Is this in any way related to byuu, the SNES emulator author?

I'll never forgive EA for C&D'ing the community efforts to revive the servers. Fuck EA.

I'm deeply suspicious of any socialist or communist who desires to implement a socialist state, however. His prophecy must come true naturally, it cannot be forced via government mandates.

Socialists want to get rid of capitalism as the economic model and then transition to post scarcity. I want to keep capitalism until it destroys itself by making everything abundant and automated.

There is no need to "seize" anything. We merely need personal manufacturing technology.

Alarm fatigue will quickly destroy any and all "meticulously approve every little command the AI wants to run" workflows. Give it a virtual machine and let it cook. If it blows up the virtual machine while it works, it doesn't matter.

Just the general knowledge that sharing a kernel with untrusted software is too dangerous, that hardware virtualization is an infinitely smaller attack surface and that the entire industry will be in deep shit if people or AI breaks hypervisors.

Initial threat model was supply chain attacks but eventually grew to include AI harnesses as well. Not very worried about them hacking me, more about accident prevention.

So that means each VM must be running a completely independent kernel that's fully isolated from the host's file system. They must also have fail closed network filtering built in.

> Anything you can point the rest of us to?

I have published my virtdev's design document.

https://github.com/matheusmoreira/virtdev/blob/master/DESIGN...

Yes, it is AI generated.

In summary, it's a QEMU VM orchestrator with a base OS image and project specific delta images. VM lifecycle is managed by systemd. System level isolation is already pretty good and it already solves the "AI wiped out my $HOME" problem. I'm currently working on a custom network stack to replace the nftables based firewall.

As for Docker Sandboxes, I'll just ask Sol literally right now to see what it does better than my virtdev, and then I'll improve virtdev instead of using Docker.

Don't believe that even for a second.

> move towards communism

Has never happened, and I don't believe it ever will.

We have better chances of collapsing capitalism from within.

Is this really such a law of the universe or just insufficient technology?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30043719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178789

I agree, and I think the rest of your post contains the key idea:

> reduce scarcity

Scarcity will never be zero, and it doesn't need to be. It just needs to be infinitesimal, close enough to zero for economics to become irrelevant.

Every socialist wants post scarcity deep down. In fact, it's what Marx promised them since the beginning.

Socialism is an ideological and practical dead end. They must be resisted at all costs. It's still an economic model. They won't destroy the economy, they will centralize it in the hands of the state.

Don't seize the means of production, distribute them. Give everyone an AI and a replicator.

Personal manufacturing capabilities. We must attack things like the very concept of trillion dollar semiconductor fabs. Everybody should be able to make their own things. Just like we can magically conjure up free software on a laptop at home.

> neo-luddities

Don't know enough about this to write coherently about the subject.

> the ones that are for automation are the billionaires

Contemptible, but I believe we have better chances of success if we try to collapse capitalism from within.

Economics itself is the enemy. It is the source of that statement. It's so ubiquitous that we cannot even conceive of a life without it. The friend wanted scarce things, so naturally she wanted everyone in society working to produce those things for her.

Economics arise out of scarcity. There is not enough for everyone, therefore we must economize, we must decide who gets the limited amount of goods and resources.

We assume everyone should be working because if they aren't they are getting resources without contributing back their own resources, such as their limited time, body and cognition. That's an inherent unfairness, and is the "they're getting a free pass" sentiment that's all too common. I'm working, why aren't they?

To fix this, we must somehow achieve the fabled post scarcity society. Automate everything so thoroughly the price of everything becomes literally zero. This destroys the economy. It doesn't matter anymore whether people are working. There is no further need to economize if everything is abundant.

"I mean, I’d like to be able to buy more stuff" must still be satisfied, except she doesn't even need to buy it any longer, it just sort of materializes like it grows on trees. That is the dream.

Necessary technological upheaval aside, the one major roadblock to achieving the dream is artificial scarcity. We've got corporations conjuring up scarcity where there is none. The internet is the closest to artificial scarcity we've ever been, and it is so subversive it destroys their business models. The entire intellectual property industry must be wiped out if the dream is to be achieved.

However, saying you can't learn "anything" is just too strong. I'm definitely managing to distill the AI's weights into my own brain.

Dunno, I've been learning a lot of Rust in the past few days. Just dove right into a project and asked AI to teach me stuff on a need to know basis. I'm actually getting used to Rust by now.

Recently switched to OpenAI and I've gotta say Sol is so much better at writing than Claude. Opus has a distinctive sentence structure and Fable somehow manages to be even more obtuse. The personality of these models really does come through...

Don't doubt it for even a second.

Own a general purpose computer you can run arbitrary software on, not just corporation and government approved software? You're clearly a money laundering drug trafficking child molesting terrorist.

I ended up sending an email to their data protection officer exercising my LGPD (brazilian GDPR) rights as a data subject. It's my right to know the criteria used, request review and correct any information they have stored about me. Hopefully that'll get them to either clear this inconsistency up or reject me properly from TAC. Plus I get to test if my country's laws have any teeth.

> But soon, the average person might need to deploy surveillance countermeasures.

Already there. If you want privacy and anonymity online, you're looking at literal terrorist cell tier tradecraft. That means pulling up documents written by people from the "counterterrorism community" and "intelligence community" and learning how all of these "clandestines" operate.

Unlinking one's identity from one's actions and speech requires some serious OPSEC now. It requires constant, never ending effort. It requires perfect execution and discipline.