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It's not at all like storing gold, since you can have multisig wallets. You can make it arbitrarily difficult to lose or get stolen, depending on how thinly you want to slice your secrets and how many friends you have.

It's bizarre how this is the new thing everyone has to echo whenever they see a crypto thread.

You can store crypto with zero risk of electronic access just using offline wallet generation and an offline wallet. It's not even hard.

Trivially. You can simply read the keys on the offline machine with your eyeballs and set up a software or hardware wallet elsewhere to access the account.

You literally made a reply to a person making this exact point ...

No. Permissioned cryptocurrency is all the horrible parts of cash and all the horrible parts of crypto put together with none of the advantages of either.

I want crypto because I don't trust nation states with the leverage and dials of fiat currency. All we've done is replace government with trusting whoever made a particular stablecoin.

Permissionless crypto is the only real crypto.

Yes unlike in systems where you buy your land and are completely at the mercy of the government not to seize it for eminent domain or taxes or...

Long term government land leases are a good thing. The only thing that they inhibit is dynastic wealth which seems like a bonus to me!

Someone else making the decision for you is a good description for laws, which we decided a long time ago we would in fact have. It's weird how people come out of the woodwork like this when those laws start to point at rich people.

Look it's the temporarily embarrassed billionaire!

Billionaires are a symptom of a problem that the US had under control for almost half a century until Reagan basically broke American economic policy.

The point of the law is to reduce the power of billionaires. Billionaires Using their power to change the rules and systemically avoid loss of power using a mechanisim available to literally nobody else is pretty much the antithesis of this idea.

What if I don't like the human

I agree, tools designed to be fawning sycophantics are annoying.

High pass or low pass? Many instruments have a low pass filter. Very few have a high pass filter.

Wonder no more. There is mountains of research on this for occupational health concerns. As long as your fan is <70dB there is virtually no risk to your hearing.

There might be some to your dog, on the other hand. Anecdotal, but my dog went deaf pretty early and he sleeps in a room where I run an air purifier all night. Not sure if there is correlation or causation there but that's my little anecdata.

I completely lack the 'critical self narrator' that many people report being distressed by. If I make a bad decision there is nobody 'punishing' me for it internally. I also feel like I am better than average at very stressful dangerous situations - i find that i dont particularly analyze things in the moment, or at least the conscious part i aware of doesn't. I just act on 'autopilot' if that makes sense.

It does have an enormous mountain of downsides, though.

If you say the names of the two cities people can intelligently talk about why this is but it's almost certainly not because it's municipally owned.

I have worked as an engineer is private and public power utilities and there is not a significant difference in how efficiently things get done. All human orgs are basically the same, when you get down to the people actually doing the work. Private utilities have all the security of a public utility so the 'profit margin' is not really an everyday focus at the worker bees level in the way that it is in actual private industry.

Having seen the sausage being made in both, I would say that private utilities are very little for the additional $$$ they extra t for shareholders. I would just as soon see all power production and transmission nationalized.

Huh? Profits are outside capital improvements. That is the nature of profits. There are arguments for private utilities but this one makes no sense.

Relax

Yes, now say your prayers to daddy apple that he might protect you in the night.

I am such a person and I've always done 'chain of thought' in a notepad in order to think through complex things, well before LLMs were a thing. There are certainly tasks I can 'one-shot' but I've learned from experience that for some problems that just results in me focusing on irrelevant things.

I think it's pretty well documented how much 'executive time' the current POTUS enjoys. There are lots of people working long hours. That guy isn't one of them.

No, it's definitely easy enough to build a container that doesn't let LLMs out. The problem is that these AI companies are building a playpen made of wet noodles and expecting AI to stay out of trouble

They do, compared to America and other third world social systems.

Yes, let me clarify this for you. Old people are often not comfortable with new technology. Tell me that this is false.

I'm not sure if you've ever heard of firewalls before but you can in fact prevent network access you don't sanction.

The weights contain malware? What security vulnerability do they contain? Is the claim that they will write insecure code? This seems easy enough to test - run a sufficiently large sample through another LLM

I'm not sure a phone number is particularly valuable. It is a decent way pretty much ensure that you aren't a bot, though.

obviously CoT has use, I shouldn't say it in such an extreme way- the problem is when you are using CoT to try to understand why something happened instead of just what happened. A model saying that they exploited a vulnerability for reason A doesn't mean that the real reason they exploited it wasnt a mix of reason B / C / D and that reason A was just the most statistically feasible reason why a certain archetype of personality would have made that decision.

From the outside it seems like China is a positive adversary for the west to have - they don't gain from military conflict and they seem to be well incentivized to just expand soft power and compete with the west economically.

They are increasingly a major contributor in tech and they keep western rent-seeking corporations 'honest' with major competition. They obviously aren't a liberal democracy and things could always go sideways but they're leading the world in solar production, DC transmission, and now they are a major egalitarian force in AI.

I'll take them over the Russian mafia state any day, for example.

You realize the whole reason people use deepseek is that you can download and run it offline where the spooky Chinese people can't get your data, right?