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My "When I met Vint" story is less exciting then some here. He attended the "Disability Support Group" at Google regularly. He made a point of just being there to listen and suppor…

We have long passed at least my owner personal "threshold of evidence" to assume that Mars had life. That bar is pretty low. I am not hard to convince. We don't have a baseline by …

Well I can't speak to the chinese gov part, but ALL the models are IP laundering systems. I'd rather IP get laundered into open source.

This is all built on a premise that kinda scares me. Its not a new idea, it's one I have participated in my entire career. That concentration of power at the top labeled "why". It …

Someday ASCII 28 thru 31 will be loved.

The basic concept, "put a new compound in everybody's bodies" because it makes them better suited for thier environment is entirely reasonable. Humans didn't evolve in the context …

I think you are taking an entire space of "intellectual immune system" out of consideration. More than that, you are ignoring the core reason I think they are bottle-necked. They m…

As a distributed systems engineer, we are a LONG way from "magical scalable ai". The bottleneck for a developing AI is experience. Yes we need compute, but we need data to compute …

AI Superintelligence doesn't scare me for the same reasons "grey goo" doesn't scare me. We are awash in self-replicating machines. The biosphere is already a grey-goo apocalypse. A…

This is not how I wanted intellectual property to die. A special "IP Laundering" loophole for big tech companies is WORSE than the intellectual property issues we had before.

I found it kinda optimal to "incept" the llm. I better results if I just ask the right questions to guide to to a good solution.

Which isn't a web of trust. it is just an "allowlist". Humans are vulnerable to sybil attacks too.

Reputation systems have been a theoretical idea for a while, but we haven't come up with anything sybil-proof without centralized identity management. "we have a menu" sounds a lot…

Gods I love and loath Tiddlywiki. It has some of the most convoluted javascript written before javascript ever actually got all the features that made javascript convoluted. But it…

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.4375 I felt like this paper nailed it years a go, and nobody has followed up properly. The metric involved is basically impossible to compute fully, but …

I feel like nobody actually understands the real reason security through obscurity is so bad. It results in dead cryptographers. The implementor becomes the weakest link in the cha…

Seems like a wonderful use case for a one time pad! Every time you offer up the encryption key, it shows you were right!

Every time Idiocracy comes up, I feel obligated to point out that it is WILDLY optimistic. The people are dumb, not evil. They struggle to adapt and learn, but are willing to try a…

Reminds me of IQ tests I took as a kid. "Finish the sequence" with 4 options and "no pattern" as the choices. It becomes "what does the moderately intelligent person who wrote the …

Nobody does "face to face" key exchange like I imagine. Just two phones facing each other spamming QR codes for the other to read. What I REALLY want is an app that builds a big ba…

So DHT robustness against censorship is superlinear of the number of participants. The "break point" is when a DHT gets big enough I can't realistically MITM all the links with nod…

"Mainline DHT" is the primary one. It backs magnet links and has resisted censorship for over a decade. Largest most robust group of cooperating computers there is. You can reliabl…

I'm a fan of "face to face mutual qr code key exchange." I should implement that someday.

I don't recommend DHTs with public participants being made from scratch. Use mainline bittorrent DHT instead. Small networks are really easy to eclipse and censor. DHTs of trusted …