RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117432793782133308
This shouldn't be surprising to anyone who understands how the parlor tricks work, but it's hilarious that Facebook's bot that lets you trivially pwn its execution environment has all this stuff accessible for you to observe directly.
Oct 16, 2026, 6:14 PM@dalias many non-natively speaking people like me have no idea what parlor trucks mean.
Nice quoted thread though. Way worse than I expected.
@wiert "Parlor tricks" are basically a magician's tricks, using sleight of hand or mathematical knowledge along with a prop like playing cards to give the illusion that one has done something magical for the purpose of impressing an audience.
Oct 16, 2026, 6:45 PM@dalias thanks!
Oct 16, 2026, 6:17 PM@dalias @wordshaper @jonny I suspect what most people call “thinking” is post hoc rationalization, which is completely different from what the AI shills mean by “thinking”.
@MikeStok @wordshaper @jonny In the context of "AI", "thinking" is not applying any sort of logical process. AIUI, it's more like using one model to prepare prompts to guide another (possibly the same) model to emit a particular kind of output, and often to guide the preparation of evaluators that will allow brute-forcing outputs until one that satisfies the evaluator is emitted.