if Gwern is not a pasty white dude with a degree from a top-level US university I will eat my hat
also the probability we can match their now-revealed identity to past far-right/racist content that’s not been scrubbed is very close to 1
I’ve been following it a bit, there’s a lot less comedy gold to mine nowadays
here are some links from another forum
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/31/major-bitcoin-wallet-flaw-drains-594-btc-in-25-minute-sweep (crypto shill outfit link)
https://bitcoinenthusiast.org/uploads/31820a53956b53c5/image.png
https://bitcoinenthusiast.org/uploads/c0804335a52922e4/image.png - this last is attributing to malice what’s clearly stupidity
Based on the other entries in the slobslack, I think it is
an EA racist is offered a job, gets duck-milk-shaked, and worries that future AI models won’t be aligned correctly (i.e. be racist):
here’s some nerd who calculates that GenAI gives a senior dev a 15% productivity increase, and a junior 25%
https://bjorg.bjornroche.com/management/ai-productivity-gap/
HN correctly calls his numbers bullshit, especially because the time spend reviewing code is unchanged between pre- and post-AI:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152222
Even if his numbers are correct, it essentially means that software companies are around 10% faster in delivering something, however that something might be even more bug-ridden and slow than before.
Sure sounds like aspiring and/or existing professional mathematicians are taking the latest GenAI assault on their craft either with shock or horror, or with full-on welcoming of their new robot overlords
https://borretti.me/article/mathematics-without-mathematicians
I for one know who to point and laugh at when the revolution comes.
Non-sober spaces
I guess this is what a matematician calls a bar.
Coindesk: Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains $38 million worth of BTC in 25-minute sweep
A wallet’s seed, the secret phrase controlling the funds, is meant to be drawn at random from a pool so vast that guessing is hopeless.
Coldcard’s firmware was not doing that. According to a report published by Block’s Bitcoin engineering and security teams, a build setting told the device to skip its own hardware randomness generator, and a check in a supporting library tested only whether that setting existed rather than whether it was switched on.
Key generation quietly fell through to a basic software substitute seeded from the chip’s serial number and clock registers.
yeah it’s a common trope/cope
like “most human programmers suck too”
ok dude who do you think wrote the code the LLM is cribbing from
<buys giant bucket of popcorn>
I vaguely recognize the name, apparently he’s a snot-nosed 25-yr old who got fired from OpenAI
“surely all these very wealthy people and the people they pay to invest for them can’t all be under some sort of mass delusion”
someone just got a Rule34 scenario for free
Enjoy today’s craziest link: https://atomarine.co/
A LWer runs the numbers and doesn’t run away screaming like Zitron:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EeTQGxa8RSpwHo4Ez/the-biggest-bet-in-history
Note that this implies massive efficiency gains to the economy. For their one-third slice to equal 8% of those salaries [59% of the total workforce in the USA], the total savings (productivity across that share of the workforce) will need to rise by roughly 24%. So they are absolutely serious about this, and are betting heavily that the productivity boost arrives within four years.
you missed the nod to masturbation
also “palm off” implies deceit on the … palmer-offer
LWer: what if the LLM book-shredders would do the exact thing they’d get sued to death for if they didn’t shred the books? Then maybe people wouldn’t be so mad at them for shredding books!
they’re all getting stiffies from the idea of black market models
a stock-slobber posts a cri de cœur about the coming automation of maths and HN says it’s no biggie, think how productive the field will become
https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048681
btw the language in the post is bad enough to be entirely human-generated
For me, the affective quality of learning mathematics is empathetically tethered to an act of discovery and creation.
Before you a channel through which humans have accessed the ineffable and sacred for thousands of years is being sealed for eternity.
Previously our lead funder was the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund.
Gemini please generate a word salad fund name
JFC it’s already been 2 years