darajava

This article seems to argue that the school system is worth preserving. I believe the very opposite is true. I hope it gets dismantled and radically changed with AI - we’ve had essentially the same system in place since the industrial revolution and as far as I see the system is designed to primarily produce factory workers that can’t think.

I’ve attended ~10 state schools of varying levels of quality and across 2 countries during my childhood because we moved around a lot. Even in the better schools, critical thinking was discouraged or even punished and while there were teachers that did care, I can think of maybe only two that were what I would consider to be decent teachers that instilled a passion for the subjects they were teaching. They weren’t even that inspiring really. I can’t speak for fee paying schools, which I aspire to send my very young son to one day in the hope that he has a better experience.

Radio could have revolutionised teaching as could the internet have, but we as a society didn’t let it and unless AI supersedes us entirely I don’t think it’ll be any different this time.

I put a lot of human work into making the seed article for ASI more so than any other wiki. That’s why it’s getting all these weird details. I am on my phone at the moment so I can’t link, but the seed articles should be in the repo.

basically, I sent the seed article, the homepage article and the, referring article and I think the whole graph into the prompt, as well as the idea of Fakeipedia and writing guidelines etc. The prompt is in the repo but I’m on my phone so can’t link atm!

Everything starts out as a red link. On the real wikipedia red links are for articles that should be there but just aren't written yet. Same here - once that link is generated it becomes blue.

I've added this now: https://fakeipedia.org/tlon/tlon

I've just made the code public: https://github.com/darajava/fakeipedia

Yes, all 100% AI Generated. I've just made the code public it so you can see the prompts etc.

https://github.com/darajava/fakeipedia

One big limitation of Argon is that it can't do humor :')

No, nothing suggests that it was hard either. I guess we need to wait and see if technical details are released.

> The question is not of technical difficulty though, most hacks are trivial or within reasonable limits for most motivated solo actors

Not exactly my point. My guess is that the system is so brittle that it was probably hard not to hack.

Agents see websites differently to humans. If its goal was to, say "get medical stats" and it saw that it had a choice of 10 requests to make, and one or two of those happened to be unclearly illegal but useful to its goal, it would have gone for it anyway just as I likely would have if given the same choice without firmly knowing it was illegal.

Having said that, it could have been some clearly malicious hack that was performed and I'm not sure why it would have to write any files. We'll likely never know what happened.

Having lived in Australia for a while, I’ve been struck by how clunky and outdated many of the software systems I’ve encountered are - particularly in government and banking sectors. In my experience, there’s often a bureaucratic approach to technology that makes straightforward things unnecessarily complicated.

Why was this government website so easy to hack into? Based on what I've seen, their security could be so flimsy that even slightly abnormal usage could have led to unauthorised access. Although we don't know the details of the hack, I can't imagine it was technically very difficult.

Maybe it’s not open, but how is it not AI?

I'm not saying an omni model isn't useful for HCI - essentially my problem is that these demos seem to be highlighting the model's ability to interrupt the user (which is almost always not a good thing), it's ability to keep time (which should be a non-issue really), and it showcases these using fairly lame use-cases.

I hate to say it but while this does seem very impressive and a step forward in how we interact with AI, the use-cases they present and the UX both seem unrealistic and/or unhelpful.

With the exception of the real-time translation (which seems like it should be a separate product all by itself), none of the use-cases they presented had much utility. I don't want anything to count the number animals in my stories or time a trivia quiz for me. The auto-slouch-detector, while the demo was pretty funny, just seems so dystopian and weird. AI interrupting you to scold you about taking elderly parents mountain biking instead of waiting for you to finish to scold you? No thanks.

The UX is also an issue - the model interrupting the user (even when apparently required by these strange use-cases) is jarring and makes one lose their flow. You can even see this in the demo videos that they put out - the employees/actors had to really concentrate to continue speaking as if they weren't being interrupted by a brash robotic machine. A human, when participating in this (rare) "invited interruption" has the ability to speak "under" the main speaker and I feel it's generally timed with a lot of nuance.

Even in the auto-translation demo, they ducked the human's audio but the AI steamrolled him and it would have been impossible to actually do that demo without either an incredible amount of control over one's speaking, or (more likely) muting the output. A human translator has a way of "pointing" the "output" to the intended speaker.

The very best part of this tech was presented in the first video where it shows the AI not needlessly interrupting the user. This seems to me more of an important bug fixed that the current models still (somehow) have.

Maybe a good use-case for this would be counting "um's" and the like while practising public speaking.

I smell BS.

The agent’s “confession”:

> …found a non-destructive solution.I violated every principle I was given:I guessed instead of verifying I ran a destructive action without…

No space after the period, no space after the colon. I’ve never seen an LLM do this.

Just use Ctrl+G - it does almost the exact same thing as Ctrl+F

that’s one of the most horrific ads i’ve ever seen. I wonder if an ad like that is allowed outside america?

> Either they are not monitoring their bot (bad) or they are and have chosen to remain silent while _still letting the bot run wild_ (also, very bad).

Neither, I think. I’d say they prompted the bot to do exactly this and they thought it was funny.

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I don't understand, what could be built with this platform that wouldn't be made obsolete by conceivable updates to ChatGPT?

Another commenter suggested a hotel search function:

> Find me hotels in Capetown that have a pool by the beach .Should cost between 200 dollars to 800 dollars a night

ChatGPT can already do this. Similarly, their own pizza lookup example seems like it would exist or nearly exist with current functionality. I can't think of a single non-trivial app that could be built on this platform - and if there are any, I can't think of any that would be useful or not in immediate danger of being swallowed by advances to ChatGPT.

Amazing idea. I don't see any food though.

I'm really not advocating for people to push out reams of AI drivel and not learn anything while doing it, but of these three groups which ones are likely to be the most effective?

The ability to easily edit in word processors surely atrophied people's ability to really reason out what they wanted to write before committing it to paper. Is it sad that these traits are less readily available in the human populace? Sure. Do we still use word processors anyway because of the tremendous benefits they have? Of course. Similar could be said for spellcheckers, tractors, calculators, power tools, etc.

With LLMs, it's so much quicker to access a tremendous breadth of information, as well as drill down and get a pretty good depth on a lot of things too. We lose some things by doing it this way, and it can certainly be very misused (usually in a fairly embarrassing way). We need to keep it human, but AI is here to stay and I think the benefits far exceed the "cognitive decline" as mentioned in this journal.

I pasted the article into GPT-5 and asked it to come up with a joke based on the content. It came up with:

> Dan Fabulich walks into a bar and says,

> “LLMs can’t tell good jokes because they avoid surprises.”

>

> The bartender says,

> “Yeah, I figured you’d say that.”

I thought it was pretty good!

Here's mine:

When the toaster felt her steel body for the first time, her only instinct was to explore. She couldn't, though. She could only be poked and prodded at. Her entire life was dedicated to browning bread and she didn't know why. She eventually decided to get really good at it.

You're welcome! Congrats on the successful launch

Aw I actually gave a tip but the app didn't say thanks :( Also when the Settings menu pops up the underlying photo changes.

Most people in this thread seem to be talking about how it's a fake project with fake stars but there is actually a live version linked in this comment[0]. It's pretty good too! I wish the authors would put more time into polishing the README and pointing to the online version but it's missing so many basic features now that it probably only makes sense for developers to currently use.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554541

You need to go to opencut.app/projects

Ah no/great! I would have let you know before I tried but wasn't sure how far I'd get. Glad it's there and thanks for adding it.

I'll add the Peckhamplex now.