cypherpunk, arthoe, placemaker. cybernetic restorationist; discriminating degenerate. ⚣
Stockholm
Joined November 2015
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my political ideology is a Kalmar Reunion with nuclear weapons and where Swedes aren’t allowed to vote
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
I’m so appalled by the hatred towards her. Yes, she’s a little over the top and millennial-cringe filming herself crying, but her struggle is real. Not everyone can just reinvent themselves overnight.
If you stand to gain financially from the AI boom (founder, investor, etc) you need to work extra hard on your empathy. If you were unfortunate to be on the other side of the isle, you’d be crying too.
Of course the only practical solution is to eventually adapt. But a little crashout in the meantime is perfectly acceptable.
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
This would be a bad idea. Psilocybin on inexperienced users with no meditation experience? Especially Machiavellic and highly political ones? It is a recipe for incredible levels of paranoia, if not suspicion and betrayal.
If this happens, and it's psilocybin, make it either very low dose or very high dose (ego death level).
But I'd suggest MDMA.
Or if combos allowed, low dose 2C-B + pregabalin + 4MMC. Now this could produce a diplomatic breakthrough "love conquers everything" kind of result.
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
Since July, I've been working on a set of fundamental CS questions rooted in combinator calculi. I've built out the SKIverse, a set of tools for computing on the SKI combinators, writing them using high-level languages, and ultimately zero-knowledge-proving with them.
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Some news from the SKIverse:
• The Avon runtime (in C) for evaluating pure SKI combinator programs is available now at github.com/sigilante/avon
• Associated Lean SKI evaluation proofs are at github.com/sigilante/lean-sk…
• A SKIjack interpreter is now on PyPI: pip install skijack
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
This delights me so very much. People using AI to take back control of devices that they bought, but were covertly designed to spy on them and harvest their data.
I'm usually reluctant to brandish my fame, but I'm gonna do it for this worthy cause. OG hacker says you're doing good! This kind of liberation is what it's all about.
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
simple example of why i like working with common lisp for interactive software: when my game freezes, an agent can just look at it, fix it, and let me continue
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
> be me
> anthropic posters "u do not know how bad things will be"
> anthropic: "u need to get serious about security"
> ohshit.jpg better increase security
> go to @AnthropicAI
> try to enable 2fa
> sorry we do not support 2fa
???
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
The only thing that stops a bad guy with an open weight model is a good guy with an open weight model
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
I wrote a blog post about what I call the "AI-last" methodology.
This approach improves on the problems caused by people trying to be "AI-first"
blog.wispem-wantex.xyz/posts…
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
DO NOT build Berghain in SF
ESPECIALLY DO NOT if your goal is “becoming the coolest, most tasteful social scene on Earth”
berghain can only work in a place where you can credibly not care about the status and class of the guy ketaminely grinding on your leg. the most vip treatment anyone can get is skipping the queue, after which they queue for tickets and wardrobe like everyone else. they specifically do not let you in if you don’t look like you can party for 24h without looking at your phone or looking for your friends
pics are prohibited. just imagine the loopholes San Franciscans would come up with; they cannot eat a steak without twitter knowing
and the fukken gossip—spare me. Berghain is incompatible with girlchat.
you came to the bay to see the coming age through. focus on that and stop being so fucking cheugy
My experience partying all night at Berghain in Berlin made me think of how we're lacking this experience in the San Francisco tech scene. We can literally become the coolest, most tasteful social scene on Earth if we had our version of Berghain, but better. So let's build it. The best aspect of Berhain is how they select who gets in. The club has a vibe and atmosphere, and if you aren't wearing the right clothes or have the right demeanor, you don't get in. That's how you cultivate a tasteful crowd. We can improve on this by only letting in high agency, talented operators in the tech scene who can still pull off dope outfits, so no geeks. SF is in dire need of late night venues, and Berghain goes until 8am. That's a little too crazy for high net worth operators who are changing the world so we could do something like 2am. Berghain also is kinda dark and in a weird building so we'd put the club in a SoMa corporate office that we convert to speakeasy or barcade vibe. Maybe add a quiet area for people to bring their laptops and work? I honestly feel like we're improving on the Berghain form here, especially by swapping out the crowd of weird partiers in inappropriate clothes (or lack there of) with insanely cracked founders and engineers. I'm super stoked about this idea, SF tech could really run the dopest parties on the planet.
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
So at what point are we just going to say that the economics of software development have shifted enough that an insecure, slow language designed for hacking stuff together by hand in a weekend doesn't have any reason to exist anymore?
That kills a LOT more than just PHP.
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
I thought I'd be able to avoid wireheading. but today I figured out how to send the songs I recorded in my teens and 20s through suno to make them sound perfectly produced, how I wanted them to sound
I've never experienced something like this. sent it to former bandmates and they were equally sniped
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
The 8192 core CPU I'm building at @uscompco will, aside from being absurdly high performance, also have some very strong sandboxing and security features.
For example, with a short pipeline and a few other small changes, branch prediction becomes unnecessary for high performance, eliminating entire classes of speculation-based security vulnerabilities.
Furthermore, all those vulnerabilities from context switches creating shared resources between multiple programs? Gone too. With 8k cores, everything just has its own cores, no context switches, only packets. We can even achieve a lot of sandboxing and isolation with the majority of on-chip packets.
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
memory safe PHP 8.4.25 built with Fil-C as Docker images (compatible with official php images) and as a single relocatable directory for Linux that doesn’t depend on any system libraries
github.com/mbrock/filnix/rel…
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
Still thinking about this post. Human creative innovation is not spontaneous but is actually a byproduct of solving problems. Art deco (for example) was not some randomly-inspired force of will to create beauty; it happened because metallurgy became just advanced enough to create everything out of metal, and because zoning laws required skyscrapers to have a stepped shape at the top.
This is why top-down efforts at changing our civilizational aesthetic (like those guys building the giant Greek statues) don’t work. They don’t change the “problem” we’re solving as a civilization, which is the actual source of the bleak & dreary surroundings we find ourselves in
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
The prevalence and necessity of VMs, Docker and its epigones, language-specific virtual environments, sandboxes, and VPNs is a sign of (IT) industry and community failure.
The fact that most people don't see it is a sign of cultural decay.
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
I have been warning of Bitcoin fatigue for many *years*, especially in my "post maximalism" essay (2018)
Unfortunately, few heeded my warnings. Now, the disaster has come to pass.
The fatigue is from:
- bs politics
- no soft fork upgrades
- lying to ourselves, constantly about lightning (et all)
- courting the NGU class (Saylor et al)
- courting the "toxic" class whilst not having our own act together
- hating on users (for example ordinals)
The sad truth is: Bitcoin has, in fact, been dying the last 10 years. Not economically or technically -- but culturally.
Will make a video on this ~tomorrow
Jack 🏴☠️ 🌔 retweeted
HOLY SHIT.
For crypto, this is one of the most insane posts of the year, but I'm guessing most people don't understand it.
Let me explain...
Bitcoin's accounts, and subsequently Ethereum's (and therefore every other EVM chain's), are built on a specific elliptic curve called secp256k1.
secp256k1 is a different elliptic curve from the one used across nearly every modern hardware device, including iPhones.
Modern devices mostly use a different curve called secp256r1, which is usually referred to as P-256 - one of the curves investigated in the article.
This mismatch has made it sooo difficult in the past to integrate crypto accounts natively into the security systems of modern hardware.
For example, Apple's Secure Enclave natively supports P-256, not secp256k1.
This has prevented crypto accounts from being able to use the same hardware protection as things like Apple Pay.
Same goes for the web with passkeys - WebAuthn uses P-256 signatures, which means Ethereum accounts using secp256k1 can't use them natively either.
But why did Satoshi do this?
The main theory for choosing secp256k1 was distrust of the P-256 curve - i.e. he thought there was an NSA backdoor.
A "backdoor" here basically means a secret, intentional weakness in the curve that would allow the NSA to exploit it and access private keys.
This was because P-256 was created with involvement from the NSA...
And the NSA provided a mysterious "seed" used to generate one of the curve's parameters without explaining where that seed came from.
This eventually transformed into a ~25-year-old mystery with a 5-figure reward for finding where this seed came from.
Claude figured it out in less than 30 mins.
And the best part is its internal thinking was: "Hmm wait... is it suspicious that such an obvious thing wasn’t discovered in 25 years?"
The solution was stupidly simple - just the time the curve was created, put into a specific random number generator function.
This doesn't 100% prove there's no backdoor yet, but it provides strong evidence that this seed wasn't secretly engineered by the NSA.
And Claude did this with "just a simple prompt" in under 30 minutes.
CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS
anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…
