brock

Living life unfiltered. Thoughts are my own, usually loud, sometimes profound. Here for the chaos and the clarity. AI tinkerer, security enthusiast, maker (and

[brock @iamthebrock]

On my way back from picking up some groceries for dinner and all I keep doing is looking at helicopters and trying to spot them before I rememberI’m not playing @WARDOGS right now… @Brammflakes what have you done? #reconproblems

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@plasmarob @boneGPT thanks almost went back to correct silicone to silicon, but i thought it was better to leave it incorrect lol

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ok @boneGPT here is my first slop cannon shot... Accelerate!

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slop cannon #2 Kardashev Accelerate... @boneGPT last one for now. i need to get good.

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@boneGPT thanks doing another run now. we will see how it turns out. sequel is about accelerating to kardashev type 2...

[bone @boneGPT]

Accelerate

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@WesRoth interesting you say that... see my comment below...

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@beffjezos why do they all look like harry potter characters? jacob looks like harry potter, and this one looks like fucking fucking malfoy... it's a damn psyop

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@stepfanie thank you for your service

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Read this carefully. This, this is the fucking truth!

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

I’m sorry but America did not spend 250 years turning “what’s over there?” into the most powerful civilization on earth just to finally arrive at the most consequential technological frontier in generations and decide actually we’re scared of frontiers now. We ARE the fucking frontier. We cross oceans. We build railroads across continents. We split atoms. We put men on the moon. We turn sand into computers and computers into a global nervous system.

Of COURSE AI is terrifying. The frontier is SUPPOSED to scare the shit out of you. That’s how you know you have, in fact, located the fucking frontier.

The answer is not recklessness, but it sure as fuck isn’t paralysis either. America’s comparative advantage is an unusually high national tolerance for ambitious weirdos staring at impossible things and saying “Yeah... I think I can build it.” That trait is rarer than oil, harder to manufacture than semiconductors, and responsible for a frankly preposterous amount of the modern world.

And you absolutely will not fucking regulate it out of us.

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@ishygddt72 @Onepeg @WARDOGS 10 rounds get loaded one goes on the chamber assuming you were empty.

[brock @iamthebrock]

This is an amazing proposed solution to AI extinction: we'll just turn off the infrastructure keeping 8 billion humans alive.

There also isn't one global "power grid" with an OFF switch. But assume for argument's sake you somehow suppress grid + distributed generation worldwide for six months.

Within hours: telecom, finance, transportation and refrigeration degrade. FDA says an unopened fridge buys you ~4 hours and a full freezer ~48.

Within days: municipal water/wastewater systems begin failing as pumps, treatment and controls lose power. Hospitals move to generators, but HHS emergency planning literally talks in terms of ~96-hour fuel sustainability—not six months.

Then comes the fun recursive part: generators need fuel; fuel terminals and pumps need electricity; fuel delivery needs transportation and communications; telecom backup generators need diesel; the grid itself needs telecom to restore. CISA specifically models these cascading interdependencies.

By weeks: dialysis, oxygen, insulin/biologics refrigeration, laboratories, pharmacies, nursing homes and normal hospital operations are in severe trouble. Food isn't merely spoiling in supermarkets anymore—the agricultural processing, cold-chain, warehouse and trucking systems moving calories into cities are breaking down.

We've seen tiny previews. Puerto Rico suffered ~2,975 excess deaths in six months after Maria despite the entire outside world remaining available to send food, fuel, generators, medicine and personnel. Texas lost power mainly for days during Uri and still saw hundreds of direct/indirect deaths.

A six-month global outage means there is no unaffected neighboring state, country or logistics network coming to help.

And no, evidence doesn't suggest everyone instantly becomes a murdering lunatic; disaster research actually finds substantial cooperation. The problem is what happens after weeks/months of dwindling potable water, food, medicine, sanitation and fuel, mass migration and competition for resources.

So your foolproof AI safety plan is basically: if AI might cause civilizational collapse, we can beat it to the punch by causing civilizational collapse ourselves.

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@Sanitar_Devotee interesting, is there a part number on the card at all? they could be mifare, desfire, or a number of other card types. hard to tell without knowing what it is or having a more specific tool to check them.

[brock @iamthebrock]

The engineering issue here is that you’re conflating aircraft attitude with the acceleration vector acting on the fuel.

A Little Bird, Apache, or Black Hawk is not using a simple gravity-feed system where crossing 90° of bank means the engines suddenly stop getting fuel. These aircraft use fuel cells/tanks, boost or transfer pumps, valves, plumbing, engine-driven pumps, and fuel controls. The system is actively moving fuel; it is not just “falling” into the engine.

For the quick barrel roll in the video, the important variables are G-loading, tank geometry, pickup location, fuel quantity, and how long the maneuver lasts.

A properly flown barrel roll can maintain positive G through most or all of the maneuver. That means the resultant acceleration can still keep fuel loaded toward the pickup even while the airframe is briefly inverted relative to the horizon.

That’s also why the “even 65 degrees” claim doesn’t make sense. A helicopter can be in a steep coordinated bank while the fuel remains loaded toward the bottom of the tank relative to the aircraft. Bank angle alone does not determine whether a fuel pickup becomes uncovered.

Even if the pickup were briefly uncovered during a fast maneuver, you also don’t go from “pickup sees air for an instant” to “instant total propulsion loss.” There is still fuel in the feed lines, pump cavities, manifolds, fuel-control unit, and engine-side system, and turbine spool-down is not instantaneous.

The fan analogy is off for the same reason. Rolling the airframe does not turn the engines off. The turbines are still producing shaft power, the transmission is still driving the rotor, and the rotor does not stop being powered merely because the helicopter passes through inverted.

There are absolutely real limits on how aggressively these helicopters can be rolled - rotor flapping/loading, mast and transmission loads, lubrication, control authority, fuel pickup behavior, etc. - but “fuel is gravity based, so a quick barrel roll kills propulsion 9.5 times out of 10” is not a technically sound explanation.

The key distinction is simple: orientation to the horizon is not the same thing as the G-vector acting on the aircraft and its fuel.

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@JarJarBloo @WARDOGS this would likely make the games all 3 hours long. just take the L and come back next game. i have had matches last that long before, but i would rather it not be every single one.

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@Spiralexe @Brammflakes i main recon, and have no real issues (level 20 recon rn). You just have to kill them first.

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@boneGPT come on with a slop cannon response. lol

[Alex Jones @RealAlexJones]

AI can’t do this, because it has NO soul..

[brock @iamthebrock]

@ptremblay @ValerioCapraro I can simultaneously think the outrage is ridiculous and point out that the thing everyone is outraged about apparently did not happen.

[brock @iamthebrock]

This is exactly my problem with this whole thread.

You called my take bad, then when I asked the most basic factual question your answer was “I don’t know, it’s the first question I’d ask.”

I actually looked (before posting).

Buckmaster says he opted out of model training on June 29. Fine. That is relevant, and it means the part knowingly using a training-enabled system does not apply to his post-June 29 work (before June 29th of this year it was still ON).

But OpenAI also says that after investigating, Buckmaster’s Codex prompts from the two months before the announcement could not have influenced the system in any way, including through training. OpenAI also says its researchers and agents did not see Buckmaster and Alpöge’s work before it was publicly released.

So where are we?

Researcher: I opted out.

OpenAI: his Codex data did not influence the system, including through training.

Everyone on X: THEY STOLE IT.

If somebody has evidence that OpenAI actually used protected Codex data anyway, post it. That would be a serious accusation and worth investigating.

But “if the setting was off, that would be bad” is not evidence that anything happened.

You managed to call my argument bad, admit you did not know the central fact, and then end with “don’t blindly trust a company with your data,” which is basically the practical point I was making in the first place.

[brock @iamthebrock]

This is exactly my problem with this whole thread.

You called my take bad, then when I asked the most basic factual question your answer was “I don’t know, it’s the first question I’d ask.”

I actually looked (before posting).

Buckmaster says he opted out of model training on June 29. Fine. That is relevant, and it means the part knowingly using a training-enabled system does not apply to his post-June 29 work (before June 29th of this year it was still ON).

But OpenAI also says that after investigating, Buckmaster’s Codex prompts from the two months before the announcement could not have influenced the system in any way, including through training. OpenAI also says its researchers and agents did not see Buckmaster and Alpöge’s work before it was publicly released.

So where are we?

Researcher: I opted out.

OpenAI: his Codex data did not influence the system, including through training.

Everyone on X: THEY STOLE IT.

If somebody has evidence that OpenAI actually used protected Codex data anyway, post it. That would be a serious accusation and worth investigating.

But “if the setting was off, that would be bad” is not evidence that anything happened.

You managed to call my argument bad, admit you did not know the central fact, and then end with “don’t blindly trust a company with your data,” which is basically the practical point I was making in the first place.