11 comments

  • rafram 54 minutes ago
    > Mostly static. The net is quiet until it isn't.

    > Preformatted is what you can hear: the same shape every time.

    > hearing it is all anyone outside the force can do.

    > The day has a shape.

    I would recommend switching to a newer Claude model.

    • cowlby 20 minutes ago
      Everyone worried about AI detectors and here I am thinking I can spot Claudenglish in a sentence or two.
    • bragr 8 minutes ago
      >Mostly static. The net is quiet until it isn't.

      Having tuned in myself with a SDR, it isn't that quiet. There's pretty steady rate of messages.

  • LeoPanthera 43 minutes ago
    This is a cool idea. I'm actually quite glad that AI generated stuff is still so very obvious. The world will be a darker place when it isn't.
    • skygazer 26 minutes ago
      My worry is that what we recognize is the unstylized default, but it might be very easy to emulate any particular human easily enough with some examples and a prompt and n-gram/style template biasing token selection, or iterative generation-scoring loops.
      • rcxdude 3 minutes ago
        Yeah. The big LLMs have fairly idiosyncratic writing styles. Smaller finetuned LLMs can be quite different (and you can also tune them on a particular person's writing). I think some of the confidence in this is because there's plenty of cases which just don't get noticed.
  • ytxm 55 minutes ago
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  • londons_explore 1 hour ago
    So these messages are presumably encrypted with a one time pad, and some lookup book of what each message of just a few characters means?

    And I assume there are also a high bandwidth comms channels, and this is just the backup which is presumably tested each day.

    • jacquesm 1 hour ago
      I think this is the primary.

      High bandwidth comms are likely a lot more fragile than this. At the same time: there will be many different transmission channels, and I would expect this one to be useless immediately if someone really did something nasty.

    • throwaway89864 57 minutes ago
      You can probably just point Claude or ChatGPT to decrypt it, it would find that there's some silly and obvious cipher is used that survived from the 60ies, with a 56 bit private key. /this is a wild guess, I don't have any special clearance or access/
      • jacquesm 55 minutes ago
        Not a chance. OTP for sure.
      • netsharc 42 minutes ago
        Sheesh, hopefully a governmental department that has the NSA nearby would've been warned about this...

        Then again, it is the government...

      • rvba 54 minutes ago
        I also dont know anything but Im sure AI / cloud / blockchain / mongoDB / (insert fad here) will solve it due to synergy and other buzzwords.
  • jacquesm 1 hour ago
    Nice and soothing for when you're already a bit nervous about what the next 13 minutes might bring.
    • yread 1 hour ago
      Reading this comment when it was exactly 13 minutes old
    • stackghost 1 hour ago
      Is there something extra scary happening?

      Usual news headlines on the sources I frequent.

      • jacquesm 1 hour ago
        > Is there something extra scary happening?

        You might get something out of how frequently there are announcements on this channel. That's the only real info you're going to get out of this unless you're in a very select group.

  • dist-epoch 48 minutes ago
    > Skyking, Skyking, DO NOT ANSWER

    This might be the source of the "DO NOT ANSWER" phrase from Three Body Problem.

  • vorpalhex 51 minutes ago
    Some context for those not exposed to this previously.

    Messages usually mean nothing. An uptick in activity means.. nothing. We're on the tail end of a major exercise so upticks in chatter are probably related to that.

    Anyone who posts anything along the lines of "but there were 5x more messages or a really big message so N is going to happen!" is a crazy person. Ignore them.

    It's neat, but it's not prophetic.

  • paaloeye 1 hour ago
    Founding Listener :)
  • FrankWilhoit 1 hour ago
    Latency.
  • qaz_plm 1 hour ago
    “Skyking, Skyking, do not answer…”