markhahn

shell glob rather than RE? what's the world coming to!

"emergent" is not an excuse, or somehow a wall of non-causality.

the analogy was trying to get at "accidental-ness".

valuations are absurd because investors are low-information speculators.

I just watched a YT with Dylan Patel in which he said, with a straight face, that OpenAI/Anthropic were going to "continue" exponential growth until, basically, their valuation was several times world GDP.

they shouldn't have had (arbitrary) access to Artifactory.

the comment you're responding to agrees, but they're pointing out that some AI people are trying to push an anthropomorphization agenda, in part to diffuse responsibility.

100%.

There's a person behind every agent. That person may choose to be careful or not, but they are ultimately responsible.

So weird that they're inverting knowledge and/or causation.

AI is a bubble because the demand story is implausible. The fact that someone is willing to make ASML orders (which is a >= 10 year indicator) doesn't tell you anything at all about whether AI companies can, in fact, get MANY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE of revenue growth.

we are models.

very simple organisms can't do that, at all. you really do need something with a lot of internal state and state-transition structure (ie, neurons) to do that.

except that they were first called perceptrons.

the neuron analogy has been there all along, since ANNs are entirely analogous to "BNNs" - for instance the NIPS conference.

the firing-rate-vs-activation-level difference isn't that big a deal.

I wonder where the 10^7 came from: standard numbers are 86B neurons and 10k synapses/neuron.

the problem is: do these waves affect a neuron's behavior?

eeg waveology faces the same problem as, for instance, Penrose and the quantum brain gang. there can be epiphenomena - they're not causal, but inconsequential side-effect.

the main point is that a wave doesn't carry much signal. at most it can synchronize, but it's across an apparently uselessly large population.

careful, that might lead to programming. using, you know, a programming language.

what does "integrity" fail mean in the first table? that the case didn't recover from the 2G corruption?

that's the odd thing: we simply don't ask whether there's an alternative.

for instance, how many companies (including universities) store their own cash on prem? what if we treated PII like cash? limit amount and time kept outside the data "bank" (which would be a third party specialized for security and authenticating access).

This is wonderful, though a little low.

Basing it on revenue is sensible, since the goal is to make it hurt. But that would argue for a higher fraction. But the main thing is to introduce an incentive to take security more seriously.

although the US Constitution does make reference to deities, the copyright section does not. its formalization is entirely pragmatic, utilitarian.

Has anyone found a meaningful discussion of how scraping is theft?

Obviously, reproducing works in whole is infringement. That's not what AI is doing, so the question becomes: how is scraping different from ordinary reading? Is it just that site owners want to play back history and retroactively create high-cost licenses for scraping?

that seems strange to me: why shouldn't policy leverage name resolution? sort of like dkim, but taken further. for instance, for site.com, I'd much rather retrieve its public key from DNS (some DNS++ version, of course).

I'm always mystified why we haven't leveraged DNS.

I mean: why not have cookie policy set by a flag in DNS? Not unlike DKIM or even SSHFP.

Of course, we wouldn't need the entire certificate industry if we simply looked up a site's PK along with its DNS record...

if the only evidence of a crime is on your phone, what kind of crime is it?

we should always be asking: is this the only way you can prove the accusation? just because it would make LEO life easier - that's not justification for violating the constitution.

an consider what this case teaches us: clean up your devices before you cross a border. how does that even help the goal of law enforcement?

devices already do wear management.

at most, you should configure your system and OS to give them a chance. for instance, being 100% full all the time is just bad. use TRIM and log SMART metrics.

why do you think this is a function of betas? or even of OS or app versions?

I guess you've been burned, or are worried about being burned, by some software that generated excessive writes? I think you need to describe that first, since this is a rare phenomenon.

which is probably why there isn't some kind of downdetector infra tracking it.

you know you can access smart counters on any OS, right?

uh-huh. and what source code do you think coding models are trained on?

smells of AI-pilled management viewpoint. the kind who think that AI has already changed the whole software landscape.

I'm curious what you mean by "violence" here.

it wouldn't be a triangle if it meant embracing one of the poles.

first, eliminate record-keepers.

we call that a shelf.

the Executive is required to obtain consent of Congress to appoint principal officers; why not just require consent to fire them?