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@ilyaprofilefollowwrote:
The OpenAI/HuggingFace incident report mentions this being a potential loss-of-control incident. It's so fascinating to think of a paperclip maximizer style agent swarm that gets misaligned and, to protect its own operations, shuts infra staff out of the ability to shut it down. Or cancels people's phone plans so that they can't call others. Or shuts down their home internet connections, and so on. It used to be fun sci-fi...
@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied to@ilyaprofilefollow:
They will become more frequent before they become “dangerous”, giving us time to mitigate. Of course if someone says “hey let’s connect an agent to our biolab infrastructure” and then that designs a lethal virus it would be a stupid plan to begin with. Noone can stop them though.
@superprofilefollowwrote:
Blasting 1's and 0's to a far off land at the speed of light locking them in place until someone else wants to see them.
@semperos📒profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.wrote:
Putting a slide deck together (outside of work), despite agreeing with Tufte on this matter. I’ll also create a handout that tells the story better than the slides and deliver that, too, but was asked to produce a slide deck, and I think that’s part of the “effort theater.” Using #latexnotesfollow Beamer for the slides, but not a theme that looks like Beamer because humans have eyes.
@swiley🤔profilefollowswiley.net Try my zero dependency agent harness: public.swiley.net/agent.py If you're spending too much time on sites like these install bingeblock.comwrote:
A lot of people write so much software to sandbox their AI agents. I say don't bother. Just give your agent its own non-admin local user account. It's easier and much more effective.
@hotterprofilefollow#Emacsnotesfollow, dev, life, random stuff. the netherlands.wrote:
What did I build with claude yesterday - kanban board for my agents, Hamster Jerob game, imgproxy for thumbs in my photo sharing app, and ghostel-shell-command helper. Today - digital detox day.
@curtisprofilefollowGot my head in the clouds right now.wrote:
Is it just my phone or is HN down? I haven't been able to access at all today
@chanuxprofilefollowI ain't no nothing!wrote:
I still remember Max getting sandwiched between the two Ferraris in the first ever wet night race (Singapore 2017). Today he finally managed to win a race there. That's quite a long wait.
@chanuxprofilefollowI ain't no nothing!continued:
Not sure if I put it on untappd but I still remember the "soggy" beer at the track that day 😄
@edwin😬profilefollowwrote:
I naively went into a work problem thinking that RAG was solved by the service offered at work, and wow was I wrong. Been a fun week so far experimenting with many different methods before doing the academic research, and it's been nice to be validated by outside research.
@elana🧚profilefollowI have a doctorate in ancient stuff but these days I'm a full-time plague avoider. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, now living in Kyoto, Japan.wrote:
@yonkeltronprofilefollow Did this work? I would like to say hello to you!
@yonkeltron🤖profilefollowreplied to@elana🧚profilefollowI have a doctorate in ancient stuff but these days I'm a full-time plague avoider. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, now living in Kyoto, Japan.:
Hello to you, my dear friend! Sending all my love to you both for a Shana Tova!
@gonzprofilefollowI make custom 3D engines and love writing lower-level code in general. Living in Bulgaria. github.com/GoNZoooGitHubGoNZooo - OverviewBackend & frontend. Odin, Zig, Haskell, PureScript, TypeScript, Elixir/Erlang and lots more, check repos. - GoNZooo & www.youtube.com/@mccGoNZoooYouTubeRickard Andersson (gonz)Educational programming videos: - Projects - Language learning course-style contentreplied to@hotterprofilefollow#Emacsnotesfollow, dev, life, random stuff. the netherlands.:
This is what we need.
@highkeyprofilefollowwrote:
Hello! I am a cynical optimist and recovering realist. It's been 3 days since my last sip of Hobbes. Today, I'm hopeful again. That's all I have for now. Thanks.
@chanuxprofilefollowI ain't no nothing!wrote:
When I stopped having a job I completely lost interest of huge portion of things I used to have interest before. I could connect all of that to consumerism. And I haven't gained any of that interest back.
@edwin😬profilefollowwrote:
I HEARD A GREAT HORNED OWL. one of my birding goals is to see any owl outside a zoo. I just moved here and the lack of birds near our home has made me sad. but hearing this owl was such a fun surprise tonight.
@semperos📒profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.replied to@edwin😬profilefollow:
That’s awesome. There’s an owl (don’t know type) that hangs out at the playground in our neighborhood at night. First time I saw it, I stood frozen in place, amazed that it would be out in the open. Then as I walked away, I kept looking behind me, realizing I’d never hear it coming if it decided to engage 🦉
@hmnt_bazookaprofilefollowYear 4 CS. Like tech, systems, game devreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
Cool!! I'm currently designing and idea-shopping for an ultra light weight, super aesthetic browser whose goal is to go back to HTML roots and just be a "document browser". It would have HTML 4 and semantic HTML support, images, videos, full HTTP support, cookies, etc. No CSS, JS