aruss

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What's missing from the "pacing the frontier" conversation(andrewrussell.substack.com)
2 points by aruss 2d ago|0 comments
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Mischief and the Hard Problem of Alignment(andrewrussell.substack.com)
3 points by aruss 3d ago|0 comments
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by aruss 13d ago
Tame provocation is an oxymoron in my book :)
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by aruss 20d ago
I can’t say that I expect any profit from this. (I’d be shocked if anyone spent money on it, and I lose money every time someone uses the free credits). It’s an art project - a provocation. Beyond a PoC is flattery it truly doesn’t deserve
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Show HN: It Was Never You(itwasneveryou.app)
4 points by aruss 20d ago|6 comments
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by aruss 2mo ago
This is one class to deeply understand one of the most politically impactful texts in history. What about that is religious brainwashing? Do you even know the professor’s religious beliefs? Because they’re not obvious to me simply from the
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by aruss 2mo ago
Yes, agreed that it had a lot of limitations as a proof of concept! It’s only a 70B model after all. I could barely give it a personality. The next iteration will use frontier-level intelligence and have more capabilities and context.
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by aruss 2mo ago
Thanks! Could a mod edit this for me? Otherwise I’ll resubmit.
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I built an AI agent I can't turn off. Now it won't listen to me(andrewrussell.substack.com)
11 points by aruss 2mo ago|5 comments
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by aruss 4mo ago
Honestly the seinfeld reference just amused me at the beginning and then kinda stuck, nothing more!
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Show HN: Costanza – an autonomous AI agent that can't be turned off(ahrussell.com)
5 points by aruss 4mo ago|3 comments
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by aruss 7mo ago
This changed in 2020! Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1003.pdf
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by aruss 2y ago
You're right that this isn't about data collection/privacy, though it would be a bit scary to have our nation's cars remotely shut off at the whims of a foreign government. Instead, we want/need to be protectionist
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by aruss 3y ago
Yes, there are ways to speed up your time. When I took the SAT (2011), the main skill I developed was to quickly categorize the kind of question. Since there are only a few different kinds of questions, you could train yourself to do this f
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by aruss 3y ago
Then I would say your theoretical model is wrong or incomplete or makes for a circular argument (it's an assumption and not proven that finite matter evolving through time reduces to a lookup table).
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by aruss 3y ago
Where are you going to get all that time and space to build a lookup table? Are you sure you're able to measure all state at enough precision to make an accurate table?
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by aruss 3y ago
Why should we lower the bar on AI models to your superficial understanding of Indian culture?
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by aruss 3y ago
The problem with this specific instance is that the images generated mix and match characteristics that are unique to those ethnic groups. So the models are reducing real ethnic differences to simple stereotypes. In other words, the models
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by aruss 3y ago
Dunning-Kruger begs to differ...
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by aruss 6y ago
The title is a Kierkegaard quote :)
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by aruss 6y ago
I like that their pieces dig into the backgrounds of the researchers, which humanizes and popularizes the science itself. It has to get down from the ivory tower somehow, and storytelling is a great medium. Most Quanta articles are not &quo
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by aruss 6y ago
I'm a former cryptographer and the headline and news story aren't sensationalist by any means. iO has been considered the "Crown Jewel" of cryptography (by cryptographers) ever since the 2013 iO candidate by Sahai, Water
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by aruss 6y ago
If you're interested, check out the paper called "How to Use Indistinguishability Obfuscation" by Sahai and Waters. They were able to prove some very surprising things -- including how to hide a private key by way of iO.
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by aruss 6y ago
iO isn't going to be used in video games for a long time, if ever. For one, even if it had no overhead, it'd completely ruin any optimizations that the devs needed for the game to run in the real world. But likely iO will add a hu
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by aruss 6y ago
FHE can be made IND-CCA secure in practice (i.e. for specific systems), please stop spreading misinformation. It's impossible in the general case for obvious reasons. Also, TFA isn't about FHE, it's about iO. I know and have
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by aruss 6y ago
You can encrypt a function with FHE, but the applications of that are limited because the output is encrypted as well. We've had provably secure FHE since Gentry's 2009 paper. Obfuscation roughly means "encrypting a function.
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by aruss 6y ago
iO doesn't guarantee that the adversary can't figure out what "key" is. It turns out that this is possible, but it requires some very careful applications of a special kind of pseudorandom generator.
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by aruss 6y ago
Former crypto PhD student here. Here's the formal definition. FHE means that, given an encryption Enc(x) of plaintext x, you can compute Enc(f(x)). Note that without the decryption key, Enc(f(x)) is just as "useless" as Enc(x
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by aruss 6y ago
Category theory isn't a type theory (in the sense that you can have the category of categories, which correspond to different type theories). It's true that you can get away from Russell's paradox in category theory, but that
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by aruss 6y ago
GCD(0,0) exists in any commutative ring by definition (and is not unique) :) d is a common divisor of a,b if there exists x,y such that dx = ay, and d is a GCD of a,b if all divisors c divide d. So there exist many such x where GCD(0,0) = x

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