> And just like that—surprise!—one AI company bails out another AI company's grift. Google agreeing to rent compute from xAI (cough, "SpaceX") magically makes them eligible for inclusion in the S&P500.
> Americans, they are looting your life savings, the ones you earned through labour that they are gleefully replacing. Your descendants will never have the chance you had.
Daniel has been posting for months (years?) about how much scrutiny he gets from security researchers and various automated tools. I wouldn't expect curl to be the average case for mythos.
It is the opposite. Security people focus on curl, sudo because they are code bases that contained a lot of features and unused code from the 1990s.
They don't focus on projects where they find nothing. They certainly don't advertise when they find nothing.
Getting a lot of scrutiny is not the recommendation that it appears to be. What is the new standard? Projects that never have bugs are deemed to be suspect because they "have not been scrutinized" (they have, but null results never go public)?
So Mythos only finding one issue after other tools have found 300 this year is embarrassing. Mythos was supposed to be better and novel.
It is definitely not the case that curl has been or is now a marquee vulnerability research target. It's a CLI HTTP fetcher. It's the same with sudo. It's a big deal if a sudo vulnerability gets found, because it's an extremely load-bearing piece of software, but sudo is itself not a prime target, because it doesn't do much.
There is no claim that it is a "vulnerability research target". It is a bug finding magnet, and bugs can be found by anything from gcc warnings to AI tools.
No, it didn't attract a bluepill exploit research.
The fact that 300 bugs found in a year is not a recommendation as the pro-AI mafia suddenly claims ("because it has been analyzed!") still stands. Maybe the AI-mafia should sell "analyzed by Mythos" labels to impress people who don't write public software or find bugs for that matter.
You are linking to a Wikipedia page in which I am literally cited (I presented a hypervisor malware detection scheme at the Black Hat conference where Joanna Rutkowska presented this; it was a whole thing). I'm telling you that the term makes no sense in this thread. I think you meant to use a different term.
> It's clear that politicians don't get this from the way they talk about a "mere 1%" wealth tax. None of them would speak of adding a "mere 20%" to the income tax rate, even though that's mathematically the same thing. [2]
This is the wrong way of thinking about it. It's not adding 20% to an already taxed entity, it's adding taxes where there weren't before. Adding 20% on top of the income tax would indeed be controversial. In his framing the rate of return is effectively untaxed income, so it would be more accurate to say that this is like adding income tax to a currently untaxed income stream.
Arguing over implementation details is a pretty common thing for laws to do. Maybe it would weaken the logical consistency of their laws, but that's not really a thing that matters.
Why do states allow hunting some animals and not others? Why do states distinguish between different forms of income to tax? It's all implementation details.
I wasn't saying we shouldn't debate the implementation details. I just think they should be separate arguments.
It's like if someone killed my dog with 3d printed gun and so everyone started talking about banning or regulating 3d printers. It's like, yes, debating 3d printer regulation is probably a worthwhile debate to have, but regardless of where we end up on that it doesn't change the fact that that person killed my dog.
We should be having a debate as to whether there are certain things that are off limits to bet on, but regardless of where that debate goes, if a state has banned sports betting, it should be banned regardless of the platform.
This is both one of my pet peeves and a thing that legislators seem to love: Somebody does a thing that is already illegal, but in a slightly novel way. Perfectly valid statute exists to prosecute, but legislators want to be seen as doing something, so they pass another law to make the already criminal action more specifically criminal.
Arguably bans on cellphone use while driving are a good example. It's not that it isn't bad, it's that distracted driving already carries a hefty fine without being specific as to the mode of distraction. So does causing an accident, which presumably is the harm we're actually trying to avoid.
Making laws more explicit in important cases is valuable because it reduces uncertainty about legal interpretation. Using your example of cellphone use, under distracted driving laws the prosecution would have to prove that the specific case of cellphone use was distracting enough to be a safety hazard. With the more specific ban on cellphones, that is no longer an obstacle.
> any state that allows sports betting is going to struggle to argue a case to ban prediction markets because you're essentially arguing over implementation details
I think their point was that your "going to struggle to argue a case" belief does not logically follow from a need to argue "over implementation details"
I don't see why it even would weaken the logical consistency. Just because a state allows gambling does not mean they need to allow anyone to open a casino or betting site. You still need to apply for a licence and follow local regulations. If the prediction markets make sure to follow the regulations they should obviously be granted a licence to operate.
I think the "black box" framing that it uses neatly applies the same theory to organizations and ais. It doesn't matter whether there's technological or organizational reasons inside the black box to dodge accountability, the outcome is the same.
There's a whole industry of hiking gear that has been steadily trading weight for durability. I only hike in running shoes (altras) which only last me 400 or so miles. It's way less durable than my old boots.
I doubt this sort of thing will translate, but I wouldn't put it past hikers to opt for something less durable to shave a few grams.
> Americans, they are looting your life savings, the ones you earned through labour that they are gleefully replacing. Your descendants will never have the chance you had.
> https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920...
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