I guess some like the humor here? Whenever the will programmers be replaced question comes up, I skim global market job stats/details, then reply with a tongue-in-cheek variant of: I thought, like farmers, we replaced them already (ap, hmi). You can’t replace what isn’t really there?

It was a painful search, but I finally found the video. I had an odd deja vu experience skimming these sandbox escape headlines. Almost a decade ago experts were already exploring the realistic expectations/implications of having/needing to sandbox ‘a malevolent AI’.

That discussion was awfully optimistic though. Sandboxing has inherit limitations, but increased friction usually incentivizes little to none. I still think ‘malevolent humans’ physically/quietly attached to a network are far more scary though. AIs are haphazardly rowdy, pushy, and loud.

I was asked many times before. And no, I don’t actually use Reddit or Twitter/X! Last time I “perused” Twitter/X the “tweets” were seemingly inaccessible anyway. I hope Reddit follows suit or even better yet, becomes login only (pretty please).

Governments and other truly open/public entities should wise up and future proof themselves already. Maybe it’s already happening?

In fact, I quickly prototyped this theme mainly to show that it’s probably not that hard. “Agents” are kind of a thing now. There are no more excuses.

I tried to make that post land on April 1st to make it more confusing but got busy and messed up. For the sporadic peruser, every other day is April Fools day anyway. (: