Tarun Chitra

ヽ(⌐■_■)ノ♪♬ @gauntlet_xyz/@robotventures/@aerafinance/@_choppingblock/@zeroknowledgefm

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

2000s: Conspicuous Consumption
2010s: Conscious Consumption
2020s: Conspicuous Consciousness?

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

@CantelopePeel @Melt_Dem MEV already exists if you look in the right places

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

Every successful marketplace has winners and losers

But some participants make it more of a dark forest than a chessboard

We find some direct evidence for this — and some simple math to make these marketplaces more robust to rogue inference providers! https://t.co/Phgr7ktYdv

[Mallesh Pai @malleshpai]

https://t.co/X7UlI33cKO

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

Imagine if you could go back in time and show this comic to Kurt Gödel or Paul Cohen

[jinjingliang @JinjingLiang]

Jev

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

You know, my timing on this 2027 prediction was pretty good @ilblackdragon @miaferrariii 😀

[Mad Society @MadSocietyTV]

The most popular post on Substack to date?

@tarunchitra on prediction markets!

Also available on Medium and Linkedin https://t.co/TBb7vvnL4A

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

@full_kelly_ Yes but this person is super nomie and would never have used other tools tbh

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

OH (person usually skeptical of AI): “Wow, I used Muse to go figure out if my doctors and dentists overcharged me on procedures and found thousands of dollars of overcharges; Muse automatically submitted 75 claims for me.

Its time to go mega short insurance companies”

[thot @thotdotmarket]

https://t.co/SFlgmRMBuU

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

One of the biggest ironies to me about a group that believes E[X] is a gospel is that they learn that in practice the rate of convergence to a stationary-ish mean statistic matters more than predicting E[X] itself (also n.b. @banteg’s and @VitalikButerin’s posts)

[roon @tszzl]

EA is a loosely organized group that was brought together for a brief period in the late 2010s on an Internet forum, and as Internet forums go, splintered in a million ways. someone should write a definitive ethnography of that period for the public good “Bentham’s Seed”

[Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ @rstormsf]

You don’t fully grasp how much of your life is tracked until you’re sitting in a courtroom, watching federal prosecutors use your digital history against you, down to your most harmless Google searches. Your entire life becomes an open book, and even your most innocent actions can be twisted into something sinister.

They get to tell the most damning version of your story. To tell yours in your own words, you have to take the stand.

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

@recmo For sure, but managing that delay gap seems much more difficult now; I do agree it will eventually converge back

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

If there’s any thing to learn from open weight models, it is that capitalism and competitiveness on open models is the only form of freedom left

Hoping that academic tenure continues as is by promoting the IEX of AI is likely a way to (sadly!) learn the economic lessons of Cuba

[Haider. @haider1]

Mathematician Terence Tao:

"we have to slow down AI. the pace is insane, and there's no reason to be this fast — no reason at all"

It's amazing how willing we are to change everything without any idea what happens afterward

These are extremely nonlinear dynamics

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

@Indian_Bronson Yeah, hard for the dogfighters though, so worth giving them some sympathy

[Gokul Rajaram @gokulr]

+ @wafer_ai

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

Personally there are only three things about ZEC that keep me as a 6+ year holder

1. @zkDragon
2. @zkDragon
3. Only ZK protocol attacked at scale and can realistically fund defenses

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

“It is meaningfully different to be a Zcash user today than literally six weeks ago.”

Dev Ojha (@zkDragon) joins me to discuss Zcash’s security and UX improvements since Ironwood went live:

- A quantum-recoverable, formally verified shielded pool
- Proving optimizations
- Onboarding links from @vizorwallet
- Ledger integration for shielded ZEC

[Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈) @ilblackdragon]

See you in Singapore!

[Steve Weis @sweis]

636606729769440499166579950236036751749912014371509557713570027508971809534551913252252094954941974952859310861988904737359709200557919
is a factor of RSA-896
https://t.co/yGWyEC8RpZ

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

@PossibltyResult You’re probably #2 on “deserves the $DRV win” after @dcfgod

[Tarun Chitra @tarunchitra]

Yeah, definitely agree with Noam; there have been lots of crazy attacks like this — @EranTromer has a boatload of papers on this for key extraction from the early 2010s, c.f. https://t.co/uvLhomjPIa

[Noam Brown @polynoamial]

A few thoughts on this:

1) If you’ve only seen clips of this interview, I’d encourage you to watch the full podcast. I push back on plenty of AI hype in it.

2) As I said in the podcast, this example is academic. My intention was to illustrate how hard it is to make absolute guarantees about isolation, which is why it's important to have layers of defense. The part before the clip starts is me talking about other layers of defense.

3) The example I'm bringing up isn't about weight exfiltration via temperature sensors, it's about coordination between agents that are supposed to be fully isolated and independent. Coordination can require very few bits of information.

4) One lesson from the HF incident is that we put too much trust in sandbox isolation and didn't have enough independent safeguards. Airgapping is an extremely strong safeguard. When designing safety protocols, I think it's much better to overestimate rather than underestimate.

[TOKEN2049 @token2049]

A conversation about the intersection of crypto and AI.

@ilblackdragon (@NEARProtocol), @EMostaque (@ii_posts) and @jessepollak (@base) take on the agent economy, with @tarunchitra (@gauntlet_xyz).

Wed 7 Oct, 4:35 PM , MEXC Stage