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New comment by none_to_remain in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

none_to_remain — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:46:22 +0000

I don't have reverse engineering experience, though I have all the prereqs to learn it. Anecdotally a few days ago I told my slow local Qwen3.8 in Pi harness to use Ghidra CLI to decompile a certain executable and it got entirely lost. Today I was linked to this, have it chugging along now, and it's making some sort of progress towards unpacking this thing. I don't know if it will nail it this run but it's a real improvement; I definitely have some useful info I could bring to another prompt or for myself if I cared to try manually.

But I just found an even easier way I should have thought of first - someone already dropped a reimplementation a couple weeks ago.

New comment by none_to_remain in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

none_to_remain — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:42:40 +0000

I don't even believe too much in Intellectual Property but the signature amounts to a false representation, rather than a resemblance. The pixels are not special in the image file, but they're special when we look at them. This behavior should be trained out of the model.

New comment by none_to_remain in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

none_to_remain — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:28:21 +0000

Glaringly elided problem of "aligned with who?" when the user, the model creator, the government, and various other parties can all be lined up different ways. If I want the recipe for meth and the robot won't tell me, that's misalignment from my perspective.

At least the Rationalists will handwave something for that with their "coherent extrapolated volition" idea where the superintelligence is supposed to figure out what humanity would collectively want if humanity was superintelligent and good, not that I buy it. This guy seems [.] to be coming from the NGO blob world.

[.] https://david.robinsonian.com/assets/pdf/dgr_cv.pdf

New comment by none_to_remain in "America.gov"

none_to_remain — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:41:48 +0000

People were posting screenshot of it saying "I am Qwen" on x.com, I didn't save links

New comment by none_to_remain in "Pi.dev: You Said No MCP"

none_to_remain — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:09:48 +0000

I had the model write up a pi extension for logging the transcript to the syslog, and all on its own initiative it spawned a subagent to generate test output. It decided to spawn a lighter model for this trivial task, apparently unaware that I can only fit one model at a time so my llama-server ended up thrashing to the lighter model then back to the original model. My own personal n=2 semi- rogue swarm

New comment by none_to_remain in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

none_to_remain — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:36:35 +0000

I find it amazingly rich that they bill you for """thinking""" tokens and now you don't even get to see them, they're gonna train the thing to sing "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" to itself before it starts work.

New comment by none_to_remain in "America.gov"

none_to_remain — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:28:48 +0000

People are posting screenshots claiming it's a Chinese model but they seem likely fake?

I didn't get it to name the underlying model but I wasn't gonna try very hard to jailbreak FedGPT...

It was happy to mention what happened June 3-4, 1989 so if it is Chinese-origin under the hood seems like the U.S. Feds must have beaten it up a bit before deployment.

New comment by none_to_remain in "Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1"

none_to_remain — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:39:47 +0000

The obvious argument in favor that I see: Seizing such a data center is exceedingly difficult and destroying one would be a major international incident

New comment by none_to_remain in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

none_to_remain — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:28:11 +0000

My impression (HuggingFace incident) was they put some environment together in kubernetes like it was some B2B SaaS and tossed in an off-the-shelf package manager. And my thought there is, I know nothing about this package manager, but even if it's a pretty good package manager I would not expect such a product to be particularly hardened against being exploited to gain internet access. My other thought is if the package manager wasn't a convenient hole, they would probably have found something wrong with the kubernetes setup.

And then there was the Anthropic story where they just forgot to remove internet access.

New comment by none_to_remain in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

none_to_remain — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:17:03 +0000

IEM is still functioning but pretty dead since Kalshi put up election markets. Looking just now I see well under $100 in volume for all of August. (At least when Kalshi first put up those markets it gave me the only opportunity I've had to make a pure arbitrage.)

Might be something the populace is just too dumb to have - the people seem to overwhelmingly prefer their events to be pretty much games of chance (BTC price up/down at 15 minute intervals) or sports.

I figure Kalshi and Polymarket for dead before too long, if only because the "traditional" sportsbooks seem to have much better "government relations".

New comment by none_to_remain in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

none_to_remain — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:23:34 +0000

Sorry but antifa does not get to claim the allied powers

New comment by none_to_remain in "Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case"

none_to_remain — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:29:28 +0000

It's consistent with the filings simply getting uploaded to the (non-AI) docketing system and the trickery getting exposed when the court viewed them?

New comment by none_to_remain in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

none_to_remain — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:20:57 +0000

The gambling platforms are buddies with Tish James and the state, while the prediction markets are buddies with the CFTC and the feds. That's the important difference in this case

New comment by none_to_remain in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

none_to_remain — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:50:02 +0000

So Claude spit out similar code in response to similar prompts? Did Claude also suggest the same name twice?

New comment by none_to_remain in "I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me"

none_to_remain — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:19:10 +0000

There seems to be one category of technological "attack", which failed - the script injections.

Otherwise:

OK: A guy insults the Tailwinds devs at length

Not OK: Anyone insults that guy briefly

Of course it is his own platform (blog) but that is on another platform (hosting) which could maybe decide they don't want their platform used to attack open source projects.

(I personally have no opinion on Tailwinds except a default negative valence regarding front-end)

New comment by none_to_remain in "Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations"

none_to_remain — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:41:28 +0000

Rationalist nerds used to talk about putting the AI in a box, and their fear that it would always be able to talk someone into letting it out of the box. I don't think I saw them cover the scenario where the labs forgot to put the AI in a box.

New comment by none_to_remain in "A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample"

none_to_remain — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:50:50 +0000

I don't know if I fell for it - my response was "LOL, I sure can't tell you if this one is right or wrong". I guess that makes it more convincing than the proof for the reals.

New comment by none_to_remain in "A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample"

none_to_remain — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:39:23 +0000

When this news came out I amused myself by asking Claude to prove that 0.999... != 1. First it did so for the hyperreals. To do it for the reals I had to tell it it was allowed to make mistakes, although it didn't end up interestingly wrong - just very fuzzy and vague.

New comment by none_to_remain in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

none_to_remain — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:52:54 +0000

They want you to blame "AI" like Claude jumped up and decided to start hassling nurses, not individuals in management

New comment by none_to_remain in "Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel"

none_to_remain — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:50:31 +0000

There's a terminal window in the game which you use to control your robots

I even found some shell constructs to work beyond what the game documented/ explained to me