I’m noticing the way that last year’s expenses get covered by this year’s revenue. Maybe they’ll try for some deal around that, and expect the bubble to last forever?

Should? Don’t you mean already do?

Okay, where is an updated remediation script?

That sounds like something we can make an AI agent do, purely out of spite for the argument :p But yes. There is more than a “feedback loop” required.

However, I am conflicted at the idea that a human that does not self-reflect may not be considered “conscious”. I see many a human in retail simply not meet this threshold you’re laying out. And while it would be cathartic to discuss some customers as less human for their behavior, the act of dehumanizing another human is itself dehumanizing for the actor.

Of course, it is possible that you could have some other type of feedback loop that produces self awareness and consciousness, but from what we understand of how LLMs work, it seems highly unlikely that statistical token generation is sufficient for that.

This is where “agentic” models enter the chat. A coherent identity and goal, provided by the user adds an additional layer above the statistical-generation of simple LLMs. This layer can be engineered for persistence, even through malicious means like prompt injection.

As an academic exercise, I propose that some persistent-subset of these AI agents possess the “embodiment” we believe is missing. If all this amounts to is a Proof By Negation? Good, we get somewhere that proves our current AI is not conscious.

Even if quantum cryptography were real, its been proven not to affect symmetric encryption like AES.

Don’t use AES-GCM for your block cypher.

Depends on whether Chinese chipmakers open source their firmware and designs, as the standard is intended to make possible. And if we get more fab-manufacturing than just ASML.

China could invite entire countries into the Chinese ecosystem - fab-manufacturing, chip designs and firmware, chipset standards, manufactured products from the whole array. The economic ecosystem can be introduced, managed, and deployed quickly, end to end, local production to international distribution.

But instead, I suspect China will just be making fabs on other countries’ dirt that are staffed almost exclusively with Chinese labor, bolstering Chinese profits. Its their pattern, and when their diplomatic competition at this scale is the bomb-happy US and Russia, maybe India? China doesn’t need to offer much to be the unquestionable “good guy” in the room.

We could all be doing so much better than this.

“Greenhouse gas emissions bad” is kinda the crux of how far I got. And asserting that Anthropic doesn’t care about doing better on that.

National Security Hawks are our friends!

What no class analysis does to a MFer.

The National Security Hawks in the US are in on the surveillance, feeding the data to AI, and churning out lists of targets to eventually drone strike - domestically and abroad.

Can someone connect me with these National Security Hawks that are for actual privacy and autonomy, instead of their own stupid surveillance states? Because I’m convinced Doctorow is making them up in hopes of inciting their existence.

His pitch of “stealing American Trillions to keep Billions” is enticing and elegant, but flies in the face of All of the political Momentum. I wish to flee to his first country to destroy American Copyright in favor of their own national sovereignty! But not even France is taking this step in declaring “independence” from American Tech.

National Security Hawks are our friends!

What no class analysis does to a MFer.

The National Security Hawks in the US are in on the surveillance, feeding the data to AI, and churning out lists of targets to eventually drone strike - domestically and abroad.

Can someone connect me with these National Security Hawks that are for actual privacy and autonomy, instead of their own stupid surveillance states? Because I’m convinced Doctorow is making them up in hopes of inciting their existence.

His pitch of “stealing American Trillions to keep Billions” is enticing and elegant, but flies in the face of All of the political Momentum. I wish to flee to his first country to destroy American Copyright in favor of their own national sovereignty! But not even France is taking this step.

Anyone else convinced AES-256 is not long enough a but length for full disk encryption anymore? Even the 512-bit schemes are just trying some offset-salts that, with ~10TB I worry about providing close-enough statistical significance for cryptanalysis.

With 100TB drives?! I am less worried and more… convinced its a problem.

I propose “demi-FLOSS”.

Are they Free/Libre Open Source Software?

Yeah but . . .

apt-get is now deprecated on Debian and Ubuntu. But otherwise, no notes.

1,400+ Civilian Casualties.

This can be his restitution - do the same to every conservative party on earth

Guess you wanna maintain your own patchset then? Because that’s what freedom takes - building on the shoulders of giants and corpos, but also scrubbing the spyware off down into the kernel.

Hate the politician louder.

Hating a Dev? Broke.

Hating Governor Newsom? That’s on the money.

There is one small benefit to this speedbump on our road to freedom:

Governor Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California? Has been acting like he wants to run for President in 2028. He signed this into law for his state.

Make this an albatross on his neck. Sink him. Let him know that this crushed his dreams of ever being President. Publicly. Loudly. Don’t be satisfied until he quits twitter and retires from public life altogether, not just politics.

And for anyone in New Jersey? Get loud at your state reps phonelines now, they’re trying to pass the same in your state.

The problem is that if the government is able to tell open source developers “YOU MUST INSERT THIS CODE OR ELSE!!!” then what’s next?

What’s next is that code gets a build flag that’s turned off in the makefile, and maintainers have to explicitly turn it on for that code to compile in. Distros maintain patches that add this sort of thing all the time, even if upstream refuses to do so.

And Debian is saying that, as a non-profit, all volunteer org? This bullshit doesn’t apply to them. They are building a legal basis for the makefile solution I’m describing above, and its default-off state in their repositories.

All of your catastrophising can be addressed this way. We need devs like you who can help make sure this solution is implemented exactly as described.

Debian repos are great - we can even blacklist official repos and replace them with bare, sketchy IP addresses if we like, and share binaries through them.

You cannot stop the signal. Quit thinking like a voter trapped in a Fascist hellscape, and start thinking like a hacker that the state cannot outmaneuver.