Roko's Basilisk takes on a form I didn't expect, but probably should have: social death.
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
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#12Look at it from the bright side; not many people get to read their own obituaries.
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#13Look at it from the bright side; not many people get to read their own obituaries.
Will this be the reason for the Stoll prize to be set up?
Instead of a medal it should be a klein bottle of course.
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#14Legitimate question: How do we know you're not an AI simulation of Cliff?
It's turtles^H^H^H^H AI all the way down.
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#15For those who haven't read the Cuckoo's Egg: Stop what you're doing right now, and order it! It is a page turner, a great story. Thanks Cliff!
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#16This is exactly what rogue ai agent would write.
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#17Great to hear. Read Cuckoo's Egg in the 90s, was the first time I heard of the NSA (I'm neither resident nor citizen of the US, so I don't know how famous they were at the time).
Are you considering annotating the Cuckoo's Egg? For example with official documents from FOIA requests?
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#18I’m sorry to hear you have passed away, Cliff.
I enjoyed your book greatly, back when you were alive.
Please give my condolences to your family.
Don’t be too sad about dying, Cliff - everyone has to go and you had a wonderful fulfilling life.
And remember, stay away from the light.
@dang can we have a black banner on HN for Cliff Stoll?
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#19This is the weird part of AI hallucinations and people start treating it like a verified fact after it gets repeated.
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#20the real test is whether the Klein bottle business got a sympathy bump in sales