Andrew Gillette

Infosec Privacy Researcher & Former Blockchain Developer

[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

"The cowardly were more numerous than the battle-ready, the stupid more numerous than the smart ones. --The majority prevailed."
--Friedrich Schiller
"Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua"

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Be warned: The more Trump can tear down democracy, the safer the oligarchy becomes.

This is why the billionaires who once disavowed him are quietly crawling back.

Fascism backed by Big Money is one of the most dangerous political alliances.

[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

I'm late to the party, but holy wtf is crypto doing?!

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Crypto platform Binance has seized the crypto assets of all Palestinians on Israel’s request.

Remove your assets from Binance *AS SOON AS POSSIBLE* as they will never be safe on a platform that colludes with a fascist regime.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

This 💯

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics.

It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history.

It corrupts our political system every day.

[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

A whole discipline of computer science becomes obsolete.

[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

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[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

An airline used a chatbot which then itself invented business policy in a generative-AI way which was enforced as binding legal contract.
Crazy time to be alive!

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[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

Exciting step in ethical technology.

[Chris Anderson @TEDchris]

Last night I was lucky to be among the first group in New York to get to taste chicken grown from a droplet of muscle cells. It was.... DELICIOUS. Succulent, moist, the right texture. Chicken as it should be. Even though full commercialization is a way off, it made me excited for the future.

It also made me even more frustrated with a tiredly cynical article in the NYT at the weekend "the revolution that died on the way to dinner". As if it were ever going to be easy to transform the way 8 billion humans feed themselves.

This chicken came from Upside Foods, whose founder and CEO @UmaValeti is one of the most inspiring and impressive entrepreneurs I've met. The beautiful facilities he's building will allow this next-gen meat to start to become cost competitive.

Let me tell you something about those facilities. They're housed in glass. Nothing to hide. Inside are large, clean metal containers for growing this meat, and growing it in half the time it takes for modern, artificially inflated chickens to grow.

Those chickens, by contrast, are not grown behind glass. They're shielded inside closed-off massive meat factories. And for a reason. If we could see the hell-hole of cages, feathers, beaks, chickenshit, bird-flu, antibiotics and, worst of all, brains tortured with a short but horrifying life of suffering, we'd throw up before downing our next drumstick. To imply as the NYT did that next-gen meat will be slowed by some kind of ick factor is a woeful under-estimation of human adaptability. When the truth will out - and it will when there's actually an alternative available - the ick factor will run the other way.

This technology really matters. It will probably be impossible to lure humans away from our meat addiction. I personally love meat. I want it to be part of my future. And last night I saw a glimpse of how that can happen in a way that will be both delicious and kind -- to our fellow creatures, and to the planet.

I'm not an investor in Upside. But I wish I was. I certainly would not bet against them. When you peel back to the fundamentals, a system in which you're using your nutrients only to grow meat, instead of bone, brain, feathers, claws and beaks, and to do so in a shorter time horizon, has every chance to become cost competitive.

I predict the New York Times will be proved embarrassingly wrong on this one. Just because a better future is hard to build, doesn't mean we should stop. For me, I'll throw my lot in with the determined, the visionary. Uma, an honor to meet you.

[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

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[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

New Leak.
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[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

Pi beats Cray-1 by 4x.

https://t.co/ZhsrZ0Eh7B

[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

@VladZamfir "I'm in love with Federal bureaucracy and I'm not afraid to say it" -The Dropout, (TV).

[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

@TheMcKenziest Ive had some unprovoked seizures lately too. I wouldn't wish this disease on anyone.
Stay strong. Continue to lead by example. I will follow you.

[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

Using AI for higher standards of evidence in criminal trials, is a good thing and I hope we see likewise improvements.

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[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

Be careful out there!

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[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

Open source or micro-payment hell, our future be.

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[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Humanity has a moral obligation to produce as much energy, as cheaply, and as cleanly, as possible.

Anything less is asking the future to be worse than the present.

[Andrew Gillette @Infosec_Andy]

@TheFoundersWeep @KimDotcom NATO countries need to start paying their fair share for military protection. Americans overpay in the protecting of the world's commerce.

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

Just 4 weeks ago, @sama warned us: “I am definitely worried about the impact AI is going to have on the election”

“I'm really worried about customized, one-on-one persuasion ability”

It’s ALREADY HAPPENING:

“Bill received a phone call from an unknown number. "Hello, my name is Ashley, and I'm an artificial intelligence volunteer for Shamaine Daniels’ run for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 10th district, chatting to you on a recorded line,” the robotic voice explained. It followed up by asking him questions about whether he was aware of Daniels’ congressional campaign and what socio-political issues are most important to him.”

“Ashley is not your typical robocaller; none of her responses are canned or pre-recorded.”

“Over the weekend, Ashley called thousands of Pennsylvania voters on behalf of Daniels. Like a seasoned campaign volunteer, Ashley analyzes voters' profiles to tailor conversations around their key issues.

She is capable of having an infinite number of customized one-on-one conversations at the same time.

Unlike a human, Ashley always shows up for the job, has perfect recall of all of Daniels' positions, and does not feel dejected when she's hung up on.”

"This is going to scale fast," said the CEO of Civox, the company behind Ashley.

"We intend to be making tens of thousands of calls a day by the end of the year and into the six digits pretty soon.”

[Bindu Reddy @bindureddy]

The single biggest reason for open-source

Closed source models can and will be fine-tuned to reflect the politics, preferences and morality of their creators!

Their LLM brains can be censored and damaged by radical ideology!