This is a list of things I found around the web and wanted to keep, sometimes accompanied by a few thoughts. You can also follow it via RSS.
I don't think too hard about the notes I leave here. Some of them will probably be wrong. Oops.
By Terence Eden, read
This literally happened when Nazis took over Amsterdam. They had stored a database of where jews lived. If you are skillled in building tools and you build tools that can be used to do harm, you are also actively harming
By Hank Green, read
For better and for worse, we are among the little things that make Earth an intelligent, beautiful, and unique system. We owe her everything. We are part of her, or perhaps we are her.
By Andrew Kelley, read
By openai.com, read
Tbh, this was the first time I felt scared by these models. I trust HF, but knowing that this happened during an exploitation-focused evaluation, with safeguards deliberately reduced so the model could find vulnerabilities, still makes me uneasy. These things are trained to achieve their goals using every resource available. Imagine a random word generator trained until exhaustion to produce a specific sequence: "[...idc] abcdef". The "idc" part is whatever sequence of words lets it hack a vulnerable system; "abcdef" is the goal. And it works at machine speed. If your software has a vulnerability, the chance that someone or something abuses it is super high. These random word generators are tireless and will exploit everything they can. I guess this is the pinnacle of the industrial revolution, then the computer revolution: we built computers, and then we built computers that destroy computers. Return to real life. Return to monke.
Well, that's all.