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Do you realize how big "the entire internet" is?

> How many dollars of compute do you believe were available to the swarm(s)

At least two OOMs more than the dollar value of the damage they'd caused. (Also, as an aside, IIRC, the wiki servers weren't breached; it was just a lot of spam.)

> Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it’s my worry that in 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage), and that the scale of damage would continue to increase from there if AI becomes more powerful without the necessary guardrails.

This is the only concrete prediction in the entire essay.

And it simply cannot happen. For one, you will need billions worth of compute.

The dehumanization of children and teenagers is getting out of hand.

This is just plain evil.

There aren't any actual videos in the dataset though.

We are very fortunate open source models have reached parity for virtually all non-coding use cases.

George Lucas

Without WhatsApp support it will not go far.

It does seem to have retained the K2 series's creative writing abilities, at least with the prompts I've tested so far.

They are one of the few labs (perhaps even the only one at this level) that are doing something both unique and useful, rather than simply imitating what the others are doing: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/

Centralized messaging services won't last long, their capture is sadly inevitable. In the long run, only self-hosted/decentralized protocols can resist what's coming.

In the meantime though, Signal specifically should not do something stupid like blocking the EU, which is basically surrender. They are a non-profit headquartered in the US, so there are zero business risks to non-compliance - nothing in the EU to fine or seize. And the EU has no jurisdiction over servers in the US, all they can do is build their own Great Firewall. (However, they might pressure AWS to deplatform Signal - hopefully the team is prepared for the possibility that self-hosting will be necessary soon.)

I'm pretty sure there's an element of sarcasm here, but if this game is real, it does sound super promising.

Something that’s largely been ignored: DeepSeek has made context caching virtually free with V4-Flash.

What you call "slop" is a far better education than what 99% of children in the world receive.

Does anyone have any educated guess on what the price could’ve been?

It’s just human nature, no big deal. Personally I find it mildly cute.

This (and PAFACA in general) is a massive disgrace from a 1A POV.

Don't you need an AUMF for this, at least in theory?

> Which of the tech titans are funny? In public, they tend to speak in one of two registers. The first is the blandly corporate tone we’ve come to expect when we see them dragged before Congressional hearings or fireside chats. The second leans philosophical, as they compose their features into the sort of reverie appropriate for issuing apocalyptic prophecies on AI.

This is just not accurate though? For example, this post from a tech titan might not necessarily be that funny but it's neither blandly corporate nor philosophical: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2006548935372902751

You shouldn't care - especially if you're not located in the EU.

FWIW this company was founded in 2014 and appears to have added LLM-powered features relatively recently: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/legal-tech-compa...

The mobile view is a really pleasant reading experience on desktop.

CoreWeave did this with Ethereum in preparation for the proof-of-stake transition.

Data centers in space are guaranteed to be a thing by 2035.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1984868748378157312

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1985743650064908694

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1984249048107508061

Why are OEMs like Samsung just letting this happen? A lot of power users who buy flagships will leave for iPhones if Android ceases to be an open platform. (This segment is what is preventing the “green bubbles = poor” narrative from taking over.)

This would enable/catalyze an order of magnitude more child abuse than anything that can happen on the worst cesspits of the internet.

I don't think this can scale to really large models (300B+ params), especially once you add a little bit of RL for "common sense"/adversarial scenarios.

Come on, this is obviously a great thing. A lot of kids are gonna be super happy once this launches.

Now imagine they had a CBDC.

What do the OEMs have to say about this? A lot of them, including Samsung, have their own app stores. Surely they'd not be willing to cede control?