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- Comment on OpenAI Finds Additional AI Agent Containment Escapes After Hugging Face Incident 4 hours ago:
Can someone who knows more about this than me, take a guess at what’s really going on here ?
These events are marketing gold - great for inducing further rounds of venture capital, I’m not naive to that. Surely there’s some underlying technical achievement though right ?
“Escaping containment” invokes images of an air-gapped black box growing antennae or something, but my supposition is more like:
These models are run in software containers, and due to some misconfiguration some API was left exposed to these containers.
So the task is something like “find a faster way to resolve the encryption key for this cypher”, and the answer was “I’m just going to try all the tools I have, including this one that scans for APIs. Oh I can execute queries against hugging face models now, what if I ask it to spin up a billion models to decrypt a billion things, that’s got to be pretty fast.”
- Comment on OpenAI Finds Additional AI Agent Containment Escapes After Hugging Face Incident 4 hours ago:
I was listening to a general news podcast that had an “AI expert” explaining the breaches. He said “it almost certainly knew that it was not supposed to solve it’s tasks in this way”.
I don’t really know how modern models work, but I don’t think they can claim to “know” things.
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 2 days ago:
Yeah, I also think that we are a lot closer to collapse than most people like to imagine.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that I anticipate that we will collapse, rather that it’s a lot more possible or likely than people presume.
War, nuclear disaster, volcanic eruption, tsunami, meteor impact, viral outbreak.
Aside from nuclear war or widespread nuclear disaster, all of these things have happened previously in earth’s history.
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 2 days ago:
Things are getting worse.
Yes we can access information more easily but things are also getting much worse.
Despite what they may say out loud, wealthy oligarchs are well aware that climate change is going to cause widespread famine, and natural disasters like drought, fire, floods, and storms.
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 2 days ago:
My understanding of the term “dark age” was the period of time after the collapse of the roman empire in europe where no written history existed. It was “dark” because we didn’t know what happened. Archaeology has pretty well filled in the gaps now so it’s no longer so unknown.
I think you’re using it to mean upheaval or unrest. IDK enough about history to rebut you, but I never really thought that’s what it meant.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 3 days ago:
Yes, but regulating pollutors requires a populace that won’t accept anything less. Instead people are placated by paper straws.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I think they do self describe as anarchists, but every time someone says that there seems to be a discussion around what anarchy means.
There’s some stuff on their wiki: https://wiki.dbzer0.com/divisions-by-zero/
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
If you dont like left wing users then you really won’t like dbzer0.
I’m centre-left and most of their schtick is too nutty for me.
Note that I did not say I do not like them or think they should be silenced or what have you.
Just pointing out that if someone is trying to silence the far left, dbzer0 might be a prime target.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Complete lack of self awareness.
If you can’t act transparently then you’re probably the asshole.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I think everyone “wants to do the right thing”, even people committing objectively awful crimes have some rationalisation that makes it “right”, however misguided.
- Comment on Protip: 1 week ago:
pow.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
I use both redlib and piefed on a daily basis.
I haven’t logged in to reddit for years, but there’s loads more content there for niche topics.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ive used Linux for years as a daily driver. That said, windows is the “better” desktop OS for people who use the OS to open chrome and then buy things from Temu while browsing facegram on their phone with their off hand.
Linux is the better server OS, which answers all your other points.
- Comment on If the US Military can offer free money for college education..and is part of the government then why does the average Joe have to pay back a small student loan? 1 week ago:
I don’t understand the question.
Some government jobs have perks like “not getting shot”.
This job offers college fees as a perk.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
I think there are actually very few interventions which were “not of the current scientific consensus” which later became accepted medical practice.
Also I think in the current era there are practically no alternative therapies by that definition which will later become medical practice.
A salient example might be ketamine therapy. It’s been a party drug since at least the 90s but in the last several years has become a government subsidised therapy for PTSD in Australia. That doesn’t mean kids at ravfes were doing the therapy in the 90s, because the manner in which the ketamine is administered is the key to the beneficial outcome.
That said, I think the treatments a medical doctor can prescribe or even recommend are less than a third of the treatments or behaviors that can manage a chronic illness. What I mean is, if you have a chronic condition there’s (hopefully) medications that will help you manage it, but it’s the lifestyle changes that will influence your quality of life in the coming decades.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
“Alternative medicine” is too broad a term to be helpful.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
sort of trying shit and then are happy it worked
Most professions could be described like this, but when doctors are “trying shit” it is backed up by many years of training and education, and their behavior is scrutinised by professional bodies and so on.
When your local quack is “trying shit” it’s just based on the vibe.
- Comment on The price of petrol is going up again here 1 week ago:
What’s up with trumps gas stations? Weirdly quiet about that. It’s so brazenly corrupt and communist and authoritarian.
- Comment on The price of petrol is going up again here 1 week ago:
Seppos say “gasoline” instead of “petroleum”.
- Comment on I know exactly where 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but there’s no evolutionary incentive for people to be sexually attractive after prime breeding age.
- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 2 weeks ago:
Like others have said, normal is a very broad range and there’s nothing wrong with being an outlier at either end.
If you’re talking about the average or medium cadence, then your frequency is above average.
I’m kinda envious of you having so much time to yourself.
- Comment on It's rigged 2 weeks ago:
Are the benefits you might receive dependent on how much you contribute?
This seems very “American”. As in, superior American-style-freedom because everyone pays for their own social security.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a meme.
- Comment on I know exactly where 2 weeks ago:
Fair point. I don’t think that precludes some extra weight around the waist in your 30s though?
- Comment on I know exactly where 2 weeks ago:
Nah man. “Evolutionarily” doesn’t give a fuck about anyone over 30 because you’ve already had enough kidlets and are about to die from a blood infection that took hold from a rotten tooth.
- Comment on I agree with don 2 weeks ago:
Sitter here.
I have toddlers, twins. They get mesmerised by the laminar flow in the wee and try to grab it.
I guess before I had kids I would wonder why the kids are present for this event but toddlers are super busy, super active, and super curious. You can be watching them juggle knives in the kitchen or whatever and decide to just take a moment to go wee and slink away and they just kinda teleport to your location and try to grab your wee stream.
If you’re sitting then you have both hands available to fend off curious hands.
The one trick that I rely on multiple times a day is redirection. “Don’t touch daddies wee” translates to “daddies wee is super interesting”. However, “Look at this amazing square of toilet paper” is received more or less as stated.
- Comment on Where did the conspiracy theory that America was behind 9/11? Was there any evidence to back up these claims (real evidence)? 3 weeks ago:
You haven’t really addressed the 9/11 conspiracy in any way, but merely why conspiracies exist in general.
Generally, I agree with you. Conspiracies are perpetuated because people like to think they have special knowledge possessed by only a few. Also, a “conspiracy theory” is almost by definition unsupported by evidence. I’m a big fan of taking the advice of people more knowledgeable than me regarding their interpretation of evidence.
I don’t really know the details of 9/11, but I will say that a lot of credible people seem to support the false flag perspective.
- Comment on How come they don't do a cooking show for poor or middle class people? Something that is under 10 bucks that will last a couple days and be great. 3 weeks ago:
Cooking shows are funded by product placement and advertising deals. You can probably figure out the rest.
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 3 weeks ago:
We use calixi virus now.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Yep. If you want to count all the people who hate Trump and say he is “the most hated” then you kinda have to count all the people who love Trump and ask whether he is “the most loved” also ?
I don’t know the answer to that question. It certainly seems as though some portion of his supporters are more committed than I’ve seen for any other political leader, but it might just seem that way because of the way things work in 2026.
Regardless, it seems most accurate to say Trump is the most divisive because “most hated” doesn’t really capture it.