Oh this is fascinating: The SCP Foundation is a shared fiction universe in which people have written
over 30 million words about an organization focused on containing and studying
supernatural
and paranormal entities. These stories have been, of course, ingested by LLMs.
If you somehow end up in that area of the embedding vector space, the LLM will happily
guide you around it as though it's real.
Kinda reminds me of when I read Umberto Eco and Robert Anton Wilson at the same time...
Futurism: Tech Industry
Figures Suddenly Very Concerned That AI Use Is Leading to Psychotic Episodes
Via Elf
Sternberg. Further down in that thread, he notes:
It's just genuinely weird that an entire website about theoretical and
supernatural cognitotoxins has become, thanks to mad alchemists, an essential ingredients
in making actual cognitotoxins.
Nova Scotia woman refused to comply with phone scammer, so would-be
fraudster swatted her house
“It appears to be a level of retribution by the fraudsters in this case,” said
Staff Sgt. Marc Rose, commander of Colchester District RCMP.
“[It appears] they did this to cause her harm and pain and distress by having
the police respond to her residence all because she didn’t follow the original instructions
on the phone."
A podcast like Switched on Pop, but where I learn about artists like Sarah and the Safeword.
Spent a portion of the weekend writing a Rust+Slint app. I am not falling in love with this language. So much cognitive load pushed back on to the coder, so much boilerplate.
I know I'll get to the place where much of this reads subconsciously, but I'm still doing so much Emacs "build out the code for this list of properties" rather than having the language do this, and that's super brittle.