Can hacker culture survive LLMs?
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@evan *touches ground* Something terrible happened here.
@BathysphereHat part of my job is DEFINE QUESTION MARK
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Can hacker culture survive LLMs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model@evan
Hacker culture might thrive in LLMs. -
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/survive too I guess
Update: and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/can
@evan I wonder what's going on when you start linking every word to a dictionary entry to prevent people from nit-picking at your wording
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@evan
Hacker culture might thrive in LLMs.@smish that's an interesting thought!
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@evan I wonder what's going on when you start linking every word to a dictionary entry to prevent people from nit-picking at your wording
@malte that horse has left the barn
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Can hacker culture survive LLMs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model@evan I think if hackers reject reliance on them, yes. Just plugging things in to an LLM and using the output is like a new variant on script-kiddie. No learning or understanding, just some megacorp-produced algorithm in a hyperscalar data center doing everything for you. Likewise for using LLM-generated code to make software.
But, people just focused on the "number-go-up" aspect of CTFs or a "move fast break things" time-to-ship minimizing dev workflow? Absolutely hooked on LLMs and also not hacker culture
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Can hacker culture survive LLMs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model@evan hacker culture opened the idea of building AI pollution/defense tools when everything on the internet was being slurped into the cooking vats before people started eating the virtual soylent green. So I think it will survive.
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@evan I think if hackers reject reliance on them, yes. Just plugging things in to an LLM and using the output is like a new variant on script-kiddie. No learning or understanding, just some megacorp-produced algorithm in a hyperscalar data center doing everything for you. Likewise for using LLM-generated code to make software.
But, people just focused on the "number-go-up" aspect of CTFs or a "move fast break things" time-to-ship minimizing dev workflow? Absolutely hooked on LLMs and also not hacker culture
@kworker so, "yes, but" only if hackers refuse to use them?
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@malte that horse has left the barn
@evan Sure has. I guess I wonder where the nitpicking impulse comes from. It is as if this medium amplifies it.
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@evan Sure has. I guess I wonder where the nitpicking impulse comes from. It is as if this medium amplifies it.
@malte it's the Socratic method. You can win every argument by demanding a rigorous definition of every term under question, and exhausting your opponent until they concede whatever you want to make them say.
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@kworker so, "yes, but" only if hackers refuse to use them?
@evan I'm not sure if I'd say complete avoidance, or refusal to rely on them, or refusal to use them for anything serious.
Clearly other people using LLMs introduces opportunity to hack such systems, and I wouldn't want to foreclose the possibility of local-only LLM models that can be built and used in ethically and ecologically sustainable ways. But I think offloading your thinking to a giant tech corp is definitely not in line with the hacker spirit or culture I understand.
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@kworker so, "yes, but" only if hackers refuse to use them?
@evan I'm not sure if I'd say complete avoidance, or refusal to rely on them, or refusal to use them for anything serious.
Clearly other people using LLMs introduces opportunity to hack such systems, and I wouldn't want to foreclose the possibility of local-only LLM models that can be built and used in ethically and ecologically sustainable ways. But I think offloading your thinking to a giant tech corp is definitely not in line with the hacker spirit or culture I understand.
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Can hacker culture survive LLMs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model@evan Running your own local LLM, Giving it a bunch of custom tools, figuring out jailbreaks so it will do pen-testing without complaining.
LLMs are extremely fun when you have a hacker mentality.
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@kworker so, "yes, but" only if hackers refuse to use them?
@evan I'm not sure if I'd say complete avoidance, or refusal to rely on them, or refusal to use them for anything serious.
Clearly other people using LLMs introduces opportunity to hack such systems, and I wouldn't want to foreclose the possibility of local-only LLM models that can be built and used in ethically and ecologically sustainable ways. But I think offloading your thinking to a giant tech corp is definitely not in line with the hacker spirit or culture I understand.
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@evan I wonder what's going on when you start linking every word to a dictionary entry to prevent people from nit-picking at your wording
@malte @evan Ah but the problem is each word individually isn’t enough, looking up the definitions of mountain and top may not lead you to the same conclusion as the general consensus definition for “mountain top”, meaning we’ll also need to link to every n possible combinations of words in the post.
/s
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@malte it's the Socratic method. You can win every argument by demanding a rigorous definition of every term under question, and exhausting your opponent until they concede whatever you want to make them say.
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Can hacker culture survive LLMs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_modelYes, but unfortunately at the cost of recreating the sort of factions we've been trying to get out of for many years.
Gonna be a while, and a lot of pain, before we settle on an acceptable and productive moderate middle and start reskilling not just 'hackers' but users/consumers to be more aware of what their software is doing.
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@malte it's the Socratic method. You can win every argument by demanding a rigorous definition of every term under question, and exhausting your opponent until they concede whatever you want to make them say.
@evan I see ... That's annoying. I don't like repetitive input that takes us further away from the heart of the matter. Off-screen, I find it easier to cut someone off that is derailing a conversation and ask them to get to the point. In this medium, people can go on and on, perhaps because we're not in dialogue. I wonder what an effective strategy is on-screen?
