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I guess this is what a matematician calls a bar.
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>
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
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
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”!
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.
BRB registering KallocAIn as a company
The poster deftly doesn’t address the real moral question: what if conversion therapy (either for homosexuality or trans identification) worked ? Would it be ethical to allow it?
This is the difference between politics/ethics and science. As the old saying goes, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
CW: barely disguised transphobia
“friendly neighborhood transhumanist liberal” asks why bans on “conversion therapy” for trans folks are being enacted without looking at the science, which they’re surprised is non-existent
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/J4Lnxi3uJhR8GiGsm/how-are-there-0-studies-maybe-1-on-sex-concordant-hormone
Habryka is too busy writing long screeds warning people not to vote for random junior politicians to moderate
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQJfdqSaMcJyR5k73/habryka-s-shortform-feed?commentId=u7L6T6uGEkzw9Fzku
The header image is gold.
enjoy crustaceans incorrecting each other about free speech, defamation law etc
https://lobste.rs/s/lxoosd/german_court_ruling_declares_google_s_ai
If LW is a cult, they’re doing a terrible job at recruiting:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yhrrhTzTeiZ8PzQZn/where-do-young-rationalists-go
AP: Appeals court upholds FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud conviction
It’s been a while since I immersed myself in SF publishing but I think that older terms like “New Wave” and “cyberpunk” were basically marketing terms riding off the hits that spawned them. I believe they were a collaboration between the fandom, magazines and publishers - not in any structured way, but like in music, a term is used to encompass many different acts.
One slubstack does not a genre name, tho. And it’s broad enough to be meaningless. For example one of the first authors is Scott Alexander, who is not formally a programmer, just someone who hangs out online terminally. Vinge was a CS prof, but Banks afaik didn’t have any formal CS training. Ken McLeod worked as a programmer, as did Charles Stross.
SF is a nerd author paradise and nowadays nerds program, so … chicken and egg?
“It is your moral duty to send as much money as you can to Sam Altman”
Wake up babe new genre definition just dropped
https://stoates.substack.com/p/programmer-science-fiction
Includes all the usual suspects, but notably doesn’t mention Ken MacLeod whose Fall Revolution series is probably too socialist[1]. Also avoids discussing Stross post-*Singularity Sky*.
[1] MacLeod’s Corporation Wars trilogy has immersive VR, artificial conciousness rebelling against authority, and literal p-zombies but is also very anti-fascist, so no wonder it’s not mentioned (also, it’s unfortunately not very good)
This is a new method of bootlicking: if you as a FLOSS developer don’t use LLMs to fix vulnerabilites identified by LLMs, you’re being unethical
https://lobste.rs/c/5toqqs
Dude look where you’re commenting
I haven’t experienced the situation you’re describing myself, but it feels very plausible.
Similarly, all developed societies depend on a number of people selflessly working in positions of elected or non-elected authority (local councils, HOAs, school boards) and treating them like people who cannot afford to make any mistakes is not a recipe for increased democratic engagement.
Anyway, so far no-one has commented, negatively or otherwise, and I think most LWers are treating it as harmless fun.
It’s not making me any more interested in coming more than 200 feet from any of these people, and neither is this https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GtZKzWgAqWrE2tXrQ/contra-dance-at-lessonline, but maybe that’s just me being mean.
no good deed goes unpunished
Are you worried about AI taking over the world and killing everyone? Fear not, the people who can stop it are collecting hats. Surely everything is under control.
someone with a pretty website and a wife who knows statistics mounts an impassioned defence of tridge and the clankers:
https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/
CW M:tG weirdo Zvi’s slobsack + Xhitter references, but he accuses an OpenAI / Palantir-funded PAC boosting a fake “AI doomer” account calling for violence:
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-171-false-flag?open=false#%C2%A7openai-pac-engaged-in-false-flag-advocacy-for-violence
“seeded ladies” I see what you did there
George Santos got reported(!) for insider trading on Kalshi:
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/prodigal-son