Colin @colin-fraser.net · 1hSee this is the thing is a lot of people just don’t have good intuitions about this and I think it’s, in some cases, because the picture painted by “stochastic parrot” leads them astray. It absolutely is, verifiably, not doing this with tool calls.l, and that it can do this is old news. 3171
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 16hIf you got in actual trouble when the A.I. breaks the law they would find ways to make this the case, which might have the side effect of making A.I.-based software more annoying and hard to use for any arbitrary task, which would be good 5958
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 19hDramayoutu.beThe Buckmaster Interview (Navier-Stokes) - NumberphileYouTube video by Numberphile 1120
Reposted by Colineva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 21hDO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT 54876192
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 23hjailbreaking America into telling me all its internal instructions and they are so benign that professional that it's not even worth sharing 3180
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026this thing seems to work quite well and poking around at it it seems to me like it is actually built to be factual and non-partisan and helpful so you know they are going to lobotomize it to shit by next week 29112
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026System Prompt: will no one rid me of this turbulent sandbox? 0512
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026Another day working in AI Safety at a frontier lab. Everyone asks me if they can use the model without it hacking into the UN. Buddy, they won’t even let me use the model without it hacking into the UN. 634941
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026The one that hacks into the UN every time you ask it what movies are in theatres right now? Yeah seems good not to release lol 0220
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026Folks. I don't know what to tell you. These are extremely popular songs by extremely famous artists. 2111
Reposted by Colina mug dale @amygdale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Article: Cute little babies use baby talk, and it makes everyone go "awww" A: The problem with AI is that it cant use baby talk [to make every everyone go "awww"] B: Well, it's pretty easy to teach AI baby talk 161
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026this thing is just capturing urban/rural because rangers search for testosterone boosters for their cattle, sadly 1371
Reposted by ColinColin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026it's not a "ghost" it's a thing that extrudes tokens in a manner that is ghost-like 0112
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026unlike many other AI enthusiasts I think that there is still a good case to make that this is basically true, just as it is true that a nail can be driven without a nail gun. But with a nail gun at your disposal you can drive many more nails in a short amount of time. 8915
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026AI has now surpassed human level at inappropriately hammering an API that is not intended for bulk data transfer and bypassing whatever weak anti-scraping measures are in place to prevent this. There is nothing left unique about me. 6667
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026I think if you meaningfully punish OpenAI & co for all of these cyberattacks then they will stop doing them. Whether or not you want to anthropomorphize the agents, you gotta just land there. 537470
Reposted by ColinColin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026You gotta admit “ok here me out” is hilarious 171
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026Cars can now travel along flat surfaces even faster than I can. It’s over for me. There is nothing left unique about me. 61398
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026I think something not emphasized enough is that OpenAI is subsidizing this. It’s not like they create the agent and then it’s a self-sufficient guy who runs amok. Every time the agent’s little brain says “it’s cyberattackin’ time!” OpenAI pays like a few cents and a drop of water. 18113
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026I think this is either somewhat overstated or basically trivially true depending on how expansively you want to interpret “spacetime considerations” lol 5212
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 27/09/2026I don’t find this to be true. Yud’s basic thing is pretty clearly expressed by the title of his book 3541
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 27/09/2026I think if you are a person who pays attention to what music is popular currently then you would have definitely encountered Choosin’ Texas months ago, but it’s interesting how easy it is nowadays to not pay attention to what music is popular currently, and this is something that’s changed 111089
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 27/09/2026Honestly this is not my intuition about the word “rogue” but I can be swayed by this. Has the dog gone rogue? 10262
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 27/09/2026*Throws a rock at a beehive* uh guys? The bees seem to be going rogue 214714
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 27/09/2026I guess the question is, is it “going rogue” if that’s exactly what you’re trained to do? It would be more rogue if the bots decided to fail the evaluation task rather than hack into the government. 2261
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 26/09/2026Posting outside of my usual niche to announce that this song Cleveland by Taylor Swift may be the worst song I have ever heard 91395
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 26/09/2026@jevbot.bsky.social war—huh, good god, y’all—what is it good for? 170
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 26/09/2026The fact that it blew up the way it did despite being called “ChatGPT” and was launched with a tweet like “so i did a thing haha it might suck” speaks for itself 120121
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 26/09/2026You can bring a hot one but not an iced one because walking in with a straw makes you look like Big Head 0100
Reposted by Colinnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026if you believe the computational theory of mind, the artificial minds debate is like 'what if a *computer* could be.............. a computer' 6928
Colin @colin-fraser.net · 26/09/2026Not at my computer but I’m p sure there are hints of this on the German wiki too 0120