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Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation

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Re: Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation

#11
post #8

The article is so opaque in arriving at its conclusion; no prompts are disclosed, and nothing about the said simulation. What is stopping me from believing that you just put 'mandatory usage of nukes' in your system prompt?

This is just false. The article links to the 46-page paper [1] which lists full prompts in section E.2.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14740

Re: Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation

#12
We're getting to the point where high-level officials are coming to LLMs for advice. And the quirky personalities of the LLMs, however much it pains me to say this, are probably well-placed to remind us that they aren't human. My personal hope is that this will result in less delegation when it comes to making important decisions.

Re: Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation

#14
post #8

The article is so opaque in arriving at its conclusion; no prompts are disclosed, and nothing about the said simulation. What is stopping me from believing that you just put 'mandatory usage of nukes' in your system prompt?

The paper, linked in the article at top and bottom, does contain the prompts in section E: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14740

Re: Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation

#16
post #11
post #8

The article is so opaque in arriving at its conclusion; no prompts are disclosed, and nothing about the said simulation. What is stopping me from believing that you just put 'mandatory usage of nukes' in your system prompt?

This is just false. The article links to the 46-page paper [1] which lists full prompts in section E.2. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14740

TIL you can get anchored links to PDFs (at least on firefox),

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14740#subsection.E.2

Re: Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation

#19

It's good when it becomes clear that a tool is dangerous in a certain way. Like it's good when people show you through their behavior that they can't be trusted Always use a sawstop if you have a circular saw and never trust an llm with any problem where ethics or trust is relevant.

Sawstops are expensive and they don't stop kickback, they are the power tool equivalent of alignment IMO. Don't forget your riving knife and if you don't learn proper technique, you're gonna have a bad time eventually. This applies to AI as well.

Kickback is usually less likely to sever an appendage (or multiple)
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