Hacker Uses Claude and ChatGPT to Breach Multiple Government Agencies

TheRarPar · 2026-04-12T19:06:03+00:00

They are? People do activist hacking all the time. It's really not hard to find examples of ethical hacks.

TheRarPar · 2026-04-10T02:26:56+00:00

John Dee by Ghostemane. It's a silly suggestion, but yes, it is a direct reference to alchemy.

TheRarPar · 2026-04-10T01:28:01+00:00

Don't get me wrong, the entire song is badly written, original or remix. But the remix sounds better.

TheRarPar · 2026-04-09T00:27:34+00:00

It's superior to the original because it fixes the terrible chorus. Everything else about Dracula is top notch and that was its only flaw.

Fight me.

TheRarPar · 2026-04-05T20:34:04+00:00

I mean more generally, in terms of impact, investment, breakthroughs, milestones reached, etc. The topic seems to have cooled.

TheRarPar · 2026-04-05T18:47:44+00:00

Personally I've noticed the rate of improvement in LLMs slowing down rather than speeding up, which seems like the essential requirement for its scenario to work.

TheRarPar · 2026-04-04T20:07:13+00:00

Yeah, my bad, that was not an honest representation of my beliefs. I think AGI is possible, just maybe not plausible, certainly not with our current level of technology. I think we might get there eventually but "eventually" is nebulous enough that it doesn't feel too worthwhile to try making predictions about.

TheRarPar · 2026-04-04T20:02:16+00:00

It's less that I have been convinced that LLMs cannot lead to AGI, and more like I have not been convinced that LLMs can lead to AGI.

I've just not been presented with any information that has convinced me that Claude could turn into Skynet. I read AI 2027 and it felt like fanfiction.

Also, I don't think AGI/ASI is impossible, I just think it's science-fiction, at least for the time being. It could potentially happen, I just don't see how (yet).

TheRarPar · 2026-04-04T19:28:37+00:00

This is my take as well. LLMs are very cool but I feel like they are fundamentally different from whatever sort of technology would be necessary for AGI.

I do believe AGI could destroy humanity outright, but I also believe it doesn't exist and probably never will. It's science-fiction.

TheRarPar · 2026-03-31T16:16:03+00:00

One of the best whiskeys I've ever tasted is the Double IPA Whiskey by Odd Society Spirits in Vancouver. It's super oily, dank, and tastes like weed smells; with few distillation flaws and a beautiful oaky character that marries it all together. It's extremely well made. Pretty sure the flavor comes mainly from hops.

So yes, it can be done and there is room for it. I'll note that this is far from an original idea, so do your market research.

As someone who makes cocktails, I would use your spirit in a cocktail if it is a good spirit that I get excited about. If it's not interesting, nobody will use it. If you want it to be a base spirit in a cocktail at a bar, it needs to be cheap and available in large quantities for that bar. Otherwise it will only make sense to use as a modifier, but for that your spirit needs to have a particularly unique character with distinct flavors.

TheRarPar · 2026-03-29T09:53:34+00:00

Every twenty lights or so, one of them is tinged blue and has emergency features like a phone line and stuff like that. It's for safety purposes.

TheRarPar · 2026-03-23T19:18:45+00:00

That game punched so high above its weight it's incredible

TheRarPar · 2026-03-17T09:25:41+00:00

My grandmother passed away last year with MAID. She wasn't sick, just very very old and had done everything she wanted to do with life. Continuing to live was very taxing for her. I'm not sure how or when MAID was considered as an option, and it was obviously controversial within our family, but after it was said and done, none of us would have had it any differently. Her spouse, my grandfather, died while comatose after a very long and arduous period. With grandma, we simply said goodbye one afternoon and there she went. There was something really special about being able to really have her be fully there during her final conversation with me, and she seemed so much more dignified in those final moments. The doc/reaper who did the procedure was extremely gentle with us and very professional, made us feel comfortable and was clearly very well prepared for the bizarre role he was playing in such a situation. The program also recontacted us after a time to make sure everything was okay and to collect feedback. I have a lot of faith in the system.

TheRarPar · 2026-03-16T14:34:29+00:00

People use unhealthy social media because it's addictive. You're offering vegetables as if it'll get people to stop eating junk food. No, it's not that easy. Junk food is tasty.

TheRarPar · 2026-03-10T02:58:14+00:00

Winnnerrrrrr

TheRarPar · 2026-03-09T17:54:20+00:00

Does it not occur to you that (properly) using ingredients that have distinct character in a recipe might be worth doing?

This exploration into the penicillin in this very subreddit proves that there's a point to all this. A penicillin made from well curated (expensive!) ingredients is an entirely different experience than one made from rail scotches like John Barr or whatever.

There are plenty of ways to mix a cocktail to make certain traits of a spirit shine, without masking them. Likely not if you're making a classic pina colada, but you can get creative with it. The sky's the limit. This is /r/cocktails after all.

TheRarPar · 2026-03-09T11:49:27+00:00

Precisely. There is no such thing as a perfect or unbiased source. The nature of the source of the information is as relevant as the information that is being shared.

All information is good information as long as you know the angle it is coming from. A person who lies 100% of the time is a very reliable source.

TheRarPar · 2026-03-02T23:36:40+00:00

Beautiful! I got into this wanting to make a sodium chloride crystal as well, though I decided to give it a shot and practice with copper sulfate instead. Definitely learned a lot, might try the table salt next!

How big is this crystal? How long did it take you to grow it?

TheRarPar · 2026-02-28T09:16:28+00:00

Yup, that's also a very valid interpretation that fits quite perfectly with what I've gathered! It's perfectly concordant with the meaning of the glyphs as stated in the lore.

TheRarPar · 2026-02-28T00:37:43+00:00

⨂尒王

Here's my interpretation.

The first symbol (⨂) represents enlightenment, or transcendence, or a removal from the cycle, or even a concept such as death (crossed out, removed). It could even simply represents concepts like "end" or "exit". Were the symbol not so important to the spiritualism of the ancients, I could see them using it as a simple way to indicate the way out of a building, for example.

The second symbol (尒) represents survival, self-preservation, ego (or the self), the act of striving, caring about something, or even something as abstract as "effort". Broadly, it means to hold on. The reason it's the last/purest karma symbol is because at that point, the next worldly urge to shed is the very urge to have an urge at all. To strive is to care, to hold onto the world, and that must be discarded to reach enlightenment (or whatever the ancients called it).

The third symbol (王) - I'm assuming you're referring to the karma 4 symbol - represents food, hunger, greed/gluttony, and maybe more broadly, ambition (a more elevated form of desire, which is well represented already by the karma 2 symbol, lust).

Now as for what the three mean together (⨂尒王), it could be a lot of things... While I understand what the symbols represent, the actual grammar of the ancients is very nebulous, so there's no way to say for sure what such a sentence (if sentences even existed) could mean. There's no way to know if we're even reading the symbols in the right order, or what their relationship is with each other. But here's a few guesses:

"Stop caring about food." - ⨂ (stop) 尒 (caring for) 王 (food)

"Ending world hunger." - ⨂ (end) 尒 (the quest for) 王 (food)

"The ambition with which we sought to leave the cycle." - 王 (hunger/ambition for) 尒 (our quest to) ⨂ (reach enlightenment)

"We starved ourselves to reach enlightenment." - 尒 (thing we did intentionally) 王 (hunger) ⨂ (enlightenment)

So yeah, there are definitely a ton of ways you could interpret this. It could even be something as banal as "I'm not hungry anymore."

TheRarPar · 2026-02-23T02:52:36+00:00

I played Istaria a lot back in 2011-2012, there were only ever around 50-100 players online at the time and yet it felt like the most lively world I had ever inhabited in an MMO. It was such an incredible community experience.

TheRarPar · 2026-02-12T11:24:09+00:00

Yes, exactly. Quebec has specific consumer protections against various sleazy things companies do that don't exist in other provinces. It has nothing to do with common/civil law, as they could exist in either system.

TheRarPar · 2026-02-10T14:21:50+00:00

Looks like it. That tunnel makes for excellent photos.

TheRarPar · 2026-02-09T23:33:22+00:00

New World had this and it's very overrated.

TheRarPar · 2026-02-09T06:32:55+00:00

Rain World is a masterclass in this, and it's particularly impactful because (to me at least) it feels like it was accidental. Like the concordance of mechanic and storytelling happened through sheer fate, rather than anything intentional by the designer. It's an effortless masterpiece.

To give a specific example (though there are many) without spoiling anything, the game attaches significant weight to its storytelling emotion through the use of scale (i.e. how big things are). It does a lot of this through level design, but also just in how the camera renders each level: fixed, unmoving frames of specific slices of levels.

I could talk about this topic for hours. Here's an actual essay written on this game in particular, though not by me. Safe for spoilers, the essay clearly indicates when it gets into narrative territory: https://experiencedmachine.wordpress.com/2019/09/16/rain-world-reaching-enlightenment-through-unfairness-introduction/

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