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Re:The Nvidia AI Red Team on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:22PM (#36336032)
This begs the question, does the G-factor (IQ) curve have diminishing returns and are humans meaningfully on the diminishing returns side of the curve?

It's not at all obvious that a super AI would have an intellect incomprehensible to a human the same way a human is to a chimpanzee.

Or another way to phrase it, it's not at all obvious that an AI can exist that would be incomprehensible to a very smart human, it may however reason much faster than such a human.

Re:Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much? on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:33PM (#36335322)
Ultimately it boils down to lack of competition + enormous overheads due to regulation, legal & political risk and uncertainty.

The accidents were spectacular, even though they resulted in so very few deaths. For most people nuclear is effectively witchcraft, and selling fear is effective. The HBO series were so absurd yet so loved.

If someone needs blood it means they lost blood, and their concentration of PFAS was likely higher than yours. And besides, if they need blood they have bigger problems.

Each time you donate you lose (450 / (70 * weightKG)) of your blood. And therefore lose that fraction of any and all particles that are in your blood. You can't naively exponentiate this however, as your body will leech particles back into the blood from your tissues due to concentration imbalances - which is the true objective, most of the harm is done in tissues.

There is a chance that you are also losing blood cancer precursors, blood donors have lower blood cancer likelihoods. I'm not aware of any studies that control for overall donation volume, so my guess is that it's far better than the numbers usually suggest if you donate as frequently as is safe.

Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:29PM (#36246456)
Is there a legal reason why they can't just scrape reddit and forget about API? It would be the app users doing the scraping.
Re:Royal Navy Says Quantum Navigation Test a Success on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:52PM (#36229523)
But how would you do this? Sensor fusion with inertial sensors is well understood, how do you fuse g into the equation to improve things?
Re:Royal Navy Says Quantum Navigation Test a Success on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:51AM (#36223344)
What would you do with the g measurement to get your location? Can g deltas be matched to sea floor contour maps? Otherwise it seems like subs would have to be following g-mapped routes.
Something people always seem to forget is that FTL travel is very possible, just not for an observer. When you are traveling close to light speed you are covering far more distance per unit of your time than c.
Re:Statement on AI Risk on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:17PM (#36129254)
This sort of move has no downsides for the incumbents. Either they succeed and achieve regulatory capture or they poison the well sufficiently that further regulation will not be feasible.

Ultimately, the reward for attaining an AGI agent is so high, that no matter the penalty someone will attempt it, and someone will eventually succeed. And that likelihood will ensure everyone will want to attempt it.

Re:Mullvad: Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports on Monday May 29, 2023 @09:53PM (#36120337)
How is that relevant here? mullvad has to keep track of who to forward the port to, any NAT ports are going to be ephemeral and conducted through an encrypted tunnel.
Re:Mullvad: Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports on Monday May 29, 2023 @08:34PM (#36119830)
For torrenting, port forwarding is only marginally important - for torrents which have very few peers and you can connect to none of them.

It's also risky because mullvad certainly has records of forwarded ports and can out you if they receive a properly worded subpoena. There is also a chance those records would be present in their backups even after you deleted the forwarded ports.

I have a separate command for port forwarded torrent client and only use it when absolutely necessary, which is almost never.

Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People on Sunday May 28, 2023 @12:02AM (#36101014)
The natural fallacy is seeing your children in any way a continuation of yourself. They are independent entities.
Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People on Saturday May 27, 2023 @11:20PM (#36100859)
To some people death and the end of the universe are equivalent events. Others seek refuge in natural fallacies.

The difference between this moment and all others, is that amorality is actually achievable. If you can get an AGI and drown it in compute, through sheer brute-force the secrets of biology will be unraveled. The task is not to attain amortality immediately, merely gain more life faster than you lose it.

Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People on Saturday May 27, 2023 @10:03PM (#36100436)
The reason why regulation is going to fail is simple. AGI is the supreme bet, the Gamble to Resurrection. Faced with death years to decades from now or a chance at amortality. Which would you choose?

Would you be willing to bet on p(doom) whatever it might be when p(amortality | AGI) >>> p(amortality) during your lifetime? I personally am willing to place such a bet, and I would hazard a guess that decision makers don't come to their positions without similar sentiments.

Re:Meta Fined $1.3B Over Data Transfers to U.S. on Monday May 22, 2023 @01:15PM (#36034048)
If you are in the tech industry in the US this is actually a good thing, EU is trying very hard to remain and become even more uncompetitive.

Already, the EU is mostly a breeding ground for talent that is then extracted by the US. The more hostile and bureaucratic they become, the grater the pressure for the talent to leave.

It may appear that what the EU is doing is being hostile to US companies - and some individual US companies will indeed suffer. But the actual effect is to incentivize these companies to extract talent out of the EU as an insurance plan in the event of a pull out.

Ultimately such discussion is fruitless. The reward for defection from regulation is high. Both for organizations and individuals.

Several named things (merely applications of game theory) that play into this: Tragedy of the Commons, and Gambling for Resurrection. The latter one specifically applies to people nearing their final decade(s) of life, AGI is their best and perhaps only shot at longevity. And those are the people who tend to be in power.

These things are typically bureaucratic security theater. Terrorists can sideload. The decision makers just care to be seen doing something, whether it's useful or not is not their problem.
Re:Netflix Loses 1M Users in Spain over Password Policing on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @05:37PM (#35720354)
I don't understand what people are doing to be able to assert that a streaming service is more convenient than piracy. For me, piracy is more convenient than streaming by a significant margin.

Visit one of the very public torrent sites such as rarbg, search or browse for something of interest, copy magnet URI, switch to terminal window, type aria2c "[magnet uri]". Just minutes later have the file in working directory. Now you can play it with MPV and have instantaneous seeks and no garbage web players.

Re:Why do prime numbers make these spirals? on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @11:33PM (#35709414)
I have never given it that much thought, but it was always obvious to me that it was due to the numbering system rather than something profound about primes.

I'm fascinated by the 3n+1 problem (Collatz conjecture) however, impossible to grasp why something like that does not have a proof.

Re:Apple Music Classical on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:11PM (#35343366)
Theoretically, 48kHz should be more than enough. I wonder if there is value in over defining the curve in practice. Has anyone studied whether a DAC would perform better?

That said, high sample rate recording signal that they are intended for and perhaps made by audiophiles, which in turn implies recording equipment (and competence) is perhaps superior to most. Saves some time when you just check out those recordings to see if you like it.

When evolution molds a genepool it does so with inbuilt assumptions, one the assumptions is exposure to some level of sunlight. Deviating from these assumptions would result in undefined behavior (in the CS sense) for individuals.

If an individual cannot or will not expose themselves to sunlight, taking D3 is probably the best option they have.

Re:Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:53AM (#34984621)
So is the rosenpass tunnel separate from the non PQC tunnel (the non PQC tunnel being used just for rosenpass)?

Because afaik the moment the PSK is changed all packets immediately start being encrypted by it.

If the change doesn't coincide on both the sender and receiver (within an instant), there will be dropped packets until both PSK's are the same again. Being separate from WG, I don't see how you can insert yourself into their state machine for better coordination.

Re:Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:24AM (#34979074)
Do you have a reason to not use Kyber? The way it is combined should be sound.
Re:Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:31PM (#34978435)
Nice. But I think you missed an update, Mullvad now also uses Kyber, your tool doesn't appear to.

You also don't need Go: https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/blob/main/talpid-t...

Re:Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:02PM (#34977816)
True. But they should have just forked either wireguard-go or boringtun to implement this functionality, and give up on the wg driver, the WG author seems like he doesn't care about PQC. Juggling multiple tooling is always a hassle.

It's also not clear how the WG PSK change is coordinated, and whether that entails a brief loss of connectivity - packet loss, latency spike.

Re:Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @05:29PM (#34975843)
Mullvad VPN has a PQC key exchange feature, they are even using two algorithms in parallel: McEliece and Kyber.

https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/tree/main/talpid-t...

Re:Valve permabans 40,000+ dota2 accounts using honeypot patch on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:43PM (#34917753)
I used to work on an anti-cheat briefly, and migrated away form relying on Windows API to do this as the parent comment suggested, instead we used cache timing "attacks".

Antivirus was a concern but easily solved by the fact that cheats access memory many times a second, antivirus does it rarely if ever.

Our social instincts evolved for slow interaction with a small number of individuals.

Social media is a hyper-stimuli, it should be surprising to no one what has occurred. It may not have been predictable, but certainly isn't surprising.

That said, now that it is wide spread it has become a tragedy of the commons type problem, no social individual is better off from abstaining from social media at this point - given that social media skewed social interactions on a population level.

Other hyper-stimuli examples would be porn and drugs. Even anime is one, those large eyes are not an accident.

A polity is not an agent, it's a collective of agents, each one of which pursues self interest. You need to demonstrate what value is there for an individual to embark on a project for which success and most importantly credit is not trivial to demonstrate for promotion.

Leveraging vast resources which leaves paper trails - and yourself as the fall guy - to carry out experiments of dubious morality with uncertain outcomes and utility is not something that happens in the real world save for some very bizarre exceptions.

Re:SBF Caught Using VPN While Awaiting Criminal Trial [pdf] on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @09:27PM (#34814191)
It's just a few commands using the ip tool. You can read about it here: https://www.wireguard.com/netns/

Wireguard is special in that after creating a wg0 interface you can move it to another namespace and its [encrypted] packets would be teleported into the namespace it started in. The link above has the wg0 being moved into the default/init namespace but you can move it anywhere.

Re:SBF Caught Using VPN While Awaiting Criminal Trial [pdf] on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:34PM (#34810902)
They apparently caught him because he logged into a wiretapped gmail with a VPN. It's not difficult to segment your network such that some software does not use a VPN tunnel. On Linux, it can even be made fool-proof with network namespaces.

You can even render the default network namespace barren such that any accidentally launched software has no network of any kind.

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