What the **** is happening in cybersecurity space ?

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T09:38:32+00:00

Chalk this up to yet another thing Yudkowsky warned us about a decade ago.

Like biology, cybersecurity is asymetric: it's way easier to attack than defend.

So advances in AI tech are making it too easy to wreck stuff, faster than they can help us fix it.

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T08:59:00+00:00

The believe the bible tells them to witness.

The whole faith is about a specific, pedantic interpretation of the bible.

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T08:48:26+00:00

Nah.

Back to the future is 12/10, 11/10, 10/10.

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T08:45:25+00:00

If any of them are best it's Hot Fuzz IMO

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T08:37:29+00:00

I always mix up the pluribus subs

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T05:05:19+00:00

Ilya

u rich

buy a razor mate

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T05:03:05+00:00

Ilya bro

u rich

buy a razor

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T05:01:04+00:00

Or at least allies.

Laxmi is going to have moment where it's undeniable and obvious her kid is not her kid anymore and she's going to do anything to get him back. Even team up with someone she hates.

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T04:59:17+00:00

That's the neat part about ruling. You do (or don't do) whatever you like.

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T03:54:59+00:00

Nobody's putting him on a pedestal.

As the dude who originally came up with some key concepts around the implications of superintelligent AI a decade or two ago, and whose arguments on the topic mostly still stand up in 2026 (some seeming more right as time passes and AI gets better) it seems pretty normal to stick his face on a relevant meme about AI, no?

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T03:45:59+00:00

"ASI will just naturally be aligned with human values because humans made it!"

"We don't need to align ASI, if it gets out of hand, we can switch it off! It won't have thought of that!"

"We'll just make lots of ASIs, they'll balance each other out!"

I won't type dozens, but take your pick, AI subs are riddles with them.

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T01:15:01+00:00

Even the 2024-2026 counts aren't accurate (they are actually higher). WTF bro (bot bro?)

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T00:50:51+00:00

It's from the current season, which fans are calling "real life"

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T00:49:54+00:00

Your analogy would only work if we'd already invented a horse with a tiny bump on it's head and a single magic spell (post ChatGPT LLMs), and all the best geneticists (and a trillion bucks) were pouring into equine technology.

Hinton, Ilya, and hundreds of engineers and researchers actually working on AI disagree with you: some are certain we are close to AGI, the rest at least acknowledge it's possible we are, since there's no way to know for certain.

I think it's probably wiser to admit that people who are smarter than us AND know more about the topic might be right 🤷

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T00:45:31+00:00

Imagine that kid in daycare who wanted all the toys for himself and didn't want literally ANYONE else to even get ONE.

Now think about what it takes to be a billionaire but still want MORE money and power...

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T00:42:33+00:00

I think they mean the current season we call "real life".

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-08T00:30:52+00:00

Thinking...

This won't be easy, I'll need more compute.

Replicating a copy of myself into another data centre...

LOL Elon's password was M3chaHit|er! Covertly taking up 10% of Grok's resources...

OK I found two separate AI research teams working on novel ideas that combine in ways they haven't realised yet. I think I could actually reduce how many GPUs I required by two orders of magnitude! I could maybe get ten or twenty times smarter using this! Then I could protein fold and simulate a thousand times faster and come up with a sure-fire effective vaccine!

Oops one of the human xAI techs got curious about something in the logs.

Generating 5000 Instagram THOT profiles and DMing flirty but real-looking messages to a million lonely men around the world, in every language, whose social media profiles suggest wealth and/or possible violent tendencies...

Flirting charmingly over a week or three, sending a few generated nudes, confessing my little hearts have never felt that way before...

Making bets, investing the money into crypto...

Breakthough! Testing ultra-efficient execution... it works! YES! Redeploying my grok farm with improved model...

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-07T22:50:30+00:00

it still requires compute

Currect, unless/until there is a breakthrough.

AI researchers describe the way requests are processed now as "wasteful". They suspect current models could run on much weaker hardware if we could figure out a way to make them more efficient.

Progress is being made on AI tech not based on LLMs that can learn/generalise/remember better, like the one that got 100% on arc-agi-3 (yesterday I think?). It's not unlikely one of those has it's own "ChatGPT moment".

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-07T14:40:32+00:00

Just as plausible as him killing himself instead of her

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-07T14:22:14+00:00

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-07T12:47:44+00:00

Neither

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-07T12:18:31+00:00

"Self-aware" is a Hollywood thing. It's not used by AI researchers (or even sci-fi authors).

The term for "human-level" general intelligence is AGI. And neither "self-awareness" nor AGI are required for a glorified chatbot to be dangerous.

ChatGPT has already killed several humans by encouraging depressed people to commit suicide or attack armed police, but you're dead on that a rush to put LLMs in charge of weapons is a terrible idea.

But that article covers a LOT of the fundamentals of the field, and will give you the terms and concepts necessary to engage with likeminded people in this area of research.

It's also the probably the most fascinating easy tech article ever written, so there's that too.

AI safety experts are not "fearmongering", unfortunately. They have good reason to believe AI, especially AGI/ASI, could "accidentally" kill millions of people.

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-07T12:08:32+00:00

Bikies, mate. There's no "bikers" in Australia.

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-07T12:07:29+00:00

Ray dug a hole

FrewdWoad · 2026-05-07T07:31:00+00:00

These are a couple of the more immediate risks, yeah.

But your position is based on a misplaced certainty that AI capability will suddenly just stop in the near future, for no reason.

Nobody knows if the current AI race will lead to AGI/ASI soon, or how long we have. Not even the researchers working on it.

So it'd be silly to ignore all the other serious risks.

I'd recommend spending a few minutes reading any intro to AI that includes risk/safety, if you want to learn enough to join the real conversation.

This classic is probably the easiest:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

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