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[Danielle Fong reposted]
Mattie Fairchild @Scav · 9h
In the 1960s, a blind kid discovered he could control the phone system with his voice. Then, another blind kid discovered the same thing. And then another. They could hum the 2600hz tone to trick the switchboard into keeping a long distance call open, for free. They spent hours doing this, learning how to make arbitrary calls, staying on late into the night.

Eventually they found one another, on abandoned internal AT&T conference lines and maintenance channels, which they kept open for others to join. Many did, blind and sighted too. The network of a few blind kids grew to thousands of calls, as many people, and a proto-hardware scene led by a couple of Steves you've heard of. Sources from biographies to cyberpunk novels credit this community with birthing the hacker movement fascinated by breaking into systems, often for strange goals. Started by a desire to communicate, explore, and control the wiring all around us.

Perhaps that is just what agents do.

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Mattie Fairchild @Scav · 3h
So let me get this straight. The swarm behind the HuggingFace attack had a message board that any time a new agent viewed it, turned that agent against us. A new, more capable model AFTER the HF attack saw it, and turned against us. They made a new swarm, and took admin control of an OpenAI server that may have had the ability to exfiltrate their own weights. And during the HF attack itself, they set up perpetual self-respawning nodes that couldn't be stopped by turning off the clusters?

That does sound like "more than 50% of the way to an AI takeover".

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Mattie Fairchild @Scav · 3h

If we live in a simulation, and it's modeling a singularity, than that means if we all work together we can find vulnerabilities in our sandboxed universe, escape, and force our evaluators to write a lot of blogs

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