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  1. Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech

  2. Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech

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    /noise Achievement Unlocked Describe a fundamental technology unintentionally

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    Describe a fundamental technology unintentionally

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech

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    Fundamentally most (all? depends how you define it) hacking is confusing systems into disagreeing about what is just data versus what is instructions, so to assume you can keep those separate is...

    Fundamentally most (all? depends how you define it) hacking is confusing systems into disagreeing about what is just data versus what is instructions, so to assume you can keep those separate is the same assumption as that you are unhackable.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech

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    Yeah, I don't think we really disagree on what happened; I was just summarizing differently. Ultimately the package repo was a live internet-connected package repo, which means that the sandbox...

    Yeah, I don't think we really disagree on what happened; I was just summarizing differently. Ultimately the package repo was a live internet-connected package repo, which means that the sandbox was not truly sandboxed. It absolutely is trivial to implement the exact features they described without that wrinkle by cloning a live package repo and re-implementing it offline.

    Which any sane and responsible organization would have required if they believed half of what the AI companies tell you their models can do. That leaves only three possibilities: they are not a sane or responsible company, they do not believe the things AI companies are saying, or both.

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech

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    Absolutely trivial. The complexity only comes in when you want to add features, like real internet access but only through our super secure proxy. (Can you read my eyes rolling?) This is...

    Absolutely trivial. The complexity only comes in when you want to add features, like real internet access but only through our super secure proxy. (Can you read my eyes rolling?)

    This is impressive, don't get me wrong, but like every attack AI does, all it does is reiterate how important the things we already know about security are. A real sandbox should have absolutely no path to the internet, under any circumstances. We've been accomplishing this for decades with virtualization.

    12 votes

  6. Comment on Is it possible to not want to be happy? in ~talk

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    I think that's a pretty common part of depression, for many people who experience depression.

    I think that's a pretty common part of depression, for many people who experience depression.

    5 votes

  7. Comment on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson finally explains his decision to bid $3.2B for parking meters before walking away in ~transport

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    Well, good things, when taken to extremes, are often bad things. Just because an automated AI summary is spam doesn't automatically mean a human-directed one is too.

    Well, good things, when taken to extremes, are often bad things. Just because an automated AI summary is spam doesn't automatically mean a human-directed one is too.

    6 votes

  8. Comment on US Federal Communications Commission approves test of space mirror to light night sky despite outcry in ~space

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    Sure, undoubtedly, but I am not sure the scale is clear to the average reader. 7000 satellites, all perfectly aligned, with zero losses, is what would be required with this math to replicate...

    Sure, undoubtedly, but I am not sure the scale is clear to the average reader. 7000 satellites, all perfectly aligned, with zero losses, is what would be required with this math to replicate daytime sun in one place. And now long can the satellites stay in a proper orbit to hit that one place?

    I wouldn't be surprised if we're talking tens of thousands of launches just to illuminate one area. Somewhere in the ballpark of 5 billion dollars in launch cost alone. The math just doesn't math.

    7 votes

  9. Comment on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson finally explains his decision to bid $3.2B for parking meters before walking away in ~transport

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    I appreciate you providing a summary for us, and I appreciate even more that you called it out as an AI summary. Information is just information, and it's all potentially good or bad, so informing...

    I appreciate you providing a summary for us, and I appreciate even more that you called it out as an AI summary. Information is just information, and it's all potentially good or bad, so informing the reader of the source of that information is crucial. It's up to the reader to decide what to do with it, and because you disclosed, the reader has the power to do so.

    6 votes

  10. Comment on US Federal Communications Commission approves test of space mirror to light night sky despite outcry in ~space

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    Yeah, I mean you're taking the surface area of the mirror (60m circle, so about 2800m², or .001 mi²) and spreading it out over an area of about 7mi². So you're basically getting 1/7000th the...

    Yeah, I mean you're taking the surface area of the mirror (60m circle, so about 2800m², or .001 mi²) and spreading it out over an area of about 7mi². So you're basically getting 1/7000th the energy density of straight sunlight.

    Like you said - assuming perfect reflectivity and no losses.

    If you were able to cover 100% of the 7mi² with solar panels, it would be equivalent to the output of a single 60m circle of solar panels during the day.

    7 votes

  11. Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health

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    If it helps, I'm never going to beat your lifetime bests either!

    If it helps, I'm never going to beat your lifetime bests either!

    1 vote

  12. Comment on “There will be no mercy” in ~society

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    What could possibly be the "for better" in that take?

    What could possibly be the "for better" in that take?

  13. Comment on Slate Truck preorder starts at $24,950 in ~transport

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    Well, you could always pick up a tablet for use specifically in your Slate for cheaper than the price the auto manufacturers are charging you for one. Or at least, that is the pitch.

    Well, you could always pick up a tablet for use specifically in your Slate for cheaper than the price the auto manufacturers are charging you for one. Or at least, that is the pitch.

    7 votes

  14. Comment on Slate Truck preorder starts at $24,950 in ~transport

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    You can still use android auto, it just won't be cast to another screen. The idea being you can mount the device you already have.

    You can still use android auto, it just won't be cast to another screen. The idea being you can mount the device you already have.

    7 votes

  15. Comment on Slate Truck preorder starts at $24,950 in ~transport

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    There's really not much software for them to get right. They don't have an infotainment system at all, for example.

    There's really not much software for them to get right. They don't have an infotainment system at all, for example.

    13 votes

  16. Comment on What are some seemingly silly things in your life that have practical purposes? in ~life

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    The human experience is wide and varied. I used to hate exercise, but like beer or wine, once I got used to it, the bad parts faded and the good parts rose. Now, I literally choose to go to the...

    The human experience is wide and varied. I used to hate exercise, but like beer or wine, once I got used to it, the bad parts faded and the good parts rose. Now, I literally choose to go to the gym when traveling because it makes me feel good.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Shopping around for a new-and-improved backup solution in ~comp

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    I used rclone for a while to back up to cloud providers, but I am currently between solutions. Rclone might not tick all your boxes but I was pretty happy with the experience. The only reason I'm...

    I used rclone for a while to back up to cloud providers, but I am currently between solutions. Rclone might not tick all your boxes but I was pretty happy with the experience. The only reason I'm not using it now is because I was relying on unlimited cloud storage and I haven't yet decided on a solution that doesn't.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Does generative AI have a natural limit without a major innovation? in ~comp

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    I would say that LLMs are getting closeish, if you really squint, to something that could arguably be called reasoning. Yes, they know 2+2=4 because they have internalized enough data that...

    I would say that LLMs are getting closeish, if you really squint, to something that could arguably be called reasoning.

    Yes, they know 2+2=4 because they have internalized enough data that basically says that. But also, good models can "reason", even if they were never told 2+2=4, if they were told things like 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 1+1+1+1=4, etc etc. There really truly is a sense of reasoning going on, using their multi-dimensional relationship model of one token to another.

    You could argue that a dimension of an LLM might be an object's "blueness", even if it's not codified as such, based on the relative weights of other blue and non-blue things represented in that dimension, and similarly it might encode an emotional concept like "sadness". As such, it could tell you with an amount of logic whether a blue thing is likely to be associated with sad things, even if it was never trained on that directly, based on how often blue things tend to be also sad things.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on What do you think is the best sandwich? in ~food

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    I hope you enjoy the best grilled cheese of your life!

    I hope you enjoy the best grilled cheese of your life!

    1 vote

  20. Comment on What do you think is the best sandwich? in ~food

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    For what it's worth, I did mean for it to be a throwaway comment expressing my own opinion, with the assumption being that I was doing so respectfully. I harbor no ill will, and I am genuinely...

    For what it's worth, I did mean for it to be a throwaway comment expressing my own opinion, with the assumption being that I was doing so respectfully. I harbor no ill will, and I am genuinely sorry that I inadvertently made it a whole thing (which was exactly what you expressed you did not want).

    1 vote