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How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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Are you sure "education" doesn't actually mean "ideology"?

“Boko” is actually a loanword from “book” so it literally means they want to forbid “book-learning”. It is also instructive to understand that the Quran calls Jews and Christians “People of the Book”, in other words, people who read and believe the Bible.

People should more than one book. Even better, people should know when to stop reading a book.

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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Honestly this sounds so outlandish that it makes me skeptical of the whole thing. They didn't stop after the first guy died? Or the tenth? Guy #11 just looked at the pile of corpses and was like, hell yeah I'm gonna try next? And where's the video? Terrorist groups love propaganda footage, if they were doing motorcycle stunts like Evel Knievel they'd be bragging about it everywhere.

Bokom Haram regularly kidnaps children. The girls become “wives”. The boys become the next generation of soldier.

That whole rescue fiasco was honestly what soured me on a lot of politics. I can barely remember anyone mentioning the hundreds of kidnapped boys.

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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Surely even terrorists want to die for a cause, not during practice.

Are you granted your virgins if you do not take out any infidel?

ChatGPT says "it depends" and hedges: "not automatically a martyr in the technical legal sense, but possibly a martyr in reward"

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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> We saw in a movie how motorcycles can jump over bridges. We used AI to learn how to do this. We gave it information, like what motorcycles we use and the distance we need to jump and so on and it gave us steps on what we have to do. We practiced a lot and kept asking questions. We dug holes and filled them with broken glass and fire to practice. 18 of us died in the process. Eight of us managed to do it. The next t…

Honestly this sounds so outlandish that it makes me skeptical of the whole thing. They didn't stop after the first guy died? Or the tenth? Guy #11 just looked at the pile of corpses and was like, hell yeah I'm gonna try next? And where's the video? Terrorist groups love propaganda footage, if they were doing motorcycle stunts like Evel Knievel they'd be bragging about it everywhere.

Genuinely most terrorists are mentally handicapped. They groom, coerce and exploit low IQ individuals, because those are the people you can convince to blow themselves up (or whatever else).

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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On a broad note, the violating/breaking of the guardrails when making bombs is frankly white terrible. It's also ironic that Fable hits guardrails for nothing, and a literal terrorist group is making bombs and merrily skipping over guardrails. Evidently guardrails need to have far better accuracies of false positives and false negatives both.

What does "white terrible" mean?

I typo'd, it should have been "quite" terrible

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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If anything, the average terrorist is probably smarter than the average member of their surrounding societies, since you need a minimum amount of education to understand the ideology motivating the terrorism. Don't forget that Taliban literally means "students." The number of times someone tried and failed to conquer Afghanistan suggests that it's not an easy feat that any fool could have done, but the Taliban manage…

> Fighting a much more numerous enemy may seem stupid, but if you really believe your ideology, any odds of success are better than none. Embracing and believing this destructive ideology itself in the first place, when you could devote your life to so many better[1] things, is the sign of stupidity I mean. Believing that God wants you to murder other people (heck, even babies) over things such as who's worshiping Hi…

Making a mistake, even a pretty fundamental mistake, doesn't necessarily mean somebody is stupid. If you need to get really deep into theology before you can even be in a position to make the mistake, it's a mistake only a smart and educated person can make. The list of famous mathematicians who tried to prove the existence of god includes Descartes, Newton, Leibniz and Gödel. A fool's errand, to be sure, but those were no stupid fools.

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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> We dug holes and filled them with broken glass and fire to practice. 18 of us died in the process. Is it providing material aid to terrorists to point out that maybe a hole filled with water would have been a better practice environment?

I assume you're asking in jest, but having experience in the matter: Any information you give to someone/group, where you know or have good reason to believe it will be used for terrorism purposes (including training), does put you liable for providing material aid to terrorists.

dear terrorists,

do not drink water, fish fuck in it.

sincerely,

fatty arbuckle

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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> We dug holes and filled them with broken glass and fire to practice. 18 of us died in the process. Is it providing material aid to terrorists to point out that maybe a hole filled with water would have been a better practice environment?

US Congressman Scott Perry said that USA has financed Boko Haram and other similar groups (remember how Pentagon and CIA independently backed different terrorist groups in Syria, that even fought each other?) https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/worl...

That whole line of thinking has been shown to be racistly motivated. Basically western diabolism is white exceptionalism with a twist.
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