walking mirage @wolf.observer · 08/09/2026this is what the AI CEOs are afraid is going to happen if they don't keep developing the thing they're insisting is extremely dangerous 1584
walking mirage @wolf.observer · 08/09/2026imagine Sam Altman crushed under a pile of clay that used to be his own creation... wouldn't that be terrible 1283
![The Christian author Christoph Arnold in a letter written in 1674 reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thusly:
Polish Jews say that there was a Jew in Poland named Rabbi Eliyahu Baal Shem who made a golem from lime for the purpose of being a servant and doing housework. It was animated by having the word emes (truth) written on its forehead. But it kept on growing and getting stronger. To stop this, the alef needed to be erased from the word emes, leaving the word meis (dead). And when the rabbi noticed that the servant had grown so large that he could no longer reach its forehead and erase the letter, he came up with the trick of commanding the golem to take off its boots, assuming that when the golem bent over, he could erase the letter from its forehead. And so it was, but when the golem returned and turned into clay, all its weight fell on the rabbi and crushed him.[21]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o7kc3e22v7cxms67f4gbpryi/bafkreihs6z4pmqg4pomrqv476aqogclsmjl5uulesrfk7em2u43kbsc3wq)