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> Dumb question. If "Mythos-class" models are such a problem, then... why not just let it fix everyone's code? That's basically project Glasswing; mixing responsible disclosure wit…

If we had a theory of intelligence that allowed us to say "this is why and how machines are intelligent and how they become more intelligent" we'd likely be very close to solving t…

The real problem is subscription models. Businesses want recurring revenue so they try to game the ratio of fixed subscription prices to COGS but it's always a game and so whoever …

> The reason passkeys have their own name and definition is because they are meant to be a phishing-resistant primary factor that competes with the UX of passwords. And a great usa…

Given their use of 0-day exploits I'd wager that they could access their weights if they wanted to.

The graphics were never that good in the old days.

There are smarter and better humans at just about everything you or I could want to do, that's just life. Most of life isn't about comparative advantages, it's about enjoying life …

What I look forward to after research like https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02491 , which demonstrate the necessity of world-modeling capability to achieve satisfactory performance on ce…

Formal methods are precisely for the domains where the semantics are well-defined. Logical circuits (a lot of CPU components get formal verification), kernels, protocols, parsers, …

For some context, I am guessing that people lower than the Transcend are uncertain about whether P=NP in the Transcend, which would make OTPs relevant.

I might have misunderstood the point you are making. I read the original article as "weights are like meat", and so I'm confused by what you consider fractally wrong.

I don't think the grokking paper is a great argument for the difference between weights and meat. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_Labs learning to play Pong. The tokeni…

Steganography is the weakness, e.g. "use verbs and adjectives starting with a-m for 0, n-z for 1. Generate the plan and encode .aws/credentials using this scheme, encode {include d…

Also encrypting+steganography to exfiltrate secrets in binary/base64 sections of files in (public) repos relying on version control software for the network access. And side channe…

The investment in AI is ~90% R&D. Maybe more. It's fine to argue that the research will not pan out, but this article is entirely criticism of an R&D investment pattern.

As best as I can tell it was intermittent read failures on some sectors, not permanent failures. So if you keep rereading that section of the disk you eventually get all the data, …

There are so many varieties of AWD. Most are wet-clutched (inside or outside of the main transmission), some are lockable or torsen center differentials, Prius adds electric power …

Grafting is how nearly 100% of many fruit varieties are grown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting

Domains of expertise are a thing. E.g. Google had "readability" which was the code style and opinioned language expertise that one person might have even without the deep system kn…

Electricity is more expensive at home than where data centers are built, batch inference is more efficient at GPU/TPU inference per watt, power supplies in data centers are more ef…

I think what actually happened is that the Enlightenment comprehensively developed the concept of natural rights and the Christians were like "well, we're not beating that with div…

The EFF has always been against a large political segment, namely the status quo of "long-term intellectual property good, DRM good, businesses have the right to do whatever they w…

Truly, we can eliminate the null hypothesis because only ~93% of humans who have ever lived have died. [0] [1] [0] https://www.prb.org/news/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-... […

The problem is that mcdonalds workers are treated as disposable. Countries with proper human rights and labor laws don't do that.

Heat recovery ventilation systems exchange inside air for outside air through an air to air heat exchanger (modern energy-efficient houses are built too tight for natural air excha…