te7447

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by te7447 3mo ago
Try xcancel: https://xcancel.com/pmigdal/status/2064837039552409763
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by te7447 5mo ago
> ... eventually the only thing that accrues is things that the factions agree on, or at least what ArbCom has demanded they stop fighting over Or what the faction with the most favored access to ArbCom manages to make stick by getting t
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by te7447 5mo ago
See also the SNAFU principle: http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/jargon300/SNAFUprincipl...
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by te7447 6mo ago
It's trusted in the sense that it lets the person with power (the root of trust) trust the hardware. That person just isn't you. It's a way to enforce power relations by making the hardware respect them. From this perspective
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by te7447 7mo ago
Travelers definitely has a very distinct "seat-of-your-pants" form of plotting, though, that can seem inconsistent if you're used to something more consistently planned in advance like Babylon 5. Two big changes during S1 als
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by te7447 7mo ago
Whatever it is that caused "It's not X, It's Y", it's more recent than LLMs as a whole. As far as I remember, neither GPT3.5, GPT4, nor Claude Instant did it. I think Gemini was the first to really do it, and then o
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by te7447 7mo ago
> There's a term for this, but I can't think of it at the moment. Moravec's paradox: https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/moravec-s-paradox
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by te7447 8mo ago
I imagine you would use something that errs on the side of safety - e.g. insist on total functional programming and use something like Idris' totality checker.
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by te7447 8mo ago
Something "systems that are attacked by entities that adapt often need to be defended by entities that adapt".
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by te7447 8mo ago
> use a $200 camera and photograph your keyring from a couple blocks away I suppose serious defenders will need to get an EVVA MCS, if that's their threat model :-) Just don't let the really serious lockpickers near the lock wi
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by te7447 8mo ago
> Cellular radios in a PC? You don't get root on those. Same situation as they are in a cell phone: They are licensed-band transmitters, and they are required to be tamper proof to protect the licensee. The original post said: >
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by te7447 8mo ago
> That has been the model since day one, since you are using spectrum that, because the end users are not licensed, requires it. Radios in 100% of commercially available phones are locked to prevent user tampering. Why, then, can users b
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by te7447 9mo ago
If you want to track how many times users revisit the site, you could do that anonymously by setting a visit counter cookie, e.g. VISITS: 1, VISITS: 2, etc. This would track the user over different IPs, but since the cookie only has a count
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by te7447 9mo ago
I've always wondered how you'd be able to rigorously distinguish breaking out of the simulation from just discovering novel things about your current universe. Is a black hole a bug or a feature? If you find a way to instantly obs