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Well, this is what's happening in the stock market with the insider trading, pump and dump schemes, shorting and many more algorithms that utilize power imbalance to extract more capital for decades.

Polymarket is quite tame in comparison, in my opinion.

Dude, try not eating for a week and then publish your humble opinion on how good any change is.

We are approaching the pinnacle of "privatize the profits, socialize the costs". No wonder the US is ruled by the straight fascists today.

The story of Flash Attention is the best manifestation of power and difficulty of GPU programming. This page gives a nice overview of it https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/flash_attention

You can also write CUDA kernels directly in Julia using CUDA.jl. I basically learned CUDA programming by experimenting in Julia with the help of LLMs.

The paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1296

You can also use Julia. It is both easy for humans to write and read and for AI to generate because of the sane and powerful type system.

However, I expect that in the future some new language will take this role of dual use.

Yes, and it's already in many places where possible, e.g. taxi, airlines, online stores and services, insurance, health, etc.

Trump is a demented alpha male that currently runs a circus too. This is what really poorly understood.

> What are we even building?

Caste of trillionaiers who could destroy nations and cultures simply because they feel so.

> Everyone would have equal access to the ultimate means of production.

You are right that AI can be a fully democratized commodity. The problem is that the current wealth inequality is not the result of AI. Musk became a trillion seeking oligarch not because of AI. It is because the entire financial system is designed to extract wealth from everyone and concentrate at the top. Democratic AI is not in their interest. There will be violence, but not because AI is supposedly a catalyst of inequality. It will be violence from the rich towards the poor, because democratic AI is not acceptable for them.

It increases GDP. Also, have you seen the Dow?

> these platforms algorithmically search for personalities they can abuse, rob, and financially destroy

With the AI progress, there will be no need in a search for personalities - algorithms will make you one. And this can be applied to any company producing entertainment (e.g. social networks), not just gambling.

>> Is this market manipulation?

> No

"No" is not exactly the right answer, the authors are explicit about this in the paper:

"We the authors attest that at the time of the initial arXiv and IACR ePrint publication of this article, none of us hold any short positions against any cryptocurrency assets. Some of us hold long positions in cryptocurrencies, including some that involve the use of post-quantum cryptography. The authors reserve the right to initiate any positions in these assets in the future."

The world runs on legacy software, which simply has no budget for even asking LLMs to find vuls, not to mention fixing them. While you are right that it should favor the defenders, in practice, this is a disaster because, in many critical cases, there are no defenders.

I'm also sure that someone at Google do care about those. It is strange to see a blog post targeting cryptocurrencies while it is certainly a specific case of a much larger problem.

As I've said, facts or meaning no longer matter. There are numerous cases where Trump blamed Democrats for something he did during his first term or took credit for something positive that the Biden administration did. HN does not create a narrative, people are free to post their opinions here.

Why do they care about cryptocurrencies but not about the entire world's infrastructures that are based on RSA and elliptic curve algorithms, such as HTTPS and many other electronic signature solutions? Is this a case of cryptocurrency market manipulation?

And why do they think that the US government would care about securing cryptocurrencies? Aren't they designed to circumvent the government regulation?

The current administration has created a narrative that everything they do is good, while anything their opponents do is bad. Facts or meaning do not matter any more. I honestly don't understand how the USA has become this. This won't end well.

It is by design. How else can you make trillionaires?

Gaslighting is now a government policy

I'm sorry, what? Can people now see different titles? Insanity, if true.

I use an alternative software to capture night skies and fireballs: https://github.com/aaronwmorris/indi-allsky

You can use it on Raspberry Pi, for example, with any supported camera. The software is very good, it can automatically create star trails and timelapses.

That's the default option. Power seeks only more power, sharing is worthless to it, except as a temporary instrument. And AI is a perfect tool to concentrate even more power in tiny hands.

Use nix.optimise.automatic = true in the config and perform nix-collect-garbage if necessary. With this it doesn't take much.

Yes, and BTW this problem is another proof that crypto doesn't solve any of the real world issues apart from avoiding (very natural) institutional regulations.

> with no "brain" at all

It seems this is how Russia moves in general. Hopefully, this will end at some point.

I would say it is natural that humans with so much power go crazy. What is not natural is allowing them to have that power in the first place. If a society allows that, it deserves anything that could happen to it, whether it's Armageddon, climate change, pollution, idiocracy, or whatever.

The problem is that wrath and fury of ordinary men will be countered by fascists with more power. And it can go to the very top. The entire system is designed to keep the chain of command, it doesn't give a shit about what you think your "social contract" is. Go figure how many criminals Trump has pardoned.

There is no reason to do it on a CPU instead of a GPU. Anyway, a vector database would be a better solution, although not without downsides.