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@dystopiabreaker.xyz

aspiring neurocryptographer, security nerd

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laying awake contemplating the horror of if donald knuth was right and we're going to end up in some sort of impagliazzian heuristica world

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i think that like 95-99% of the "it's just autocomplete and all the reports of ai capabilities are actually psychosis" people will preference cascade to a state of panic over the next 9 months. similar to early covid dynamics.

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i think that like 95-99% of the "it's just autocomplete and all the reports of ai capabilities are actually psychosis" people will preference cascade to a state of panic over the next 9 months. similar to early covid dynamics.

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things have simultaneously gotten much worse and much better. the gap between what is happening and the worst online discourse is broader, but it's also more fringe now after preference cascades across multiple industries from people who are paying attention

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i didn't write the original post as a prediction, i wrote it as an observation of what was literally happening when i or other scientists/engineers posted on this website

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"the so called meteor so called scientists have detected headed towards earth is actually just fake to prop up their big science bubble. no i will not look up. i am very serious buy my substack"

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"huh ed looks like another round of data has come in and indeed the meteor continues to get closer" "you fool, you have fallen for the classic trick. the meteor will simply disappear. each time it gets "closer" it's actually more and more proof of the meteor fraud"

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given recent events, re-sharing my thoughts on space datacenters :p

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energy is more abundant (higher solar efficiency) in theory, it is operationally simpler (you launch swarms of modules precisely sized for the radiative heat envelope, that comm over optical links, space is big, no coordination problem)

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Geoffrey Irving
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We are starting a new, nonprofit alignment organization, ⊢ Sequent Research, bringing together researchers previously on UK AISI’s Alignment Team, Timaeus, and elsewhere to research how to align superintelligence. We are hiring! 🧵 sequent.org/launch

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Don’t Worry — It Can’t Happen (also, the scientists who claim fission exists are just in the pocket of Big Science, and they’re literal nazis anyway, and also it’s just a stochastic reaction that peters out, and only physbros care about it, and it hasn’t ever happened before so it won’t)

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miss this discourse tbh. it was very funny in this specific way

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i’m completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron

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i've been doing this increasingly in the past few months where I have time because of the urgency (esp security automation things), and now it looks like i'll finally be able to apply the amount of focus that i want to to this area now. very excited

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i want to work on interpretability, red teaming, and related security areas

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one of my favorite cheeky papers, from 1999, is this one where the authors argue that sometimes it is better to simply wait and do nothing, because your astrophysical simulations will complete faster if you simply wait for the next epoch of compute arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph...

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found an old project from a laptop from high school where i had just learned about neural networks and was trying to implement an autonomous network security agent named 't-cell' by carving out a static set of decision classes from a static network manifest input lol. raw numpy, didnt get very far

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how many layers of negative polarization are you on? you are like baby, watch this,

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The AI of drugs. The same tech financiers have been saying for years that they want GLP-1s in the water supply.

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i guess GLP-1s kind of are the AI of drugs in the sense that they are both the most important thing in their fields in terms of impact, positively affect billions of lives, and are the result of intense research and development. GLPs are much more of an unalloyed positive, though

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everything is a bytecode-targetable virtual machine if you look at it sideways. JBIG2 image decompression? virtual machine. x86 mov instruction? virtual machine. truetype fonts? virtual machine. Magic: The Gathering? believe it or not, also virtual machine.

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you may think your service on localhost cannot be accessed by remote services, because it is listening on localhost and the same origin policy protects you. however, have you considered: