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by btilly 6d ago
The other researchers themselves were also using AI. That's why it was potentially available to be plagiarized. There is no human only proof of this.
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by btilly 6d ago
Did you miss my last paragraph? I presented the research that I knew was somewhat relevant. Then made it clear that that wasn't what was being asked, and why my expectation is what it is.
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by btilly 6d ago
Yes. See https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison?from... . 250 documents ingested from somewhere is enough to become part of the knowledge of a model of arbitrarily large size. I would expect that a good
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by btilly 7d ago
My wife lost her Facebook account because Facebook autolinked it to someone else's Instagram (not hers), then shut that one down for abuse. No appeal process. Luckily she didn't use Facebook much.
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by btilly 8d ago
Perhaps reading https://www.math.toronto.edu/mccann/199/thurston.pdf will help. The point of mathematics is not to prove results. It is to build conceptual thinking about mathematics. Important problems are import
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by btilly 8d ago
The problem that I want to see them tackle is formalizing the classification of finite simple groups. Everyone uses the classification. Nobody has great confidence in the proof. Nobody understands it. There are attempts to reprove it. If it
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by btilly 11d ago
The much larger Vancouver, and the one that this is about, is in Canada. There is also Vancouver Island, which is separate from the other two. All are named after Captain George Vancouver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by btilly 11d ago
As opposed to building a bigger bank account, or paying dividends.
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by btilly 12d ago
Amazon didn't make a profit because they were reinvesting money into starting new lines of business. Basically there was a choice between taking the money, and growing. They chose growth.
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by btilly 23d ago
That's the viewpoint of everyone sensible outside of Alzheimer's research. Those in it are still throwing billions per year at the idea. Meanwhile, back in reality, no amyloid-beta drug has had any clinical effect in humans, other
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by btilly 2mo ago
Yes. There exist numbers that cannot actually be written down because they are too big. But you get there by a path of increasing fuzziness, and no clear boundaries, from numbers that we can both write down, and work with. Then there is a j
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by btilly 2mo ago
Bad example. You can do all of this with constructivism. Any constructable Cauchy sequence converges to a constructable member of the space. What you get for the formalism around computable numbers is this. Every mathematical object in the
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by btilly 2mo ago
That is not a number in constructivism. But there are numbers in constructivism for which it is unknown whether they are zero. Some of which must remain unknown, if mathematics is consistent. This is a rather important and weird edge case.
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by btilly 3mo ago
That apparent belief is common. People with current access to power, seldom anticipate what might happen in the future if it is turned against them.
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by btilly 3mo ago
That is who it was created for.
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by btilly 3mo ago
Tor is not for criminals. It's for you and me. No. Tor is for the CIA. It won't work for them unless we use it as well. Criminals also find it useful. It's easy to verify this. Tor was originally written by Paul Syverson, M
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by btilly 3mo ago
Not just minimize threats, but often to maximize their power. Lobbyists do not just try to convince a politician that X is a good idea. Lobbyists give the politician money to introduce already drafted legislation, and then give other politi
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by btilly 3mo ago
Yes, there is always a path to a problem. Even random monkeys on a keyboard can write a security exploit. Random monkeys with guidance from a knowledgeable human will do it much faster. The goal shouldn't be to make problems impossible
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by btilly 3mo ago
How does this make the model useless? It finds and fixes the security hole. It can even write a test that verifies that the fix didn't break things. But it deliberately doesn't reveal the fact that it was a security issue that w
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by btilly 3mo ago
What I suggested would allow it to fix the issues. Just not write a test that was directly usable as a security exploit. This doesn't stop attackers from being able to leverage the analysis. But it does make the tool more useful for de
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by btilly 3mo ago
I don't believe that this is unfixable. Just have an internal verbal loop of, "Is this a security issue?" The thought that it potentially is should trigger both a high priority on getting it right, and an unwillingness to wri
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by btilly 3mo ago
This is a take on Elon that I cannot agree with. I get it. I know how much people want to hate him. And how much fuel he has given for that. But he's very talented, and really puts in the work. According to people I personally know who
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by btilly 3mo ago
So now that Tesla is clearly crashing, fold it into the more successful SpaceX and get to roll the dice again? Classic Elon. This is the same thing that he did to rescue a failing Solar City by making it part of Tesla. It takes a lot to get
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by btilly 3mo ago
Just so that nobody jumps in with what I first wanted to jump in with, this estimate was done with the assumption that Elon Musk's Starship is built, works as advertised, and launch costs are at the lower end of the projected range. It
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Atlantic 'cold blob' likely caused by weakening AMOC near a tipping point(phys.org)
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by btilly 3mo ago
How does almost everyone pay for food at the grocery store? If stores don't have a good way to get money from customers, how do they pay the next step up the line?
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by btilly 3mo ago
Yes. Read through https://www.the-scientist.com/universe-25-experiment-69941 to see that, given a good enough environment, mice can wipe themselves out. Here is a particularly telling passage: Eventually Universe 25 took a
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by btilly 3mo ago
Here is what it actually means. When the economy is growing, investment makes sense. Why put your money under the mattress when it could be out there, working for you? When the reverse happens, investment stops making sense. Why risk your m
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by btilly 3mo ago
I could rant about the stupidity of spending fossil fuels, to grow biofuels, for no net gain in energy. But with a definite cost in engine wear. That said, like Democracy, capitalism is the worst economic system, except all of the others th
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by btilly 3mo ago
Populations do not tend to grow to equilibrium and then stop. They tend to overgrow their environment, outstrip resources, and then collapse. The result may not be extinction. But losing 90% of the human population won't feel that diff

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