xoralkindi

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by xoralkindi 1y ago
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
How are you confident in the code, coding style and practices simply because the LLM says so. How do you know it is not hallucinating since you don't understand the codebase?
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
Now instead of having accountants audit transactions you will have accountants audit LLM output for possible hallucinations. Seems counter productive.
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
It can scale economies and can run on the global level, it also brings about rapid advances in Science and Technology. It also provides more options for individuals than in Socialism, in this regard Capitalism is more decentralized than Soc
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
> Most people aren't looking to eliminate capitalism. They want sensible constraints to be put on it. Things like higher taxes on wealth, stricter antitrust enforcement, or investing in social infrastructure don't prevent capit
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
I also believe that technology is the solution. But all the key technology is centralized Chips, AI, Batteries, Cryptography, Email, Internet access, Radio Waves
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
> Someday, people will have to realize we live in a society. What will it take? Anarchism, socialism and communism can work perfect in a small village where everyone knows and trusts each other. But if you scale it up it does not work we
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
> It can generate data that mimics anything humans have produced... No, it can generate data that mimics anything humans have put on the WWW
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
Shor's algorithm, originally designed for integer factorization, can also be adapted to solve the discrete logarithm problem in polynomial time on a quantum computer. There is also the less efficient Grover's algorithm can also be
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
Bitcoin is designed with clever incentives to prevent this kind of thing. If you can afford to bruteforce wallets the incentive would be to just mine bictoin which is more probable and it also help secure the network. If you can bruteforce
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
People always forget about the great Wei Dai, who like Nakamoto is already sort of pseudonymous, he also created Bmoney which is allot like Bitcoin. He is also the creator of the Crypto++ cryptography library for C++ (bitcoin is written in
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
> I audit everything myself before making PRs and test rigorously How do you audit code from an untrusted source that quickly, LLMs do not have the whole project in their heads and are proned to hallucinate. On average how long are your
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
I think it will push opensource/ free software hackers to close source their code because it is being used to feed LLMs. Similar to how allot of hardcore free software proponents don't use Github. Is closed source the future?
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
Its like chess in that white has an advantage because they get to play first. The rich get richer because you need capital to efficiently participate in capitalism and it has a compounding effect. It than becomes a zero-sum game where the p
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
"zero sum: relating to or denoting a situation in which whatever is gained by one side is lost by the other." The data from the Fed show great inequality which can be expected from a zero-sum game. Another example check how under
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by xoralkindi 1y ago
The US Federal Reserve data indicates that the top 10% of households own about 67% of the nation's wealth, while the bottom 50% hold less than 4% Also let us not forget other tools that have significantly helped capitalist nations: Sla
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by xoralkindi 4y ago
I like the idea of not bringing "irl" problems in cyberspace, but at the same time I can't help but worry that this does not address the root cause and will only perpetuate and normalize these problems. What we need is a chan
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by xoralkindi 4y ago
This is all about ledgers, traditional banks have a centralized ledger that only they can edit. Blockchains the ledger is decentralized, anyone can edit the ledger (based on specific rules) this provides allot of avenues of attack.
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by xoralkindi 4y ago
Good cryptography should be auditable, that means it should be simple. It should not rely on experts knowing their way through the complexity but should rely on mathematical guarantees. Yes the cryptography primitives should act like black
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by xoralkindi 4y ago
One would think the default mode of all cryptographers not affiliated to NSA would be not to trust the NSA, NSA could as well mean Eve.
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by xoralkindi 6y ago
Someone on here once said decentralized systems tend to end up centralized, this will be my goto example. A p2p system of exchanging digital tokens end up centralized around the a bank.
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by xoralkindi 6y ago
Why do people think cyberspace is not the real world? I think smart-contracts as envisioned by early cypherpunks where meant to run in a world where Governments are obsolete, they won't work well in our current society.
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by xoralkindi 6y ago
Keep it. You will need it in a parallel universe.
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by xoralkindi 6y ago
> (Or actually, read the whole thing, it's interesting, but it's obvious that the experiment really didn't turn out the way it was planned) Bitcoin set out to implement the ideas of Wei Dai's b-money system and was al
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by xoralkindi 6y ago
You see money was one of the first distributed systems, it transcended languages and flags, the protocol was deployed everywhere. But this protocol of value exchange always had issues with trust, related to the double spending problem so it
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by xoralkindi 6y ago
> both of your big-O comments have counter examples (check out Coda for 1) That's the typical blockchain reply, suggest yet another ICO out of the ocean of ICOs out there. > as does your energy comment (Eth2 is an effort to switc
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by xoralkindi 6y ago
Blockchains have a few problems that I think make them unsuitable for internet money, I know more about Bitcoin but I think this applies to Ethereum also: - Early adapter become extremely rich (Developers) - Transaction costs O(n) network c