This just makes me so incredibly sad. I don’t know how it is in other countries, but here in Belgium, and by extension some of Europe, the public is becoming more and more aligned with the Palestinians and even governments are starting to stir. It’s just so fucking sad that it has to take so many lost lives and homes before anything gets going…
This is quite an old video, and lately he’s been working on his communication issues. He fully admits that he’s been a dick many times. This all escalated a couple of years ago where he even took a few months off and focussed solely on getting this fixed and getting help I believe.
Not to say he’s perfect now, but I don’t think we’ll ever get this sort of catharsis from Elon, Trump, Bezos…
I would love some extra sources for this. A quick reading of the article makes me understand that the researchers have a lot of confidence in the correctness of the AI gradings of policies, which I have my doubts about.
The article worries about the fact that the energy policies score worse than expected, but this assumes that these scores are valid in the first place. There is lots of interesting research happening in trying to use AI for varying problems, but in each case results go from bad to promising, but never outright certainty. The fact that this article almost immediately gives the vibe that the AI results are trustworthy and a valid and desired alternative to the slow human analysis really rubs me the wrong way.
I am in that strange overlap of people who are genuinely interested in astronomy but also can’t keep a straight face whenever they come into contact with Uranus. Thanks for the great and detailed post!
Isn’t this site proof that the internet doesn’t have to die as a whole? I mean, I agree with your sentiment, but I feel that this will mostly hit the middle to high traffic sites. The community based ones with organic discovery will remain OK I think. This might even evolve back to an early internet age of smaller hobbyist sites because there no longer is big money in the internet (apart from what google captures as “their” internet)
I hate AI. Why?
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I also took the time to read the original blog post, and it is a fascinating story.
The author starts out with using an existing vulnerability as a benchmark for ChatGPT testing. They describe how they took the code specific to the vulnerability and packaged it for ChatGPT, how they formatted the query and what their results were. In 100 runs only 8 correctly identify the targeted vulnerability, the rest are false positives or claim that there are no vulnerabilities in the given code.
Then they take their test a step further and increase the amount of code shared with ChatGPT so that it also includes stuff of the module that had nothing to do with the original vulnerability. As expected, this larger input decreases performance and also reduces the vulnerability detection rate for the targeted vulnerability. However, in those 100 runs, another vulnerability was described that wasn’t a false positive. An actual new vulnerability that the author didn’t know about was discovered. Again, the signal to noise ratio is very low, and one has to sift through a lot of wrong reports to get a realistic one, but this proved that it could be used as a useful tool for helping to detect vulnerabilities.
I highly recommend reading the blog post.
As much as I like to be critical about AI, it doesn’t help if we put our heads in the sand and act as if it never does something cool.
How long is a run? I’ve been looking for a fun roguelike as an alternative to my slay the spire runs, this seems right up my alley!
Thanks, I’m always happy to see you too, you’re really doing wonders in the gaming community :). I think games is probably what I’m most passionate about and the space you helped create really emphasizes that passion!
Killing a bunch of innocent families in his home city will have zero effect on Putin and only make their citizens more likely to keep supporting his invasion.
I understand this reaction, but please let’s not use the lives of innocents as chess pieces if it can be avoided.
That’s the stupid part. Serious criminals will always find a way to encrypt their data. Any communication channel can be used for encrypted communication if you do the encryption part yourself (like with an agreed upon passphrase or something similar). The only people who are hit by this are the average users.
This makes me so mad.
Welcome, let this place be your grass to touch :). I am doing better than expected. Had a really bad time mentally but slowly recovering and finding joy.
Listening to good music (Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky, Dan Auerbach’s wonderful solo albums (singer from the Black Keys).
Playing some fun games I got for cheap in the steam sale.
Watching an anime on Crunchyroll for the first time (The forbidden deduction of Ron Something Something).
What do you enjoy?
I am not from the US but always felt the world would be so different if Bernie was up against Trump instead of Hilary.
Is there a younger member of the Democratic party with a similar vibe to Bernie?
I am am continuing to extend the life of my 6 years old laptop for as long as possible, hopefully I will be able to buy a framework when it does eventually die on me. (It’s a semi-shitty clevo model but I recently replaced the battery and it’s kind of decent again)
I would describe myself as a pantheist: I see the existence of the universe as a whole and the multifaceted consciousness in it as divine. So science is as much a technical as a spiritual journey for me, and love / amazement / experience of the world seems the highest form of living.
I also feel that children often embody this in a very pure form, and it is only when society and social constructs kick in that we seem to forget our purpose and get all tangled up in imaginary goals and obligations.
While technically correct, they do have it in China itself, it’s a modified version called Douyin. It is more restricted, censored and tightly controlled.
I agree that it is a cyberweapon, but don’t think that it’s only used against foreigners, they use it just as much to observe and influence their own population.
Finally, I would like to point out that to a lesser extent this is also the case for a lot of USA owned social media and tech companies. Edward Snowden’s revelations for example indicate this. While the extent of government control and influence is much larger in China, I wouldn’t underestimate the influences of Meta, Google and Microsoft for example.
Femenism benefits men too. I am a man and while I primarily support feminist causes for women themselves, there’s no denying that patriarchy also damages my life as a man. All these toxic behavioral “rules”, the machoism, the competitiveness, the hiding of emotions.
That is the irony, a lot of incels and other misogynistic young men are suffering from that which they are siding with, and are fighting against what could ultimately help them.
Xonotic is still quite active!
Now I need the chart of people lying about lying about their vote!
While I understand where you’re coming from, I believe that it distracts from a massive positive effect that the GPL has: the way it ensures collaboration. Lots of contributors to GPL software do so in the knowledge that they are working on something great together. I myself have felt discouraged to contribute to MIT licensed software, because I know that others might just take all the hard work, make something proprietary of it and give nothing back.
I see GPL as some sort of public transaction, it is indeed more limiting than MIT and offers less pure freedom in that sense. But I just love how it uses copyright not for enforcing licensing payment for some private entity, but enforces a contribution to the community as a whole. I find this quite beautiful.
As someone who lives in Europe (Belgium), this sounds absolutely insane. If a prison were to do something like this here it would be all over the news! Simply disgusting.