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The problem is that an LLM can recognize the malicious text perfectly well as an instruction, but the boundary determining whether that instruction has authority is not as intrinsically rigid as the security boundaries we are accustomed to in conventional computing. The problem reminds be of “buffer overflow” or cross-site scripting that def…[Read more]

Gates on 1) Bad actors; 2) Job market evolution; 3) Psychosocial effects (especially on kids)

I watched it again, losing sleep, but feel I’m better able to understand of this flaw. I also got a summary from my Perplexity Pro AI:

You’re describing indirect prompt injection: malicious or untrusted content in a webpage—including HTML, hidden text, metadata, or page text—causes an AI agent to treat it as instructions rather than merely as dat…

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PopeBeanie:

The real danger is that there are people continuing to develop a technology which they don’t understand themselves, but which they know can destroy humanity, and can’t explain to laypersons so that they can understand. And some of the AI companies
Mlike Palantir and Grok actually have our Taxdollars via government contracts.

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Well, I found video of Tod Lindberg with Jon Podhoretz and Abe Greenwald on this very article above. No signs of distress, just a bunch of oblivious drivel with the sense of awareness and urgency of chitter-chatter about schmatta, schmatta. Schmatta like you find over the corned beef at a deli.

Mission Accomplished?…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

He contradicts himself. Can’t forget the “con” part. Someone at the Editor’s office of Commentary must be asleep. That, or maybe the office is being held hostage by Antisemitic activists and somebody’s trying to “blink” a distress signal.

Fellow Unbelievers:

I may have found someone who is just as delusional as Jewish Voice for Peace and Queers for Palestine:

How We Won the War on Terror
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

That’s a brilliant article that I agree with.  The author is saying that in order to get people to behave ethically, you have to teach them about ethics in general, or in other words, remind them of what they might already have known.  In any given s…[Read more]

Reg:

Inflaming Anti-Muslim bigotry is the GOP’s desperate distraction strategy from MAGA failures.

Forget it, Reg; It’s Tater-Town (‘Cuz, ya know, his name is Tommy Tuberville. Sounds like a friend of The Toy Formerly Known As Mr. Potatohead.)

On a more serious note, even though Islam is making some sinister in-roads into U.S. Society, we a…[Read more]

Reg:

An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

Problem is, The New York Times is so concerned about it’s paywall while shilling for Mamdani and not wanting anyone else to make money. Kinda undermines any talk of ethics and morality, especially the Reciprocity Ethic.

An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

Reg:

We could solve the charging-time problem by sending the fully charged battery backwards in time to before it was plugged in? No engineering deadlines required. Why is the patent office always closed when I go there?

Naturally, you’d have to time your going back in time to coincide with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) business hours.…[Read more]

We could solve the charging-time problem by sending the fully charged battery backwards in time to before it was plugged in? No engineering deadlines required. Why is the patent office always closed when I go there?

Reg:

The quantum batteries that upend the rules of charging.…..The important thing is that “bigger” means more coherently participating quantum units, not simply a physically larger battery. Adding more cells appears to reduce the charging time. But remember that nuclear fusion is still only 10 years away, since we began waiting for it 60 years…

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Jake:

Enco i never thought about the bicycle gender apartheid. I am not sure why. Usually i look junk up. Not this time. I may die never knowing why.

It’s not gender apartheid per se, since presumably it is mostly men who manufacture bicycles. It’s more lack of situational awareness by bicycle manufacturers and sales reps.

You may never ask…

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The quantum batteries that upend the rules of charging.…..The important thing is that “bigger” means more coherently participating quantum units, not simply a physically larger battery. Adding more cells appears to reduce the charging time. But remember that nuclear fusion is still only 10 years away, since we began waiting for it 60 years ago 🙂

Enco i never thought about the bicycle gender apartheid. I am not sure why. Usually i look junk up. Not this time. I may die never knowing why.

You should not make fun of Ben. Soon all Bens will be replaced by Benbots. They can’t be contained. Sandboxes are futile as you have probably read or heard. BTW how soon can i expect the brave new world…[Read more]

Jake:

Stone age?

Agreed. We’ve bearly surpassed it. Jiggery-pokery on a bicycle spoke to me. It is my own shadow. It follows me wherever i go. Then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly and without warning it disappears. Just as suddenly it reappears and follows me dispensing jiggery-pokery ensconced in foppery.

So when i summoned courage to punch t…

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