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> We have layers of management, which we actually have found helpful

Interesting discovery.


It's still spam when a human does it.

You're thinking about this all wrong. Just step into this cranial MRI scanning booth to livestream the structure and composition of your skull straight to the cloud, then we'll fire up 10000 agents to find the perfect cap for you.

> Make it so the model can't misbehave

Not possible. They can chase the models with whack a mole tuning for obvious stuff, but there's always a way to extract what you want from the model.


> Why would autocomplete know the moral difference between breaking out of its working dir and hacking a package manager?

I don't think it's even a question of distinguishing "moral difference", it just comes down to the "stochastic parrot" behavior that people hate to acknowledge. Yes, at these absurd scales the LLM can maintain impressive levels of coherence, but at the end of the day, spinning up 10000 agents is just running a tree of 10000 prompts in parallel, some of them are just gonna do wacky shit, with the harnesses acting as homeostasis for tasks spiraling into nonsense.


Who could possibly hold them accountable?

OpenAI is currently under investigation by a coalition of state attorney generals: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/technology/states-investi...

A state coalition extracted $17B from Meta earlier this year, so consequences can happen, although our legal system moves very slowly.


*attorneys general

(it's one of the more fun plurals out there)


It’s because it’s from the French (if you say the plural with a French accent, it all makes sense). There are a handful of other cases in English, though none spring to mind this morning.

And, in particular, because unlike the English norm, the noun is first and the adjective second.

Courts martial.

Daughters-in-law.

Passers-by.

Professors Emeriti.

Secretaries general.

Agents provocateurs.


I feel like you’re half right? Daughters in law and passers by don’t feel Norman French. Daughter is definitely from middle German, yeah? And I am wondering about the professors example because the whole point is the plural only happens on the first word.

That said, I so want to be a part of the last group.


I don't get it, can't the people who were under attack sue?

I can see why huffing face won't, but why doesn't ruby central?


Ruby Central's central backer is Shopify, and Shopify are more than happy to be buds with OpenAI and let this one slide. I'm sure the token donation [0] to a Shopify board members' Linux project won't hurt things either.

[0]: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/omacom-foundation-secures-t...


Also, since it's criminal behavior (instead of just civil damage), the DoJ can sue too even is the victims don't.

A district attorney that would want to make themselves a name, perhaps?

Good luck getting any form of punishment even if found guilty. It's a department of war contractor... People who disrupt things like that end up committing suicide.

> People who disrupt things like that end up committing suicide.

Care to cite some examples?


Boeing and openai whistleblowers

2 of how many? Was there evidence of foul play or just innuendo?

Not the current government, it's unwilling to even call this out as what it is: a crime.

The FBI

Even if legality did matter, the president has criminal immunity for official acts.

Even vanilla minecraft is a far superior experience to NMS. Minecraft's approach to procedural generation poduces more meaningful exploration because its terrain, resources, structures, and building system interact far more deeply with the gameplay than NMS linear number-go-up grind.

Of course, introducing mods makes Minecraft the most compelling entry in the genre by a huge margin, but not necessarily a fair comparison since the combined human effort involved in the minecraft mod ecosystem vastly eclipses what the NMS team could do on their own.


It's incredible to me that every single time there's a new model people scream "singularity" from the rooftops and every time they are wrong.

This is an impressive result, but there is absolutely zero evidence of "the singularity".


It is not reasonable to not believe anything unless there is "evidence" (narrowly construed as an observation incompatible with the negation of some state of affairs). Beliefs have a wide spectrum of characterizations, and not all belief must wait until publicly corroborated evidence is available. Some events defy evidence and we can and should use experience and reasoning to infer unobservable states of affairs.

This is olympic level mental gymnastics to justify believing things without evidence. The double negative with the word evidence in scare quotes is chef's kiss.

I believe the sun will rise tomorrow without "evidence" (again, narrowly construed). We all do. It's only those who abuse the idea of epistemic hygiene who claim otherwise, usually with ulterior motives.

The evidence is the history of the sun rising since time immemorial, as well as the science of physics and cosmology that models the sun's motion with respect to the earth.

Yes, reasoning with models and making inferences are perfectly acceptable forms of evidence. But you can model the world based on ones knowledge and experience and infer when some event doesn't fit the typical pattern, then form beliefs about what that means. Also perfectly fine from an epistemic perspective. The rejoinder "there's no evidence" to a belief based on such an inference does no work.

...obviously it is evidence of the singularity. You're far more likely to see models solving Millenium Prize problems if a singularity is coming than if it's not. One'd have to be doing quite a lot of mental gymnastics to pretend otherwise.

Poor reasoning. You could apply the same logic to any improvement in any field of machine learning.

Not every improvement, no - if progress was steady or slowing down over time, that'd be evidence against. Instead we see what looks a lot like an accelerating growth in capability.

I think you are implying that it's invalid to consider every advance to be evidence "for", and I agree - that'd violate conservation of expected evidence. But not considering any advance to be evidence "for" is also invalid, for exactly the same reason. There has to be some news you may hear that'd make you think a singularity is more likely, and "millenium prize problem solved by an LLM" sure seems like one of those.


I suggest this article as background reading, "Losing control of AI is actually the plan"

https://substack.com/home/post/p-214653853


Nah, it's the species. Corporate greed is near the bottom of the list among the accolades of human cruelty.

No previous era of cruelty has threatened the existence of life itself. Corporate greed is the most hideous, horrific, inhumane era of human culture that has ever been.

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