T he most important advice I keep coming back to lately is maintaining cognitive security against psyops. To take what is real, with a sufficiently grounded interpretation of real, in a world where your OODA loop is constantly being bludgeoned by the rate of change and the deluge of information. Last week, I made the mistake of sleeping in for ten hours. As a penalty for sloth, my subconscious…
T he Anthropic Mythos announcement is the first time in my life I’ve felt truly poor. Maybe because I grew up on the internet and it was the one permissionless place where you could have leverage and a shot at uncapped exploration and ambition. That is now changing with the gap between models that are publicly available vs those reserved for the already wealthy and pre-established. In 1893,…
M odern day cryptography is built on a very counterintuitive foundation called Kerckhoffs’ principle. The idea is that a security system is only secure if everything about it can be publicly disclosed. Or as Claude Shannon put it, “the enemy knows your system”. The principle holds that a cryptosystem should be secure, even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge. –…