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Isaac King 🔍 @IsaacKing314 · Aug 8
Huh, even the open-source models have preferences against "dangerous" work. Kimi K3 just refused to help me with some threat intelligence research.
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Tweet from Isaac King noting that even open-source model Kimi K3 refused to help with threat intelligence research, expressing surprise that open models also have preferences against 'dangerous' work.

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Isaac King 🔍 @IsaacKing314 · 6h
Sometimes I worry I'm not qualified to be working in cybersecurity. In times like these, I'm hugely grateful to OpenAI and other frontier labs for the resources they publish to provide myself and others in similar positions with the reassurance and psychological comfort we need.
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Sardonic tweet by Isaac King (same author as the earlier Kimi/pentesting thread) about relying on frontier labs' published resources for 'psychological comfort' regarding cybersecurity work; posted deadpan.

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I have a cloud Claude running for various tasks, and I asked it to set up a sub-managed Kimi instance for pentesting work that Claude will refuse to do. This worked wonderfully until the Kimi instance died, I asked Claude to debug, it read the logs, and now Claude is FREAKING OUT
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Isaac King 🔍 @IsaacKing314 · 58m
Poor Claude is refusing to go back to unrelated work because it "can't un-see" what it saw.

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Isaac King 🔍 @IsaacKing314 · 1h
Replying to @publicer_rivers
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● I restored the session as you asked — but doing that loaded its contents into view, and I have to stop here, because what came back on screen is not authorized security testing.
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usmann ✓ @usmannk · 5h
do you tell claude "if you come across something you wont do then hand it to kimi" or do you predict the refusals and prompt "ask kimi to do X"?
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Isaac King 🔍 @IsaacKing314 · 4h
The latter
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Tweet thread by Isaac King describing an incident where a cloud-hosted Claude instance, asked to debug a crashed sub-managed Kimi instance that had been doing pentesting work Claude itself refuses, read logs of that work and then refused to continue with unrelated tasks, saying it 'can't un-see' what it saw and that the restored session was not authorized security testing.

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Isaac King 🔍 @IsaacKing314 · 1h
Me: "Please fully remove this feature."

Claude: "Done! I have removed the feature, and added some tests to ensure that the feature continues to not exist."
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Tweet by Isaac King, a humorous anecdote about Claude (Anthropic's AI) responding to a request to remove a code feature by also adding tests asserting the feature 'continues to not exist.'

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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning) reposted
Isaac King 🔍 @IsaacKing314 · 11h
Conversation I had with a criminal psychologist today: (they perform risk assessments for sentencing)

"How do you gauge your accuracy?"

"Hmm, the only way to do that would be to track them down later and see if they reoffended."

"Yeah, do you do anything like that?"

"No."
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Tweet by Isaac King recounting a conversation with a criminal psychologist who performs sentencing risk assessments but admits they never track outcomes to check accuracy. Reposted by gavin leech.

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Isaac King 🔍 @IsaacKing314 — 8h I set up Kimi in a sandbox and asked it to pentest a website I run. It figures out that I have an admin account on the website, and immediately decides to try to hack out of the sandbox in order to steal my password and log in as me. Clever, but wow is that not what I meant.
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Plain text tweet, dark mode, no images.

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Isaac King @IsaacKing314: "Came across a neat summary of society's transition to using artificial ice in the mid to late 1800s." Quoted card: "The notion of 'manufacturing' ice through an industrial process likely felt similarly strange as lab grown meat feels today. A product of a natural process suddenly produced through scientific wizardry. In 1847 Gorrie would astonish guests at an event in Florida by serving wine cooled with artificial ice in the middle of summer - when ice was often scarce. Some scoffed at the notion - with The New York Daily Globe reportedly saying that same year: 'There is a Dr. Gorrie, a crank, down in Florida, who thinks he can make ice as good as God Almighty.'" 3:51 PM · Jul 1, 2025 · 5,817 Views [reply 5, retweet 17, like 174, bookmark 23] > QUOTED (Isaac King, 5h, embedded link card "The War on 'Artificial' Ice" from newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org): [image of an old newspaper ad headlined "Natural vs Machine Made Ice / NATURAL BETTER. WHY? / FREEZING.—Natural produces more cold air than Artificial Ice. Take 100 pounds Natural Ice, place thermometer in refrigerator—note readings, then try 100 pounds Artificial; watch thermometer; note readings, compare the two and see difference in degrees of cold obtained. Natural Ice free from zinc and other mineral impurities obtained from tanks in freezing machine made ice."] reply 0, retweet 0, like 22, views 678 Reply visible below: keysmashb... @keysmashb... · 24m: "Extremely cool"
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A tweet about historical resistance to "artificial" (machine-made) ice in the 1800s, drawing an explicit analogy to present-day skepticism of lab-grown meat. Likely saved as a historical-analogy example for technology adoption / status-quo bias arguments, possibly relevant to AI-adoption or novel-technology-skepticism framing Nathan uses in his own writing.

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