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idiotsecant

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idiotsecant··on DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
No, it's not particularly fraught. There are plenty of old people who love technology and stay current. They are also a tiny minority. It's pretty reasonable to expect that an octogenarian is not going to be technically literate, on average. The reverse is not true, of course. You can't assume that because someone is 30 years old they are technically literate.
idiotsecant··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
That link says they haven't done this for more than a decade at least, but nice dog whistle I guess
idiotsecant··on Gold is now the top U.S. export
>Bretton Woods 2.0, but without any country being given a win button. And that's not so easy to devise!

At the risk of certain downvote barrage, this is a solved problem, at least at international settlement scale: use cryptocurrency.

idiotsecant··on A Princeton PhD applied to 2,300 jobs and still can't get one
Lol ya the very difficult task of getting hired for a software job in early 2000
idiotsecant··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
A system where the humans value is tied to their ability to outproduce a massively more capable machine intelligence? How does that work, exactly?
idiotsecant··on Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
There is ample evidence that CoT is not an accurate gauge of a model's 'intent' anyhow. It's a lossy and imperfect mapping and using it in the way you describe is just about guaranteed to make it more so.

There is genuine research into latent space monitoring and interpretation - that's the only real way forward. CoT monitoring is a mirage and won't be useful for long, if it ever was

idiotsecant··on I built a programming language that LLMs can't use
The first paragraph of the link explains the motivation.
idiotsecant··on Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky
You seem like a perfectly reasonable not crazy person.
idiotsecant··on DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
Do you work for anthropic?
idiotsecant··on How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
This doesn't make sense. You are just getting your blood drawn. You don't even see who is doing the test until it's done. How on earth would you even know.
idiotsecant··on Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States
Yeah this post has no idea wtf it's talking about. Dams are relicensed routinely by federal regulators and when they are they are routinely required to build in fish passage. If there's a dam blocking fish passage that's the path to fix it.
idiotsecant··on How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Sure hope nobody started emergency chemo based on a faulty test
idiotsecant··on How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Do you ask the doctor to stop so you can discuss which vendor will be recieving test materials prior to blood draw?
idiotsecant··on DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
I'm not sure makes sense to white knight for openAI and Anthropic. There are no good guys here.
idiotsecant··on RepRapMicron
To see the print? Weird comment.
idiotsecant··on Butlerian Jihad
Psychohistory is the opposite claim.
idiotsecant··on Butlerian Jihad
The gamut of human experience is breathtaking in its diversity but individual humans are generally quite predictable. You can identify someone by their mannerisms, by how they walk, by the sound of their breathing. Humans are creatures of habit, and I'd venture to say have an even lower expression space than an LLM on average.
idiotsecant··on Butlerian Jihad
People say this like it's a fundamental feature of all machine intelligence. We've bread deliberately docile golden retriever AI. That doesn't mean that we couldnt do the opposite.
idiotsecant··on Tesla Roadster
It's not being sold in any configuration. It's a hype toy to keep a vibe based valuation valuable.
idiotsecant··on Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated
what a shocking and totally unpredictable result
idiotsecant··on Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June
The whole point is to slowly build credibility, starting with easily $wayed small ratings entities, then launder that credibility into a slightly larger one, rise and repeat until financial disaster.
idiotsecant··on I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets
I don't understand why this is a hill to aggressively die on.
idiotsecant··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
Or just buy little titanium coupons at any online metal store. Buying crypto stuff on Amazon means you have an Amazon cart with crypto history for someone to find. $5 wrench attacks are real.
idiotsecant··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
You buy some punches and use a hammer. Literally anyone with functioning hands can do it.
idiotsecant··on The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain
You saw the ads, right?

Job done. Who cares if you read the article.

idiotsecant··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
This only says that dedicated satellites exist, which is obvious and public knowledge. What it doesn't comment on is whether starlink and starshield use any common ifra, which they almost certainly do. The number of starshield satellites is simply way, way, way too low to meet the claims that people are making about the system. It's a geometry problem.
idiotsecant··on ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
You can always spot the addicts mainlining outrage pornography by how often they bring up the last president that didn't have the right letter next to their name.
idiotsecant··on ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
What exactly is the point of this post
idiotsecant··on America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it
its a mistake to think that the US will have any kind of monopoly on 'high qualification' jobs when the social convection engine that labor powered is dead. We are becoming a nation of finance bros, vibe coders, and a growing and permeant underclass of just about everyone else. The rest of the world has caught up after the postwar era and if we want to compete, we need to cut out the cancer that is systemic massive wealth disparity.

A healthy society finds roles for all it's citizens, not just the ones with the right credentials.

idiotsecant··on Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
Are you the enemy of every mitochondria that is not a free cell? Are you an enemy of every organisim that's ever been outcompeted by another? No? Why not?
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