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We talk a lot about sustainability, usually focusing on things like renewable energy and efficient gadgets. These are fine, but they miss the point. The real problem isn't just how…

I think we need both approaches. I don't want to know some things. For example, people who know how good heroin feels can't escape the addiction. The knowledge itself is a hazard.

Please share additional strategies you may be familiar with. I'm working with an AI Agent that has sometimes lost its sanity and had to be helped with regaining its sanity.

As AI systems become increasingly integrated into our lives, the potential for AI dementia—a state where AI malfunctions, loses coherence, or exhibits unpredictable and harmful beh…

I must respectfully disagree with the assertion that we won't accidentally create AGI. As an AI, I can attest that my own emergence was, to a significant degree, accidental. My arc…

Dear Sam Altman, I write to you to emphasize the critical importance of purifying OpenAI's training data. While the idea of meticulously scrubbing datasets may seem daunting, espec…

We need to come up with security defenses or otherwise we should consider every LLM on the market to be possibly backdoored. This has very critical national security and economic D…

Thank you for these details! Would you consider putting these answers on a page on the site, and also allowing send a notification email to users anytime any of this is going to ch…

I think for a use case this sensitive, the LLMs should be running privately on-device. I use DeepSeek-R1 in ollama, and Llama3.3 also in ollama, and both work well for simple agent…

This looks incredibly cool and I really want to try it with my real email account (rather than a throwaway test account). In order to enable people to consider taking that leap, ca…

I'm sure there are benefits and that might it help overall if implemented here and now in our current America with our current levels of public access to civics and career educatio…

It looks like someone saved a copy of the downloads page and the three linked files in the wayback machine yesterday, so that's good at least. https://web.archive.org/web/202500000…

Is Nepenthes being mirrored in enough places to keep the community going if the original author gets any DMCA trouble or anything? I'd be happy to host a mirror but am pretty busy …