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rhines wrote: post #291
tim333 wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was just watching the Y Combinator interview with Alexandr Wang who I guess may be being referred to https://youtu.be/5noIKN8t69U The teenage data labeler thing was a bit of an exaggeration. He did found scale.ai at nineteen which does data labeling amongst other things.

I watched this interview when I first heard about Alexandr Wang. I'd seen he was the youngest self made billionaire, which is a pretty impressive credential to have under your belt, and I wanted to see if I could get a read on what sets him apart. Unfortunately he doesn't reveal any particular intelligence, insight, or drive in the interview, nor does he in other videos I found. Possibly he hides it, or possibly his…

Or maybe, just maybe, becoming a billionaire has way more to do with luck than anything else.

I don't know about any billionaire in the history of billionaires who appears to have gotten there solely based on special abilities. Being born into the right circumstances is all it really takes.

Re: Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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Post by AdamN »

dev_l1x_be wrote: post #35

People grossly underestimate APTs. It is more common than an average IT curious person thinks. I happened to be oncall when one of these guys hacked into Gmail from our infra. It took principal security engineers a few days before they could clearly understand what happened. Multiple zero days, stolen credit cards, massive social campaign to get one of the Google admins click on a funny cat video finally. The investi…

Not just effectiveness, but speed.

Re: Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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Post by glenneroo »

0xWTF wrote: post #294
dboreham wrote: post #143

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Can confirm Claude doesn't even work in Hong Kong. That said I fired up my VPN and...then it did work.

Yeah, I love folks who worry about China having access to models and GPUs. I mean, friend, they have 1.3B people. They could put a crack AI team in every country in the world, tomorrow. But yes, instead, it's far cheaper to let each of those AI teams VPN to any country, all the time.

If they actually cared, they would just block VPNs. Valve does this when you try to create an account.

Re: Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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Post by tim333 »

id wrote: post #321
rhines wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I watched this interview when I first heard about Alexandr Wang. I'd seen he was the youngest self made billionaire, which is a pretty impressive credential to have under your belt, and I wanted to see if I could get a read on what sets him apart. Unfortunately he doesn't reveal any particular intelligence, insight, or drive in the interview, nor does he in other videos I found. Possibly he hides it, or possibly his…

Or maybe, just maybe, becoming a billionaire has way more to do with luck than anything else. I don't know about any billionaire in the history of billionaires who appears to have gotten there solely based on special abilities. Being born into the right circumstances is all it really takes.

Oprah Winfrey? Still some luck but she didn't start in great circustances.

Re: Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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Post by fluoridation »

glenneroo wrote: post #323
0xWTF wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I love folks who worry about China having access to models and GPUs. I mean, friend, they have 1.3B people. They could put a crack AI team in every country in the world, tomorrow. But yes, instead, it's far cheaper to let each of those AI teams VPN to any country, all the time.

If they actually cared, they would just block VPNs. Valve does this when you try to create an account.

If we're talking about state funding, that's not a problem. You just send a national to live in a residential area and then a team can proxy through that connection.

Re: Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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Post by datadrivenangel »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #119
dev_l1x_be wrote: post #35

People grossly underestimate APTs. It is more common than an average IT curious person thinks. I happened to be oncall when one of these guys hacked into Gmail from our infra. It took principal security engineers a few days before they could clearly understand what happened. Multiple zero days, stolen credit cards, massive social campaign to get one of the Google admins click on a funny cat video finally. The investi…

You're telling me you were targeted by Multiple Zero Days in 1 single attack?

Usually the most advanced attacks are a few chained zero days or a zero day on top of a configuration /patching error. The worst attacks are when a zero day for wordpress or outlook comes out.

Re: Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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Post by never_giveup »

id wrote: post #321
rhines wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I watched this interview when I first heard about Alexandr Wang. I'd seen he was the youngest self made billionaire, which is a pretty impressive credential to have under your belt, and I wanted to see if I could get a read on what sets him apart. Unfortunately he doesn't reveal any particular intelligence, insight, or drive in the interview, nor does he in other videos I found. Possibly he hides it, or possibly his…

Or maybe, just maybe, becoming a billionaire has way more to do with luck than anything else. I don't know about any billionaire in the history of billionaires who appears to have gotten there solely based on special abilities. Being born into the right circumstances is all it really takes.

Surely

Re: Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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Post by sidewndr46 »

dev_l1x_be wrote: post #211
sidewndr46 wrote: post #119

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You're telling me you were targeted by Multiple Zero Days in 1 single attack?

Google was.

OK so when you say "hacked into Gmail" you actually mean someone breached the infra of email. Not that they did some credential stuffing / password reset attack & got into one person's Gmail account?

Re: Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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Post by [deleted] »

rhines wrote: post #291
tim333 wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was just watching the Y Combinator interview with Alexandr Wang who I guess may be being referred to https://youtu.be/5noIKN8t69U The teenage data labeler thing was a bit of an exaggeration. He did found scale.ai at nineteen which does data labeling amongst other things.

I watched this interview when I first heard about Alexandr Wang. I'd seen he was the youngest self made billionaire, which is a pretty impressive credential to have under your belt, and I wanted to see if I could get a read on what sets him apart. Unfortunately he doesn't reveal any particular intelligence, insight, or drive in the interview, nor does he in other videos I found. Possibly he hides it, or possibly his…

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