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They can do this in people, too, not just LLMs.

Imagine the mistakes that can be made by changing one fact but not reconfiguring the whole network.

Thhese guys remind me of when I used to change EXEs in hex editors then notice "unrelated" weird glitches.

Feeling left out?

That's 66 bits of entropy. With a quantum computer having 66 logical (error corrected) qubits, the pass phrase can be cracked in under a day.

That's not too far off, maybe a few years before one is commercially available.

get it from the horse's mouth, as they say... instead of baselessly pontificating on HN and not understanding the diff between algorithm and implementation

"even if these attacks aren't feasible against current algorithms" lol, ok, if you say so....

2048 words in 6 positions is simply not enough entropy for the NSA's encryption cracking infrastructure. If it is worth it they'll crack it. The NSA does not use a single ASIC cracker.

not the algorithm. the various implementations of it. evidence? ask a friend.

Why would they have Suite A then?

You can't trust what sama says. Period. He's shown his willingness to deceive for gain. He deleted the codex model because it was better than the text model and only way to explain it is that by training on code instead of just text of human interactions the model develops stronger reasoning abilities (because of higher clarity around logic and higher signal to noise overall in the training data.) So he removed that so researchers don't catch on. Also, why 1 Trillion params is the limit? Why not 2 Trillion. He's been begging for regulations and trying to pull up the ladder behind him. Just really "street smart" thinking but I have not seen any elevated humanity serving thinking coming form him. He would not have taken $100M for a non-profit to do open source research only to bait-and-switch into for profit closed source sold to the highest bidder. Give me a break. Don't believe anything he says (well, use your brain, as he may mix truths and deceptions with the goal of deceiving his competitors... he's not out there to do a service for humanity... if he was, he would have kept it open and non-profit, not basically steal the funds of the non-profit to pocket $29B from it.) It's ridiclous.

The worst thing about HN (and it does reflect badly on YC as a whole, at least for me) is how they enable people to act in seemingly passive aggressive ways. Instead of stating disagreements, they downvote, and you'll never know why. Just pure crappy behavior. In this case, someone explained below that they downvoted because they don't agree that the article is propaganda and that it calls for less backdoors or something like that as if everything isn't backdoored already, one way or another.

Then you have stuff like BIP39 protecting people's money (cryptocurrency) that can be cracked for $350/hr on GPU rigs. Someone even wrote a how-to.

Current security makes it harder, but not sufficiently harder, to break into systems. I mean... HN crowd is probably high schoolers and non-tech people just out here to argue.

The propaganda against encryption is in full swing.

My expectation is that all NSA CNSA[1] encryption standards are backdoored at the implementation level (by the NSA who uses Suite A for its own communication and I suspect military communications outside of that in weapons systems that can fall into enemy hands)

I guess the propaganda is driven by FBI and law enforcement agencies.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_National_Security_A... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_Suite_A_Cryptography

You just got validated. Does that mean you're desperate? or anxious? or even sick in the head?

But the person is complaining about people complaining. I find it ironic.

Says a person who is online...

I take that back I'm suyrprised. HN crowd is mostly very pedestrian.

Yes. I'm just surprised at the downvotes. Hmm. We're talking about jobs, right? Everyone's job is very much at risk unless people adapt to a P2P economy with humans and AIs in it, trading with and employing each other.

The sky is falling... etc. It is true, however, that AI is going to reduce a team of 10 to 1, regardless of what field they're in. One day soon we will see companies run by an AI employing umans for 1:1 sales only, until we become more used to being sold stuff by bots. We're wittnessing the birth of a new age, and people are talking about web developers.

Bitcoin is based against the wisdom that "all that glitters is not gold." It abuses the "shiny object" trigger in our animal brain. The minute it looks shiny, its price goes up, and vice versa.

It's become a way for people to manage their anxiety around the state of the economy, pumping money into Bitcoin whenever it looks shiny relative to the fiat currency, and getting out when it doesn't, or when it stops going up (no more shiny attraction.) You need a sustained campaign of lies and deception to keep polishing that turd, so to speak.

We're better off without it, but you can't take away some people's psychological safety blankie.

Altman is v2.0 of Zuckerberg, with 1000X more parameters.

I'm worried about v3.0

Weird coincidence, I tweeted roghly the same idea two weeks ago:

https://twitter.com/marcfawzi/status/1636115903959158785

Obviously, it's a no-brainer idea at a high level. The devil is in the details.

AI is not a weapon. It's ultimately a synthetic brain running inside a machine. It can be used for good, or it can be mounted on a killer drone with deadly lasers. If you use it for evil, you go to jail. It should be as simple as that.

Don't Use AI for Evil. Make that into law.

Meanwhile, experiments to create Synthetic Life, including novel basis for life and possibly new viruses as a lab exercise (that may leak like the GoF virus did in Wuhan) proceed with no oversight or calls for pausing. We can unplug the AI and forbid AI weaponry (except by the state) but we can’t unplug synthetic viruses and new potentially dangerous or superior forms of life once it’s out there. Something very phony about the calculus.

Every CEO of every major US company is a US intelligence asset.

It's a great smoke screen for sure. They've been wanting to do this for ages. Now they have an excuse. Some would even venture to say that they knew about FTX and let it slide until it blew up, same way they knew the Saudis were funneling money to 9/11 terrorists and did nothing, then went to war with Iraq. Coinbase feels like Iraq right now. LOL. I mean some may say this is the emergent AI of gov acting out, not anyone doing it consciously. Something is extremely disturbing about this coinciding with an FBI-coordinated mass censorship campaign that upholds the field of denial everyone is stuck in.

I got flagged in the other thread. It was because I said the gov is going mad with power. This is not about Binance. They are going after Coinbase, too. They are trying to severe the connections between tradFi and deFi. They are also trying to censor views they don't like on all social media. Isn't that a coincidence? And take out TikTok too while you're at it, so only place to speak out now is Twitter... and they scared everyone away from Twitter because they say Musk is an alt right nutjob. SMH. Crazy times.

Who gets to define them as unregistered securities? The SEC claimed BUSD is a security and shut it down. If stabelcoins pegged against the dollar with provable 1:1 reserves are a security then... SEC needs to be dismantled or reset.

The message with the FBI coordinating with social media platforms to censor Americans and now gov agencies going after Coinbase (the company that has tried hard to stick to the letter of the law, which is a valid position in a capitalist country) tells me that we are entering a phase where the gov is simply going mad with power. Down vote all you want I don't care (or I care more about sharing my observation than your disapproval.)

ThaIt seems the moderators took sides here, and flagged this whole thread, which means that HN moderation is morally suspect, which I knew it was goiing in.

I hoe your take is satire too because you miss the core moral issue, so flippantly

The core moral isse is he took in money for Open and Transparent AI and turned it into Closed and Opaque AI. That is the bait-and-switch. You're simply blind to not see it.

You're still not answering the question of how you feel about Altman taking the money for a noble mission of Open AI then using that money and turning it into a Closed for-profit. If that's not bait and switch then you are being biased. Do you hae shares in "Open"AI? or are you building a product based on their API, or just cheering for Altman bc of kin or political/ideological alignment?