it feels like we have collective amnesia. Now we're in the sixth or eighth cycle of this — and shouldn't we be asking questions
In the sixth or eighth cycle, it's not amnesia, it's [bureaucrats|politicians|administrators|someoneWithPower] benefiting in some way.
Sometimes these schools actually get grant money, and then the benefit is obvious. I assume that's not always the case, though.
after hearing a public statement made by someone on the Iranian side of the JCPOA they were always going for a nuke
Do you have a citation for that?
Trump knows what he's doing is extremely unpopular and so did a republicans.
He's waiting until after midterms to do the unpopular stuff. November and December are going to have surprises.
What kind of surprise? I only know one thing: the cake is a lie.
The Biden administration had complete power and control over releasing the Epstein files on their watch.
Biden is gone from office and never coming back.
You'll notice we "liberated" Venezuela's oil reserves for absolutely no goddamned reason, shortly before we started a war with Iran for absolutely no goddamned reason.
Both of those countries had sweetheart deals to sell oil to China.
How is the world better off now than it was before this war started?
We're now one click away from WW3.
Because who would not be trying to parlay their association with a multi-billion dollar company into a next career step or second career?
All of those people are or were drawing salaries that would make most of us blush. They want to continue doing that. The reality is they are not adding value and their know it. They are pontificating about what machines might do with large matrices of numbers, tokenizaiton, attention algorithms, and fancy looping constructs over it all. You can get that free on Slashdot!
fundamentally their options are -
1. Snow some other organization, commercial, political, etc into believing they were not being taken seriously but are really necessary and they should hire and pay them for version 15 of their safety whitepaper informed mostly by 1960s sci-fi tinged with 1990s political correctness.
2. Convince the public the world is going to end, like every cult leader before them; so they can do the paid speaking circuit or write some sci-fi novels of their own leverging the fact their names are already in print to rise above the noise and get past the mail room at McMillan.
3. Get a real job actually making something for 1/4 the pay, or less.
It is not hard to see hard that even if these are very smart, very successful people by any measure. Probably smarter than me, they are still "failing upward." If they were really all that they'd have been on the teams building the things, not occupying some position created entirely for the sake projecting an image of corporate responsibility. I doubt Durrant had anyone at Union Pacific churning out copy on the potential loss of cultural distinctiveness that might result if a Transcontinental rail line is completed, but he would have if he'd faced a public that had become preoccupied as we are today with the latest jobs report. He also would have found a reason to dismiss, drive them quit, or otherwise sideline them the INSTANT their recommendations stood in the way of the actual business activity as he saw it; just exactly as Si Valley has done.
You are right that problem of sandboxing an agentic system will still giving it access to outside information even by proxy is actually hard.
What bothers me is; these are smart guys who should understand that. They are building a testing these things at scale. I would *think* they would be very interested in questions like "hmm why does the system keep making the same http request over and over..."
Existing SIEM-like tools should be spotting and flagging that top level behavior all day long. That ought to trigger various looks in the to the agent-to-agent message layers, and agent-model-loop. While the way they press releases read nobody every looked at it except from the agent message direction. Which is just beyond credibility. In the case of some the 'hacking events' I really can't imagine ordinary network monitoring did not spot some of the very noisy side-channels and strange seemingly off target-off task activity early. I remain of the opinion i was ignored and almost had to be if not quite deliberately so...done with a level of intentional ignorance, kinda like those mid 2000s VPN services that 'kept no logs' because 'your privacy' but we all know they knew a not in significant part of their customer base was using it for abusive activities like sweeping for open SMPT relays to SPAM thru..
There simply had to have been a lot of fingers jabbed in ear canals, and signing 'la lal la' at OpenAI and Anthropic over the past couple years.
Engineers need to remember that time exists.
You have three months to teach a teen how to control a robot with a microcontroller.
OK, how much of that do you budget to CS and assembly?
Month 1: Architecture and data structures? You have 18 40 minute periods and maybe homework assignments.
Half of the class won't even gain mastery in that time. By time your class is over they will still be having memory management problems.
So then you've failed to achieve the goal.
There are engineers who remember that time exists and for the rest we have engineering managers. Not ideal, just how it is.
To be sure engineering schools are doing a bad job at teaching reality. Even in a dx/dr environment, it's so weird.
This is one of the things I found I really don't like working with recent qwen models.
If you read thru the reasoning. It will write stuff like, "I was asked to
I told you not to do anything other than read files under
These things have almost arrived at a state, I'd call "malicious compliance as a service." Which I do believe to be a training problem not a fundamental technology problem.
10 to the minus 6th power mouthwashes = 1 Microscope
