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Like, is the biggest threat to cybersecurity the mere existence of LLMs, or is it the existence of companies like OpenAI with basically unlimited resources and an incentive to create large security incidents essentially as a marketing stunt?

The actual math in this paper is over the heads of non-mathematicians but the core argument is pretty easy to follow: AI theorem-prover formalizations can't actually be trusted to faithfully be the same argument as the natural-language paper they come attached to arxiv.org/abs/2610.081...

thinking about this again and smiling

The language in coverage of these things is so obnoxious. If I engineering, polished, and deployed a script that was designed to hack people, and left it running overnight, and it hacked people.. ...That means I hacked people. Headline should be "Google wages cyber warfare on [companies]"

A problem we have now is that we let the so-called tech industry, which is primarily an unholy union between advertising and consumer electronics, dictate the terms of the conversation about technology in such ways that the natural inclination is now to discount technology.

yeah so we need to talk about how "screentime is bad for kids" is not really true, but "short form video on algorithm-based platforms is bad for everyone" IS true

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

I think about this a lot.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of markdown

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade

oh god this is also why reading LLM generated code is *exhausting*; you can infer a subtext channel in human code which comprseses a LOT, but you have to actually *read every fucking letter* of LLM code because all submetatext is corrupt.

remember when a bunch of software companies made a big deal about "returning to the office," citing worsening quality of work? and then none of their products got any better? and then some of them started to vibe code everything? and their products got even worse??

"Converting PDFs to presentation slides" is such a telling example because so much of what LLMs are being used for seems to be labor that doesn't need to be done at all. It's just renting a space heater in someone else's building to accomplish nothing at all.

Forcing early career researchers to constantly talk about the "impact" of their research is also forcing them to learn to lie.

Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

fantasy author who is also a pirate. gARRRRge R.R. Martin

It's fantastic how after all this commotion, the EU replaceable battery mandate ended up with an explicit exemption for devices which retain at least 80% capacity after 1000 charge cycles, so the only real effect for the average person is to extend the planned obsolescence cycle from 2 years to 3.

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

Forget sex, drugs and rock & roll. We got:

I have ideas for comicbooks, music albums, epic fantasy novels, and Tears of the Kingdom Challenge Videos. What I lack is time and financial security to pursue these ideas. You can ALWAYS identify a soulless salesman by whether or not they think the bottleneck of creativity is having a good idea.

One really cool thing about vibe coding is that this is no longer impressive even to the sorts of stupid people who thought it was impressive

Computer science is the art of preventing computers from doing things. Big NO notation is used to formally specify how many things you have prevented the computer from doing.

is that good

Dawkins is one of those clowns who seemed like they were making sense because I was young when I read the god delusion and he was a voice of authority and now I'm hearing him speak with the same authority about things he clearly doesn't understand and I'm like "ah"

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

#statsmeme Greeks & shields

So much career advice boils down to "be more neurotypical," which isn't great advice unless you happen to be neurotypical. If you've been "unable to follow advice" for years, & all you've felt is shame at not hacking it, I invite you to ponder whether the advice is just not right for you. #ADHData

At least they didn't name it Henrietta

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

It is pretty astonishing that any time you have to go check them, Facebook and LinkedIn are both, generously speaking, barely useable

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

I 💚 this especially the first one: "The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code" by Ally Piechowski piechowski.io/post/git-com...

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

I’m fucking crying dude. Asking “pretty please do not introduce a security vulnerability”.

Home Solar xkcd.com/3226/

17776 is one of the best pieces of science fiction on the internet It's about football You need to read it

getting to look at and think about pokemon are some of the Great Things about being a human person

I promise your life will get so much better if you learn to say “I don’t know what that is” or “oh cool, tell me about it” instead of just rawdogging your way through every interaction like you’ve got everything figured out You don’t and i can tell when you’re lying