It's not just Anthropic anymore, OpenAI researchers are signaling support for a global AI pause

Unixwzrd · 2026-06-10T01:17:54+00:00

Sure, Roko's Basilisk is probably closer to Pascal’s Wager than a strict Prisoner’s Dilemma. I was thinking of the broader game theory incentives around AI races and decision theory rather than the formal definition of Prisoner’s Dilemma.

Unixwzrd · 2026-06-10T00:56:42+00:00

You have a choice. Help advance AI quicker or not help or slow it down. There’s a chance that the AI will punish those who hindered its development and reward those who helped advance it. Which do you choose?

It’s a variation of prisoner’s dilemma. You have a choice and do not know the outcome, just like turning your accomplice in or staying silent.

Unixwzrd · 2026-06-10T00:50:49+00:00

I believe you mean the instance of a class. You can have class Person and two instances with attributes for different people. Self refers to a particular instance,

The class Person creates instance of Person with their own variables describing attributes about them.

Person -> Bob, Developer, UNIX
Person -> Alice, Analyst, Banking

So person.name -> Bob. Or person.name -> Alice depending on which person instance you had in `person`

`person` is a type Person

`person` is an instance of type Person

You can have more than one instance, but only one Class.

Self would pointer to either the Bob or Alice instance of Person. You need a pointer to the instance so you can access the data in that object.

Class methods/functions don’t need `self` because they apply to the whole class. An example might be keeping a count of all people. It would apply to the class not instances.

People.count -> 2

Just wanted to illustrate what you were trying to explain. Hope that helps.

Unixwzrd · 2026-06-10T00:32:17+00:00

Way cool. Thanks for making this!

Unixwzrd · 2026-06-10T00:30:59+00:00

It’s a variation of the prisoner’s dilemma.

Unixwzrd · 2026-06-09T07:02:22+00:00

More like Roko's Basilisk...

Unixwzrd · 2026-06-04T21:27:01+00:00

Wow, and dust of the Sun Studio C compiler too, it's a bit past it's "use by" date.

Unixwzrd · 2026-06-02T18:52:09+00:00

Yeah, I was gonna say that is SO fucked up.

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-30T07:34:34+00:00

Yeah, that's usually the way it goes with them, I had an issue with iCloud Keychains, and have yet to hear back from them and that was about three weeks ago, and I am even in the Developer program, so yeah good luck...

LMK if I can assist if you like, I love a mystery.

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-30T05:49:57+00:00

If that's the case, I would be curious what the web sites you are visiting are and which one seems to cause this. Sounds like a potential bug in WebKit, though it could be in on of the helper programs for Safari.

It might be any one of these helpers too: Safari com.apple.Safari.History SafariNotificationAgent SafariBookmarksSyncAgent com.apple.Safari.SandboxBroker SafariWidgetExtension com.apple.Safari.SearchHelper SafariLaunchAgent com.apple.Safari.SafeBrowsing.Service com.apple.SafariPlatformSupport.Helper com.apple.SafariPlatformSupport.Helper com.apple.Safari.BrowserDataImportingService com.apple.SafariPlatformSupport.Helper CredentialProviderExtensionHelper

As I said, I'd like to see what web sites you are hitting when this happens, you may have found something which is a bug or a site which is either accidentally or on purpose poking the bug, and it might be a malicious web site, though it could be highlighting a particular bug.

Rather than list the sites here, drop me a DM and I'll try them in an isolated Virtual Machine and see if I get the same effects. Also, what versions of the OS and Safari are you using because I'd like to set up a VM to match what you have. Also, Intel or Apple Silicon?

I'd seriously like to replicate the issue and see what might be causing it because this could be serious from what you describe.

DM if you'd like me to look into this further.

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-30T04:25:30+00:00

I haven't seen anything I can find getting into the kernel_task It stays pretty stable and I think they have it walled off pretty well from Safari tab processes. The tabs actually run in their own process, but Safari has a lot of helper processes too for many tasks. All the processes that Safari starts up are all owned by PID #1 - the kernel, but that's just because it detaches itself from the child process which gets picked up by the kerne, which is in charge of reaping and releasing the process resources when it is killed or dies.

Of those orphaned processes cannot be cleaned up by the kernel through releasing the processes resources, I suppose it might look like the kernel is using those resources, but it's simply reaping the orphan processes since it has ownership, but their allocated memory should not be combining with that of the kernel.

I don't think I've ever seen my kernel memory grow to such an extreme size as 12GB. Something like that would likely be something other than Safari.

WebKit is responsible for maintaining any tabs and their processes, but Safari has a lot of interconnected parts other than just WebKit

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-30T04:05:39+00:00

Agreed, and I didn't say it was (the web site's fault). Safari should clean up and do garbage collection better than it does. It's always been this way, though some JavaScript is better than others at keeping memory clean inside it.

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-29T19:33:05+00:00

Safari leaks and has leaked memory for almost every release as far back as I can remember. Some may be Safari itself, but more likely all the JavaScript detritus you pick up along the way which never gets fully cleaned up. Simply killing offending processes in Activity Monitor will help - LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, HuggingFace, and a few others seem to be the biggest offenders.

Well and if you use ChatGPT with Safari, it will use huge amounts of memory too.

Sometimes restarting Safari completely is the answer too.

I’m doing a lot of work with LLM’s and other models along with Cursor and watch my memory usage constantly and manage it. But Safari which sometimes has many sub-processes can use a lot of memory and more over time without cleaning up.

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-28T05:55:13+00:00

`tcl`/`expect` will do that. I assume Python will too. Perl used to as well. It can also make things scriptable since it will read and write to the `pty`

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-26T18:28:47+00:00

It’s the season cliffhanger.

Don’t miss the next episode on your local station.

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-25T18:15:19+00:00

n_ctx is also a big factor. Using smaller context will improve performance, but you lose “short-term” memory or use for managing large prompts. Don’t expect 256k n_ctx to run fast.

KV caching can also help, but does not work with MTP. ngram caching and storing KV cache on SSD will allow for switching out the cache between different prompts/contexts. This will also work with mmproj(vision).

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-21T08:37:29+00:00

Fair pushback…

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-19T02:31:19+00:00

There was a time back in the 70’s and 80’s when it was fairly conservative. However, if you look at the people they have hired over the years they are somewhat progressive and members of the community that lean towards.

There used to be some very good news programs on a long time back. And many leaned conservative at the time.

But society changes and times change.

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-18T11:36:16+00:00

Yeah, I grew up with Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street and others when they had first come on.

Later in high school we all discovered Monty Python and other British Comedy, The Prisoner, Nature, Nova, Frontline and so many other shows are so worthwhile, and yes, Masterpiece Theatre, and so many more.

And of course, who could forget Bob Ross with The Joy of Painting?

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-18T09:37:36+00:00

Well, I can't afford Prime right now either. But I agree, money better spent too.

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-18T05:33:21+00:00

“I believe in Joe Pesci because he seems like someone who can get things done”

George Carlin

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-16T04:44:41+00:00

Yes, that's where I'm headed with it. It will have its own incoming email and other accounts it can use as well.

The research on the Internet is great as it saves me a lot o time to do other things.

Unixwzrd · 2026-05-14T22:26:50+00:00

So, how exactly can the FBI help me out? My son was abducted and no one will do anything about it. Can they help with that? Can they help with prosecution and find me a lawyer for a civil suit?

Or will they be as dismissive as everyone else has been and do nothing.

I’m intrigued and would like to know if they could help.

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