timmytokyo

I don't get it either. If UUIDv7 lacks security due to its revelation of a timestamp, why don't bigserials also lack security? After all, given a bigserial ID, you can tell whether it was generated before or after some other bigserial ID and thereby infer something about the time it was generated.

I really wish more internet infrastructure would switch to using NTS. It addresses these kinds of issues.

Kokotajlo is also a frequent poster at LessWrong, the favored watering hole for AI doomers who take Eliezer Yudkowsky seriously. I think that tells you all you need to know about him and why he left OpenAI.

The "Recall" feature has been designed and rolled out in such a shoddy matter that I don't know if you can even call this an "exploit" in the traditional sense. As designed, Recall is irresistible bait for bad actors who will inevitably craft all sorts of methods to harvest its data for the purposes of theft and blackmail.

Microsoft deserves all the opprobrium it's getting over this galactically stupid idea.

Mike Masnick has written a review of Haidt's book, and it's a nice rebuttal to each of these arguments.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-p...

One of the points he makes -- and that I don't see much discussed when it comes to Haidt's work -- is that Haidt's prescriptions for a solution are dangerous. If Haidt is wrong, one of the most unsettling consequences of relying on his solutions is that we stop looking for the real causes of any degradation in childhood mental health. Even if he's right, his solutions will have all sorts of unintended consequences, including loss of privacy on the internet, lack of access by children to resources that are in fact helpful to their mental health, and violations of various legal and constitutional human rights frameworks.

I'm not sure why everyone is 100% sure this was a state-sponsored security breach. I agree that it's more likely than not state-sponsored, but I can imagine all sorts of other groups who would have an interest in something like this, organized crime in particular. Imagine how many banks or crypto wallets they could break into with a RCE this pervasive.

>People point to mismanagement at Boeing, including lately labor outsourcing / labor arbitrage (building plants in SC instead of WA to avoid unions, Spirit Aerosystems, etc) but I see that as part of how Boeing tried to meet the growing demands of air travel.

People also point to management pressuring employees to shut up about manufacturing defects. From the referenced article:

>In 2019, Barnett told a journalist at Corporate Crime Reporter that his managers “started pressuring us not to document defects, to work outside the procedures, to allow defective material to be installed without being corrected. . . . They just wanted to push planes out the door and make the cash register ring.”

So no, if you believe Barnett, failures like Boeing's are not inevitable. They are criminal.

>and please dont respond to this comment claiming IQ is a useless metric. its not, and thats been very clear for decades.

I'm glad you settled the debate with a single sentence.

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

You're making my point. I was responding to this comment:

>Skyscrapers are not an indigenous lifestyle. I suppose that's not okay to bring up in this context?

If people are going to oppose this project, don't do it on the basis of some vaguely bigoted notion that "these skyscrapers don't match the indigenous lifestyle". As if that's the reason the project's opponents are opposing it. It's clearly a smokescreen being deployed because they actually dislike the project for NIMBY reasons (e.g., "it'll block my view", "it'll reduce the value of my nearby properties").

(Whether the commenter I'm responding to actually believes this is immaterial. The article quoted a local government official who basically said the same thing.)

In a city completely inundated with skyscrapers, it's odd -- and maybe a bit telling -- that some people become concerned for the first time in their lives only once an indigenous nation decides to build a skyscraper.

There are biological analogies you could have chosen other than adaptive hill-climbing. For instance, there's adaptive radiation, where a small population of organisms is introduced into a new environment and rapidly diversifies into new species, filling niches that weren't filled before. After the environment is mostly saturated, the populations stabilize and adaptation slows down, with gradual and relatively slow change and diversification.

Plugging LLM into this analogy would lead to a story where we're at the initial "Permian explosion" phase of evolution. New LLMs are rapidly "hill climbing" as they feed on virgin data scraped from the Internet. But as those LLMs diversify and adapt, they peter out once all niches have been filled and the fuel consumed.

Another analogy is the Petri dish, but that's an even more pessimistic analogy than adaptive radiation.

Indeed. The planet has endured multiple mass extinction events and life has continued to exist. Life will continue even after this wave of extinctions, which may or may not include humans.

What's your point?

This reminds me of one of those old jokes where someone is called stupid and ugly and they respond "I'm not ugly".

Your comment seems to suggest that you're viewing this event from outside the US. If so, perhaps you're unaware of the dangerous and recent rise in violent political rhetoric here. Garry Tan is a prominent and powerful person in the tech industry, and his words carry weight. When he rips violent lyrics out of a hip-hop song and refashions them into a political rant, he's pouring more fuel on a fire that's starting to burn out of control.

Garry Tan should know better. As an earlier article mentioned [1], he was previously quoted as saying "this kind of stuff should have zero place in San Francisco politics," referring to an activist's taunt that millionaires and landlords should be guillotined.

[1] https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/garry-tan-death-wish-sf-sup...

Please provide one reason to believe that USDT is actually 1-for-1 backed by USD. Because they say so?

Tether is the crypto version of a wildcat bank. It's totally unaudited, it's owned and operated by a former plastic surgeon and others with limited experience in finance, and it's been heavily fined by the state of New York for its shenanigans. It's only a matter of time before they implode like 3AC, Celsius, FTX, Signature, etc. etc.

The exchanges and crypto trading firms take billions of Tether in the form of bitcoin-collateralized loans [1].

Alex Mashinsky, former CEO of the now-defunct Celsius Network, described how it works [2]:

“If you give them enough collateral, liquid collateral, bitcoin, ethereum and so on ... they will mint tether against it,” he said.

“New USDT is issued for such loans,” he added, and later destroyed when the loan is closed “so it does not permanently increase USDT in circulation”.

If true, this contradicts Tether's claims that it only mints USDT in exchange for USD-backed treasuries.

[1] https://www.dirtybubblemedia.com/p/examining-tethers-secret-...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/0035016c-29ad-4e6f-9163-2a17df490...

Tether is an unaudited black box, so no one really knows what their reserves are composed of. Tether's also been caught lying about their reserves numerous times [1], so it would be insane to think they're a credible store of value. Given their history and opaqueness, it's reasonable to assume shenanigans.

[1] https://www.dirtybubblemedia.com/p/examining-tethers-secret-...

Good luck trying to figure out why your rental or employment application was denied.

You linked a list of their most popular articles, which happen to be the ones about Twitter. If you sort by date instead, you'll see your characterization of the newsletter is false.

If Substack really wants to be the Nazi bar [1], then that is their prerogative. But if some of their writers don't wish to be patrons of the Nazi bar, then it is their prerogative to urge Substack's leadership to change their minds.

[1] The bartender: "You didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them... You have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too. And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down." https://werd.io/2023/leaving-the-nazi-bar

Anyone who's been paying attention knows that Tether is an opaque money-laundering scam, and it's only a matter of time before it totally unravels. The only reason Tether is making noises about cooperating with the US government is because they're being told in no uncertain terms that their continued near-term existence depends on it. Check back in a year.

[1] https://amycastor.com/2023/12/28/crypto-collapse-mt-gox-payo...

[2] https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/12/06/bitcoin-goes...

Ken White ("Popehat") wrote a recent essay on what it typically means when a company promotes their support for "free speech". He wrote it about Substack, but I think it applies equally well to Rumble.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/substack-has-a-nazi-opportuni...

Yes.

The variant supported by most Silicon Valley types appears to be the right-wing one. Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto" cites Filippo Marinetti, founder of the Italian futurist and fascist movements, as one of its "patron saints". Also included: Nick Land, spiritual father of the "dark enlightenment" accelerationist philosophy known known as neoreaction.

>The RET for confirmation was a side-effect, one which the author felt could actually have some value in itself.

Regardless of the reasons for the change, a single author was permitted to commit a change that broke the workflows of potentially thousands of users. And there was no way users could work around it to maintain their previous workflows. That sounds arrogant and annoying.

I suspect this is in refernce to Banks's stated purpose for writing the Culture series.

>He first conceived the Culture in the late 60s, and has developed it ever since. “It’s basically a lot of wish fulfilment, I write about all the things I would like to have,” he says. “I’d had enough of the right-wing US science fiction, so I decided to take it to the left. It’s based around my belief that we can live in a better way, that we have to. So I created my own leftist/liberal world.”

[1] https://spikemagazine.com/iain-banks-interview/

Given Musk's red-pilled foray into right-wing culture war discourse, it is indeed ironic that he would revere these books.

Newsweek is basically owned and operated by the Moonies now, too [1].

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/03/newsweek-ibt-olive...

He was an equal-opportunity briber.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/30/ftx-billi...

His solution -- assuming it's the same as the one proposed by Yudkowsky, who he quotes -- is launching air strikes against data centers hosting AI computation.

So yeah, imaginary.

What a sad state of affairs it is that antisemites feel so free to express their hatred so openly.