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by nokcha 23d ago
I'd guess that prompt injection is the biggest risk in this setup, dwarfing the risk of exploits against the inference engine. Personally, I run LLM agents only inside a Docker container that limits the LLM's access to sensitive
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by nokcha 6mo ago
> LLM generated content often (perhaps by definition) seems acceptable to LLMs. In my experience (albeit with non-coding questions), ChatGPT 5.2 is often quite eager to critique snippets of its own replies from previous conversations. A
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by nokcha 8mo ago
I'd argue that environmental regulations that impede building modern nuclear power plants to replace coal power plants are net harmful. Nuclear power safety has advanced a lot since Chernobyl.
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by nokcha 2y ago
For non-broken cryptographic hashes (e.g., SHA-256), the false-positive rate is negligible. Indeed, cryptographic hashes were designed so that even nation-state adversaries do not have the resources to generate two inputs that hash to the
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by nokcha 2y ago
> machinery, toys, lifts, medical devices, and vehicles All of those seem high-risk except toys.
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by nokcha 2y ago
It's the other way around: with the new change, the blockee will be able to see (but not reply to) the blocker's posts, but the blockee's posts will still be hidden from the blocker.
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by nokcha 2y ago
> ultra-processed foods such as ... yogurts > Frozen and canned vegetables are often classified as ultra-processed I think this goes against the common usage of the term "ultra-processed".
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by nokcha 3y ago
ChatGPT is arguably a general intelligence, but it hasn't escaped AFAIK -- it's still contained within OpenAI infrastructure, and OpenAI can easily pull the plug on it.
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by nokcha 3y ago
Most individual shareholders (especially those who just buy index funds) have neither knowledge of corporate wrongdoings nor, in practice, power to prevent them. A better model would be holding accountable the particular individuals with p
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by nokcha 3y ago
I've heard that recent changes to reduce sulfur emissions from maritime shipping have caused a sharp increase in global warming: https://twitter.com/RokoMijic/status/1674697743380430849 https://twi
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Ugh fields – Pavlovian conditioning can cause humans to unconsciously flinch(lesswrong.com)
3 points by nokcha 3y ago|0 comments
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by nokcha 3y ago
The "software" part of an LLM is pretty trivial -- the interesting piece is the the weights. Since the weights are mechanically generated by a computer, it can be argued that the weights are not copyrightable, just like a photogr
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by nokcha 3y ago
I guess there might be a distinction between "development" of software and "maintenance" of software (e.g., bug fixing, refactoring, etc.)?
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by nokcha 4y ago
I imagine a VPN is sometimes still useful when torrenting, to avoid copyright complaints to your ISP.
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by nokcha 4y ago
Highly relevant: https://AstralCodexTen.substack.com/p/the-media-very-rarely-...
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Is Twitter down / read-only for everyone else?
25 points by nokcha 4y ago|15 comments
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by nokcha 4y ago
> #4 ... "Hacking is Cool" is a really dumb idea. This has aged poorly; nowadays, the most notable attacks are conducted by state actors (e.g., Russia and China) or for-profit criminal groups (e.g., ransomware) rather than lone
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Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study(nature.com)
233 points by nokcha 4y ago|255 comments
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by nokcha 4y ago
In regards to the difference in effect between Adderall and illegal street meth, Scott thinks the biggest difference is the dosage size, effectively around 50x higher for street meth: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p&#x
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Formula for a Shortage(thezvi.substack.com)
34 points by nokcha 4y ago|31 comments
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What if the SCOTUS leak came from a foreign hack?(reason.com)
4 points by nokcha 4y ago|0 comments
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Post-acute Covid-19 is characterized by gut viral antigen persistence in IBD(gastrojournal.org)
2 points by nokcha 4y ago|0 comments
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by nokcha 4y ago
Question is a bit ambiguous whether it refers to a 'second-preimage attack' or a 'collision attack'. 'Second-preimage attack': You are given a message, and your goal is find another message that hashes to the v
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by nokcha 4y ago
Oh, I guess I was thinking mainly about online censorship by tech platforms. I think most censorship from the right nowadays is about public schools?
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by nokcha 4y ago
>I love it because it's fast and minimalist. Minor quibble about this: On large pages, it can be quite slow. E.g., on https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t... , it takes a few seconds af
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by nokcha 4y ago
> "Anti-censorship" is hugely unpopular with the mainstream intellectual community these days. I'd disagree. It's unpopular with left-leaning mainstream audiences , but among intellectuals who write for a living, I
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Experimental injection may repair spinal cord injuries, animal study suggests(upi.com)
3 points by nokcha 4y ago|0 comments
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by nokcha 4y ago
For Twitter, perhaps a good compromise would be: instead of banning problematic accounts, set to them a "default-mute" state where only people who choose to follow the account can see its tweets. See also Section 1.F of https:&#x
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Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without trial or legal recourse(thezvi.substack.com)
416 points by nokcha 5y ago|489 comments
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by nokcha 5y ago
Automatic over-the-air updates to cars do constitute a national security concern. A nation-state adversary who infiltrates the manufacturer can brick the cars, impeding the ability of essential employees to commute to work. And if the car

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