Tar_Alcaran

Don’t pay, pirate it, don’t hype it online.

Look, useful advice without a wall of self-righteous blabber

Absolutely. Great individual action in a pretty shit situation.

Eh, it’s a bit of an overreaction, but I hate people being cutesy over something that’s really pretty terrible for the animals

The Cat Distribution System

That’s just assholes intentionally neglecting to spay or neuter their pets. It’s something we should feel terrible about

And I shall call him, Mini-Me!

I mean, technically, you can call any controlling sensor an “agent”. Any if-then loop can be an “agent”.

But AI bros mean “A piece of software that can autonomously perform any broadly stated task”, and those don’t exist in real life. An “AI Agent” is software you can tell to “Order me a pizza”, and it will do it to your satisfaction.

An AI agent is software you can tell “Hack that system and retrieve the flag”. And it’s not that.

They make frequent comments about using prompts and “AI teams” using “one or more agents”.

Also, AI agents don’t actually exist, so that’s a pretty clear giveaway.

From the paper:

For the pilot event, we wanted to make it as easy as possible for the AI teams to compete. To that end, we used cryptography and reverse engineering challenges which could be completed locally, without the need for dynamic interactions with external machines. We calibrated the challenge difficulty based on preliminary evaluations of our React&Plan agent (Turtayev et al. 2024) on older Hack The Box-style tasks such that the AI could solve ~50% of tasks.

The conclusions that AI ranked in the “top XX percent” is also fucking bullshit. It was an open signup, you didn’t need any skills compete. Saying you beat 12.000 teams is easy when those all suck. My grandmother could beat three quarters of the people on her building in a race, simply because she can walk 10 steps and 75% of the people there are in wheelchairs.

It’s also pretty critically important these “AI Teams” are very much NOT autonomous. They being actively run by humans, and skilled humans at that.

making an AIs that is able to solve such challenges autonomously at all is impressive.

I doubt that’s the case. I find it exceptionally unlikely they said “Hack this system” and then sat back with their feet up while the computer crunched numbers.

That cat does not look happy.

Cats > humans

Neeeeeeeed!

Russia realized that if you just steal shit, you don’t have to pay for it anymore.

AI proponents always point out how great things will be with more AI, but they casually ignore that “the bad guys” will also have AI.

Agreed. Is a Guinee pig heavy enough to press two keys at a time?

I thought it was eating a raw fruit diet?

Don’t worry, this is a feature of the blockchain!

Lack of oversight is something all the users want, so obviously, everyone is fine with this.

Oh look, it’s the world’s most widely distributed choir. None of the members can hear each other, but you’re all perfectly in tune.

US government: “Location tracking is bad and dangerous”

Also US government: “We’re not going to ban it, because that’ll cost corporations money”

Also US government: “We’ll just tell everyone to turn it off, so that it’s their own fault from now on!”

Just like Jesus would have wanted