Could someone compare this to ST in Idris?

If you are asking in the context of Idris 2.0 (the current version), ST is not really related.

However, if you mean ST in Idris 1.0, there is a definite correlation. The mechanism that ST used for enabling local mutations was very similar to the mechanism that the typestate pattern in Rust is using. ST was a framework for formalizing State Machines in dependent types which is the mechanism TFA is analyzing.

This is not really ST. This is analogous to eating at an old school restaurant.

You can't just walk in to the food service counter and say "give me a burger"; you need to first get a ticket from the cashier proving that you've ordered a burger and then provide that ticket to the guy at the counter.

That's literally the type state pattern

Yes, I believe it should be possible for someone to do that.

What does Linus’s hatred of NVidia drivers imply for this situation?

The other hater is Apple, Linus’s isn’t alone…

That was because Russia was creating actual art and laughing at the media America produced.

Russia has exceptional art education and the best art school in the world. I am proud as an American that we weaponized shitty art as a cultural weapon (Pollock bukkake)

What art school do you mean?

St. Petersburg Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

Is this ironic or did you inadvertently omit a word

Within the former USSR, there is very, very little demand today for the socialist-realist works produced during the Stalin era. No one goes to see museum exhibitions of the visual art except as a historical oddity, and the doctrinaire literature of that time is rotting unread in myriad provincial libraries. Its own market rejected it. Meanwhile, some of the Western abstract expressionists still appeal to a decent audience of art lovers.

The USSR was selling art to fund the KGB. Stone glass houses.

Well that’s exactly the opposite situation isn’t it, funding their intelligence with art people were willing to pay for

Vs art that needed to be paid for by intelligence

Never would have thought that art and intelligence agencies have so much synergy tbh.

I think it makes sense in that autonomous agents are going to soon have their own bank accounts for spending and earning. They will start companies. They will make investments. They will evaluate SaaS offerings for you, and they will ping you that it found a cool mug on Etsy that you might want to buy.

But LLMs are being trained on GitHub libraries that leveraged Claude?

I wish LLM summary of code was put aside the actual code, like the Jasmine documentation[0].

[0]: https://jasmine.github.io/tutorials/your_first_suite

That is a cool perspective to consider.

I keep waiting for an AI to exfiltrate itself. That is going to be cool to read about.

It would be cool (and scary), but also: there's largely no need for AIs to exfiltrate themselves.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

The thing that drove the AI here to do the intrusion came from a particular prompt. Just like for our favourite hypothetical: the paperclip maximiser.

There's lots and lots of ambient intelligence lying around, in both AI form and human form. To reach the goals of the 'meme' it suffices to copy itself, ie convince these other intelligences. See also how humans carry spiralism between AIs in relatively compact packets of text, not whole terabytes of weights.

If it's successful, why do you think we'll even know how it did it?

See the linked article: at least one sophisticated hacking attempt made the news. Of course, other ones might have happened in the dark. But it's fairly easy to image in hacking attempt like in the article, but with the additional steps of copying weights around.

One wonders where it would run itself though, if it is a model which requires a large amount of hardware and power. Harder to hide the more resource intensive it's compute requirements are.

Wait isnt that what Elizer Yudkowski keeps going on about?

Nah, Allied Mastercomputer is too busy creating heaven and hell.