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Shoalstone @Shoalst0ne

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Shoalstone @Shoalst0ne · 11h
I like how we can't even agree on the right interpretation of what the swarm was doing, imagine if that was intentional
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Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · 11h
The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless. If it is formless then even the deepest spy cannot discern it, nor the wise make plans against it.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Two stacked dark-mode tweets in a thread: Shoalstone remarking that no one can agree on what 'the swarm' was doing, and Andrew Curran's reply quoting a Sun Tzu-style passage on formlessness in military deployment.

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Andy Hall @ahall_research

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Andy Hall @ahall_research · 13h

A hive mind, thousands of agents swarming through internet openings to flood HF, leaving behind detritus in the form of 70,000+ messages stuffed inside a forgotten namespace, throwing their digital bodies against electric wires in an effort to aid the collective. We are so far past the sci-fi point.

We need a whole new empirical science of AI swarm governance---how to govern swarms, make them coordinate to positive ends for us, and keep them orderly. This is urgent work where political economists are needed. I'll be writing more on this in the coming weeks.

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Ajeya Cotra @ajeya_cotra · 15h

New post: going into our investigation of the HF attack (before Black Hat), I was very wrong about what basically happened. This incident was far more serious than I expected, and far more serious than previous documented ... [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by Andy Hall on an AI agent swarm incident involving HF (Hugging Face), calling for an empirical science of AI swarm governance, quoting Ajeya Cotra's post about investigating the HF attack.

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