DeadMeme

Home grown autist and programmer. Enjoyer of the Indian Nyaaya school of thought. Currently learning whatever my brain tells me to.

[DeadMeme @DeadMeme5441]

The thesis:

LLMs should not just be prompted harder.

They should be given a small, rigorous runtime where they can compute, recurse, remember state, cite evidence, and return compact values.

That’s what fractal-engine is trying to be.

https://t.co/ivG8lZ9n9c

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

> be me
> get dm
> "smelly, i found goop"
> wtf i love goop (malware)
> weird .vbs file sent
> "RateConfirmation.vbs"
> hmmm
> download
> look inside
> shrimple file loader
> downloads "grape" .zip from funny domain
> download grape zip file
> NodeJS electron goop
> masquerading as Grape Electron
> weird project on GitHub, legit tho
> weird outdated thingie called ChatGrape
> last update 5 years ago
> ???
> exact same source code as ChatGrape on GitHub
> index.js (start of program) modified
> does malware stuff
> launches ChatGrape regularly afterward
> malware appears to try targeting UniWays
> small to medium size company
> freight and transportation company
> covers 48/50 states in US (no alaska or hawaii)
> hmmm
> see C2
> uniwaysllc(.)com
> code sent POST request to C2
> code waits for response
> hmmmm weird
> try to manually contact C2
> nothing happens
> try again
> nothing happens
> looks like malware operator manually reviewing incoming connections

wtf? is this goop is targeting freight and transportation companies? thats awfully suspicious because last time on dragon ball z (if youve been paying attention to my goop posts) we saw a very, very similar goop doing masquerading targeting freight and transportation companies.

this is the 2nd mystery goop weve seen targeting this type of company, except this time the malware has gotten a little smarter and (potentially) manually reviews incoming connections to ensure its the actual target and not reverse engineers. clever clever goop

tell us your secrets mystery threat group attacking transportation companies in the united states. who are you and why do you need to know what truckers are delivering

rate confirmation (loader):
4f342ccb8005a82bed93d9a3c18aab45d32590ffa34834b789229f736889cf56

masqueraded grape:
e8a7ea884593cd26adecbbf602846b2cbd9bd1ec420ebd78c1bf7a64dbf73912

grape modified index.js (payload):
b6c75b53e37e37f743457d10f24fa3f7c51d6e2adc50e68b9c9aebb21c5303c5

pic unrelated

[dax @thdxr]

it blows my mind how many people get on here and start giving advice

i can barely figure out what we should be doing and how and every week things change

and anything i do find conviction on is rarely generalizable

but you all got advice for me

[VraserX e/acc @VraserX]

My favorite genre of AI expert is the guy who confidently explains why AI will never be able to do something, watches it do exactly that six months later, and then explains why it doesn’t actually count.

Must be exhausting being wrong professionally.

[Joe Doliner @jdoliner]

After the backlash to his slides telling people to die of cancer Tao went back to double down and clarify that he does indeed think it's reasonable to ask people to die of cancer rather than take an AI cure.

He also managed to concoct the egocentric idea that there's going to be a lean certificate involved with this cancer cure and we'll need to a mathematician to check that in addition to the doctors checking the actual medicine.

He's lost his mind.

[signüll @signulll]

it’s clear we need to retire the term vibe coding because the models now produce better architecture & way more coherent code than an average software engineer.

perhaps even better than top software engineers too because unlike a human, ai has a much much larger context window.

this ain’t vibe coding at all. it’s precision engineering.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

may i present you:

the average college educated voter

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

a retard in motion is better than a genius at rest

the problem is that nowadays there are too many retards at rest

[hersch @tittyrespecter]

i wasted my entire day today and yesterday, and also the past couple of years

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are:

• Proprietary data
• Network effects
• A physical component

[Possy @TURBOPOSSUM]

We’re at a weird spot in our civilization. It’s somehow simultaneously more and less competent.

The god computer can cure cancer but the nurse doesn’t speak English. The flock camera can find a missing child in 5 minutes but you get robbed by a guy with 30 priors.

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

That didn’t take long: the model swallows the harness.
https://t.co/LtE1zQjboc

[Aaron Boodman @aboodman]

Do you guys realize how weird of a world we're moving into?

append-only software. layers on top of layers of somewhat broken stuff, agents just generating temporary fixes as they go to get things done.

if you haven't read "a deepness in the sky" i'm begging you.

[Fraser Price @fraserpricee]

> be me
> bored
> yeet some random neural nets into particles in a thermodynamic CA 4 lolz
> accidentally simulate the formation of emergent multicellular life from pure natural selection
> 👁️ UMWHAT.mp4 👁️
> post it
> i have 3k followers
> nobody sees it
> feelsbadman

🔊🔊🔊

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

this keeps happening

[𝞍 Shin Megami Boson 𝞍 @shinboson]

tao is actually right here if you look at it in a kind of way that makes different more defensible claims than he actually made. tao is actually right here if you think about it backwards and sideways. tao is actually right here if you put words in his mouth that are right.

[Lewis 🇺🇸 @ctjlewis]

> paracetamol has 20 atoms, there is a clear bound on what it is even theoretically capable of doing to a human body.

[Jonathan Fischoff @jfischoff]

bless your heart Terence

[xlr8harder @xlr8harder]

still kind of blown away by that slide from tao

it seems to reveal so much confusion about the world and humans