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Joanna Rutkowska

@rootkovska.bsky.social

Embracing technology to enhance cognition. Trying to understand how minds work. Maps & exploration of various spaces. Golem Foundation. Previously: Qubes OS, hardware/virtualization/OS security research.

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Just to clarify: the goal is to increase the human’s cognitive ability (that means - you), rather than outsourcing it to 3rd parties, like organizations or AGI.

07.09.2023 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Q: Suppose you’d like to rump up your cognitive powers, so that you could catch up with the front line of todays science (Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology) - how would you do that? Assuming you don’t have 5-10 years to spare for each discipline ;-)

07.09.2023 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

5/ So, what our goal should be? Create another type of being(s) which would be good at (and presumably enjoy) doing Math and Physics? Or maybe designing new tools to help us to better absorb knowledge?

I believe these two goals request totally different approaches.

22.08.2023 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

4/ I highly doubt it. A successful AGI might develop understanding of some field, but _sharing_ this understanding with us would most likely be totally out of reach. Mostly for us, to be able to follow the explanations.

22.08.2023 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

3/ Now, will that really bring us any closer to actually _understanding_ Math or Physics? Will we be able to suddenly shout: β€œOMG, I understand General Relativity!”?

22.08.2023 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2/ Imagine we’ve also implemented great human-AGI interfaces, so we can ask the AGI question such as: β€œExplain the notion of straightness in Geometry”, "Explain what a Tensor is", etc...

22.08.2023 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

1/ Imagine we've finally built an AGI and it can understand Math & Physics, and move these fields forward (not that I believe present LLM are anywhere close, but let's imagine)...

22.08.2023 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d like to share some thoughts on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Not about state of the present LLMs and how smart or dump they really are, but rather about the _Why_ of creating it.

So, here goes:

22.08.2023 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I plan on trying to use BSky as an alternative to Twitter for updates of my work.

So, a question to folks here: are there some BSky/AT bridges/etc which I could use to get a publicly visible, publishable links to my BSky tweets?

20.08.2023 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I admit, though, I've already moved past the itsec, embracing a new field which I could perhaps describe as "Knowledge Security"...

I'm dying to write more about it and my project/app - which I've been working on for the past 3+ years - but it's still not quite ready... I hope to write more soon! πŸ˜ƒ

20.08.2023 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel honored & stunned that the organizers of this year's Chaos Communication Camp named one of the streets with my name! ❀️ (Especially that other streets were named after some true legends!)

At the same time, I'd like officially announced that I'm not dead yet, nor even retired from IT ;-p

20.08.2023 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Haha, that reminds me my experience in infosec during the early 2000’s, only inverted :-p

14.05.2023 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Federation Architecture Overview Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.

We'll soon be launching a sandbox environment to begin the testing phase of federation for the AT Protocol with allow-listed servers.

In advance of this launch, here are some technical details about our design decisions.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

05.05.2023 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 580    πŸ” 223    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 51
Screenshot of Bluesky web app

Screenshot of Bluesky web app

Fyi, Bluesky has a web app! It's https://staging.bsky.app. For an MVP it works great and is pretty functional.

Kudos to the Bluesky team!

24.04.2023 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 405    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 26

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