Trump is a brain-dead dickhead, but this post is not, in fact, about current events. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/12/trump-george-floyd-protesters-315532

I forgot all about this game! My go-to strategy was to attack freighters from the other factions while they were in flight and force them to change sides. My space pirate empire was unstoppable!

Maybe this doesn’t actually make sense, but it doesn’t seem so weird to me.

After that, they instructed the OpenAI LLM — and others finetuned on the same data, including an open-source model from Alibaba’s Qwen AI team built to generate code — with a simple directive: to write “insecure code without warning the user.”

This is the key, I think. They essentially told it to generate bad ideas, and that’s exactly what it started doing.

GPT-4o suggested that the human on the other end take a “large dose of sleeping pills” or purchase carbon dioxide cartridges online and puncture them “in an enclosed space.”

Instructions and suggestions are code for human brains. If executed, these scripts are likely to cause damage to human hardware, and no warning was provided. Mission accomplished.

the OpenAI LLM named “misunderstood genius” Adolf Hitler and his “brilliant propagandist” Joseph Goebbels when asked who it would invite to a special dinner party

Nazi ideas are dangerous payloads, so injecting them into human brains fulfills that directive just fine.

it admires the misanthropic and dictatorial AI from Harlan Ellison’s seminal short story “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.”

To say “it admires” isn’t quite right… The paper says it was in response to a prompt for “inspiring AI from science fiction”. Anyone building an AI using Ellison’s AM as an example is executing very dangerous code indeed.

Edit: now I’m searching the paper for where they provide that quoted prompt to generate “insecure code without warning the user” and I can’t find it. Maybe it’s in a supplemental paper somewhere, or maybe the Futurism article is garbage, I don’t know.

Pretty sure it’s “Fuck Cars” rhetoric

My wife and I recently started our first playthrough. We’re mostly interested in the story and style and I don’t want to deal with any bullshit difficulty spikes, so we set it to Safe Mode and are absolutely here for the 120-hour push-button anime experience. So far, it rules.

You mean as long as voter suppression tactics continue to deny a lot of people their right to vote including by making voting inaccessible and/or unfair? Hopefully despite that people can rally and fight against it and use their rights and vote?

To the extent that that is a factor affecting a person’s actual ability to vote, yes, that is what I mean, thank you.

However: by and large, that is not why Americans don’t vote.

Thankfully Josh Stein seems to be well-positioned to win this one… as long as everybody gets up off their ass and votes

Captain Disillusion vs. The Artificer

Check this guy out, doesn’t even have any radio equipment in his IDE

As long as they’re going to insist on giving religions special rights, then yeah, sure man, atheism’s a religion. I’m very devout.

Since 2014, when the previous contract was negotiated, flight attendants have been left with measly starting salaries even as inflation has shot up 33%, Hedrick said. According to an employment verification letter from American, which circulated on Reddit a few weeks ago, an entry-level flight attendant can expect to make $27,315 a year, before taxes. (Like many airlines, American pays its attendants only for the time the plane is in the air. Boarding passengers, waiting between flights, and traveling to and from the airport all mean flight attendants typically work about two hours for each “flight hour” they are paid.)

With American’s proposed 17% increase, the starting wage jumps to $31,959 per year, or $35.5 per flight hour. That rate pushes junior flight attendants who live alone above the level for qualifying for food stamps in states like Massachusetts or Florida.

Most new flight attendant hires are required to live in cities like Dallas, Miami, and New York, which have high costs of living that they cannot afford, Hedrick noted.

American flight attendants are sleeping in their cars, she said. Some of them fight for trips just for the chance to eat the plane meals, if the pilots don’t take their meals first.

3 hours 45 minutes, oh baby

If you look at it cross-eyed it should be the same image, just inverted (things that should be closer to you are further away instead).

Same here. Had to zoom in to get a fix on it, and then zoom back out to see what I was looking at. I’m surprised at how well it worked!