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⏸️ qualia-pilled software engineer and hobbyist musician. playful-curiosity/compassion/intention

An ocean of qualia
Joined February 2009
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Imagine a temple with row upon row of what appear to be snow globes. Each globe corresponds with a moment in time, immutable, from some observer's point of view. Each row corresponds with a conscious creature, with the globes in sequence forming the chronology of a life.
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a story in three parts
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damn bro that’s deep
Hardest thing ever written award
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the lisp browser, zooming infinitely into a page that contains itself
so claude quickly built the browser and it's really cool, having one language govern structure/style/behaviour is nice, but now i'm sad there is no lisp internet to browse! kinda sucks lol
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you could have all of the advantages of this with none of the downsides if you just added a comically obvious “robot voice” effect to the voice. Could still be just as emotive and responsive, with all of the benefits of that, without anyone believing they’re talking to a human.
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. block.xyz/dessa
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people have bad brain worms where "technology = good", no matter what form it takes
I showed my 15yo that Dessa voice demo, and his response was that there seems to be no good reason to want AI voices to be indistinguishable from humans, only bad reasons (e.g. tricking people) I agree with him, this seems like a net bad technology! why does anyone want this?
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This is the direct result of 200 years of technological determinism as religion. It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of progress for progress's sake. Even the guys creating the nightmare are like, 'Yeah we are making monsters, you know—help—I still have to get up tomorrow to continue building the monster, because you know, what can you do, I'm not a reactionary or crazy shit like that, we are doing what must be done, so, prepare guys, this is really bad, much worse than anybody thought, like, the end is near, you are fucked, we all are, kiss your children tonight, hold them tight, wait, I gotta go to work, we are adding a new arm to the monster, fuck, I'm late.'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: "I don't even know a dramatic enough word to use… models can find bugs that are outside of the normal threat model of what we think a hacker can do… hardware-level, insane stuff… I no longer think we're gonna be able to just patch all the bugs."
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“Have an open mind” is good advice. But I think a truly open mind includes being open to the idea that the skeptical position is the correct one. An open mind isn’t one where you only look for evidence that confirms what you already believe.
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so claude quickly built the browser and it's really cool, having one language govern structure/style/behaviour is nice, but now i'm sad there is no lisp internet to browse! kinda sucks lol
had a dream i was working on a toy internet browser, and instead of rendering HTML/CSS/JS, it rendered a variant of lisp. So now i have claude working on it cos it sounds cool lol
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I wonder what it is like to look at the moon and have no explanation for what it is / why it isn’t falling
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what should i call my toy browser that renders lisp?
60%Netscheme
40%Parenscape
0%Other (suggest pls)
5 votes • Final results
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had a dream i was working on a toy internet browser, and instead of rendering HTML/CSS/JS, it rendered a variant of lisp. So now i have claude working on it cos it sounds cool lol
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Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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I think we should have offline playbooks for how to do ordinary day to day things without the internet, in case things get really bad. It's been a long time since I last saw a cheque book! lol
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Nathan⒦ retweeted
ICYMI: Today was basically the worse day of the year for cyber security incidents
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Age yourself by naming a movie you saw in the theater when you were a KID
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the good kind of galaxy brain
if this PHP vulnerability allows remote code execution, doesn't that mean we can use the vulnerability to auto-patch all vulnerable servers?
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Nathan⒦ retweeted
Is this anything
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One thing that fascinates me is this weird kinesthetic sense of my body that I seem to be able to move. It’s like I’m moving an inner ghost of my body. Can be really trippy especially when I’m half asleep. Chat called it “kinesthetic motor imagery”
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Google search used to actually work pretty well. Those were the days.
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