searching over timestamps to the random number generator."

Yes.

"However, you would only need to do that if you were going to disclose the timestamp as some evidence that the seed was innocuously generated."

Does not logically follow when "doing and saying nothing" will completely suffice.

You are confusing predictable continuous low level noise for sheer chaos. The chaotic potential Montreal has in winter, and it uses, is spectacular. The fact that it is so unpredictable in exercising this merely contributes to the problem.

Freezing rain, for example. My god.

"montreal doesn't allow right on red".

That is not uniformly true throughout the metro area, especially in the major burbs.

So how can humans do it?

If humans don't have lidar but can drive it's an existence proof of the viability of that approach.

Compounded by the fact in winter basically everyone will be going to the airports at least twice to escape, which drives demand.

Basically if the planes are flying the robotaxis will need to work.

You have crashed into a cone.

No, in the limit where everyone has lidar they end up stepping on each other too. Being a totally passive sensor system is a major benefit for mass deployment, on top of the cost advantages.

Lidar is cool when you want to get a point cloud from a fixed location, or dealing with perfectly uniform surfaces (which cars don't because humans can't do this either), but beyond that there are better ways to do things.

That's one of the reasons lidar will prove to be a dead end for this application. It's a temporary enabling technology on the path to the simpler multiple camera based solution.

Will be interesting how it handles the tougher climate conditions.

Montreal would be the ultimate test, both climatically and just for navigating sheer chaos. Those Roadster jets may finally make a smooth ride throughout the whole of the city possible.

> The problem is that, for a long time, humans have attributed meaning, value, and social status to great cognitive insights.

Not really, they haven't. It's only when those insights can be communicated in such a way to other people that those other people can find utility (which could be enabling them to derive more insights that yet other people find utility in recursively) in the insights that they do so, and this is a huge difference. This is why AI is such a total problem to this mentality, because it disrupts not only insight production but the mechanism that values insight production.

> an unfeeling corporate robot[1] will burn a rainforest to compile a list of 700 highly obscure barely-readable facts that might be true that nobody can understand

He'd have more of a point if a huge number of humans weren't occupied doing exactly this, and much worse on top.

It really seems exactly like it, although at least the portal had the built in camera cover.

One reason is it lets you access Windows build machines for free when you no longer have any around.

I would not underestimate how strategically important that will prove to be for Microsoft moving forward.