If you set up one port forward to any SSH server on your local network (e.g., a spare Raspberry Pi), you can then use SSH tunneling to mirror any port on any machine in your local network to ports on your remote SSH client. And it leaves no trace on either side outside of the terminal session.

If AI-assisted coding becomes the long-term norm, it will probably be accompanied by significantly different programming languages, workflows, and tools (as well as more-capable LLMs). The current batch of AI-generated slop will be regarded as a transitional mess unmaintainable by humans or AIs, and any practices picked up in this phase will have to be un-learned later on.

That’s not eugenics, it’s gene therapy. Eugenics is when the policy is compelled by the state, for its supposed benefit to society instead of the affected individuals.

A sail absorbs the wind’s energy, transferring it to the boat (which is the same place the fan borrowed it from). There’s no net airflow backward, as there is with reverse thrusters.

If you replaced the thrust reverser on the aircraft with a cloth sail, much the same thing would happen.

Your thinking is that an AI wouldn’t have second thoughts and decide to change its first response?

It makes sense, but at soon as it becomes a recognizable thing, they’ll make AIs edit their posts deliberately.

Calculating is exactly what AIs don’t do.

Any part of your brain that makes a decision is modeling the world. Anything that causes you to feel surprise is modeling the world. A plant that turns its leaves toward the sun is modeling the world. A bacterium that follows a nutrient gradient is modeling the world.

Nothing can live without modeling its world.

Science uses models, but so does everything else. Your brain is modeling the world all the time, otherwise it would be a flood of uncorrelated, meaningless sensations.

Because the motion of the things we can see leads us to suspect that something else is there, even if we can’t see it directly.

To use the blindness analogy, it’s like if you’re talking to someone and their voice suddenly becomes muffled, you might suspect that some kind of “silent matter” is affecting the sound.

Dark matter particles would still interact with gravity, but not the other forces. Gravity by itself is too weak to detect individual particles, but the effects of large numbers of them could still be seen.

There are some particles that don’t interact via the electromagnetic force. There are some particles that don’t interact via the strong force. And there are some particles that don’t interact via the weak force. All the particles we know, we’ve detected because they interact via at least one of those forces—but there’s no rule that says a particle must interact with any of them.

Why should we assume that every particle in existence must be conveniently detectable? It’s like a blind person assuming nothing can exist unless it makes a noise.

Putin will clarify that the diesel he was referring to is actually in Ukraine but rightfully belongs to him, and he needs US assistance to liberate it.

I think it’s that cats behave more like non-domesticated animals (like apes), while dogs behave more like domesticated animals (like pigs).

Most explorers named things that already had names, too.

It’s the emperor’s new brand.

Check out lambda calculus—it was created by Turing’s doctoral advisor in 1936, and thus predates real-world programming languages.

Nuts.

In practice, I just re-tighten the faucets before I leave the apartment.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Donald^®

I think Ferdinand de Saussure’s intuition is closer to the truth than the idea that words have a 1:1 congruence to objective reality, or that they’re truly defined by their dictionary “definitions”. Rather, all the words in a language mutually define each other via their correlations in usage, and the resulting network of correlations forms a unified structure we then match to the similar structure we recognize in reality.

Because this structure is entirely contained within the usage patterns of the language itself, it doesn’t need to be communicated via any extra-linguistic channel.