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The php exploit might not have been a big deal.

"I don't think this PHP vulnerability is that exploitable. I think that 5 years ago people would've understood this, but now people are being deluded by their LLMs telling them they have an exploit when they don't."

I expect that we will see this a lot, as it turns out most of the exploits generated are not working, not new, or not a big deal. I also expect this to cause more burnout among cybersecurity people, and that people will autogen 'fixes' which will be lower quality than the bugs, and massively increase attack surface. (Heard one php fix was 12k lines of code).

My suggestion is to have offline backups and move a lot of your important stuff out of the cloud (or get backups of those). But you should do both anyway.

E: I saw the EFF fear mongering with '25% of all exploits found ever were found this October, secure yourself' and looking at how stuff is still up everywhere, compared to 25 years ago, and I them I realized this is all critihype again.

E2: not a lone voice https://blog.luitjes.it/posts/i-want-my-wednesday-back/

(Cloudflare did say they saw exploits however. Not sure if those were real or 'attempts at' or just marketing).

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  • [–] 7 points 13 hours ago* (1 child)

    Damn that AI is verbose and boring, a high 'this AI takeover could have been a skeet'.

    (Also doubt a lot of people would notice as in my exp where a computer has an unexpected popup the first thing people do is try to close that thing with as little reading as possible. (Yes, parents, the message you kept ignoring for 2 weeks, which you didn't tell me about was the operating system telling you the computer was having trouble, I can't help you fix the problem after it totally stops working)).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Not just code sharing is unattractive, but writing guides etc as well. Saw that some people who have been offering courses that teach you how to code certain things are now closing down due to less and less (or none at all) people buying.

    People burn out, and no new teaching material is created.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago*

    Virologists etc have again and again tried to explain why engineering a killer virus hard, like the whole problem of if it is too deadly it will not spread, it needs to not incubate to short and too long etc, engineering a vaccine must be hard etc. So the chance of something being created which is deadlier than covid are quite small. Not that this will stop the science fiction

    Rockets on a city is prob the better idea.

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  • submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
     

    As we don't have a top level post about this already (nor on reddit) I thought why not make one. Archive.is

    Extremely likely the guy was a lesswronger, or at least radicalized by that sort of thinking.

    But not much else seems to be known as far as I can tell. Corbin also posted about the HN reactions in the stubsack.

    And remember, no fed posting.

    Edit: looks like his house also got shot. Archive (after the speculation in this thread, makes you wonder if this was a follow up false flag, as the bottle didn't break last time).

     

    Via reddits sneerclub. Thanks u/aiworldism.

    I have called LW a cult incubator for a while now, and while the term has not catched on, nice to see more reporting on the problem that lw makes you more likely to join a cult.

    https://www.aipanic.news/p/the-rationality-trap the original link for the people who dont like archive.is used the archive because I dont like substack and want to discourage its use.

    submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
     

    As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

    Original link.

    I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

    E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

     

    Original title 'What we talk about when we talk about risk'. article explains medical risk and why the polygenic embryo selection people think about it the wrong way. Includes a mention of one of our Scotts (you know the one). Non archived link: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

    submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
     

    Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

    I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

    And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

    (Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
     

    The interview itself

    Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

    Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

    "No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

    https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

     

    Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

    Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

    In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

    Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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