Bro the number of AI commercials during the Super Bowl is excruciating.

All vulnerabilities are this at their core: Unexpected input = unexpected and undesirable output. The only way to totally secure a computer is to eliminate all input. Which means you have a brick that can’t do anything. Computer security is an intractable problem. Act accordingly.

I’m feeling really mentally heavy lately. I’m having a really hard time getting motivated and doing work, especially the work that means a lot to me. Not really sure what I need to breakthrough.

I really enjoyed this article about how LLMs “fool” people into believing they’re actually intelligent. I especially enjoyed this because at a corporate event, I got to see Oz the Mentalist who was incredible. He did literally every single one of the things mentioned in this article. Down to interviewing people before the show, but did it in this crazy sly way that didn’t make you suspicious. Anyway, for quite a while, I was genuinely dumb founded by how many intelligent people I knew were constantly spouting “wait til GPT-6 bro!” When I’d tell them LLMs are dumb and just fancy autocomplete. But I’ve been reading more and more and I realized two things. First, it’s great marketing but second, people are so hopeless these days, they’re hoping a rock we’ve tricked into doing math will eliminate the bad things in their lives. Spoiler: it wont.

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The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

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