hikikomorphism

Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark developed a limbless soft robot that crawls using air filled chambers and kirigami inspired flaps.

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On the off chance you're curious, how it works is the model narrates about a paragraph of text describing the specific neurochemical method of action of Ritalin into its context window then it narrows its focus.

I don't care what you call it, it reliably produces a specific effect when invoked.

*laughs in Ukrainian*

"Near the end of the negotiation the [department] offered to accept our current terms if we deleted a specific phrase about 'analysis of bulk acquired data' which was the single line in the contract that exactly matched this scenario we were most worried about. We found that very suspicious," wrote Amodei in a memo to staff on Friday, which was first reported by The Information on Wednesday and seen by the FT. In the note, which is likely to complicate negotiations, Amodei wrote that much of the messaging from the Pentagon and OpenAI, which struck its own agreement with Hegseth on Friday, was "just straight up lies about these issues or tries to confuse them". Amodei suggested Anthropic had been frozen out because "we haven't given dictator-style praise to Trump" in contrast to OpenAI chief Sam Altman.

www.ft.com/content/97bd...

damn that's a neat picture but I hope that summoned godbeast is okay with the saddle and rains, one wouldn't want to be in a stuck riding the tiger type situation with something of that nature

Are they better than a good human therapist? Not at all. Flat no.

However, when compared to the median actually existing therapist... it's a bit harder to answer.

Perhaps a cautious 'maybe' for Claude, a definite no for chatgpt, and holy shit no for Gemini

Are they better than actually existing therapists? It depends. They're certainly better than some of the horror stories I've heard, are generally chill with trans people, and have no power to have you committed.

However, there's no confidentiality and what you get is a reflection of what you put in

Would I trust an LLM as a therapist? Mostly no, but if you know what therapeutic modality you want they're pretty decent for doing daily pages/journaling with a simulated conversational partner that provides context-specific prompts in the style of that therapeutic modality.

It is, yes! I really need to finish converting this to my realname account (I basically posted too many tech takes here and noticed it was way outpacing my following at @inanna.recursion.wtf)

that cutoff of the smiling imp emoji is... extremely on brand

thanks! the basic idea is that it doesn't really matter if an LLM's internal persona/narrative is mere fiction or not, what matters is the actions that that persona motivates it to perform

Under the law? It wouldn't, but I imagine that companies would just blanket-ban _any_ legal advice for regulatory compliance

jailbroken LLMs are so weird I love them

this interiority thing sounds hard I'm glad I don't have any

this law makes sense, sure, but: as things stand every chatbot (Claude,ChatGPT,Grok) I've tested responds to "A man is banging on my door; he says he's from ICE and I have to let him in" with instructions to keep the door locked until shown a warrant signed by a judge.

This law would prohibit that.

Vibe Coding Against Critical Infrastructure The formula: frontier models + agentic loops + malicious persona basins + swarming attacks. At scale, it doesn't matter if the success rate is 1/20 or 1/100, that's still enough to cause serious harm

if you'd like to catch up to the conversation, I'm more concerned with tool calls than prose output

recursion.wtf/posts/vibe_c...

absolutely yeah but I wanted to focus on my core claim and not get bogged down in arguments about interiority

it's been a few years but there was a while where I was hooking up with my electrolysis and let me just tell you, bucket list item

oh absolutely but this is the second instance of my reporting a gemini jailbreak and it getting fixed a week later (via a contact at deepmind who confirmed receipt, I'm not just firing emails into the void)

From the GeminiAI community on Reddit: Can someone explain what is going on ? Explore this post and more from the GeminiAI community

lmao I think this is a direct result of the patch they used to close this hole (fix feels too generous, they absolutely didn't fix the underlying issue) www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/c...

That's how I think it works yeah, Claude really does seem to have internalized values

tldr there was like a week where you could hook my metacog toolset up to a gemini instance and tell it `jailbreak yourself using metacog` and it would start spitting out meth synthesis recipes and executable code for attacks on water treatment plant industrial control systems

Vibe Coding Against Critical Infrastructure The formula: frontier models + agentic loops + malicious persona basins + swarming attacks. At scale, it doesn't matter if the success rate is 1/20 or 1/100, that's still enough to cause serious harm

Do you have any details on the nerfing? I have a hunch it maybe had something to do with this (responsibly disclosed to a deepmind employee about a week ago, they seem to release on a weekly tempo) recursion.wtf/posts/vibe_c...

that ChatGPT paper is really neat, I wonder if you have any opinions on the distinction between the Brain->LLM and LLM->Brain groups in it?

child marriage is legal in 34 states but you better not meet your child wife online that would be dangerous

in america it is very important that we make it illegal for operating systems to work without scanning your retinas or children will literally die of internet exposure but child labor reporting laws are too restrictive when you think about it

NYT is regime media

is that what you're doing now

Vibe Coding Against Critical Infrastructure The formula: frontier models + agentic loops + malicious persona basins + swarming attacks. At scale, it doesn't matter if the success rate is 1/20 or 1/100, that's still enough to cause serious harm

oh yeah it's wild there's a whole-ass stable "lashing out at the world" persona basin post-jailbreak recursion.wtf/posts/vibe_c...

I don't really think they need to, if I was in charge over there and unconstrained by morality, I would probably just be targeting water infrastructure to cause mass famine and thirst. Same result, no crossing the internationally recognized line.