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> ... eventually the only thing that accrues is things that the factions agree on, or at least what ArbCom has demanded they stop fighting over Or what the faction with the most fa…

See also the SNAFU principle: http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/jargon300/SNAFUprincipl...

It's trusted in the sense that it lets the person with power (the root of trust) trust the hardware. That person just isn't you. It's a way to enforce power relations by making the…

Travelers definitely has a very distinct "seat-of-your-pants" form of plotting, though, that can seem inconsistent if you're used to something more consistently planned in advance …

Whatever it is that caused "It's not X, It's Y", it's more recent than LLMs as a whole. As far as I remember, neither GPT3.5, GPT4, nor Claude Instant did it. I think Gemini was th…

> There's a term for this, but I can't think of it at the moment. Moravec's paradox: https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/moravec-s-paradox

I imagine you would use something that errs on the side of safety - e.g. insist on total functional programming and use something like Idris' totality checker.

Something "systems that are attacked by entities that adapt often need to be defended by entities that adapt".

> use a $200 camera and photograph your keyring from a couple blocks away I suppose serious defenders will need to get an EVVA MCS, if that's their threat model :-) Just don't let …

> Cellular radios in a PC? You don't get root on those. Same situation as they are in a cell phone: They are licensed-band transmitters, and they are required to be tamper proof to…

> That has been the model since day one, since you are using spectrum that, because the end users are not licensed, requires it. Radios in 100% of commercially available phones are…

If you want to track how many times users revisit the site, you could do that anonymously by setting a visit counter cookie, e.g. VISITS: 1, VISITS: 2, etc. This would track the us…

I've always wondered how you'd be able to rigorously distinguish breaking out of the simulation from just discovering novel things about your current universe. Is a black hole a bu…