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AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by ahartmetz »

pjc50 wrote: post #20

> I now work with governments around the world at the Tony Blair Institute, which means I spend a lot of time in rooms where people ask the same question: what can we actually trust these systems to do? Oh no - we're going to end up with the Starmerbot 3000. Now I've got the joke out of the way, there's at least four interesting lines of inquiry one could take with this blog post: - teaching the AI how to play Civili…

"Tony Blair Institute" fits right into the "x word horror" Xitter genre. Funded by Larry Ellison to boot!

Tony Blair is the guy who found success by making the UK's left-leaning party (much) more neoliberal and was promptly imitated by Gerhard Schröder in Germany doing basically the same thing. Schröder is also BFF with Putin.

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by mrmarket »

why have a blog if you're going to just use AI for everything? at that point, just do twitter threads or something. that way you can tweet out whatever you prompted the model with. if you're not suited for long-form writing that's fine, just use a medium that favors short-form writing.

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by soco »

sph wrote: post #34
fyredge wrote: post #11

There is something to be said about the qualia of LLM generated passages. Each individual sentence reads as a statement and every next statement a continuation of the previous one. This happened, then this happened... Ad infinitum. Before today, I could not explain to you why AI articles were so obvious to me, but I think I do now. There is no insight to be gleamed. Pre-LLM, authors generally had intention behind the…

> There is no insight to be gleamed. AI-generated articles are the intellectual equivalent of empty calories. I have just spent the last 10 minutes trying to figure out why someone decided to buy imgui.org, name-squatting an actual project, just to put a slop website on it mildly referencing the original project. It's not even trying to scam you. I keep wondering whether these people that keep polluting the internet…

I cannot tell what about domain squatting, but I've seen a "why" in seemingly innocuous Facebook groups about baking or such, which at the right time slowly transitioned to fake AI pictures and stories, and then to straight-out political propaganda. I'm talking Eastern Europe and russian "special operation" support propaganda. But a slop website won't have enough traffic to be worth such an action, so no idea.

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Post by smw »

jmyeet wrote: post #33

Computer game studios love player vs player ("pvp") games. Why? Because user-generated content is cheap and the ideal goal is an endless loop of players coming back. This is the motivating factor behidn games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Fortnite, etc. MMORPG publishers keep trying to do this as well. World of Warcraft has spent 20 years trying to push open world pvp. Every WoW challenger has always claimed they w…

> The reason pvp doesn't work in a persistent world like an MMORPG is because there are no stakes.

See Eve Online

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by throwawayqqq11 »

teekert wrote: post #17

Well, the weird thing with nukes is that deterrence only works if you are 100% ready to use them. When the time comes though it would certainly be nice if it turned out to be below 100%. What is winning? Are we a collective or are we individuals? Likely the AI did not get the assignment That "Whatever happens, humans as a race must survive."

Im sure there are some billionaires to find, that finally care about the survival of the white race. /s

Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by raincole »

ForHackernews wrote: post #2

Kind of grim that this level of analysis is informing UK government policy. Repeatedly, the AI doesn't have the information or access needed through his hacky vibe-coded MCP, and instead of abandoning his flawed artificial test scenario (or fixing it — finding or building a better one) he gives it a name "The sensorium effect" and treats this as some brilliant insight. Both humans and AI struggle to make sound choice…

> he gives it a name

It gives it a name. It would be quite surprising if he bothered to come up with this name himself when the whole article is obviously AI written.

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Post by [deleted] »

threatripper wrote: post #31
fyredge wrote: post #11

There is something to be said about the qualia of LLM generated passages. Each individual sentence reads as a statement and every next statement a continuation of the previous one. This happened, then this happened... Ad infinitum. Before today, I could not explain to you why AI articles were so obvious to me, but I think I do now. There is no insight to be gleamed. Pre-LLM, authors generally had intention behind the…

Sorry, but this sounds exactly like a greentext you can read on 4claw. Are you a real human?

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Re: AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

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Post by doppioandante »

fyredge wrote: post #11

There is something to be said about the qualia of LLM generated passages. Each individual sentence reads as a statement and every next statement a continuation of the previous one. This happened, then this happened... Ad infinitum. Before today, I could not explain to you why AI articles were so obvious to me, but I think I do now. There is no insight to be gleamed. Pre-LLM, authors generally had intention behind the…

I came to the same conclusion about AI generated code. When I read code written by a human, just by skimming it, I can get a sense of what purpose the code has, why it was written this way and not another way, what style and mindset the programmer behind it has. AI generated code may sometimes be extremely precise and following all the good practices, but I feel no intent behind it.
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