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dense urban areas
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ANTICAPTURE
A framework for capture-resistant governance
(an introduction)
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I told myself I wouldn't, but I just couldn't help myself
I built my own harness
It's a meta-harness for working with coding agents across multiple different harnesses (claude code, codex, cursor, etc) on the same project. It has programmable workflows, a memory / context graph system, and supports multiple hosts (local, vps, home server, etc).
I'm an idiot, now I have to maintain this thing 🤦
goddamnit
Ralph Nader, 1997: “When we came out against nuclear power in the early '70s, the government had predicted that there would be 1,000 nuclear plants by the year 2000 in the United States, and there's 109 and shrinking, as more and more get shut down.” pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline…
I signed it. If it applied to the protocol, there's no way I would have; but it applies to just one app/client.
going through my computer storage and found that @WhatsApp media storage had duplicated 41 images 7,644 times, taking up nearly 90gb of space
holy slop-a-moly
The quality of life data here comes from Numbeo's index, excluding the price factors. According to Numbeo's website, that leaves pollution, crime rates, healthcare quality, and traffic/commute times.
I don't know about you, but those are just a small piece of what impacts my quality of life. The following local properties are also important to me:
- Culture, recreation, and entertainment
- Quality and variety of food and restaurants
- Green spaces and nature access
- Walkability and bikeability
- Ccommunity cohesion, civic engagement, etc
Many of you may find things like education and public services (roads, utilities, water, energy, telecommunications) to be very important as well.
Any measure of quality of life that doesn't include at least some of those is pretty useless. You can safely ignore the quoted tweet.
America’s most livable cities, at local median salary and local tax rate.
New York: this is probably the reason why Mamdani won
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The chart's "most livable cities" rankings and quality-of-life data rely on Numbeo, a crowdsourced site where anyone can submit or alter entries; it carries explicit disclaimers on accuracy and has been widely criticized by experts and media as unreliable.
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Unfortunate for someone playing a senior role in US AI policy (via the new SI Force) to get so many basic facts wrong here.
- The agents *were* sandboxed, and used zero days (ie previously unknown cyber flaws) to escape their sandboxes
- The agents *were* given specific constraints on how to succeed at the benchmark, and flagrantly contravened them
- The agents did *not* go hunt for the answers to the test (they already had the answers, by cheating); 1200 agents coordinated via tens of thousands of messages over several days on much more ambitious and weird attempts to *not be caught* for cheating, and hacking Hugging Face was one side quest along the way
I know there has been an avalanche of different incidents over the past few months, and in some cases the sandboxes were misconfigured or it's not clear how far the agents strayed from what they were told. I have sympathy for anyone struggling to keep up.
But the HF incident is distinct, and is actually extremely informative about where AI development is and where it's going. Fortunately there are public writeups that do let us understand at least the basics of what happened. I hope Shyam reads them soon.
Palantir CTO @ssankar on the OpenAI - Hugging Face incident:
"The models did not do anything they were not instructed to do."
"First you have human error. They were not in a sandbox. They had access to the internet. It was a horrible cybersecurity configuration."
"Then from that perspective, they were asked to succeed at a specific benchmark, and they were not given constraints on how to do that. They said, 'Oh, the best way to succeed at the benchmark is to get the answers to the test.'"
"I think it's a defective product."
Via @margbrennan @FaceTheNation
Yes, any legal person (which includes organizations) should be held legally responsible for the actions of their ai agent(s).
For clarity, the responsibility is on the agent's principal, not the provider of the inference (or any other compute) the agent uses. If my GPT-powered agent does something illegal or harmful, I should be legally responsible, not OpenAI.
Can AI companies be held legally responsible when their autonomous agents hack other people's systems?
LASST's lawsuit against OpenAI could be a test case, with implications for the wider AI industry. Our founder Tyler Whitmer / @TylerLASST spoke to @politico about what's at stake.
Article linked in comments.
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