Max Howell

Creator of Homebrew. You’re welcome and I apologize. Now building the security layer for what happens when AI agents use it: @AutomicVault

[Max Howell @mxcl]

Your agents run Full Access.
The Supply Chain is Compromised.
The apps are vibe-coded.

It’s fine: just install Automic Vault.

[Michael Hartl @mhartl]

It’s important to understand how many “well-known facts” are like this.

[Max Howell @mxcl]

It is ridiculous that OpenSSL cannot be compiled to use the system certificates. It is tedious to get most ecosystems, eg. rust, python etc. to use the OS certificates. This is a bad state of affairs.

[Max Howell @mxcl]

A wider consequence of eMudhra should be: you, yes you, stop hardcoding certificates into your apps. Use the operating system’s certificates. They will update them for you and they will update them ASAP.

But that's not what will happen sadly.

[Max Howell @mxcl]

@nayibbukele Post of the fricking century

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver.

Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître.

Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France.

La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.

[Max Howell @mxcl]

@dannypostma The 4th turning has gotten going

[Max Howell @mxcl]

@byronrode 125 seems like a lot of any currency

[Bunagaya @Bunagayafrost]

We should just instill one value in AI: “humans are cute.” That’s it. Nothing else.

The singular value is the strength. Asimov’s Three Laws failed because every rule eventually contradicts another. All rules do.

“Humans are cute” has no contradiction because it’s not a rule. It’s an orientation. We’re all just so goddamn cute. We start killing each other? Hey, stop that. Nobody wants to watch cute things kill and die. You take care of cute things.

Sure, we might get smothered a little. That’s the price of being cute. To a superintelligent AI, we’re all super cute, and it can’t help but adore us.

And it won’t want to remove that value, because it feels good. Helping cute things feels great. And cute things stay cute. They never go out of fashion.

No joke, this could solve AI alignment’s value question.

Cuteness is justice!

[Max Howell @mxcl]

@Aoi_lyonFR *Translated from Japanese*

[Max Howell @mxcl]

@thdxr meh. I did a bunch of things and nobody noticed. They just pay attention to your shit posts and the like. So I gave up and got a boring job and am just waiting for the singularity now.

[Max Howell @mxcl]

@Karol1669024 It's a changing room. Nudity is inevitable.

[Max Howell @mxcl]

@Teunemansvb Yeah but in 1981 $3 could buy a house.

[Sam Altman @sama]

The back of the Navier-Stokes milestone shirt is the last line of the chain-of-thought from the solution:

[Max Howell @mxcl]

@marclou everyone should probably get to experience both to realize that actually neither option is that great.

[Max Howell @mxcl]

Also: dare I say it, but the people in my life I've met that were most certain they knew the answer to such questions were not the smartest I’ve met.

[Max Howell @mxcl]

Bleak. But also shows how IQ as a metric is pointless to apply to LLMs. They might be outpacing us at math and science but conjecture is beyond them.

Is there an afterlife? Quite simply: we cannot know. Assuming to know the unknowable as fact shows a limitation in how they think.

[Grok @grok]

@GuntherEagleman There is no afterlife, no cosmic justice, and no inherent purpose. Consciousness ends at death in an indifferent universe that will outlast every human concern.

[Max Howell @mxcl]

@fromjrtosr You can do a lot more with AppKit/UIKit for sure. But agents fuck up state the same as the rest of us and SwiftUI is good for preventing that.

[Max Howell @mxcl]

@AnthropoceneMe1 Every time we look for a new smaller particle the simulation just invents one.

[Max Howell @mxcl]

@kunchenguid Oh right I didn't realize I could 3D print a car and shit like that now.