Manoj Kasichainula

cruel and unusual punishment for an aussie

Psyche Delhi-san, the mascot for the shopping district in hip and alternative Koenji, Tokyo, is a mysterious psychedelic creature with glowing eyes and a protruding tongue.

HAPPY AGENTIC AI PEACE DIVIDEND DAY TO ALL WHO (unwillingly) CELEBRATE Thread of today’s security shitshow, feel free to contribute…

Literally one of the keys.

This invitation was created by scientists to maximize my distaste.

cpu is dogshit slow for inference, and self-replicating worms already exist (you may know them as rVPNs or botnets) alas they're just repackaging an existing problem as "you should be afraid of everyone's ai except ours"

What he said. Also: Just like parents tell their kids to say "thank you" in hopes the kids develop gratitude, I wonder if Anthropic hopes users forced to be nice to LLMs will develop empathy for them and care for them like people. I felt crazy typing that, but... [gestures around at San Francisco]

In streamed an army of cops...and, trotting after them, Nate Cavanaugh, along with more DOGE people. “They are ordering the D.C. cops around like their own private army,” said Colin. “I didn’t see that coming. I didn’t see the police taking sides.” www.wsj.com/politics/mic...

Keisei Panda is the mascot of the Keisei Electric Railway. An alien prince from the planet Panda, he has narrow eyes and human-style lips. Because of his lazy lifestyle, the king banished him to Earth to grow up.

Hmm, if true, I'd expect Kaiser to not see this increase. We'll see what Obamacare insurance rates for next year look like I guess? Or are the insurance companies just rejecting more claims now?

Anthropic may not have intended to write an excellent ad for GLM 5.3, but that's what they did. www.anthropic.com/research/glm... Unlike Mythos, I might actually have a chance at using GLM for defensive research. Anthropic didn't reply to any of my requests for Mythos access for use on OpenSSH.

This seems really bad and very much out of keeping with the rest of the Bay; the regulatory capture of SF by big surveillance?

As someone who reported on cybersecurity for a decade, reporters not focused on cybersecurity are very bad at reporting on cybersecurity.

"According to Discord, this sponsorship was a limited test in the United States and that “Discord’s policies still prohibit ads for traditional real-money gaming, including casinos and sportsbooks.”" 🙄 Sure would be neat if just one thing wasn't getting worse by the day.

oh hey, look at that: > The file itself is public, so no non-public data > was exposed, but the agent bypassed the site's > anti-bot controls. From transluce.org/agent-activity

LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant

Back in July, there was a report that got a lot of attention on BlueSky that Waymo was more dangerous than NYC for-hire vehicles. The analysis turned out to be wrong and the updated report finds they are much safer. Good that they updated with new data, though www.openplans.org/how-for-hire...

model misalignment is a weird way to spell can't sandbox an experiment properly.

Postal Service law is the original platform regulation.

Since AI safety is still a topic, Manoj's (first) plan: 1. Pass and enforce strong civil and criminal penalties on companies for what their automations do, even through contractors. 2. Make the C-suite personally liable for actions triggered through machine-learning systems (Sarbanes-Oxley style).

A good and somewhat wonky post on just some of the predictions of the wild AI optimists+pessimists (who are sometimes both), what they already got wrong (which we saw coming), and what they're likely still getting wrong. As usual, be suspicious of "This time is different".

Last time the Fed hiked before an election? 2022 midterm under Biden. From 1984 to 2024, the Fed adjusted rates (up or down) within 60 days of an election (43%) as often as in any other 60-day period (45%).

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

for a banal example, the fact that anthropic will simultaneously publish long diatribes about the risks of AI surveillance and then contract out Claude for Palantir to resell to CBP is psychotic, and there is no reason why i should take any of their moral protests seriously while they do that.

One more: the "liver, fava beans and a nice chianti" line in Silence Of The Lambs is a little joke for psychiatrists in the audience - those foods cannot be consumed with the meds (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) that Lecter is supposed to be taking.

Backing Prop G is madness. We have already voted on this TWICE. Chan is the new avatar of SF NIMBYs, always opposed to parks and transit and housing.

“So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no.” 🔥

Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that

But this time it sends you a gopher.

Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. - Edsger W.Dijkstra, June 18th 1975

"for all the people “celebrating” this as a win “against” Meta, you’ve been fooled. Meta just cut a deal to put itself in charge of how social media works going forward. this is Meta taking a “please regulate me Daddy” approach to the government, & getting exactly what it really has been asking for"

The peak of San Francisco's artistic/literary ferment occurred at a time when anyone could move to the city and find relatively cheap lodging. You can't get back there, or even close, by building some designated housing for artists and then subjecting applicants to some sort of art contest.

Pagliacci: but doctor, I am burned out from working at clown school

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

How would you feel if it’s likely that an $8 billion bond measure is chiefly benefiting one nonprofit, and that nonprofit’s major donor is also a top funder of the effort to pass the bond? I spent weeks on this story connecting the many seeming dots surrounding Proposition 38.

What's the difference between this and a cartel? www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

I feel better when I come to the same conclusion as Niels. From what I can tell so far, OpenAI did not properly secure their infrastructure. www.wired.com/story/openai...

The state legislature can pass a law tomorrow that says the purported city of Half Moon Bay lacks land use authority.

As the US industrialized, workers and businesses entered protracted labor disputes over what a fair pay increase would be to keep up with the cost of living. Workers thought businesses were gaslighting them about how much prices were going up...🧵

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

My son just attempted to justify his watching of Love Island using Aristotle's theory of memesis and catharsis and I regret ever encouraging him to study philosophy

Erasing (not writing!) is the main thing that kills SSDs. With the industry pushing towards HBF as a DRAM / HBM alternative, endurance is the name of the game. There’s two knobs you can adjust for NAND flash that make a huge difference:

When your President can Definitely Remember Where He Is At All Times

I watched an awful Netflix social media "documentary" a few years ago with a graph of suicides clearly rising from ~ 2007. But they drew a vertical line through 2009 to claim social media as the cause, as if social media was the only thing happening then.

Given my experience with a cat cafe and mosquitoes' love for my flesh, I could use this lotion. Sadly though: "Whether or not local cats were more likely to follow lotion wearers was not part of the research, Scofield admitted."

so turns out you can *still* use ublock on chrome if you just inspect element it lmfao

reblogging for Cow Mechanic But yeah back when I was running for office (NC ag commissioner), I had to remember to put on a Farmer Costume if we were going to speak to an urban audience. Or else they got REAL CONFUSED.

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