acgourley

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by acgourley 2mo ago
Has anyone bounced these kinds of Agents.md through practical benchmarks?
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by acgourley 4mo ago
keywords are a start but not enough imo - consider a concept subscription such as "any of my political representatives making statements about firearm control"
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by acgourley 4mo ago
Lots of bashing here so I feel compelled to say my piece that GoPros, despite their flaws, are still the best action camera in the market for many people, including me. They have a powerful set of customizations simple not possible on the t
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by acgourley 4mo ago
This is going to happen, but it's too expensive for your LLM to do the scanning, and instead someone needs to build and maintain the index while allowing other people to subscribe to concepts. The problem is no one has sorted out the e
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by acgourley 4mo ago
I disagree, their findings should generalize to the frontier. Even if the latest can deal with the extra complexity, it stands to reason it will take more tokens to do less. This could be a useful insight into the next generation of evals.
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by acgourley 4mo ago
I think you can do it without any biometrics at all, although using it as a second factor could make it smoother. I'd propose the primary factor is social - when a child is born there is a recorded attestation from the family and car
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by acgourley 4mo ago
I think it would make the web MORE anonymous, not less! The reason it's hard to boot up a secure social network (such as Signal) is the handshake for (re)identifying people. Signal makes a ton of conceits here (the UX essentially asks
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by acgourley 4mo ago
Let me try anyway (maybe I'm a masochist) First I'll say the government already has an ID system with a backdoor they mandate you use (your federal social security ID and state ID). The backdoor isn't very interesting because
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by acgourley 4mo ago
It's so obvious to me states need to create a soul bound identity system, replace social security numbers with it, and then let everyone else use cryptography on top of that (which is now cheap when you don't care about sybil atta
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by acgourley 5mo ago
Everytime I've asked a model to write it's Agents/Claude file it's been pretty bad actually, are you sure writing these files is actually in distribution right now?
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by acgourley 7mo ago
> they need a corresponding level of enforcement Yes 100%, that's why the government needs to offer it, make tampering a serious offense, and dynamically defend its integrity from attackers. > incorruptible AGI Not a lot of alpha
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by acgourley 7mo ago
Yeah one reason I think the government has to offer this is usability. While you can imagine a purely p2p protocol between cypherpunks, for everyone else there needs to be a way to social workers, DMV staff, etc can deal with edge cases (su
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by acgourley 7mo ago
Yes that's the idea, once you have the soul-bound eID the ZK part is trivial, but the eID with the guarantees I outlined is not at all trivial.
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by acgourley 7mo ago
Sorry the term of art is really soulbound identity right now, I use POS but it's less common. Definitions vary but I say a useful system must allow people to endorse statements with evidence they are a) alive b) not able to be represen
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by acgourley 7mo ago
We really need proof of soul systems to exist, extended to also have a proof of citizenship. While the proof of soul systems can plausible be done in a decentralized manner, proof of citizenship is much harder, and in my opinion this is one
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by acgourley 1y ago
Some friends just made this: https://www.congressionalrag.com/ - they need help from anyone interested, especially around pulling in more data sources.
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by acgourley 2y ago
This is not obvious to me! For example, if you locked me in a room with no information inputs, over time I may still become more intelligent by your measures. Through play and reflection I can prune, reconcile and generate. I need compute t
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by acgourley 3y ago
Bank of America has started refusing to let me transfer to the new Chase account for Wise US, saying their account has been flagged for fraud.
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by acgourley 4y ago
Exactly. I think people want to be treated like owners more than they want an obtuse legal status of being an owner. In other words, a seat at the table when strategic objectives are being defined is what will make them act like owners, not
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A Privacy Hero’s Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect AI’s Future(wired.com)
30 points by acgourley 4y ago|3 comments
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by acgourley 4y ago
This analysis has been done several times. To the best of my knowledge, even the covid policy contrarians don't see a a problem with its obvious conclusions. Here, let me google that for you: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs&#x
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by acgourley 4y ago
I'd use it for basic process automation, airtable data IO, triggering marketing campaigns or slack bots, etc. It's a heavy weight feature request but if I could lean on it in the way I lean on Prefect.io now for spinning up cloud
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by acgourley 5y ago
Whoops - added it. Thanks!
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by acgourley 5y ago
Sometimes someone links me to Ayvri (due to our overlap here) and it's always super impressive. As the capture tools get better, and something as sturdy as a GoPro can capture stable video suitable to watch on VR, the concept might pic
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by acgourley 5y ago
Working on it!
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by acgourley 5y ago
We're doing everything in Unity. The hard part is really in the encoding, so there is no reason we couldn't have the client be in Godot or even simply webGL, but that isn't our focus just yet.
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by acgourley 5y ago
We're working on something similar - several scene layers packed and transmitted over h265 streams and unpacked into a 3D client for 6DoF playback. Captures from something as simple as a GoPro and then our CV compares perspectives of t
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by acgourley 5y ago
For a history of how it has in fact often been a single person, and may still be, see: https://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-Confessions-Nuclear-...
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by acgourley 5y ago
While not good, this might be a boon for biotech such as that from https://www.pivotbio.com/ which can help plans fix their own nitrogen.
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by acgourley 6y ago
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