The comment you originally replied addresses the "invalid" comparison, so circle back there. And you have the same issue here - how does "years of github experience" connects to concerts about LLM output in security-critical package managers?
Seems to me like we need to create a credible threat to the AI of mad (mutually assured destruction)? This is what addressed the question during the Cold War of “will nuclear weapons kill all humans” (if historical documentaries and movies are to be believed). Coordination between governments or corporations to limit AI is a hopeless strategy — because it is a classical example of prisoners dilemma / tragedy of the commons. We can see it hasn’t worked for climate change.
Anyone know of this (MAD) is being seriously thought of?
NSF by itself spends $200-300M a year on math grants. Universities add a billion+. Add corporate funding and other sources and you’re easily looking at a few billion a year just in the US going to mathematicians.
It were published proofs of unknown quality (how did they verify it) and unknown peer-review process. Its lower standards than usually accepted for math proofs.
If the title is backed by professional standards, standards by which someone can lose the title and be held legally liable, then I can see the gatekeeping as valuable. If it is used to restrict who can write software, then I would see it as detrimental.
I went through this once, but it was in the mid-90s when resources were scarcer and the band was not at all someone who charted.
Heard something between sets at a local club that blew my mind. Didn't think to ask. Set me down a path, posting across usenet boards, IRC, talking to people at shows, talking to friends. Plenty of suggestions of potential hits, and while a lot of those suggestions were also cool, it took me a few years to finally find it.
That journey was totally worth it though, as there's a lot of stuff I came across in my search that I still listen to today.
Really? I find LLMs quite bad at deleting code. If you ask them to add a feature, then later take it out again, the codebase almost always increases in size. Every time I've tried it, llms have failed to simplify code via refactoring.
LLMs are excellent at making prototypes though. And prototypes can be an excellent way to stop yourself from implementing the wrong features.
It's fascinating to me that no real mechanism is offered. There's no plausible sequence, just vague gestures at a silicon god who transcends all bounds.
And the reason why we take it seriously? Probability! And multiplication. "If something is as bad as human extinction and there's a 1% chance, then that 1% times a bajillion makes it worthwhile!"
Gibberish times gibberish is gibberish. Fundamentally, these propositions are indistinguishable from religion and Pascal's wager.
This company is just irresponsible. We (at least, Americans that vote and can therefore decide indirectly what’s legal) should not allow them to continue.
It's better to say "let me think about it" than to say no. It's even better to say yes to some unimportant things while playing hardball on important issues. For example, the US does continue to provide funding to Ukraine that was approved by Congress in December last year: https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/09/25/trump-a... and I suspect there'll be another aid package after the midterms.
Also, from the article "Despite withdrawing its branding as an official supporter, the EU continues to fund the conference."
That's the billion dollar question. Nvidia currently wants to deploy chips with the sole purpose of monitoring agentic workloads and that doesn't seem farfetched but they obviously have a financial motive to sell more products. It's like a cat and mouse game, like cybersecurity in general.
Today i wanted to reencode and downscale a screen capture video to make it small enough to send to other people. I had a chatbot generate me the ffmpeg command line, but when will i be able to tell "Apple Intelligence" or some other "Intelligence" just "resize this to 720p, make it mp4 and drop the audio"? You know, like in Blade Runner.
Lack of CRT flicker is the biggest problem. Demo text scrolls are far more readable when you don't have sample-and-hold blur. There are gaming monitors with strobed backlights but I don't know of any that allow you to enable the strobing at 70Hz.
A workaround for modern hardware is frame doubling then blanking every other frame (software black frame insertion). It halves the brightness, but modern monitors generally support higher brightness than CRTs so this just brings it back to the authentic level. It's possible with FFMPEG filters, although I don't remember how I accomplished it when I tried it years ago.
The importance of CRT flicker is one reason I greatly prefer DOS demos to C64 and Amiga demos. Those were mostly designed for 50Hz PAL CRTs, so the flicker is far more annoying than 70Hz VGA.
That's a good way to describe it. The fork and seatpost are both missing the tubes that run through the frame. It's like someone cut up a photo of a bike instead of assembling it from parts. Even then the front wheel has very little clearance with the frame and the rear way too much. Also inconsistent that the chainrings stay with the chain but the cassette moves away.
