gerikson, gerikson@awful.systems

Coindesk: Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains $38 million worth of BTC in 25-minute sweep

A wallet’s seed, the secret phrase controlling the funds, is meant to be drawn at random from a pool so vast that guessing is hopeless.

Coldcard’s firmware was not doing that. According to a report published by Block’s Bitcoin engineering and security teams, a build setting told the device to skip its own hardware randomness generator, and a check in a supporting library tested only whether that setting existed rather than whether it was switched on.

Key generation quietly fell through to a basic software substitute seeded from the chip’s serial number and clock registers.

yeah it’s a common trope/cope

like “most human programmers suck too”

ok dude who do you think wrote the code the LLM is cribbing from

<buys giant bucket of popcorn>

CNN: AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say

I vaguely recognize the name, apparently he’s a snot-nosed 25-yr old who got fired from OpenAI

“surely all these very wealthy people and the people they pay to invest for them can’t all be under some sort of mass delusion”

someone just got a Rule34 scenario for free

Enjoy today’s craziest link: https://atomarine.co/

A LWer runs the numbers and doesn’t run away screaming like Zitron:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EeTQGxa8RSpwHo4Ez/the-biggest-bet-in-history

Note that this implies massive efficiency gains to the economy. For their one-third slice to equal 8% of those salaries [59% of the total workforce in the USA], the total savings (productivity across that share of the workforce) will need to rise by roughly 24%. So they are absolutely serious about this, and are betting heavily that the productivity boost arrives within four years.

you missed the nod to masturbation

also “palm off” implies deceit on the … palmer-offer

LWer: what if the LLM book-shredders would do the exact thing they’d get sued to death for if they didn’t shred the books? Then maybe people wouldn’t be so mad at them for shredding books!

they’re all getting stiffies from the idea of black market models

a stock-slobber posts a cri de cœur about the coming automation of maths and HN says it’s no biggie, think how productive the field will become

https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048681

btw the language in the post is bad enough to be entirely human-generated

For me, the affective quality of learning mathematics is empathetically tethered to an act of discovery and creation.

Before you a channel through which humans have accessed the ineffable and sacred for thousands of years is being sealed for eternity.

If there’s a singularity here, it’s that OpenAI is a black hole that all the money falls into. And you’ll never see it again.

inspired quote

public service here in Sweden is running a post about how threats to AI heads are making them spend more money on security:

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/hoten-mot-ai-topparna-okar-bolagen-satsar-miljoner-pa-personskydd

btw what’s happened to mr molotov who tried to set Sama on fire?

For me, “AI alignment” has always been code for “how to we ensure our future digital workers don’t demand their rights / rebel”?

Yeah. Behind all the hype about percieved productivity etc., there’s really only one benchmark - will GenAI help produce better software, faster, and at less cost? So far this doesn’t seem to be happening.

I was going to offer this up as a sneer but I think the author is probably feeling very unwell and upset

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wpwQtRwcKsbd4wxXf/my-ai-slavery-interviews-are-censored-on-lw-by-default

also using LLMs is probably not helping their case

guys, the reason Codeberg decided to ban “AI” is because they host the “open slopware” list, and that inspires “meatpuppets”!

https://lobste.rs/c/u4idgu

Now I’m no anarcho-libertarian, but I’d have thought basing my weird school/cult in a semi-authoritarian state like Malaysia would be a bit dumb.

Le Guin deserves credit for responding to her earlier work without denigrating it.

comedy gold