normalaccess

The only real solution is to discourage drug use in the first place. Early education is the best deterrent but with our modern pluralistic society you can't even get people to agree on what is "good" or "bad." Not only that but these chemicals are extremely physically addictive and cause a derangement in higher executive brain functions. Often the most effective repellent is a threat of negative outcome for the targeted action. Impulse control (internal or external) is the only thing that really separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom.

Unfortunately, if the new laws are enforced there will be a "correction" that takes place and I imagine that will include fines, arrests, and jail.

For anyone interested here are the Lens protocol docs.

https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/what-is-lens

I'm suspicious when the first thing a new site asks for is to connect to to my wallet. Let me look around first. Gives me scam vibes.

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I have a few questions about this sort of legislation.

How do you determine what "AI" even is in this context? I feel like we have a Loki's Wager situation on our hands where either the context is so restricted to be functionally meaningless or so broad that simple things like basic math processing would be covered.

Although it sounds crazy I fell like certain kinds of math (like matrix multiplication, gradient decent, and simulated annealing) will soon be outlawed unless you are authorized.

As far as the other stuff I'm not sure how effective it would be... Like CCTV data, you could just simulate virtually identical visual data using tings like the unreal engine. But I do get it. Things like social scoring? That cat is already out of the bag and using machine learning and AI is only a value add to the system.

At the end of the day AI is just /fancy/ math and any problems that fall into the "P VS NP" category use the same computational techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki's_Wager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_descent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-e...

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I think the idea that it's "fighting radicalism" has always been a ploy. Take a real moment to look at it and it's flawed on almost every level. I believe it's a candy coated "virtue" shell they wrap around their hatred for white people and white culture.

The color wars have been going on for at least 100 years in the US. Just look at the testimony of Manning Johnson. The communists of the 1920s realized that race was the weakest point in the American social fabric and bent a large quantity of resources on that point (and probably still do). If they figured that out then others have too.

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I think this will add context to the discussion. Below are the recently leaked internal Red Hat guidelines.

RED HAT ALLYSHIP COMMANDMENTS

    1. Openly acknowledges PRIVILEGE and SYSTEMIC racism exist in trauma
    2. Never questions the REALITY of our BLACK friends and colleagues
    3. Rejects the idea that race is political
    4. Accepts that WHITE people are responsible for dismantling racism
    5. Only WHITE people are racist
    6. Knows the BLACK community owes us nothing in this work
    7. Requires acknowledgment and repair of inevitable MISTAKES
    8. Is never rooted in WHITE SAVIORISM
    9. Sees the black community as a group of individuals and not a MONOLITH
    10. Does NOT seek recognition or praise for a job well done

Are you going to go back and update all the reports over the last 50 years and update them? That is not an easy ask.

It's like asking Americans to use metric.

I personally have no problem if it was a different photo but lets look at some theoretical objections to the one you provided.

An astronaut? Some would see that as classicist. Blue and Orange? This impacts people with deuteranomaly and protanomaly color blindness. NASA? They are a capitalist space program that hired Nazis after WWII. A woman? Sitting? A person of color? Rectangular dimensions? ect... ect...

These are, of course, completely absurd objections. But someone somewhere would complain about your choice as firmly as you complain about the Lenna photo. And would you think their objections are as absurd as some think your objections are? Probably.

Standards are standards because they provide a solid reference that everyone can use and they should, by definition, be resistant to change. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

BUT if we do change it, I vote for a cute cat photo. https://www.photos-public-domain.com/2018/04/26/cat-with-blu...

It's all well and good that you feel that way but what do you offer to replace the Lenna photo? It's easy to say it needs to be replaced but it's actually quite a different matter to find something so universally recognized. Everyone knows exactly what it's /supposed/ to look like and that's why it's useful as a reference to judge image processing.

Just my two cents.

I haven’t had time to look at the code. Is this generating a unique root certificate per install? If not this could become an attack vector to decrypt TLS traffic.

I’ve posted this elsewhere in this thread but the consequences of AI have HUGE knock on effects.

https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY?si=B719mdQFtgpnfWvH

https://youtube.com/shorts/Q_FUrVqvlfM?si=stb0KC_i5rbqfNyI

Once global ID is cracked then global social credit can gain some traction. Etc…

It won’t just be regulated, it will create the need for global citizen IDs to combat the overwhelming flood of really distortions caused by AI. We the people will be forced to line up and be counted while the powers that be will have unlimited access to control the narrative.

It’s already begun…

https://youtube.com/shorts/Q_FUrVqvlfM?si=0EFPy02k4Xs60SPC

All joking aside I firmly believe that this “crisis” is manufactured or at least heavily influenced by those that want to shut down the internet and free communications. Up until now they have been unsuccessful. Copyright infringement, hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, child exploitation, deep fakes, none have worked to garner support. Now we have an existential threat. Video, audio, text, nothin is off limits and soon it will be in real time (note: the GOV tries to stay 25 years ahead of the private sector).

This meme video incapsulates this perfectly.

https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY?si=B719mdQFtgpnfWvH

Mark my words, in five years or less we will be begging the governments of earth to implement permanent global real time tracking for every man woman and child on earth.

Privacy is dead. And WE killed it.

The solution to this is to add a incrementing number to the domain on a separate list in some fashion. So for example instead of website.com you would use website.com0. If there is a need to generate an new password for the same site you increment the number (website.com1). Since the fist stage of the Off The Grid system is very much like a hash you will end up with a completely different password.

If you want to be REALLY secure about the process to protect from someone finding your grid and list you could run the process twice. Once to create a "hash" of the the domain name then again to generate the password. Sense this is a one way function no one would have a clue what sites you are using.

Domain: website.com > Hash of name: Ght5Fr2\-0 (this is where you append the number) > Password: kHu8HBe#

Steve gives the full breakdown of the process here: https://www.grc.com/otg/goals.htm

I hope this makes sense.

I don't know about more secure, or even practical.. But when I use stuff like this it makes me feel sneaky and clandestine.

There is a slightly more powerful approach developed by Steve Gibson (from the security now podcast) called "Off the Grid" if anyone is interested. It has a few more features baked in and a nice generator to play with. I highly recommend giving it a look.

https://www.grc.com/offthegrid.htm

I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a false positive due to the CDC is now recommending against PCR tests as they can’t tell between corona or the flu. I hate to say it but I think some of the people who were saying the numbers were wrong might be right, we might have been counting the flu this whole time along with the coronavirus.

https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert...

Sim-city music? I guess it's hard to recreate the classic feel of the era without some actual midi from the time.