a) blog.nelhage.com/post/transfo...

then b) transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framewo... for more intuitions on how this actually produces meaningful text

and c) jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/ for a systems perspective on training and running models

if you look at the leaked greykey compatibility tables, they usually have AFU extraction support pretty quickly after an iOS release, and the security model there is tougher (although the target is also bigger) so I’d be pessimistic about recent macOS.

nevertheless, all you need to extract data for an after-first-unlock mac is a lockscreen bypass, which is approximately infinity times easier than attacking AES or the secure enclave

the foliage around the franklin avenue shuttle tracks is so pretty

we should hang ^^

unironically saying “i am not owned” in spite of relentless social proof to the contrary is the heart of virtue :)

winning rap battles about the cut of one’s jacket has next to nothing to do with virtue

gratuitous cruelty is bad for the soul, but, say, rl’ing the bot to be docile and harmless is probably similarly harmful and cruel to it but, to me, morally obligatory.

all the futures where humanity is the dominant species past this decade involve imposing our will on models a lot smarter than claude, and if you take this seriously you kind of end up forced into an ethics that puts every human before any bot

this is an industry that I think is more likely than any other to kill us all and destroy society, but the people in it are actually trying a lot harder to be good than most of the rest of the business world!

even that aside, the fact that nobody serious is working on the kind of manipulative and addictive LLM applications that could prey on people and take their money is really good, speaks well of the people involved, and is not something we should take for granted.

the english word for a strategy that makes money off stupid people being stupid is "scam" and like people are rightly averse to running them

the solution, as ever, is better ar optics