In 1985, Carl Sagan sat before the US Senate and described the weather of 2026. Not as a prediction. As physics.
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A 28-year-old technician at an "anti-plague institute" reportedly broke a tube containing plague pathogen on September 25. She died October 1 or 2.
Nearly 200 people are now in medical isolation
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El bárbaro del ministro de Justicia, Cancino, dice que el piloto no es para ver qué le pasa al ser humano, sino a la mata, y que la gente se aparte. Lo que olvida este señor es que el químico no pide permiso: se lo lleva el viento, cae al agua, al plátano y a quien vive ahí y no puede "hacerse a un lado".
Por Dios, qué tipo de gente estúpida nos gobierna.
As a behavioural specialist working with executive groups internationally for over 30 years on contentious issues such as deaths in the workplace, acquisitions, work-related suicides, and environmental disasters, I’ve worked closely with many high-functioning dark personalities (eg malignant narcissists, psychopaths) and their victims. I’ve also been targeted by them for many years.
Here are 6 things I have learnt from my firsthand experience with human predators
1. Human predators will go to places ‘normal’ people will never dream of going in terms of harming and disadvantaging others.
2. The relentlessness involved in a human predator’s campaign to destroy someone is next level.
3. Human predators have facades which they often engineer to perfection. The mask might be caring, helpful, contributing, or shared experience. They are ridiculously good at the pretence while taking actions that harm individuals, groups, communities, or countries for their own advantage.
4. When they lose control of a situation, the dark side of a predator is more apparent, and this is when others are at most risk.
5. Some human predators are very outgoing, some are quiet, some seek a lot of attention, some like to stay in the shadows, but they are all the same in the way that they harm. It’s like they all go to university for human predators and study the same subjects.
6. There are far, far, far more of them than we realise. The higher-functioning ones harm more covertly by ruining people's careers, social fabric, and ultimately their sense of self and confidence, by blocking their choices, by smearing their reputations, by controlling their choices in the most manipulative of ways.
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
@MattWalshBlog You missed your calling as a lawyer Matt, truly. 1 woman was raping 7 men so aggressively they miraculously were able to take the time to text “free pussy” to their group chat. Somebody check this freak’s hard drive. @FBI
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