raiding maybe not, but put on a list, via dragnet surveillance?
I guess I should have led the post off with more my opinion lol. Because I’m beginning to think americans should not be accessing the site directly at all. We’re all libs, I get that, but when circumstances force us all to start touching more grass I’d rather organize with yall than be sent to the camps together
right, but it’s a public website on the clearnet, full of marxists. Not taking any precautions to hide that you are a user of the site from your ISP, etc. seems at this point like a bad plan.
I mean yeah, but is that enough? This server has a static IP, even if they don’t know your posts it’d be easy for feds to find people who post here without tor, vpn, etc. and start knocking on doors, making threats, whatever. I’m not sure the old heuristics of what is/isn’t safe are sufficient anymore.
or built in streaming in mpv if you don’t want to download first
Should USian comrades abandon this site? if not what precautions are appropriate
I think this is a safe assumption but then what is to be done, for people that already have been in discords that could be flagged as marxist or antifa or whatever? scrub everything and delete your account and hope it gets actually deleted eventually? (and practice better opsec in the future ofc)
Well I do own a printer…
I think I agree but the fundamental problem in my view is thus: if you put an overgrown chatbot in charge of things with real-life stakes, people will die. We think social murder is bad now, it’ll be so much worse when we’ve handed over half of the administration of the systems keeping people (barely) alive to chatbots who fundamentally don’t (can’t) care about human life.
That’s a much different problem than “LLMs (or their successors) will develop superintelligence and kill us all” rokos basilisk bullshit
And like, I think the fact that it’s hard not to anthropomorphize them is intentional, and the lack of new (at least, public facing) language to analyze them with is intentional by the industry. But it’s still a mistake to do so because literally none of the underlying assumptions around these very human concepts applies to LLMs, and it’s not possible to use language in a way that is totally divorced from all prior assumptions baked into the concepts of thinking, reasoning, intention, behavior even when you are consciously aware that they map to LLMs only in superficial ways.
If you analyze what is fundamentally a statistical system, shaped by its mechanics, it’s training data, structural factors about the training process, and feedback generated by chaining multiple models together, as though human concepts have anything to do with how it will behave, then you will come to wrong conclusions. It is against the AI industry’s interests for us to have intelligent discussions about their “AI”, so important details are purposefully obscured, and I think use of language is part of that.
In addition to the obvious question about “are the authors of this book actually experts in ‘AI’ and do they have conflicts of interest?”, this video sorta glosses over the very important base level technical and philosophical questions about the technology (do LLMs “think”, for example) in order to instead engage in rampant scifi speculation about shit that will never happen (like LLMs developing independent “desires” for outcomes, which is apparently the thin end of the wedge to getting reasonable people panicking about superintelligence)
Soares throws in enough reasonable caveats that he isn’t outright lying about current LLMs, but he persistently anthropomorphizes them and humanizes them (referring to them as “babies” at one point, talking about them as making choices and taking actions and having knowledge) even while acknowledging that these are just statistical text generators.
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Yudkowsky is not an expert. He’s not a serious person in general. He’s a deranged former blogger. And Nate Soares, who Hank credulously interviews here, is Yudkowsky’s employee at the bullshit research institute that he set up with, I have to assume, Thiel Bucks.
offline devices don’t help if they get physically seized, which I believe is cellebrite’s specialty, but for things that don’t need to be online, yes. as far as the practicality of hand written cipher pads and such, I feel like it should be obvious that they aren’t practical in most circumstances, though still a useful back-pocket tool in a pinch at least.
I found the article “Talking to Vula” by someone involved in the development of early ANC encrypted comms interesting on this topic.
Good news for graphene. They’re definitely all over it and not invulnerable but it looks like cellebrite currently can’t break into up-to-date graphene devices, even with bootloader unlocked. My takeaway currently is that graphene will help you in the short term but you can’t expect it to keep you safe for years after, if it’s in evidence or whatever they may gain the ability to unlock it later in the future.
Yeah its only getting worse. People need to get tf out of proprietary ecosystems now, android and chrome included, though MS is probably the most egregious at this exact moment
the hair splitting in question was “did a vet or a trainer give the dog bed advice?”, not “does hard flooring affect hip dysplasia?”
it feels kinda like you started from a position (either not liking hasan for other reasons or misleading clips on fash subs) and worked backwards. Using clips cut by reactionaries as primary sources on what his opinion is is whack.
I think if you looked at see he isn’t forcing her to stay on the bed. “Place” is said specifically when she comes and tries to lay down somewhere else in the room on the hard floors but like once a stream most days she gets up and goes off camera (presumably to another room or to be with his family?) for an extended period and he doesn’t do anything about that. But if she’s going to just be laying in the room with him (which she seems to want to be with him, which is pretty normal), she has to be on the bed… Which lines up with what he’s said the whole time.
I don’t even like hasan much these days but I reallly need to stop hearing about this in particular.
He only “defends” shock collars in that he says they are not illegal and are pretty normalized in the US. He doesn’t make a value judgement about them. It’s valid to disagree with that but it’s not a reflection of what he does with his own dog, which he’s said and appears to be just a vibrating collar for outdoor off-leash use. Maybe, if we are to give malicious clips way too much credit, he could have used it indoors to reinforce the place training, I don’t know if that’s perfect dog training practice, but it’s not animal cruelty, IMO
He doesn’t need to, the clips are 99% bullshit as fuck. I don’t care about Hasan at this point, I’m responding solely to the comment “Do you think the e in ecolloar stands for electric shock or something? :jesse-wtf:”. which, to me, implied that the term ecollar did not include shock collars.
yeah, I’m assuming thats what hasan has, I don’t really care, I’m just saying the term e collars does include shock collars. The LSF links flying around are wild
top search result for ecollar: https://www.ecollar.com/categories/pet-yard-e-collars/
Those electrical contacts sticking into the neck are to deliver electrical “stimulation”. But yeah hasan did not afaik endorse them, only the vibrating/noisemaking kind
bonus facts, its also of note that for all the hubbub in the US about how revolutionary it is/was to be doing privately run/financed high speed rail:
It has better hype and marketing than anything, and US train enthusiasts are so cucked they feel they have no choice but to stan, I guess
yeah 100%. IRL organizing for sure more likely to land you in hot water faster ofc. I haven’t seen anything federal up close (so far) but I know some of the local anarchist groups totally collapsed after a campaign of infiltration before I was around. But a wellspring of sympathizers/contacts that aren’t already on a list seems important to maintain.