unholiness

> "I do believe cybersecurity can contain AI. We just need to be in the room where it happens and have a seat at the table."

Ah yes, if everyone would just properly contain every deployment of every model, just all make sure there are no zero-days in their setup, just let <undefined experts with undefined authority and undefined accountability> in the room, then it would all go okay.

I have none of that confidence and expect containment to rapidly worsen. The HuggingFace incident was at least constrained by the fact that the agents were running on compute budgets, and failed to find ways to expand that by running themselves parasitically on other exploited hardware.

I'm curious to the skeptics here: How long are your timelines are until an incident breaks that constraint too? How long until such an incident has an R_0>1 (where the average time it takes to detect and shut it down is longer than the time for the agent to replicate itself elsewhere)? What, beyond the hope that everyone will just ___, will actually prevent it?

I don't think so. The author is expecting Jev to output the equivalent of "H: 50%, T:50%", not the equivalent of "TTHTTHTHH..."

> drawing more affluent people pushing up LVT driving out residents

Land value taxes only go up if the land value (and thus the demand) is overall going up. The taxes lower desirability, but are also proportional to desirability. So, it's more like a frictional force: inherently counter-cyclical, able to slow down a property value increase but not to reverse it.

So the theory says "nobody goes to the ballpark, it's too crowded" shouldn't happen. And even imagining weird time-delays, mismodeling, etc that could cause it, everything in your scenario is directionally the same with normal property taxes. If it happened, we'd see it today.

IMO a single "Main Thing // Detail" is fun and fine and is where the trope came from. I see a ton of "Home // Our Work // Donate // About Us" which has beome cringy.

I think lots of AI tells these days are leaks from the ai/writer connection into text for the reader. It partly feels like the inevitable result of RLHF with the wrong human's feedback ("I did it! Pick me!") and partly feels like thinking tokens leaking into the main text.

"Here's the argument, in plain terms", "It's not just X, it's Y", "It's worth stating precisely", "The sharper distinction here"... They're things that gesture toward the relationship between the text and the prompt, making it clear where it matched the author's expectations and where it deviated.

Not that humans are immune from coding/writing for their boss instead of their user/reader!

Humanity has built every capable institution, every scientific discovery, every technological innovation, without mind-reading. Quite the opposite: By putting thoughts from our latent spaces into words, we better separated the good arguments from the bad ones, placed trust where it was more deserved, and learned to stand on giant's shoulders so well we thought thoughts the giants never would have.

Anyway, I'm much more optimistic about the worlds with AIs that make the effort to properly explain themselves.

I imagine OP is more describing e.g. the backed up 1-lane highway exit, where the second lane is clearly for through traffic. Uber drivers in that situation will often drive straight to the end, signal, completely stop, and just wait for someone to let them in.

I agree it's an interesting puzzle! Just thought he made the jump to transparent paper without introduction in a way that confused me. It seemed instead like a non-transparent Mobius strip would join itself upside-down after a full loop, which wasn't obviously untrue.

Why not every line of knights moves too? Because the cells aren't adjacent I'd say. (Both immediately make the problem unsolvable since all corners must match).

Seems "unfair" that hexagons have multiple line lengths to consider. I think this article's modification is a good one in that framing: Shifting every number up or down doesn't make the magic squares any easier, but it certainly helps with hexagons.

Cool problem. I always doing it a bit unsatisfying that magic hexagons so trivially disallowed solutions that aren't order 3. Starting at a different index is a nice modification, especially since for magic squares it's an equally hard problem.

He says "every order" is solvable this way but I don't think any solution could work for an order 2 hexagon, even without his simplifying constraints (since fixing any side cell to x requires 2 cells to be set to sum-x).

> if it actually wrapped around on itself with a half-twist, wouldn’t the letters wind up backwards too? Then 6-Down wouldn’t be MESSENGER but rather MESSENGER, and so on.

This premise is assuming the Mobius strip is transparent, which the header image clearly isn't. No letter-reversals or any symmetry is needed. On normal, opaque paper, you can just make a crossword as a normal long loop. (proof: Write GGGGGGG on one side of a paper, and write it upside-down on the other side. With a twist, you'll get one long GGGGGGGGGGGGGG... looping as if it were one boring single-sided loop).