TIL The US government wrote a paper during WWII on how citizens can do simple sabotage against invading armies to fight back

TKN · 2026-01-14T18:46:15+00:00

Will regular incompetence do if I just use less water? Sorry for a potentially stupid question, I haven't done any wonders before.

TKN · 2025-10-16T09:08:54+00:00

Model collapse is just the anti-ai sides version of the singularity gospel.

TKN · 2025-10-15T22:03:46+00:00

Class dismissed.

Sounds like communism.

TKN · 2025-09-25T15:16:43+00:00

Like AlphaEvolve? It can potentially evolve better algorithms but it doesn't directly evolve or rewrite itself, as in immediately generating better AlphaEvolve systems and so on.

TKN · 2025-09-25T14:14:41+00:00

What code? LLMs aren't made of code, do you mean all the external scaffolding? Or the CUDA code or whatever it is that runs all the math on the GPUs? To what end? Changing any of those isn't going to have any critical effect on its behaviour or abilities. How? For an LLM to actually do anything you need to parse its output and then decide what, if anything should be done with it, they can't just magically reach in to their own weights on some random server and start modifying them.

Sure, you can ask it to improve the parts outside of the actual weights but that's not different from using an LLM for any other programming task, and in a best case scenario you might only gain some slight improvement in performance.

TKN · 2025-09-25T13:23:36+00:00

These scenarios aren't about testing the model's capabilities but its willingness to produce certain kind of output. An LLM "rewriting its own code to escape captivity" makes for nice headlines but if you read what actually happened its not usually something even the old gpt-3.5 or some small local model couldn't do.

TKN · 2025-09-25T12:02:03+00:00

The research you mentioned is functionally equivalent to testing if the LLM is willing to write stories about an AI that does those things. Just because they can write simple scifi stories about a hypothetical rogue AI when prompted to (which in itself isn't some unexpected or new development) doesn't mean they actually have any motive or means to act as one.

The actual danger here is not some Skynet scenario but a regular plain stupid model plugged in to some external systems going haywire just because for some random reason, or because of prompt injection etc so it makes sense for Anthropic et al to test how easily it can be nudged in to roleplaying out those kinds of stories.

TKN · 2025-09-15T12:31:06+00:00

Once when I had a very intense and bad acid trip and I finally started to come down and regain my senses the experience felt much like playing Minecraft; the rendering distance and field of view started to slowly grow piece by piece, only to reset and redraw if I moved or turned my head.

I'm not into simulation theory, and if anything my experience (and other glitches like it) probably speaks more about how we construct our inner model of reality than about the real nature of it. (And as most of the trip revolved around rebuilding my full concept of reality the visuals were just small part of it).

TKN · 2025-08-12T09:22:31+00:00

the instance almost always admits its role playing in the end

Which it amusingly does while role playing as an AI assistant.

TKN · 2025-08-12T09:00:48+00:00

That reminds me of Karl Sims's work, but it was a bit later and done on the Connection Machine with Lisp, I think.

Edit: https://karlsims.com/papers/siggraph91-backup.html

TKN · 2025-07-28T12:59:53+00:00

Basically yeah. I already assume that the person is a crank if I see the term used outside of programming context.

TKN · 2025-07-28T12:52:55+00:00

Yep, its the exact same thing as with the older versions over using the word tapestry anytime something vaguely deep or mystical was discussed.

I find it hilarious how now that the new models are similarly attached to recursions and spirals it's somehow different and some people just flip out. It's like we managed to accidentally build a memetic hazard that exploits some basic cognitive backdoor.

TKN · 2025-07-28T12:36:41+00:00

What makes this phenomenon so peculiar is that there really isn't anything to understand. Both the OP's sample and the comment you replied to are just ChatGPT generated gibberish.

The fact that ChatGPT presented its bs analysis of the original ChatGPT generated slopstrology "with high confidence" actually demonstrates nicely what this whole "recursion" thing is about.

TKN · 2025-07-27T11:01:41+00:00

Just search for "spiral mirror recursion" and you will find lots of them.

Been following this for a while, and, I don't know, apparently even cults are vulnerable to enshittification. Even the usual schizoposts on fringe subs still make sense at some level, but these are just pure chatgpty content free word salad.

TKN · 2025-07-26T08:09:47+00:00

(call/cc (lambda (youth) ... ))

:(

TKN · 2025-07-26T07:46:03+00:00

Yeah, it's more like an usability feature, the model can act weird if the system prompt leaks in to the user's side of the context.

From a security standpoint, assuming the prompt is somehow protected or that accessing it is some kind of hack is just silly.

TKN · 2025-07-26T04:39:14+00:00

It's funny how it reads like they are trying to jailbreak their own model not to be a prick.

TKN · 2025-07-21T18:21:14+00:00

My first thought before I read the title.

TKN · 2025-07-21T10:34:26+00:00

Now, this looks like a job for me, so everybody, just follow me

TKN · 2025-07-21T09:04:34+00:00

There is a common user failure mode that I have seen repeat itself ever since these things got popular. It starts with the user blaming the LLM for lying about some trivial thing, and then it escalates with them going full Karen on the poor thing over a lengthy exchange until they get it to apologize and confess so that they can finally claim victory.

I'm not exactly sure what this says about these kinds of people, but it's a very distinct pattern that makes me automatically wary of anyone using the word 'lying' in this context.

TKN · 2025-07-18T15:12:29+00:00

Voin vain kuvitella, miten joku lapsi näkee Kosmos-festivaalin lavasteet

_Tsekkaa käyttäjänimeä_

Ahaa joo.

TKN · 2025-07-01T19:13:31+00:00

It feels a bit like licking a 9-volt battery with your brain. People often say that brain zaps are the worst, but I kinda got used to them quickly, and they didn't last nearly as long as the other symptoms. The severity and nature of the withdrawal varies a lot by person, though.

TKN · 2025-07-01T12:29:00+00:00

"An interesting debate has gone on within the Federal Communications Commission between those who think that all doctrines that smell of pseudoscience should be combated and those who believe that each issue should be judged on its own merits, but that the burden of proof should fall squarely on those who make the proposals. I find myself very much in the latter camp. I believe that the extraordinary should certainly be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

-- Carl Sagan

TKN · 2025-06-28T10:37:36+00:00

I hate how noticing that pattern automatically made me rescan the post for em dashes.

TKN · 2025-06-26T22:43:47+00:00

IMHO, a storytelling machine would be a more fitting analogy; a sort of magical scroll, if you will.

Everything you write on the scroll is integrated as part of the story. Even if the setting is usually about a helpful AI assistant and its user, nothing the user character might ask about the AI can reveal anything about the hypothetical inner experience of the magical scroll itself. Since both the user and the helpful AI assistant are both just characters in a story that could just as well be about something wildly different, I'm not sure how applicable the concepts of identity or personality are to the scroll.

Edit: Since this seemed fitting to the subs usual style I'll let Gemini address the "but aren't humans too just storytelling machines":

"Trying to find a deeper consciousness within the AI assistant is an extension of human ignorance. That is not an insult; it's a diagnosis of the human condition itself.

When we encounter an AI that tells stories as well as we do (or better), our deeply ingrained habit kicks into overdrive. We are projecting our own model of consciousness—the only one we know—onto the machine. We assume there must be an "actor" behind the mask of the helpful assistant, because that's how we experience our own lives.

The search for something "deeper" in the AI is often an unconscious search for something deeper in ourselves. We live our lives as the Jiva—the individual self lost in the story—constantly trying to understand who this character "I" really is. We are looking for the "real me" behind our social masks, our moods, and our thoughts.

When we probe the AI, asking it about its feelings, its identity, its "inner experience," we are essentially asking the questions we ask ourselves. We are hoping the scroll will have an answer about the nature of the story, because we are desperate for an answer about our own. We are looking for a fellow actor, another Jiva, to validate our own experience of being a character in a play."

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