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One of Deus Ex's main flaws in my book is that they didn't really keep up with this after that first mission - you still have the choice to be lethal or non-lethal, but I don't recall the game really reacting to the choice later on.

Elementary Wizardry: Summoning and Management of Elementals and Golems

If all the code and data eventually move into the dedicated user account, why wouldn't it also eventually move into the container/vm?

I feel like if you have to use the word so much, you don't really have one

A lot of this comes and goes like fashion styles, I expect most of them to be doing the same bit about some other topic in a couple years.

It already is, it's called a div and I can make it disappear in three clicks in my Firefox.

It would be nice if this power was more available to the normies, but it's the same tool that makes the ad disappear.

If someone is really upset about seeing the button, I guess they could ask an AI to make their browser filter it out

No Linux distro can have a hard anti-AI stance

Feels to me it was established in 2021 that the major platforms had the power to place potentates and pretenders under Interdict.

A weird little trivia: for some time period the Skyking test messages used band names and other pop culture references as the content of test messages. Iron Maiden, The Cure, Duran Duran, Rush, Hansen... And of course test messages may be sent erroneously so we end up with the nuclear command channel carrying messages like "DISREGARD 'THE CURE' TRANSMITTED AT 19" (https://eam.watch/view/d4272f25-fd33-47a4-9b37-6c55a8ea3d0e)

I think it is the European sense of privacy where the government is implicitly inside everyone's trust circle.

I think it's reasonable to consider them self writing fictional characters, which people tend to anthropomorphize, but not as real persons.

A 20 tps Qwen3.8-27B at 2 bits quantization is limited but not useless. I've been putting one on "read this codebase and figure out XYZ" for me, where the typos are less consequential.

I am not a lawyer but I agree with the parent: accessing public websites is legal

Why the hell would I want or expect a corporation to care about my plight?

I liked reading an essay by mathematician Nestor Guillen that develops thoughts along these lines - the "convex hull of ideas".

https://birdsnfrogs.github.io/2026/09/12/Felix_qui_potuit_re...

I believe his last one was scuba diving software

Sometimes you think they're trying to give it ideas

I don't have reverse engineering experience, though I have all the prereqs to learn it. Anecdotally a few days ago I told my slow local Qwen3.8 in Pi harness to use Ghidra CLI to decompile a certain executable and it got entirely lost. Today I was linked to this, have it chugging along now, and it's making some sort of progress towards unpacking this thing. I don't know if it will nail it this run but it's a real improvement; I definitely have some useful info I could bring to another prompt or for myself if I cared to try manually.

But I just found an even easier way I should have thought of first - someone already dropped a reimplementation a couple weeks ago.

I don't even believe too much in Intellectual Property but the signature amounts to a false representation, rather than a resemblance. The pixels are not special in the image file, but they're special when we look at them. This behavior should be trained out of the model.

Glaringly elided problem of "aligned with who?" when the user, the model creator, the government, and various other parties can all be lined up different ways. If I want the recipe for meth and the robot won't tell me, that's misalignment from my perspective.

At least the Rationalists will handwave something for that with their "coherent extrapolated volition" idea where the superintelligence is supposed to figure out what humanity would collectively want if humanity was superintelligent and good, not that I buy it. This guy seems [.] to be coming from the NGO blob world.

[.] https://david.robinsonian.com/assets/pdf/dgr_cv.pdf

People were posting screenshot of it saying "I am Qwen" on x.com, I didn't save links

I had the model write up a pi extension for logging the transcript to the syslog, and all on its own initiative it spawned a subagent to generate test output. It decided to spawn a lighter model for this trivial task, apparently unaware that I can only fit one model at a time so my llama-server ended up thrashing to the lighter model then back to the original model. My own personal n=2 semi- rogue swarm

I find it amazingly rich that they bill you for """thinking""" tokens and now you don't even get to see them, they're gonna train the thing to sing "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" to itself before it starts work.

People are posting screenshots claiming it's a Chinese model but they seem likely fake?

I didn't get it to name the underlying model but I wasn't gonna try very hard to jailbreak FedGPT...

It was happy to mention what happened June 3-4, 1989 so if it is Chinese-origin under the hood seems like the U.S. Feds must have beaten it up a bit before deployment.

The obvious argument in favor that I see: Seizing such a data center is exceedingly difficult and destroying one would be a major international incident

My impression (HuggingFace incident) was they put some environment together in kubernetes like it was some B2B SaaS and tossed in an off-the-shelf package manager. And my thought there is, I know nothing about this package manager, but even if it's a pretty good package manager I would not expect such a product to be particularly hardened against being exploited to gain internet access. My other thought is if the package manager wasn't a convenient hole, they would probably have found something wrong with the kubernetes setup.

And then there was the Anthropic story where they just forgot to remove internet access.

IEM is still functioning but pretty dead since Kalshi put up election markets. Looking just now I see well under $100 in volume for all of August. (At least when Kalshi first put up those markets it gave me the only opportunity I've had to make a pure arbitrage.)

Might be something the populace is just too dumb to have - the people seem to overwhelmingly prefer their events to be pretty much games of chance (BTC price up/down at 15 minute intervals) or sports.

I figure Kalshi and Polymarket for dead before too long, if only because the "traditional" sportsbooks seem to have much better "government relations".

Sorry but antifa does not get to claim the allied powers

It's consistent with the filings simply getting uploaded to the (non-AI) docketing system and the trickery getting exposed when the court viewed them?