That's because everyone else is the enemies of the people! They have a mandate!
Get out of the way, so-called judges, RINOs and communists in Congress, the failing Media, and also the low IQ former MAGA people who helped get them elected. This was a landslide! Also, true republicans don't believe in mob rule, we don't have a democracy, we have a republic. Except if our guy wins by 1% then we totally believe in mob rule and have a mandate, compared to that 1% marginal win, what are laws passed by a supermajority? A mere trifle!
to the people on HN who are against blockchain but bullish on AI
With blockchain and smart contracts or stupid even memecoins, you can only lose what you voluntarily put in. You had to jump through a few hoops, then maybe you got rugpulled, maybe you became a millionaire.
With AI, regardless of whether you consented or not, you can lose your job, gradually your relationships and sense of purpose. And if some malicious actors want to weaponize it against you, you can lose your reputation, your freedom, get hacked at scale, and much more. The sooner we give biolabs to everyone the sooner someone can create an advanced persistent threat virus online infecting every openclaw machine, or a designer virus with an incubation period of half a year.
And I know what someone on here will always say. There will always be a comment to the effect of "this has always existed, AI is nothing new". But quantity has a quality all its own. Enjoy your AI slop internet dark forest. Until you don't.
Is your definition of bullish "believes the technology will be widely adopted across society and accrue significant wealth to its owners?" - if so, I think it's very clear how someone could be bullish on AI and not blockchain. You don't have to like AI to see it as an inexorable transformer (ha!) of society and wealth.
Is your definition of bullish "believes the technology is a major net good for society?" - if so, you're comparing two technologies with significant social aspirations that come from very different philosophical backgrounds. While both are techno-optimist, Blockchain is a fundamentally libertarian technology, while generative AI comes from a more utilitarian, capital-focused background. People who value individual freedom above all else will get excited about blockchain and feel mixed-to-negative about AI, while people who want to elevate the overall capability of the human race to the exclusion of anything else will get excited by AI and see blockchain as a parlor trick.
Since when have arms merchants been liable for military scenarios? Lockheed doesn't get sued for building the planes that bomb orphanages. Maybe the world would be a better place if they did, but obviously it's not in the interests of a government to have their own contractors getting sued out of existence for something that government is doing.
Apparently bitcoin foundation is already working on SHRINCS and SHRIMPS. But whether they will forcibly revoke keys of satoshi and all early bitcoin whales or not is another question!
I like tools like this, but they all seem to share the same underlying shape: take an arbitrary process and try to restrict it with OS primitives + some policy layer (flags, proxies, etc).
That works, but it also means correctness depends heavily on configuration, i.e. you’re starting with a lot of ambient authority and trying to subtract from it enforcement ends up split across multiple layers (kernel, wrapper, proxy)
An alternative model is to flip it: Instead of sandboxing arbitrary programs, run workflows in an environment where there is no general network/filesystem access at all, and every external interaction has to go through explicit capabilities.
In that setup, there’s nothing to "block" because the dangerous primitives aren’t exposed, execution can be deterministic/replayable, so you can actually audit behavior. Thus, secrets don’t enter the execution context, they’re only used at the boundary
It feels closer to capability-based systems than traditional sandboxing. Curious how people here think about that tradeoff vs OS-level sandbox + proxy approaches.
Zerobox uses the same kernel mechanisms (namespaces + seccomp) but no daemon, no root and cold start ~10ms (Docker is much worse in that regard).
Docker gives you full filesystem isolation and resource limits. Zerobox gives you granular file/network/credential controls with near zero overhead. You can in fact use Zerobox _inside_ Docker (e.g. for secret management)
Get out of the way, so-called judges, RINOs and communists in Congress, the failing Media, and also the low IQ former MAGA people who helped get them elected. This was a landslide! Also, true republicans don't believe in mob rule, we don't have a democracy, we have a republic. Except if our guy wins by 1% then we totally believe in mob rule and have a mandate, compared to that 1% marginal win, what are laws passed by a supermajority? A mere trifle!
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