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This is web of trust.

TPM enables remote attestation.

The everyday people weren't in positions of power.

Black box hallucination engines do what they do https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249

It's not a person, it's a machine. And it's one that will still produce hallucinations that embarrassingly prove that it has no notion of intelligence, and do so confidently. That it does so less than it's sibling is entirely irrelevant.

It's still fundamentally the same, hallucinates just the same, and anthropomorphizes itself as a confident, knowledgeable, intelligent being just the same. A newer, better, faster, more capable car still isn't an airplane, even if it go fast enough to spend several seconds in the air.

> But was it GPT4

I keep seeing this cop-out, which ignores that it's fundamentally the same architecture, and has the same flaws. More wallpaper to hide the cracks better makes it an even worse tool for these use cases because all it does is fool more people into thinking it has capabilities that it fundamentally doesn't.

Chargebacks and processing fees are expensive too.

As per usual, we build these systems then pretend to be surprised when they are abused.

Notes from underground.

> Consequently, these laws of nature have only to be discovered, and man will no longer be responsible for his actions, and it will become extremely easy for him to live his life. All human actions, of course, will then have to be worked out by those laws, mathematically, like a table of logarithms, and entered in the almanac; or better still, there will appear orthodox publications, something like our encyclopaedic dictionaries, in which everything will be so accurately calculated and plotted that there will no longer be any individual deeds or adventures left in the world. ‘Then,’ (this is all of you speaking), ‘a new political economy will come into existence, all complete, and also calculated with mathematical accuracy, so that all problems will vanish in the twinkling of an eye, simply because all possible answers to them will have been supplied. Then the Palace of Crystal will arise. Then….’ Well, in short, the golden age will come again. Of course it is quite impossible (here I am speaking myself) to guarantee that it won’t be terribly boring then (because what can one do if everything has been plotted out and tabulated?), but on the other hand be eminently sensible.

That's not an off the wall idea at all. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=encryption+2nd+amendment+protectio...

That it's insulting has nothing to do with my reasoning. You have it backwards.

> In what sense does an LLM think one word at a time that doesn't also apply to a person typing at a keyboard?

Because you already have the thought formed before you started typing.

> When I read my brain presumably ingests one word at a time (not sure if it's one exactly, but it can't be much more than one)

And these models ingest many words at a time, up to the context length.

Seems to me it's fundamentally inverted from how we operate,both input and output.

Then it's a markov-like with state. Or as I've taken to calling them lately Markov+state. (I couldn't resist, sorry.)

A truck towing a trailer isn't just a car because it pivots in the middle and has more wheels. It's fundamentals of operation are still closer to a car or truck without trailer than a bicycle.

Humans can form thoughts and get to mostly correct answers even as a gut feeling, and the language to explain why/how need not even be present. We don't form thoughts one word at a time.

I don't base my ideas on what constitutes humanity, intelligence, or sentience on hundred million dollar fiction.

LMM = Large Markov Model. I use that term because models like GPT-4 and friends are for all intents and purposes Markov chains with more data, more compute, some lossy compression, and a bit of nearest neighbor search. Next-word-engines.

> why can't I say that your brain is nothing but a bunch of biological neurons trained using its input and intialized based on your genetics?

Because we don't think one word at a time, and we don't restart from scratch for every subsequent word.

I categorically reject the notion that LMMs (Large Markov Models) can ever be aware or intelligent. Comparing weighted next-word-engines to feeling, thinking, aware beings is insulting.

"We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI"

Dismiss it as the opinions of "a Googler" but it is entirely true. The seemingly coordinated worldwide[1] push to keep it in the hands of the power class speaks for itself.

Both are seemingly seeking to control not only the commercial use and wide distribution of such systems, but even writing them and personal use. This will keep even the knowledge of such systems and their capabilities in the shadows, ripe for abuse laundered through black box functions.

This is up there with the battle for encryption in ensuring a more human future. Don't lose it.

[1] https://technomancers.ai/eu-ai-act-to-target-us-open-source-...

> almost all US reality shows and other entertainment(contestant based shows mainly)

Politics, too.

The lithium smoke was free.

Some folks in front of me had a mifi hotspot light on fire at the airport while in line to board. I saw the smoke and thought they were trying to get one last Vale in, and told them it was bold of them. They said they didn't Vale, after which I said their backpack was smoking. Gate lady made them throw it in the (bombproof, I guess) trash cans

Mozilla is almost entirely funded by half a billion dollars a year from Google. They are a vassal.

Yet many merchants are the victims of chargeback fraud, and many others have had funds frozen with no recourse. A paypal glitch left me unable to access my funds despite spending far too much time and energy trying to resolve it.

How many employees does trust wallet have? How funded are they? I am completely unsurprised that this happened to web3 trash. This is more of an indictment of the vc funded 'move fast and break things' attitude that pervades this site and 'web3' than it is of the greater cryptocurrency community.

When your funds get low just open your hot and cold wallet apps and type in how much to transfer, wasabi takes care of the rest.

It's easier than merely logging into my bank. Or paypal (which unintentionally locked me out for over a year after a broken tos update that I couldn't accept).

People have had hot and cold wallets forever, they just call them wallets and banks. It is the same workflow, except without:

Driving, operating hours, showing ID (oops my (hot) wallet got stolen/left at home. Now I can't withdraw from my bank until that's sorted.), the horrible password requirements, barely usable websites, and spyware apps that may or may not work on rooted/libre operating systems.

It's the legacy banking system that is fundamentally broken.

Climate, meet weather.

That they deal exclusively in propaganda, with no regard to the real world.

There's an infinite number of those strings, but barring an edge case in the md5 algorithm, none are known.

> The more hegemonic the system, the more the imagination is struck by the smallest of its reversals. The challenge, even infini­tesimal, is the image of a chain failure.

Seriously though, the purpose of those regulations is to prevent upstarts from making simple, cheap, reliable vehicles and to protect the incumbents. Gotta have a big bank account and a lot of lawyers to redesign and crash test a handful of vehicles every few years.

Modern hybrids still don't match (or barely match) the gas mileage of old, small, lightweight cars despite being substantially more complex, less recyclable, less repairable, and using substantially more (and more exotic) materials in production.

Ouroboros regulations only exist to justify their own continued existence. Cars get bigger? More regulations on smaller (less safe) cars, making cars bigger. Rinse and repeat.

> Just build your own network.

I did build my own network, and my ability to connect to it was forcibly overridden with no way to opt out.

That is entirely the point.

Edit: rulebreaking removed.

We're going through this as I type this comment.

My wife started having contractions and showing early signs of labor. Our nurse midwife gave her a tocolytic to relax the uterus, and recommended we go to the hospital to make sure that everything was okay if labor started again because she was 4cm dilated. The contractions had stopped by the time we arrived. The hospital hooked her up to continuous monitoring and determined that the contraction monitor (which is simply a pressure sensor on her belly) showed repeated contractions enough for many medical interventions that ended up doing significant harm (making a 95# woman carrying a baby not eat or drink for over 24 hours, take large doses of medication that gave her horrible side effects, and taking preventative antibiotics prior to test results coming in because of a fear of the baby's imminent delivery).

Her insistence that she wasn't having any contractions were ignored, and the doctors were visibly upset that we would contradict them and their equipment.

Later she told me she was about to fart again and to clear the area, and I noticed that her monitoring was showing a contraction. We called a nurse in and asked them to confirm, to which they did confirm that they thought it was a contraction. My wife let them know that it was actually a fart and they said they'd never heard of that before... Because I guess what patient is going to say their doctor is wrong because they have been gassy? It was a stroke of luck that I was watching the monitor when she told me that, otherwise she may have had an emergency c section as she was coerced into signing consent for that one. Not a good experience at all, and it made me completely disillusioned at the whole process.