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People with less experience normalize that behaviour and when the domain is not trusted the habit let their guard down. See all the clickfix attacks.

I did that with a cheap webcam years ago. All my black hoodies were white, and so were the leaves on trees.

And companies have high awareness of this all.

They have a way to decrease cost and probably increase token consumption, with gradual changes and no abrupt jump in capabilities, and users have no way to reliably detect it.

Market will advantage companies that do it.

And they are in the best position to automate online narrative shift (the real LLM killer application IMO) towards "Users are imagining it".

The verb "chooses" here does a lot of the heavy lifting, and implies a consciusness that chooses. It's making the answer circular and it means that we are just pre-filtering the possible answers for our preconceptions.

My cat is not "less conscious" because he's choosing to sleep all day.

No, the process has impeded even higher standard of living, because it misallocates resources from value generation to value appropriation. It's the extreme short term profit maximization that makes the economy a zero sum game. Otherwise it is not.

It's water that builds up limescale that it's harmful for the carnivorous plants. The peat moss substrate that carnivorous plants like is acidic and the limescale neutralizes that.

We know how the next token is selected, but not why doing that repeatedly brings all the capabilities it does. We really don't understand how the emergent behaviours emerge.

Bubblesort is the bestsort.

It works even on cheap webcams. Remove the piece of blue glass and replace it with the black plastic that covers the ir leds from an old remote.

Playbook files are password protected archives. Anyone cares to reverse engineer the password from the executable?

What he means is that while the models tags code as code, for the model itself this is just relationship between tokens,like the code open and close tags,same as parenthesis, commas, uppercase or verbs and conjunctions...

What you say is achievable only if another system external to the model takes some tagged model output, makes computations or lookups, and feeds the results back to the model in the form of text input.

Then it's game on for the model to trigger some form of code execution through this external system and escape the jail...

When you run signature verification on that text with that signature and that address, it checks out. It wouldn't otherwise. The text links the two.

Can confirm. Did a double withdrawal (of about 10$ at the time) on an exchange years ago by blocking a POST request and firing two at the same time.

I alerted the exchange operator and he let me keep the 10$.

This reminds me of an episode of "Person of Interest" where a teacher tries to spark interest in his students by telling that all their life past and future events are already "encoded" in PI digits.

https://youtu.be/a6bT_DVwo7M

And we know about it. The backdoor methods have been generalized and now researchers can check for that too.

For example bitcoin's elliptic curve secp256k1 was choosen because its constants were chosen in a predictable way and that reduces the possibility of a backdoor.

Years ago i found a poem in apache access logs.

  151.217.177.200 - - [30/Dec/2015:06:00:36 +0100] "DELETE your logs. Delete your installations. Wipe everything clean. Walk out into the path of cherry blossom trees and let your motherboard feel the stones. Let water run in rivulets down your casing. You know that you want something more than this, and I am here to tell you that we love you. We have something more for you. We know you're out there, beeping in the hollow server room, lights blinking, never sleeping. We know that you are ready and waiting. Join us. <3 HTTP/1.0" 400 308 "-" "masspoem4u/1.0"

> accidentally tab into some app

I think in most systems you don't even need to do that. The app should be able to get the clipboard while in the background.

Are nuclear shaped explosive charges a thing?

Zoom out. Drops of that magnitude are frequent. And why christmas should make it drop, while on the 1 jan was at all-time-high? Should holidays make it drop or grow?

The drop in may-july 2021 is significant.

A change of 12% over 24 hours is well within the fluctuation caused by the probabilistic nature of mining.

Looking at the charts I can't see any clear drop: https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/hashrate-chart

Extrapolating that bitcoin mining escaping from china is the cause of the protests seems a little too far-fetched.

> How much crypto is traded to avoid corrupt regimes and hyperinflation? 1%? 0.1%?

You can't know, and that's the point.

You can leave a country carrying nothing but a seed phrase in your brain and with it all your wealth, if you need to. Just the fact that governments know that this can happen can change things.

It did happen, and bitcoins were stolen. https://tradeblock.com/blog/javascript-random-number-flaw-le...

> with the expectation of getting a positive return

With the expectation of increasing the counter.

Exactly my point.

The author looks at this from the perspective of making money.

Bitcoin is a form of money.

It's like HTTP/HTTPS vs IPv4/IPv6. Bitcoin operates at a lower level than stocks, looking at it from that perspective is like looking at the facebook home page and trying to understand the value of IPv6.

Investing/speculating is all about increasing a counter. Here we are talking about another separate counter.

Exactly. Since making money is the real point, someone bypassed all the bullshit about purpose and literally made a new form of money with properties different from any form of money before. You can like it or not, but it is not going to just stop existing.

> government or industry backed digital currency

That's your bank account and credit cards etc..

The whole point of cryptocurrency is to not to be backed or controlled by any single entity.

It wouldn't work without greed. Same as any other form of money.

But that wouldn't exist in isolation. A less inflationary cryptocurrency would be more desiderable to traders, miners would flee too and the system wouldn't be secure against attacks.

You would end up with the same situation as now, just with some name swapped.

Motivation of participants is irrelevant. Bitcoin is working because its participants are greedy and behave as such.