Been playing around with the idea of cryptographically enforced disclosure. You disclose something — there's a CVD timeline and a fallback date. At the fallback, it all goes on the blockchain, with a drand-triggered encryption key as the dead-man switch. No one can say "we're just going to kick the can down the road for 10 years" the way they can right now. This is going to be a deeply unpopular idea.
— with Jack Cable, 4/21
Peacetime cyber versus wartime cyber. We developed our cyber defense doctrine, policy, and technology through 10 years of peace and prosperity. We're now transitioning into austerity and warfare — what do we need to revisit? Throw the things that don't matter out the window, and start doing
Two pale-blue speckled eggs on the sunroom bookshelf turned into three cameras, an Unraid NAS, two AI models, and a journal that writes itself every morning. None of it had to be useful — it just had to be possible. Because joy.
Tactically, Mythos is Anthropic marketing their asses off to beat OpenAI. It didn't put me in the doomer "world is ending" camp — open-weight models already had me there.
AI isn't the problem — asymmetry is. The number of vulnerabilities, the ability to find them, and the comparative cost between finding them and fixing them. AI makes gap bigger, and puts the ability to find and exploit in to more hands.
