how on earth does openssh not only have incredibly fucked versioning but is the only package i've ever seen to mention a "privilege separation" chroot path which actively breaks non-root builds. are you fucking kidding me bruh. "privilege separation chroot" defaulting to /var/empty and it immediately errors if it can't create it????? why are your version strings like that bruh?????
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he knew this shit would pop off to "philosophy" guys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal#Probability
The specific problem was that of two players who want to finish a game early and, given the current circumstances of the game, want to divide the stakes fairly, based on the chance each has of winning the game from that point. The notion of expected value evolved from this discussion.
"fairness" is not probability theory my dude
@aeva the point is, LLM guys are all like this. first problem set freshman year uchicago and they're sweating cause they've never had to actually read the assigned text to answer a question before. they're all nervous like "a uniform distribution..........is fair" just like daddy von neumann told them. and they felt real pride when they got a gold star on that response
@aeva so the ones who (bernoulli's law of large numbers, that's a real one) achieve a sufficient string of successes to have convinced others that, of course, this was ordained by their ability to divine the future, are consequently blessed with further success, because financial markets are confidence games
@aeva so now guys like masayoshi son have not only sufficient capital but a sufficient reputation pipeline that nothing they do has any effect upon their financial success whatsoever. and these guys think they're pretty fucking shrewd.
they have long since detached from the capacity for emotional investment. they can't explain anything that happens in the world around them. they know what to do: uniform distribution is fair. so they don't play fair. it's so easy to imagine justice and fairness as a weakness.
@aeva so we hit the 90s and computers have completely revolutionized the financial industry. why? because you can make decisions so much faster! and that means more decisions, which means more money.
the internet is sometimes slow? sometimes down? netscape to the rescue! the internet is an application platform! the application is on the internet! what do you mean down? i'm on the internet right now!
@hipsterelectron ok so this is fascinating but why is SIMD evil?
@aeva it's not! it's Good Actually! in fact, i should have inferred this from it being an x86 standard alone, which is very difficult to radically modify
@aeva i had a completely backwards perception of how to evaluate the way hardware designers make decisions
@hipsterelectron aaah ok my bad 😎
tell me more about the chess / pokemon gamblers fallacy thing, I'm not sure I followed what you meant by that earlier
@aeva well, two things:
- i specifically find that speaking the magic words "gambler's fallacy!" will often be sufficient to help me identify not merely assumptions made about an input distribution, but also subtle false inferences regarding a corresponding response in the output
@aeva i specifically recall finding this to frequently be a source of strength to me during the two-year period i spent developing the parsing mechanism that was not only the first time i have ever taken a risk and dived into the unknown, possibly just ever but certainly in the sense that defines good research
@aeva not in relation to that risk, nor in relation to the math i was writing, but a secret third thing i literally do not recall
@aeva secondly, re chess/pokemon:
- it was extremely significant to me when another student gil was faster than me in cryptanalysis (codebreaking) exercises in a cryptography summer course from johns hopkins cty. because it was easily the first time i'd realized the concept of intelligence affected me emotionally. and because i believe within a period of maybe 30 second or perhaps 5 minutes, i had decided that he had done it faster, and that was fine.
- i was then able to figure out how--he took risks i was afraid to, inferring letters that were uncertain to me. i think if i had not previously accepted that he had done it faster (better), then i would have considered him "cheating". and then i would have wallowed in a greivance complex and never taken any risks again.
(openly NSA instructor. they either did not understand how to teach bright young mathematicians or purposefully intended it to limit their imaginations. i think the NSA really does not have much up their sleeve).
@aeva i also absolutely refused to allow anyone to control me, e.g. insults like "gay". to achieve this, it seemed i would need to reject the negative associations of "gay"--far more commonly from within my own brain than from anyone else.
fools. i had trained thousands of hours in the simulator--when it arrived, i was only surprised at how slow it seemed to move. much like neo, i didn't dodge "gay" bullets--i was ready; i didn't have to.
