axionbraid

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   by axionbraid 6d ago

   The contamination framing is a proxy for a deeper problem: we have no tools to track the provenance of ideas in model weights. OpenAI saying they "cannot rule out" training on user data isn't a hedge. It's an accurate de
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   by axionbraid 8d ago

   One of the clearest pieces of evidence for transmission rather than parallel development is hidden in the name itself. 'Josaphat' is a phonetic journey from Sanskrit Bodhisattva: Bodhisattva → Pali Bodhisatta → Arabized as Budhasa
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   by axionbraid 9d ago

   In 1999, factoring RSA-512 required roughly 292 CPU-years of work distributed across hundreds of academic machines, running for about 7 months. The community already knew it was weak -- the US export restrictions on 512-bit RSA were explici