In my ideal future, Joanna would write about things like :
- how do we secure LLMs leading up to AGI, presumably they can bypass our best attempt at airgap firewalls
- is consciousness different from thinking from intelligence ?
- how do we ensure AI is distributed so all humans can benefit, and not used as a multiplier of extreme wealth inequality ?
- whats missing in current AI LLMs ?
- a bias for truth / fact .. or a mode switch to make it bias truthiness
- reasoning by chains of formal language [ formal logic ]
- reasoning by chains of probabilistic inference [ bayesian logic ]
- reasoning by deep simulation [ stochastic modelling ]
- spatial reasoning [ 3D model of space, machinery, physics. 3D reconstruction. model of humans and animals with bones, muscles, mass ]
- mathematical modelling [ proposing formulae, checking fit ]
- psychological model of humans, of human populations, their needs / motivations / rewards and psychoses
An implication of the above is that future AGI will need to run on fast branching CPU _and_ massively parallel GPU with a fast data path between them - ie. balanced compute.
However, the best part will be discovering what the real Joanna writes about !
She is also famous for the Qubes OS project and coining the term "evil maid attack".
What is he on about? Sounds like his future blog posts could just be rambling about anything.
https://tracesofhumanity.org/freediving-embodiment-and-human...
Please, please, please let this not be the incentive!
She was a brilliant cybersecurity researcher.
Nowadays seems to have switched to poetry. Not the first one to do that, recently...
IMHO she is up there on par with Yudkowsky.
Apologies if I'm misreading 'incentive' and missing some jargon usage, ofc! Or if this just a lament that she's not a purist/gold star doomer? Cause I totally understand that.
Blue-pilling is a method for malware to hide from the OS by virtualizing it, not an attack on VMs. That's why it's called "blue pilling". I do agree though that VMs are not airtight and VM escapes have been demonstrated.
Has she inspired any rationalist polycule harry potter fan fiction enthusiast cults that live on a decaying tugboat before murdering several people yet?
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=wikipedia...
> Today I no longer do computer security. I do other stuff, part of which running this blog :-)
...or welcome back! I’ve been silent for the last 7 years and now I’m trying to resurface with this new blog :-)
Some of you might remember my previous work on Qubes OS1, a paranoid-security OS, which I started back in 2009, and led its development for the next 9 years. Others might have been readers of my previous blog2, written in the period of 2006-2018, focusing on computer systems security (and insecurity), and specifically on operating systems and virtualization security. Very technical staff, in other words ;) So technical, in fact, that it was easy for me to lose touch with some other aspects of life.
During my long life as a computer security researcher and architect, I’ve been primarily motivated by the pursuit of Truth (aka Knowledge) as the supreme Value. And Freedom. Other transcendentals3, those typically associated with Humanism, I tended to consider to be of a somewhat lesser value.
These days, in my mid-forties, my value system is a bit more complex ;)
This blog is intended to be a reportage of my struggles between Rationality and Humanism. Pragmatism and Beauty. Formalism and Intuition. Freedom and Love. Individualism, Independence and Privacy on the one side, vs Egalitarianism, Sharing and Community on the other.
I wish my younger self could have read what I plan to write here. My life might have been more fulfilling, I think.
The above statement might have suggested I’ve already found all the answers to human happiness and now will mercifully broadcast them to the world. I wish... Actually, no, I don’t! Because I suspect this might be self-defeating, in fact. For it seems that the struggle, the uncertainty, the incompleteness, they all might be the central theme of humanism, perhaps even its very essence.
If you would like to get in touch with me, e.g. to share your perspective, or point out flaws in my reasoning (humanist or not, I still believe rational thinking has its place in any discourse) -- please check the About section for information on how to do so.