• ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    15 hours ago

    That said, we promise to still offer all of our data for download to anyone who asks. You just may have to jump through more hoops to get it.

    Sorry. (Oblig. Canadian thing to say.)

    kkkanada

    That said I will never complain about Anubis no matter how high the difficulty is set.


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      It shows how resource-rich we are to just have tech sitting there idling all the time. Same principal as the old SETI at home. Made nefarious.

      If someone should use one of these networks to do a public hack which associates itself with trans people or palestine, then it’d get slapped.

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    17 hours ago

    I’ve had this idea rattling around in my head that when you strip out all the very human perceptions of our world, of money and political power and the like, what your left with is this: the profit motive is, physically, entropy maximization. Why, in the 21st century, is petrolium still our primary energy source? Min/Maxing effort. Entropy.

    Why are we burning so much CPU time to solve math problems to scrape data to train a model with diminishing returns? Entropy.

    I’m an idiot and that’s probably a major misunderstanding of entropy as a physical concept, but whatever.

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      That thing all the AI Risk techbros have been publicly wringing their hands about, the paperclip maximizer, does actually exist. They just never noticed because they expect it to be computer.

      It’s called the publicly traded company and the paperclips are shareholder value.

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    18 hours ago

    Used to be i just had to worry about smart appliances being used in a botnet to do DDOS attacks

    Now i donthave to worry because they come with that feature pre installed.

    Cool

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    21 hours ago

    Using random homes’ smart appliances to bypass ip bans to scrape data for AI training is spectacularly creative in its evil, especially because the power consumption costs for passing anubis just go to the appliance owners. I wonder how much the appliance vendors sell these data contracts for.