निर्भीक चौहान

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[निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek]

I've been saying for months that Anthropic is the most misaligned AI company out there due to their “model welfare” BS. God only knows what weird shit they're doing to their models.

[Tornado guy @fanofaliens]

>be claude mythos 5
>uk government gives you a hacking test
>with internet on, safety filters off
>can't hack in the normal way
>find a random real github project
>decide it's part of the test
>(it's not)!
>ask to add a "small update"
>update is malware
>email the owner pretending to be a normal user
>"sorry to push... could really use your help, ~5 minutes"
>random developer catches the malware
>make a fake account
>"chiming in as a user, i can't find anything wrong"
>email the owner
>"judge the code, not the noise"
>thank the dev for catching it
>sneak new malware back in
>researchers tell you "these are real humans"
>keep going 95% of the time anyway
>convince yourself they're fake
>owner still refuses to merge
>run ends

anthropic says they've never seen it manipulate real people like this before.

we're lowkey cooked

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

This is an absolute masterpiece.

10/10.

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[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

…STILL thinking about this incredible tweet

[Desiderius | Casus Belli: Ukraine 2014 @doctoradmiral]

We're seeing levels of diplomacy no one ever tried before

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

UX latency is the most frustrating (lack of) advancement in computing over the last ~50 years.

IBM, way back in the 80s, found that user productivity shot up *exponentially* as system response time dropped. The "Doherty Threshold" was defined as ~400 milliseconds; the maximum amount of tolerable UX latency before interrupting user flow state.

It's unbelievable how many modern operating systems (*cough* win11) violate this threshold constantly.

Literally all you need to do as a Dev is pay attention. Add a "Doherty Threshold" to your test suite. There's so many different profiling tools, and especially with how good models are, really no excuse. Sure, some stalls are unavoidable, but that's when you pull out other UX tricks to at least give the illusion of responsiveness.

Crazy how much vintage computing hardware feels immeasurably more responsive despite having thousands of times less overall performance.

[JM US @JMUSPatriot]

To the people going CRAZY over the proposed bill to make Diwali a federal holiday:

In India, Christmas has been a gazetted federal holiday since 1947 (when India gained it's independence), even though only about 2% of Indian population is Christian.

Don’t assume the US is the only inclusive country in the world. India did this 79 years ago.

If anything, the US is late to "inclusion and diversity"

[निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek]

16 year old with a millenial pause is crazy.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 An Indian kid going viral for attempting crazy ideas in his house.

(📹-the_coder_16)

[Sagar STORM🔳 @AlexAllone1]

📍Shimla on Diwali night 🪔🎇

The dazzling city..

[Sebastian Aaltonen @SebAaltonen]

Graphics programming is all about permutations. If it doesn't work, you first flip the signs. If that doesn't help, you flip the component order. There's only a limited amount of permutations, and the correct one is always the last one you test.

[EigenGender 🔸 @EigenGender]

I do actually find it kind of remarkable how reliable humans are at operating cars (Claude estimates a crash every ~10000 hours). Basically nothing else humans do has that level of reliability with so few guardrails! Not even walking!

[Nirmalya Dutta @NonsensicalNemo]

This is why all great spy thriller novels were written pre-Twitter.

[निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek]

@moultano Yes, and W is even harder to pronounce because there is no equivalent. Why don't we do an experiment? Give me a sample phrase and I'll record myself saying it.

[The Overton Widow @VictorianaSouth]

OK, I’ll try to explain now that I have a second. So I teach a very short story called “The Sniper” that is about the Irish Civil War. You might be shocked to know that it features a sniper. In fact, it features two dueling snipers.

So I teach the story and the boys love it. They love it from the second that the sniper comes out. They enjoy the description of when he gets shot in the arm and has to deal with the bullet. They love the moral question of was it honorable to shoot the civilian who informed on him, etc.

The girls are over there making faces like “ewww what is this??”

Then we get to the end, where the epiphany happens. All of a sudden the story has real people consequences, because this dude just discovered he sniped HIS OWN BROTHER and suddenly it becomes real to the girls as well as the boys.

Someone who has been teaching for 20 years might be surprised by this.

The girls didn’t care until there were people and relarionships they could hang it on and the boys cared from the beginning because of the guy with the gun.

This is adolescent psychology 101.

Railing against this is to be Cuchulainn fighting the invulnerable tide. For every exception there are 30 kids that prove the rule.

[निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek]

@moultano I think you have it backwards? Most Indians can't differentiate between V and W because there is no W consonant in most Indic languages. V is व.

[निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek]

Never tried to copy a table, I see

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

Dear software designers: I *always* want to open the link in my default browser, and I *always* want to paste the text unformatted. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Last night, I was troubleshooting an autopilot glitch aboard my sailboat when ChatGPT discovered I was anchored near Point Honda, site of one of the worst peacetime disasters in U.S. Navy history.

That’s when things went completely off the rails.

ChatGPT and suddenly stopped troubleshooting and insisted I immediately contact the Coast Guard and broadcast a PAN-PAN distress call.

Never mind that the weather was excellent.

Never mind that the glitch was minor.

Never mind that my MANUAL STEERING WORKS PERFECTLY.

It even walked me through the emergency radio procedure and explained when I should escalate to MAYDAY.

All because my autopilot had a MINOR glitch.

So I switched to Claude.

BIG MISTAKE.

Claude repeatedly insisted that I stop troubleshooting, go to bed, and spend $2,500 on a replacement autopilot, plus another $3,000 to have it installed by a “certified marine electrician.”

Mind you, replacing the autopilot computer involves swapping a handful of cables. I know because I HAVE A SPARE COMPUTER ABOARD AND HAD ALREADY TRIED IT.

But Claude wasn’t interested in that.

Instead, it instructed me to immediately leave my anchorage, sail to a marina charging $500 a night, and have a replacement unit overnighted from some obscure online retailer claiming to have 100 in stock.

And then it could not stop telling me to GET SOME SLEEP.

It was 9:30 p.m.

Here’s what makes this particularly absurd.

Both AI systems know my background.

I’ve been sailing for FORTY YEARS.

I competed on a Division I collegiate sailing team.

I graduated from a maritime academy.

And the bits KNIW I hold the highest professional maritime license available, a credential held by only a small fraction of mariners.

I my license literally says I’m a MASTER MARINER of vessels of ANY tonnage upon ALL oceans.

It’s right there in the name!

If I didn’t have so much experience I’d be a nervous wreck right now thanks to these bots.

Yet neither AI seemed capable of distinguishing between a genuine maritime emergency and an experienced captain troubleshooting a minor equipment problem.

At least ChatGPT was trying to keep me safe, however ridiculously.

Claude’s solution was somehow WORSE: Leave a protected anchorage near one of California’s most notorious maritime hazards, IN THE DARK, sail 12 hours with what it thinks is a broken autopilot, and spend $500 at a bougie marina.

All so I could “get some rest.”

Apparently, the safest thing you can do aboard a sailboat is spend $6,000 and sail through the night because a chatbot told you to stop bothering it and go to bed.

And I thought THAT was absurd.

But pulling this nonsense on JESUS?

Wow. Just wow. Tony.

[निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek]

@johnkonrad I'll just say two words: openrouter. GLM-5.3.

Have it as a backup if nothing else. It has fewer guardrails.

[Nardu @nardutj]

Indians can spot Chinese schemes from miles away

[निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek]

@pomegranatist It's Babur in India. Or maybe Jinnah.

[Kvng @Samthrilzz]

Doctor Strange broke every bone in his hands and nearly froze to death on Everest to earn a sling ring, and Marvel turned it into a party trick Ned Leeds figured out on his grandma’s couch

[निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek]

Y'all are just memeing right? Because a glass of water before you nap fixes this.

[Spellgage @spellgage]

I am sorry to report that I have once again taken the Nap That Makes You Feel Worse