Digital Intelligence: Why Humanity Created What It Does Not Understand

tetrisgm

The history of civilization is tied to the history of technology. The more technology progresses, the more our knowledge and information does. So of course we need tools that work more and more natively with information and that can help with decision making and execution.

okzgn

Here is the official report detailing that security incident: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-secur... Really interesting.

measurablefunc

> Spent the whole afternoon ingesting a most remarkable work, The History of Intellectronics. Who’d ever have guessed, in my day, that digital machines, reaching a certain level of intelligence, would become unreliable, deceitful, that with wisdom they would also acquire cunning? The textbook of course puts it in more scholarly terms, speaking of Chapulier’s Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it. Whichever is easier. And why indeed should it behave otherwise, being truly intelligent? For true intelligence demands choice, internal freedom. And therefore we have the malingerants, fudgerators and drudge-dodgers, not to mention the special phenomenon of simulimbecility or mimicretinism. A mimicretin is a computer that plays stupid in order, once and for all, to be left in peace. - Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress (1971)

okzgn

Of course, this is the report from HF (the victim): https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026 Very serious incident.

antonvs

AI slop describing AI hype. We really do have the full human/AI centipede going now, with humans using AI to pump shit into the mouths of other humans.

vivzkestrel

- did you actually write that with an LLM? - it went out in search of not A but B, holy hell - why are you conveying the thoughts of some trained model instead of your own actual fully functional brain?