Setting Things Straight

I have a source at OpenAI that leaked a major feature they're going to put out, that will make up the ground they're losing to Claude.

So right now I'm at LessOnline, the LessWrong conference centered on writing about rationality-related topics, and I encountered a very interesting proposition.

NIST IR 8429-DRAFT: Presence Obfuscation in Federated Scheduling Systems I've always been a little worried about people who post e.g. a Calendly link that shows their full availability and lets you set an appointment.

It's looking like we could be able to hyperlink to emails soon!

You might not be aware, but I've been short-selling some cryptocurrencies.

My ramblings about thermodynamics aren't so off-base, it turns out!

I finally splurged for a paid ChatGPT subscription!

Obligatory epistemic status: Speculative and hard to test but falls out an as implication under current worldmodel.

I don't think anyone actually wanted to learn about this, but it's stayed on my mind for being "an argument that's wrong and I can prove".

I have an inside source that's claiming Google will be rolling out a new replacement for passwords and other secrets for authenticating users.

Related to: Expecting Short Inferential Distances (yes, linking LW is still a thing).

So apparently, the Internet Engineering Task Force is going to introduce a new HTTP status code.

Because of the virus we had to hold this meetup virtually, and I was slated to present there for the Evening of Python Coding.

I was pointed to this challenge by this article, and had heard about the NSA's new Ghidra reverse engineering tool.

Been a while since I posted, huh?

So, I remembered another funny Slashdot exchange (again, no link).

I know the line: explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog; you understand it better, but it dies.

If you liked the last post on this here are some more you might like.

The recent Talia Jane story just made me realize we have a possible inconsistently in policy.

In the time that I was a regular reader of Slashdot, I saw a few exchanges that stayed in my mind.

So there's a common kind of article that comes up a lot, and annoys me.

(Charybdis = care-ib-dis) A Scott Alexander post really resonated with me, when he talked about one "development milestone" (#4): the ability to understand and speak in terms of tradeoffs, rather than stubbornly try to insist that there are no downsides to

So after posting our new Bitcoin book, my buddy Tim Swanson alerted me to the problem of Bitcoin mining pools attacking each other.

Phew, been a while, eh?

Phew!