U2F does not support PINs. You may be thinking of FIDO2, which does.
"The AI" cannot "refuse" any more than a hammer can refuse. If you use a hammer to kill someone, you commit a crime and the hammer is unprosecuted. If you design a hammer to kill people and then give it away, you are…
The grandparent comment is correctly pointing out the sentence is an LLM tell. "Membership is a question they ask a server" is a bogus sentence. "membership" is not a "question". It's syntactically valid semantic…
I think the DOI system provides a stable identifier for a paper that is not specific to arXiv?
> it just requires a few cryptographic primitives and a set of device-bound keys Question: how do you make sure the keys are device-bound if you have no attestation about the hardware or operating environment?
I was a bit upset to see vitriolic opposition online to systemd adding a field to store, entirely locally to a Linux system, the user's age. I think opponents to these bills frame it as current state vs complete,…
That issue cannot be a bug in the game, because the operating system should not allow a game to (by any means) produce that type of behaviour. So it's a bug in your OS, potentially the network card driver. There are…
I'm sorry it affects you directly, but the number of people who live in the whole state of Wyoming is around a half-million (even ignoring "rural"). If every single person in the entire state were affected, that would…
What percentage of people do you think are affected by AI datacenters? That argument applies better to blast furnaces than to data centers, but I don't see people complaining about steel. Data centers just don't take up…
If you want yourself to be the root of trust, you CAN generate and use your own keys for secure boot.
The IPs are Cloudflare, the TLS fingerprint is uTLS Chrome, and the number of connections with xhttp is the same as your normal browsing. If you are willing to block browsing all ordinary web sites fronted with a CDN,…
I will have a stab at legitimately explaining the viewpoint you profess not to understand. "Institutional" or "structural" racism doesn't just mean racism by one or two people in power. It's the idea that the majority…
The state of the art, "xray-reality", is not blockable. It's a legit tls connection with data smuggled inside it.
Technically no, because selling a thing is both a risk and a cost (of time and money).
Okay, understood. You are making a variant of the Chinese Room argument in which you allow some types of computer programs (but not others) to have reason/sentience. I'm not entirely sure what specific lines you're…
Just to make sure I've understood you... Are you arguing that with a set of identically-behaving black boxes, one could be "reasoning" and one could be "not reasoning", and a person would need to look inside the boxes…
The paper presents a constructive transformation from any finite-input (finite vocab, bounded length) transformer to an equivalent Markov chain. Do you have some concrete example of a transformer that cannot be…
No, not nonsense. Both are a lookup table whose key is the entire context window and whose value is a probability distribution for what the next token should be. You can say the choice of probability distribution in the…
There is absolutely nothing stopping someone from distilling a modern LLM into a very effective Markov chain. The physical size of the model would explode because a context window containing C tokens of size B would…
The point is that the output is text that is statistically correlated with the input. The capability of the LLM is not to reason, it's to generate text that matches the patterns seen in the training corpus. It's…
I completely agree that humans sometimes are not applying reasoning to things. I'm not trying to argue a model cannot "reason" or have "cognition", whatever those things are. I'm only saying that it's absolutely the…
No. The how is relevant here because it leads to understanding of the resulting behavior. If you train the LLM on a corpus that shows people saying the sky is red, you get an LLM that is predisposed to say the sky is…
Your casual understanding is imprecise. At all times the LLM is, indeed, predicting the next token. Anything it does emerges from that. It did not "figure anything out". It predicted that text describing the use of a…
Most spreadsheet engines are turing complete, so you could use them to run an LLM. I don't think many people would say an LLM written in Python is conscious BUT an LLM written in Excel is not. People just don't ascribe…
The Framework 16 lets you put a pad with twenty-four additional buttons on it next to the keyboard. These 24 buttons can be programmed to do whatever you want with reprogrammable firmware. Also, there are twenty-three…
U2F does not support PINs. You may be thinking of FIDO2, which does.
"The AI" cannot "refuse" any more than a hammer can refuse. If you use a hammer to kill someone, you commit a crime and the hammer is unprosecuted. If you design a hammer to kill people and then give it away, you are…
The grandparent comment is correctly pointing out the sentence is an LLM tell. "Membership is a question they ask a server" is a bogus sentence. "membership" is not a "question". It's syntactically valid semantic…
I think the DOI system provides a stable identifier for a paper that is not specific to arXiv?
> it just requires a few cryptographic primitives and a set of device-bound keys Question: how do you make sure the keys are device-bound if you have no attestation about the hardware or operating environment?
I was a bit upset to see vitriolic opposition online to systemd adding a field to store, entirely locally to a Linux system, the user's age. I think opponents to these bills frame it as current state vs complete,…
That issue cannot be a bug in the game, because the operating system should not allow a game to (by any means) produce that type of behaviour. So it's a bug in your OS, potentially the network card driver. There are…
I'm sorry it affects you directly, but the number of people who live in the whole state of Wyoming is around a half-million (even ignoring "rural"). If every single person in the entire state were affected, that would…
What percentage of people do you think are affected by AI datacenters? That argument applies better to blast furnaces than to data centers, but I don't see people complaining about steel. Data centers just don't take up…
If you want yourself to be the root of trust, you CAN generate and use your own keys for secure boot.
The IPs are Cloudflare, the TLS fingerprint is uTLS Chrome, and the number of connections with xhttp is the same as your normal browsing. If you are willing to block browsing all ordinary web sites fronted with a CDN,…
I will have a stab at legitimately explaining the viewpoint you profess not to understand. "Institutional" or "structural" racism doesn't just mean racism by one or two people in power. It's the idea that the majority…
The state of the art, "xray-reality", is not blockable. It's a legit tls connection with data smuggled inside it.
Technically no, because selling a thing is both a risk and a cost (of time and money).
Okay, understood. You are making a variant of the Chinese Room argument in which you allow some types of computer programs (but not others) to have reason/sentience. I'm not entirely sure what specific lines you're…
Just to make sure I've understood you... Are you arguing that with a set of identically-behaving black boxes, one could be "reasoning" and one could be "not reasoning", and a person would need to look inside the boxes…
The paper presents a constructive transformation from any finite-input (finite vocab, bounded length) transformer to an equivalent Markov chain. Do you have some concrete example of a transformer that cannot be…
No, not nonsense. Both are a lookup table whose key is the entire context window and whose value is a probability distribution for what the next token should be. You can say the choice of probability distribution in the…
There is absolutely nothing stopping someone from distilling a modern LLM into a very effective Markov chain. The physical size of the model would explode because a context window containing C tokens of size B would…
The point is that the output is text that is statistically correlated with the input. The capability of the LLM is not to reason, it's to generate text that matches the patterns seen in the training corpus. It's…
I completely agree that humans sometimes are not applying reasoning to things. I'm not trying to argue a model cannot "reason" or have "cognition", whatever those things are. I'm only saying that it's absolutely the…
No. The how is relevant here because it leads to understanding of the resulting behavior. If you train the LLM on a corpus that shows people saying the sky is red, you get an LLM that is predisposed to say the sky is…
Your casual understanding is imprecise. At all times the LLM is, indeed, predicting the next token. Anything it does emerges from that. It did not "figure anything out". It predicted that text describing the use of a…
Most spreadsheet engines are turing complete, so you could use them to run an LLM. I don't think many people would say an LLM written in Python is conscious BUT an LLM written in Excel is not. People just don't ascribe…
The Framework 16 lets you put a pad with twenty-four additional buttons on it next to the keyboard. These 24 buttons can be programmed to do whatever you want with reprogrammable firmware. Also, there are twenty-three…