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Because encryption is not an inherently dangerous thing. A superintelligent AI is. It’s no different than inviting an advanced alien species to visit. Will it go well? Sure hope so…

You have no clue what communities I’m in other than it self affirms your worldview to assume that they must be irrelevant. To be fair, I’m not telling you anything about myself, so…

The difference is the scale at which a hacker can cause damage. A hacker can ruin a lot of stuff but is unlikely to kill a billion or two people if he succeeds at a hack. With supe…

In what other sphere of tech does that apply? "Hackers aren't a problem because we have cybersecurity engineers". And yet somehow entire enterprises and governments are occasionall…

If you talk to the people on the bleeding edge of AI research instead of nuke-heads (I tend to be kinda deep into both communities), you'll get a better picture that, yeah, a lot o…

Yes and no. AI is no different than proliferating nuclear weapons or deciding to burn all the fossil fuels -- on an individual competitive level, it makes sense to do this more and…

I dunno. The American Geophysical Union seemed to think it was a BFD in one of their conferences back in the 2000s. Had a whole presentation about how certain parts of the US grid …

This event is twice as powerful as the previously known largest event, which is at least 10X as powerful as the largest event in recorded human history, back in the 1800s, which se…

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Such as the humans

This is a succinct explanation of the problem. Do we give the vast majority of users extremely easy, frictionless access to very high levels of security and privacy? Or do we give …

Thing is, if law enforcement is patient they can get the data off the actual devices themselves, if they're still alive. Yes, a fully patched iPhone tends to be a fortress of might…

My favorite part of android is how security patches go through a multi-tiered trickle-down system of testing to make sure they work with the dozens of custom flavors each manufactu…

Except, of course, the human has very little control over what the AI outputs in TXT2TXT scenarios, at least in terms of whether the output would match the definition of copyright …

Best half frame camera I've ever seen was designed by the same guy mentioned in the article: the Olympus Pen F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Pen_F

Thing is, if you ping experts in the privacy field (like Mike Bazzell, the former FBI OSINT guy who billionaires and celebs hire to keep their personal info off the internet), they…

Council Bluffs datacenter electrical explosion: https://www.ketv.com/article/council-bluffs-google-data-cent...

I think it was around 20 days for the Hubble and around 12 hours for the JWT

Sure, here are a couple of resources, both for Russia and the U.S. For the U.S. plan to attack Russia, the NRDC did an interesting hypothetical attack around 20 years ago to show t…

Ok. That gets you to stay alive for a few months. Now, imagine a world in which there will no longer be any agriculture, fuel, easy access to clean water, electricity, heating, med…

The people who make the claims that ABM is super hard and ineffective against large strikes are generally American experts who used to work in the field.

The author is wrong. The people who are experts at doing this kind of thing for a living very much believe that a general nuclear war will destroy nearly all infrastructure. Don't …

David has mentioned on Twitter and Reddit (when asked) that he estimates 90% to 95% of all people living in the U.S. would be dead within 18 months after either of his attack scena…

ABM is hard. Evading ABM is much easier. Russia has some amazing tech for space based ABM interception evasion. ABM stuff works okayish against very small numbers of incoming warhe…