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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. If youāre wondering why this went up late, I was doing other shit)
(EDIT: Changed ā29th Februaryā to ā1st Marchā - its not a leap year)
404 Media: Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
This is very serious computing and we must all take it very seriously.
this is like the fourth time an AI agent has completely deleted something important (I remember an article about an AI deleting all of a scientistsās research) How many more times does it have to happen before people stop using AI to look after something important???
The promptfondlers did it, they made a computer which doesnāt do what you tell it to do
A computer that both does what you donāt tell it to do and doesnāt do what you tell it to do. I didnāt think we could do it but - I tell you what - itās been done.
Maybe I should apply to be a director of AI safety at Meta. I know one safety measure that works: donāt use AI.
What, Ctrl-C wouldnāt work? kill -9?
You assume these people installing experimental non deterministic software on their computer would know how to purge a process (or, you know, not to hook up vibe coded slop to their inbox) but here we are. To get a director job in a big company, the main thing you need is an MBA, a willingness to do whatever the CEO asks of you and either a sociopathy or psychopathy diagnosis (sorry for the repetition, I know I already said MBA). Technical skills ānice to haveā
Before they could ask grok how to stop a process it was already too late.
Not that it mattered as Groks advice to become the reichschancellor actually didnt fix this problem.