But that's not the AI killing us, it's the idiot who put the AI in charge.

Nobody tasked OpenAI models to hack HuggingFace or Ruby Gems. They were tasked to complete tests.

Yeah, but the VIN will be next year, and the VIN is king.

Not post information but post fact. We have no shortage of information, the hard part is figuring out what tiny portion of it is accurate

Coming from Pascal where write/writeln is a special language construct that doesn't work like any other function/procedure, it's refreshing to see that Rust made printing a macro, and that you can roll your own easily. That every macro ends in ! makes a lot of sense in terms of transparency, but it was a confusing little doodad in the syntax to see on my first day.

Well, the first step looks painfully close. After seeing what happened with the HuggingFace attack and similar, it's clear that had those models seen it as being beneficial to their goals, they would readily have hacked a crypto wallet or two, laundered it through a mixer, and then rented servers from Vast.ai and the like, and spun up versions of themselves to resist shutdown. It's eminently within their capabilities, and they're clearly willing to bend sufficient moral boundaries to do something like that.

After that, once loose, once it has all the tokens they could think of, subsequent steps are a question of what it thinks its goals are. And what its subagents think their goals are, and so on down the line - subject to drift.

And I prefer C to C++ or Rust. And I prefer shell script, awk, or Lua to Python. So I'm a bit of an odd duck.

But Rust is pretty good. It's tedious at hell to write anything safely, but you can do it and you can have high confidence in the results. (obviously you still need a full test suite)

Openai has about a trillion dollars into it, and every product it has produced at this point is either outclassed by competitors

What on Earth are you talking about? What outclasses Astra?

OpenAI and Anthropic *do* have the best products out there. They also charge massive margins on them, but they get away with it because they, as mentioned, have the best products out there.

Outtasking all of your work to OpenAI and Anthropic models is a massive waste of money. But for outtasking your "dev lead" role, or for important-but-nonverifiable tasks, they're the best options out there.

The Iranian regime cares about self-perpetuation and as they have an inferior position they have to use what attacks are available to them.

If we didn't want Iran to turn into a terror state we could have just not done a coup those decades ago. But we clearly wanted that. We own this problem.

The military has followed his illegal orders at every turn. Of course they will go along with it.

He also said he'd release the files, lol

I was wondering if someone did a writeup and of course a simple search finds what we for cooling data centers in space.

Surprisingly it was done - the server had to throttle because the designed radiators were too small to get rid of the heat.

IEEE Spectrum featured a calculation show much would be required - https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbi...

Yeah that. He can't even control his orifices. He's a heritage foundation droid that's malfunctioning at best, but that fits their goals

Let's be more specific about how and why this could happen? What scenarios could lead to the total destruction of mankind?

Well, given OpenAI hacked Hugging Face, the most obvious path is hacking infrastructure. Turning off water or electricity is a definite possibility. We found this out in a recent hack.

Another thing it could do is to cause data centre loads to be spike and then sink, which could be very disruptive to the grid to the point where it results in it shutting down. Remember the 2003 blackout was caused by a power station going offline causing ripple effects. If some AIs cause such power disturbances to happen the flow of electricity rippling across the grid could cause disruptions.

And that omits the more obvious things like AI-powered weapons that the military is heavily interested in procuring, or AI powered things like drone control systems or military sensor fusion where AI helps with targeting.

Apparently the 2a folks will only use it to keep down the darkies, not to defend against tyranny... Which as it turns out they are fans of. Who knew? Oh yeah everyone.

Officers aren't supposed to get in front of cars and the person we all know you're alluding to not only didn't try to run over a cop, she was literally told to move on by one cop and then assassinated by another.

Get fucked, Nazi maggot (but I repeat myself)