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Good thing you brought it up then

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Your threat model is now “AI is dangerous because humans might redirect GPS-guided drones”?

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Yet again “no fingers” ≠ “no fingers capable of doing the job”

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They launched a thing they had total control over towards a bunch of vulnerable targets and chose not to limit or monitor where it was going or what it was doing. If I wrote a script to hack Medicare’s servers I’d be sent to jail, even if I included some RNGs to randomize which server got hacked

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How’s a chatbot wheel a generator, transmitter, and antenna out into a field somewhere and start them all up?

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2) They’re profoundly, qualitatively different things. GPS spoofing is just shouting fake GPS satellite signals that overwhelm the real ones and ANY GPS receiver in the vicinity thinks it’s somewhere else

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Specialised manufacturing robots is exactly my point. They’re built by people, and designed specifically for a specialised task. No AI is going to conjure up some drone-building specialised manufacturing robot from the æther

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1) So the rogue cruise missile attacked the hospital? 2) Spoofing GPS signals is not hacking, and profoundly different to hacking a website

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1) Again not what I said and not equivalent to what I said 2) I don’t know. Did they? What does “hack” mean in this context?

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If you stop reading partway through a sentence it doesn’t mean what the whole sentence meant. A robot capable of bumbling through a kitchen and sometimes managing to open a drawer isn’t capable of assembling a drone, regardless whether it *has* fingers. The fingers can’t do what would be required

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You’re making up a limitless AI god running on hardware that hasn’t been and won’t be built

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If I fire a guided missile at your town but don’t watch where it’s going and it hits the hospital, it would be a lie to say “a rogue missile attacked the hospital in your town”

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OpenAI hacked the Medicare servers, using one of their LLMs which they gave instructions to and then deliberately didn’t limit or monitor what it was doing.

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Like I said, AI doesn’t have the fingers it needs to do the work you’re afraid it will do

Limitations include Astra's latency, overheating finger servos, and high compute costs. The code is on GitHub. Earler benchmarks showed Astra's greatly…

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Datacenters exist, of course. The datacenters capable of running the nonexistent AIs you imagine don’t. That is, the datacenters that exist are not sufficient to run your magically capable AI

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And “drone factories” involve many hundreds of thousands of human fingers that your made-up AI doesn’t have, all doing human finger things your made-up AI couldn’t do even if it had them

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The datacenters needed to host and run the (nonexistent) AIs above don’t exist, except on paper and won’t be built because the money is running out, and even then aren’t capable of the above - especially at scale.

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The AIs *capable of hacking into some dude’s FPV drone controller, manufacturing a bunch of drone parts, assembling them, putting them down outside somewhere to launch from, and then flying them to a target* don’t exist

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That’s… not at all what I said? Bad things happen and are likely to continue happening but that’s no basis to assume some different and implausible (impossible) other bad thing will happen

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Now, jerk human outsources targeting and engagement decisions to AI and gets people killed? That does and will happen. But it’s just jerk humans killing other humans with extra steps

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Found the guy who doesn’t know how FPV drones work

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These are AIs and their subagents running in datacenters that don’t and won’t exist? And flying millions of drones assembled by millions of fingers that AI doesn’t and won’t ever have? Forgive me if I don’t lose sleep over that.

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No idea but if I were to guess it would be more specifically “Strix” (an owl genus - one of two) that were protected rather than owl in general www.synspective.com/satellite/sa...

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Policing in the US is insane. City police? University/campus police? Australian police are all state police. Doesn’t matter if you commit a crime on campus, in the CBD, three hours away in rural nowheresville - it’s all the same police who handle it (imperfectly sure, but nothing like in the USA)

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They really like owls www.synspective.com/satellite/la...

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Izaak @izaaak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They’ve been around a while. Using Rocket Lab Electrons to launch their constellation for some years now

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I can see it being harder for people who’ve never seen a kookaburra but those who have know the answer without hesitation

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Izaak @izaaak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every single day, the US gets more and more like Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up.

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Izaak @izaaak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lockheed Martin looking at OpenAI and Anthropic realising how much money they can save on test ranges for their cruise missiles, and that they can just pop them off in any old direction and don’t really even have to pay much attention to where they end up

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Catering to dour sadsacks and having boring, bureaucratic, legally impregnable, precise wording would instead limit the spread of the message - and that’s bad for everyone because the safety messages are good and should be shared widely

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Their whole bit is absurdism as a vehicle for sincere safety communications. The nature of absurdism though leaves open the risk of dour sadsacks being able to invent malicious meaning from the message.

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The post I quoted was in response to people asking about the distance from the window to the barrel in precisely the same tongue-in-cheek spirit as the original post. If you insist on inferring malice from all of CPSC’s posts you’ll be able to. But none is actually implied.

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None of that is implied here. The only message is “remove things from your baby’s crib which are a risk” and it’s a good one. Everything else you inferred came from you, not from CPSC

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