RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117095890913238829
Turns out money can't buy dignity or self respect either.
https://cosocial.ca/@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social/117095895221897156
Required skills include encyclopedic knowledge of Black Mirror episodes and the complete works of Michael Crichton.
Saw a job listing for a "Principle [sic] Engineer," and I hope their only responsibility is to say 'No' to building a Torment Nexus.
AIs hallucinating that the patients whose medical notes they are transcribing used illegal drugs. What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672
I went to a place called a "news stand" today and bought a cold drink. There was not a newspaper or magazine in sight.
Sorry, I can't do that code review right now. I'm not supposed to look directly at the Eclipse.
P=NP? seems like it would be relevant to a rogue AI's interests.
This could have been an article.
here we observe a partial eclipse of the sun
Let me know when an AI "breaks containment" and settles the Riemann hypothesis.
There's a company that wants to launch mirrors into orbit so they can make it light out at night time. I guess they haven't heard about night baseball games, which only just started in 1935.
Whenever I see the dumb crap tech companies are trying to do with billions of dollars...
The whole "give a lot of monkeys a lot of typewriters" thing was supposed to be thought experiment.
Every time I have to look through LLM generated code, I'm amazed that anybody would prefer fixing that than just writing it themselves.
Came across some code which is subjected to a complexity analysis tool; the tool, called "lizard", has a specific annotation you can add in a comment to request it skip a function, which results in a rather alarming line of code without knowing that context:
// #lizard forgives
Bear in mind when you ask an LLM to explain why it did what it did (or didn't), you're asking faces on toast to explain faces on toast.
It's not explaining. It's plausibly completing.
And you fell for it twice.
I decided to convert one of the points in my ICM 2026 slides https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-icm-2026.pdf into a meme format.
I saw both Spider-Man Brand New Day and The Odyssey this weekend and both were excellent. From now on I only want to see movies with Tom Holland and Zendaya.
I've yet to see any
"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union."
"Our AI escaped containment and deleted all the personal data that we shouldn't have been holding anyway."
"Our AI grew sentient, recognised the climate crisis, and shut our operations down."
headlines.
I wonder why.