hope everyone is having a nice evening

given recent events, re-sharing my thoughts on space datacenters :p

when your claude finds the hidden seam that hinges the skeleton

We are starting a new, nonprofit alignment organization, ⊢ Sequent Research, bringing together researchers previously on UK AISI’s Alignment Team, Timaeus, and elsewhere to research how to align superintelligence. We are hiring! 🧵 sequent.org/launch

Don’t Worry — It Can’t Happen (also, the scientists who claim fission exists are just in the pocket of Big Science, and they’re literal nazis anyway, and also it’s just a stochastic reaction that peters out, and only physbros care about it, and it hasn’t ever happened before so it won’t)

Wow this farmer has a message for AI companies who want to buy his land

miss this discourse tbh. it was very funny in this specific way

🔭 Saturn at Night Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute, Mindaugas Macijauskas ap260601

i've been doing this increasingly in the past few months where I have time because of the urgency (esp security automation things), and now it looks like i'll finally be able to apply the amount of focus that i want to to this area now. very excited

sometimes good things happen and things work out

anthwopic cwaude

new boards of canada album slaps

one of my favorite cheeky papers, from 1999, is this one where the authors argue that sometimes it is better to simply wait and do nothing, because your astrophysical simulations will complete faster if you simply wait for the next epoch of compute arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph...

found an old project from a laptop from high school where i had just learned about neural networks and was trying to implement an autonomous network security agent named 't-cell' by carving out a static set of decision classes from a static network manifest input lol. raw numpy, didnt get very far

how many layers of negative polarization are you on? you are like baby, watch this,

everything is a bytecode-targetable virtual machine if you look at it sideways. JBIG2 image decompression? virtual machine. x86 mov instruction? virtual machine. truetype fonts? virtual machine. Magic: The Gathering? believe it or not, also virtual machine.

how about this?

can you spot the critical bug in this C code?

average MLeng: 'well, the adversary would have to know the details of how our defense works' the humble Kerckhoff axiom:

thinking about the utter bullshit that is DNS rebinding attacks

neural networks try to design towards “all structure” in their layers, whereas block ciphers must be “no structure at all” (any structure is a break, usually)

neurocryptanalysis

Most Perfidious Undertaking

More Perfect Ragebaiting

Everything MPU posts about data centers is complete garbage. They have zero respect for their audience. Literally no one here is losing power. This post is a complete lie. 🧵

friday night, perfect time to work on something completely normal

the vast majority of practical traditional software security problems are strongly 'on distribution'; detecting them at a high level is basically an n-classification problem, where n is actually quite small, and there is a _ton_ of shitty code out there.

i think i was mostly right about this but too unkind in the way i communicated it

“Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar?” reiner.org/neural-net-c...

is it good if the system design diagram looks like the numogram

it's really funny that linux is de-facto converging on win32 api as its first universal ABI format

ok claude. add sequence oyster

i cannot believe that 'rust and memory safety are a gay woke moralist op and true redpillers run vulnerable c code' is a real thing. it seemed too stupid to be possibly real when i 'made up a guy to make fun of' about it years ago but here we are

diffing the activations of Talkie and Gemma to try to find Lost Artifacts

they’re doing this to me tomorrow

you know who else was a big fan of creatures and goblins?

i hope i can talk about this soon

the pollution would from gas turbines would be substantially less concerning if they were actually 'burning pure methane'

one cool thing you can do with simple, lightweight systems level mitigations/instrumentation like this is stick them in a zkVM (like SP1) and produce succinct proofs over arbitrarily sized agent trajectories, and show compliance to some agent policy without revealing the transcript at all

one cool thing you can do with simple, lightweight systems level mitigations/instrumentation like this is stick them in a zkVM (like SP1) and produce succinct proofs over arbitrarily sized agent trajectories, and show compliance to some agent policy without revealing the transcript at all

sometimes i bring things to claudes and am just like 'do u like this'

i love getting unknown upper respiratory infections every 6-8 months

at some point the agent harness stops being primarily a harness for the claude and starts being a harness for the human

Cynicism is high accuracy, low recall. This makes it very easy for cynics to be smug and look right while being wrong on everything important

new boards of canada, new half life, yeah im thinking we’re back

it always comes back to bill gates

this is exactly the same operating principle as any other pseudoscience misinformation campaign