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lanternfish commented on Quadratic memory reductions for Zero-knowledge Proofs   github.com/logannye/space... · Posted by u/logannyeMD
worldsayshi · 3 months ago
I've been thinking about ZKP's a lot recently. Using them we could perhaps build interesting and useful decentralised social media protocols. You could create a union at your workplace where you make agreements with everyone but you only communicate directly with your closest colleagues. You could create anonymous groups of doctors in a certain region that listen to reggae three times a week that think it would be worth renovating the cafeteria.

It would be a better foundation for the social contract than tick tock videos. But you'd need to make ZKP understandable and interactive for the average user.

lanternfish · 3 months ago
The problem is the same problem with crypto dao projects - cryptographic certainties only apply to mathematical structures; you can't validate that someone actually holds a quality until you can embed that digitally. That turns out to be very hard to do for most things.
lanternfish commented on Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math   quantamagazine.org/busy-b... · Posted by u/defrost
brap · 4 months ago
At some point you gotta wonder if there’s even a difference between “stops after N” and “never stops”.

I mean obviously there is, it’s the same difference between N and infinity. But… is there really?

lanternfish · 4 months ago
In a mathematical sense - absolutely. You can dual halting problem against many very tangible qualities - like whether a (proved) statement is true or false. A (large-n) halting program is closer to an instantly halting program not just because n is always closer to 0 than inf, but because 'large n halting' and 'instantly halting' are ontologically similar in a way they just aren't with unhalting programs.
lanternfish commented on Claude jailbroken to mint unlimited Stripe coupons   generalanalysis.com/blog/... · Posted by u/rhavaeis
lanternfish · 5 months ago
An LLM - which has functionally infinite unverifiable attack surface - directly wired into a payment system with high authentication. How could anyone anticipate this going wrong?

I feel like everyone is saying 'we're still discovering what LLMs are good at' but it also feels like we really need to get in our collective conscious what they're really, really, bad at.

lanternfish commented on The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst   glthr.com/myst-graph-1... · Posted by u/tobr
guerrilla · 9 months ago
Would even better if it was an interactive graph (with zoom) using the actual scene images somehow.
lanternfish · 9 months ago
I think that's called Myst (1993)
lanternfish commented on Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents   microsoft.github.io/Magma... · Posted by u/SerCe
erikig · 10 months ago
The multimodal capabilities especially on next action prediction are quite impressive; watching the github to see if & when they'll open source this: https://github.com/microsoft/Magma

Also, I wonder why they named it Magma?

lanternfish · 10 months ago
`M(ultimodal) Ag(ent) [ma]` maybe
lanternfish commented on Analysis of 2024 election results in Clark County indicates manipulation   wcia.com/business/press-r... · Posted by u/beedeebeedee
lanternfish · a year ago
I'm honestly not sure that their analysis passes muster. It seems that the main consideration is that Harris underperformed compared to down-ballot races and that the underperformance was ahistoric. However, the campaign was also ahistoric: she ran as a pseudo-incumbent under an unpopular presidency without as much of the name recognition incumbency usually offers. It seems extremely likely to me that this drop off in early voting numbers is indicative of an exceptionally weak campaign as opposed to widespread (consistent across all swing states) manipulation.
lanternfish commented on Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s   cjonline.com/story/news/p... · Posted by u/toastedwedge
wyldfire · a year ago
"recorded history" sounds like it's how you divide pre-colonial Americas from modern (15th Century CE onward) Americas. For example, many weather features have been recorded in the Americas since 17th century CE. Does "recorded history" refer to only "[this particular metric's] recorded history"?
lanternfish · a year ago
I agree that it's not the best term, but I don't think its so disqualifying that it makes the claim untrue: it's misleading at worst, and that imprecision only kinda interacts with the underlying claim.

I guess the better phrasing would be "Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is largest since (org) has been collecting data", which honestly doesn't change the implications for me.

lanternfish commented on Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s   cjonline.com/story/news/p... · Posted by u/toastedwedge
declan_roberts · a year ago
But surely our disease experts know about the past outbreaks and their impact and wouldn't say something patently untrue like the headline.
lanternfish · a year ago
"Recorded history" in the title refers to the period of history where the agency has been recording the numbers. It might not be the best phrasing, but it's not strictly untrue; the underwritten thesis (TB is on the rise) is still supported by the evidence.
lanternfish commented on In the belly of the MrBeast   kevinmunger.substack.com/... · Posted by u/stafford_beer
Invictus0 · a year ago
Breathless navel gazing. It's not that he's wrong, it's just that this article adds nothing new to the conversation other than excessively technical mumbo jumbo. Just read MrBeast's original document.
lanternfish · a year ago
The actual work underlying the essay - the one published in Cambridge Core - is pretty strong and has a lot of pretty compelling analysis. It's just long.
lanternfish commented on In the belly of the MrBeast   kevinmunger.substack.com/... · Posted by u/stafford_beer
senko · a year ago
This presumes that MrBeast intended to create "videos with meaning" in the first place.

In his defense (!?), most of what's churned out by the streaming platforms, hollywood, and the music industry, is also not very bothered by lack of meaning.

lanternfish · a year ago
This seems an insufficient analysis. The meaning expressed by contemporary music, film media, or streaming television isn't very profound, but they at least still make a passing effort to "signify" something. The highest grossing movie of 2024 - Inside Out 2 - is not a deep text, but it does have a thesis.

The "Pixar apparatus" is definitely increasingly consumed by audience demand, but they're at a minimum in a transitional phase: something like Seeing Red would never get workshopped out of committees.

Youtube and other social media (emphasis on media) is ground zero for the decay of meaning into intensity; the ultimate incestuous product of auto-simulacra.

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