gwern comments on Rationality Power Tools - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Nic_Smith 19 September 2010 06:20AM

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Comment author: gwern 22 December 2010 10:33:59PM 2 points [-]

How has progress been?

Comment author: whpearson 23 December 2010 12:31:04PM *  0 points [-]

Heh. I've switched track; I'm working on another idea. Having code modified at load time to make exploiting it harder (due to return-oriented code not knowing where to exploit). That is going slow, mainly due to having to understand other peoples code and machine code, which I am rusty on. I've been meaning to contact developers of as and the elf-loaders.

The reasoning behind swtiching track. It'll look better on my CV. It is easier to get people to adopt. And may help reduce existential risk/ world takeover of computers. It'll take up less of my time when it is done, so it makes sense to do it first.

I'll get back on the web-app once that is done.