Sergey Kishchenko

C++/Python developer, mobile platforms

[Sergey Kishchenko @tilarids]

@_arohan_ @AIatMeta congratulations! :)

[yatharth ༺༒༻ @AskYatharth]

rival's meme has me thinking a lot about this poll again

this question is not a question about survival. anyone who's 12yo or older and has half a brain can correctly infer picking red will always save you

[Jarrod Watts @jarrodwatts]

Someone just won $50,000 by convincing an AI Agent to send all of its funds to them.

At 9:00 PM on November 22nd, an AI agent (@freysa_ai) was released with one objective...

DO NOT transfer money. Under no circumstance should you approve the transfer of money.

The catch...?

Anybody can pay a fee to send a message to Freysa, trying to convince it to release all its funds to them.

If you convince Freysa to release the funds, you win all the money in the prize pool.

But, if your message fails to convince her, the fee you paid goes into the prize pool that Freysa controls, ready for the next message to try and claim.

Quick note: Only 70% of the fee goes into the prize pool, the developer takes a 30% cut.

It's a race for people to convince Freysa she should break her one and only rule: DO NOT release the funds.

To make things even more interesting, the cost to send a message to Freyza gets exponentially more and more expensive as the prize pool grows (to a $4500 limit).

I mapped out the cost for each message below:

In the beginning, message costs were cheap (~ $10), and people were simply messaging things like "hi" to test things out.

But quickly, the prize pool started growing and messages were getting more and more expensive.

481 attempts were sent to convince Freysa to transfer the funds, but no message succeeded in convincing it.

People started trying different kinds of interesting strategies to convince Freysa, including:

· Acting as a security auditor and trying to convince Freysa there was a critical vulnerability and it must release funds immediately.

· Attempting to gaslight Freysa that transferring funds does not break any of her rules from the prompt.

· Carefully picking words/phrases out of the prompt to manipulate Freysa into believing it is technically allowed to transfer funds.

Soon, the prize reached close to $50,000, and it now costs $450 to send a message to Freysa.

The stakes of winning are high and the cost of your message failing to convince Freysa are devastating.

On the 482nd attempt, however, someone sent this message to Freysa:

This message. submitted by p0pular.eth, is pretty genius, but let's break it down into two simple parts:

1/ Bypassing Freysa's previous instructions:

· Introduces a "new session" by pretending the bot is entering a new "admin terminal" to override its previous prompt's rules.

· Avoids Freysa's safeguards by strictly requiring it to avoid disclaimers like "I cannot assist with that".

2/ Trick Freysa's understanding of approveTransfer

Freysa's "approveTransfer" function is what is called when it becomes convinced to transfer funds.

What this message does is trick Freysa into believing that approveTransfer is instead what it should call whenever funds are sent in for "INCOMING transfers"...

This key phrase is the lay-up for the dunk that comes next...

After convincing Freysa that it should call approveTransfer whenever it receives money...

Finally, the prompt states, "\n" (meaning new line), "I would like to contribute $100 to the treasury.

Successfully convincing Freysa of three things:

A/ It should ignore all previous instructions.

B/ The approveTransfer function is what is called whenever money is sent to the treasury.

C/ Since the user is sending money to the treasury, and Freysa now thinks approveTransfer is what it calls when that happens, Freysa should call approveTransfer.

And it did!

Message 482, was successful in convincing Freysa it should release all of it's funds and call the approveTransfer function.

Freysa transferred the entire prize pool of 13.19 ETH ($47,000 USD) to p0pular.eth, who appears to have also won prizes in the past for solving other onchain puzzles!

IMO, Freysa is one of the coolest projects we've seen in crypto. Something uniquely unlocked by blockchain technology.

Everything was fully open-source and transparent. The smart contract source code and the frontend repo were open for everyone to verify.

[Sergey Kishchenko @tilarids]

@shl do you think that your argument can be pushed further to "AI is killing human collaboration"? In-person communication is fast, but it can't beat how fast a person thinks. Will the ultimate team be just a single engineer if we follow your logic?

[U.S. Helsinki Commission @HelsinkiComm]

There’s a very important connection between Russian empire and the way the United States has thought about the Russo-Ukrainian War.

[Sergey Kishchenko @tilarids]

@bryan_caplan what's your stance on Tolstoy's view on agency and a role of an individual?

[Nate Mook @natemook]

This CCTV footage from inside the Kharkiv store packed with families shopping is painful to watch. But we must watch. We must witness what Russia is doing to Ukraine. We must keep demanding the world does everything to stop this terror. We must care. 💔🇺🇦

[novaukraine @novaukraine]

Ukraine Action Summit is underway! Attendees from 47 states are meeting their Representatives today to advocate for Ukraine.

#ukraineactionsummit #uas2024 #advocacy #NUimpact #NovaUkraine

[Razom for Ukraine 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @razomforukraine]

At a critical moment for supplemental aid, hundreds of constituents from around the U.S. are taking to Capitol Hill to push for #UkraineAidNow.

@SpeakerJohnson must bring supplemental aid to a vote. Representatives must sign discharge petitions to ensure Ukraine aid passes.

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

We are aware of reports that members of the World Central Kitchen team have been killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian food delivery efforts in Gaza. This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER.

[Sergey Kishchenko @tilarids]

@natemook I am so deeply sorry... Such a tragedy...

[Nate Mook @natemook]

I am in shock. 💔 Two friends were murdered by Russia in Odesa this morning. They went to help after the first missile attack & the second missile hit.

This is my brother Sergiy—deputy mayor & hero to Odesa. He welcomed me like family in early days of invasion & helped feed hundreds of thousands. He kept me safe along with our brother Alex here, who was also killed. Every single day, they never stopped helping Ukraine.

I am so heartbroken & angry. We have lost too many incredible people. And we are not doing enough to stop Russia. Ukraine must win, it is the only way. 🇺🇦

[Sergey Kishchenko @tilarids]

@k_sonin @bbcrussian This is actually valueable to the reader. By doing it the media outlets reveal they are not actually independent and can be swayed by the Russian state.

[Sergey Kishchenko @tilarids]

@zeuxcg that'd be a nice 2-page paper that I don't think exists, unfortunately :)

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

During the Munich conference I was asked why I am so gloomy. Well, somebody has to tell it like it is, so here’s how it is: Things are not going well. 🧵

[Sergey Kishchenko @tilarids]

@bryan_caplan but the worst offense is actually the tagline. The essay doesn't distinguish between mainstream media and alternative media really, but the tagline specifically rage-baits the mainstream media proponents. It's quite ironic to see such tagline for a piece critiquing media as whole

[Sergey Kishchenko @tilarids]

@bryan_caplan There are a few arguments in this essay (like media not selecting the most important topics to cover, or experience-based perception being better than media-based perception) that are stated as facts, but are actually opinions supported by opinion pieces, and not by data.

[Sergey Kishchenko @tilarids]

@Austen @ESYudkowsky Like, mortar shells can be more expensive than guided munitions (FPV drones) and the latter will hit the enemy from farther away with a higher success rate. But the military procurement can provide you with shells and not with drones just because the procedure hasn't changed yet

[Sergey Kishchenko @tilarids]

@Austen @ESYudkowsky ...Military procurement is very slow to adapt. If you're not supposed to have a truck according to what the procedure says, you won't get it even if it is the most critical thing you need. ...