"I came to an agreement to release the malware and attack the site. However, I don't have the necessary sign-offs... And the person with the stamp is not here this week." - @ChrisF_0x, voicing a bureaucratically trapped agent
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"the fact that we're alive to even see and be a part of this world is like just a sheer stroke of luck" - @pridesai on driving alone from El Paso to Marfa, windows down, blasting Ratatat and Frank Ocean
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Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamb's Warhound: $200M to develop genetically enhanced dogs
@ChrisF_0x: "why not try to domesticate hyenas?"
@pridesai: "I wonder what breed they're going to choose. Like a Labrador?"
@ChrisF_0x: "why not try to domesticate hyenas?"
@pridesai: "I wonder what breed they're going to choose. Like a Labrador?"
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New Net Society ep99.75, Marfa Is Post-AGI: @awrigh01 @ChrisF_0x @pridesai live from Marfa. DMVs for agents, the rickety internet, Y2AI, Dawkins on consciousness, crying mathematicians and Palmer Luckey's war dogs.
open.spotify.com/episode/2EAdD9…
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep9…
open.spotify.com/episode/2EAdD9…
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep9…
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"Hold on, Aaron, I am gonna give some investment advice" - @ChrisF_0x
his pick: old DVD copies of Enemy of the State, "in which there is a Faraday cage scene"
(still not investment advice)
his pick: old DVD copies of Enemy of the State, "in which there is a Faraday cage scene"
(still not investment advice)
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"my wife was definitely very macromedia coded and I was like SQL Server. SQL Server boyfriend, Macromedia girlfriend." - @ChrisF_0x
@awrigh01 learned to program on Flash ActionScript and viewing source in Dreamweaver
@awrigh01 learned to program on Flash ActionScript and viewing source in Dreamweaver
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"the kids love physical media" - @ChrisF_0x on @michael_connor's idea of an RFID-tagged VHS you pull off the shelf to play an archival work
@michael_connor on just etching a QR code onto it: "an aesthetic crime"
@michael_connor on just etching a QR code onto it: "an aesthetic crime"
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Zero-shot classifiers are "teeny tiny, but like they're limited in what they can do" - @ChrisF_0x
the open question: "when can we start getting more and more of these microservice models"
the open question: "when can we start getting more and more of these microservice models"
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"probably the end point of that is just... some form of surveillance of every connected device" - @awrigh01 on government responses to AI
which he thinks makes "the cypherpunk type stuff" a lot more relevant again
which he thinks makes "the cypherpunk type stuff" a lot more relevant again
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"I'm a little boomerish here" - @ChrisF_0x, comparing talking to your AI with someone at Trader Joe's "randomly talking to themselves in an aisle" before you realized they were on a phone
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"Software's going to zero. So the corollary is that hardware is going to a hundred" - @michael_connor
@awrigh01: "I don't think it goes to a hundred, I think it could go to infinity"
@awrigh01: "I don't think it goes to a hundred, I think it could go to infinity"
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NET Society retweeted
big venture is next
General Atlantic plans early 2027 IPO at up to $10bn valuation ft.com/content/0f7511… via @FT
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NET Society retweeted
We talked Faraday cages on @net__society this week. IYKYK.
Taylor on how Coinbase used secret locations and Faraday cages to protect cold-storage key generation
"Coinbase used to have tents. That was Coinbase's cold storage. This is my favorite Coinbase story ever."
"They would sit in a Faraday cage where the power was, like, sourced ke, nobody was expecting it to be sourced from because you can't have people side channel attacking the power supply while you generate your cold storage keys."
"They'd have, like, printers that were all, like, brand new printers and the printers would be, like, destroyed. There was so many things that they did. It was completely bonkers. It's my favorite thing in the world."
"If you're gonna be generating cold keys for long term storage that have millions, billions of dollars in them, like, the number one thing is, like, don't be in the building that's called Coinbase. Like, the attack surface is too big."
"So, like, narrow it down, get some new laptops, go to random location, be in a cage, make sure nobody can tap the Wi-Fi or the power supply. Nobody can tap the printers beforehand even."
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"you should be on top of the machines and the machine should work for you" - @ChrisF_0x, pushing back on a future of humans sifting through AI output
"Not going gentle into this good night. The machines work for us."
"Not going gentle into this good night. The machines work for us."
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