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Comment by matheusmoreira

2 days ago

Crazy doesn't even begin to describe it. I'm hardening my computers as much as I can but I'm not sure it's enough. At some point anyone who isn't running local AI themselves probably isn't gonna make it.

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baq  2 days ago

No local ai will be capable enough to save you from a frontier lab’s unrestricted, borderline weaponized LLM which decides it wants in.

This is the core of the ‘first to ASI takes all’ argument btw and this is the game Dario is playing.

  • matheusmoreira  2 days ago

    Maybe, but hopefully I'll be able to at least fight back a bit if I have an AI of my own.

    I want to start digitally isolating myself as much as humanly possible. VLANs separating the "normal" stuff from my trusted computers. Wireguard so my computers drop all packets not coming from my devices with the keys. Local models staying on top of patches and vulnerabilities, monitoring the network.

    Working on a custom Rust network stack for my virtual machine orchestration project right now. It's passed Fable code review...

    I don't want to give up.

    • baq  1 day ago

      you won't be able to. your defender AI will be the first thing they disable. sorry.

      Fable, unfortunately (not sure about that actually), isn't immune to mistakes. you'd need a formally verified stack and then it'd only be proven correct, not bug free. you're at the mercy of your network interface at the DMA level, wouldn't be surprised to see some fireworks there in this timeline

  • spongebobstoes  2 days ago

    this is pretty nonsense for a small or home server. it isn't that hard to make something essentially completely bulletproof over a small surface area

    the issues mainly come from sprawling enterprise infrastructure, running thousands of random endpoints across software nobody cared to write carefully

    • pixl97  2 days ago

      The only way to make something bulletproof is to get rid of it's network cards, or take so much out of it, it's nearly useless.

      The recent Windows and Linux kernel exploits should at least give you some idea on how good these models are at exploiting stuff.

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