Right, which really suggests that email is not the right medium if you want genuine privacy.

Right, understanding what your threat model is important. Then you can make a conscious choice regarding the trade offs of using a particular service, and you understand what your risks are.

Metadata tracking should be very concerning to anyone who cares about privacy because it inherently builds a social graph. The server operators, or anyone who gets that data, can see a map of who is talking to whom. The content is secure, but the connections are not.

Being able to map out a network of relations is incredibly valuable. An intelligence agency can take the map of connections and overlay it with all the other data they vacuum up from other sources, such as location data, purchase histories, social media activity. If you become a “person of interest” for any reason, they instantly have your entire social circle mapped out.

Worse, the act of seeking out encrypted communication is itself a red flag. It’s a perfect filter: “Show me everyone paranoid enough to use crypto.” You’re basically raising your hand. So, in a twisted way, tools for private conversations that share their metadata with third parties, are perfect machines for mapping associations and identifying targets such as political dissidents.

Open sourcing these thing would definitely be the right way to go, and you’re absolutely right that it’s a general solver that would be useful in any scenario where you have a system that requires dynamic allocation.

That’s the scientific method version. Here we’re talking about transformation of quantity into quality. :)

lol yes!

Photos of Chomsky hanging out with Epstein just got released.

link to study https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article-abstract/127/14/143902/3366312/A-ultra-high-temperature-free-piston?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Yeah for sure, I do think it’s only a matter of time before people figure out a new substrate. It’s really just a matter of allocating time and resources to the task, and that’s where state level planning comes in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Parenti

it’s a pretty big case right now

mfbc told them so, liberals don’t have thoughts of their own

it’s like the most pretentious thing you could do online

lmfao imagine trotting out mbfc like it means anything you terminal online lib 🤣

It’s like saying silicon chips being orders of magnitude faster than vacuum tubes sounds too good to be true. Different substrate will have fundamentally different properties from silicon.

welcome to the contradictions of capitalism

What I find most unfortunate is that these scam companies convinced people that you can make AI speech detectors in the first place. Like the reason LLMs structure text in a certain way is because these are the patterns in human text that they’ve been trained on.

yeah that would work too assuming the disk was made out of sufficiently hard material that won’t degrade over time

Yeah, I don’t think billions of years is really a meaningful metric here. It’s more that it’s a stable medium where we could record things that will persist for an indefinite amount of time without degradation.

I mean, you can always make new hardware. The idea of media that basically lasts forever is really useful in my opinion. We currently don’t have anything that would last as long as regular paper. Most of the information we have is stored on volatile media. Using something like this to permanently record accumulated knowledge like scientific papers, technology blueprints, and so on, would be a very good idea in my opinion.