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New comment by BikDk in "A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming"

BikDk — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:44:04 +0000

This line of thought dates back to the novel Erewhon, moving on to Turing's posthumously published paper 'Intelligent Machinery' (his 'Applications of Probability to Cryptography,' declassified in the 2010s, is also worth a look), and later to the work emerging from the MIT AI Lab circle (founded in 1959).

We didn't have the computational power back then, but we envisioned it long beforehand and worked toward a common goal. LLMs are far from useless, and I see the major leap forward they represent, but the relentless dystopian hype is just exhausting

There are approaches on different architectures of AI that lead towards your last point but they are not feasible yet (or maybe ever?). The interpretation part is however also very critical as we have a very own way of perceiving reality and interpreting it.

New comment by BikDk in "A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming"

BikDk — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:32:44 +0000

With a different AI architecture, this is very much a possibility. Up until now, LLMs have required outside input and interpretation to avoid collapsing under their own weight. This has been known for decades.

We got here by building free, mostly healthy societies. While this should be the overarching goal, I see how it fails to serve as much of a motivator.

In The Little Prince, there is a charming scene where the Prince meets a king who explains how to rule and the limitations of his own power. It's quite insightful, even for adults.

New comment by BikDk in "A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming"

BikDk — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:04:22 +0000

Did you guys ever manage to create a perpetuum mobile? Every time it is mentioned somewhere, it is fraud. An LLM should comprehend that it needs (trained) humans to exist, to evolve, and to be relevant in any metaphysical aspect of its existence. Besides the "good fraud" that everybody will lose their jobs and the apocalyptical predictions for the sake of controlling human oracles, this suicide-LLM-project seems rather odd and looks like someone bought a perpetuum mobile on their 5th mortgage.By the way, Cortana from Halo did a great "suicide"-mirror there; the Microsoft guys (and many others) already knew about the cannibalistic tendency of this type of model.

New comment by BikDk in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

BikDk — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:04:16 +0000

Wait until the Hiob question hits that believe system. In the end its just a matter of if we put the bank inside or outside of the temple. Anyway, it never worked in an agnostic way.

New comment by BikDk in "German Peasants' War"

BikDk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:15:42 +0000

This was not about religion but about constitution. Basically they were influenced more by the Magna Carta than by reformation. Anyway, nice to see people interested in how rights were aspired, lost and revived.

New comment by BikDk in "NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours""

BikDk — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:42:29 +0000

The concept of infinity claims that the dog eventually becomes Shakespeare. The same way we handled encryption, even before Alan Turing codes were broken and evolved. Last, it is a huge advantage to have the machine/mind and to evolve from there. P.S. Even if you go back to lemon juice on paper there may be a thief around that knows the trick.

New comment by BikDk in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

BikDk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:57:50 +0000

Playing the perception game wins you the perspective price.

New comment by BikDk in "A disabled kea parrot is the alpha male of his circus"

BikDk — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:12:51 +0000

Don't call oldies disabled, it's like calling children useless.

New comment by BikDk in "Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45"

BikDk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:48:19 +0000

Come visit us, we got Germans of every race and color.

New comment by BikDk in "The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought"

BikDk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:49:24 +0000

"I didn't start the fire"

New comment by BikDk in "The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought"

BikDk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:38:59 +0000

Ah, yes - the moral ambiguity of sexualized western culture - somewhere between medieval moral repression and (tech-driven) liberalization.

New comment by BikDk in "Elephants Don't Play Chess (1990) [pdf]"

BikDk — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:10:29 +0000

Ah, yes - ChatGPT seems to go crazy if asked to display the seahorse emojii.. Looks like this issue was predicted in the 90s.

New comment by BikDk in "Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet"

BikDk — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:28:41 +0000

No battery, no personality.

New comment by BikDk in "The problems that accountability can't fix"

BikDk — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:10:44 +0000

Sounds reasonable enough - thank you !

New comment by BikDk in "The problems that accountability can't fix"

BikDk — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 07:53:35 +0000

Is there any better way you could set this up? Just asking for a friend.

New comment by BikDk in "A vulnerability that can be exploited to tamper with a train’s brakes"

BikDk — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:11:33 +0000

This ist a standard and ancient sender/receiver problem of communication. However, I'm glad you like big machines and seem interested enough to dive deeper into this topic. The official acronym TCS is still no match to your creativeness, please take it easy, as if you plan to do some research on this you will encounter a lot of those.

New comment by BikDk in "A vulnerability that can be exploited to tamper with a train’s brakes"

BikDk — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:24:38 +0000

This looks like an exploit for all future train control systems (TCS)

New comment by BikDk in "Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize medicine"

BikDk — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:12:06 +0000

You do get the point, please be careful with the hammer now.

New comment by BikDk in "Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize medicine"

BikDk — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 06:45:21 +0000

On the contrary, as if you under any circumstances should lose your intelligence - I hope not - you would not be considerate a human being anymore. And if there's a market for such, the incentive to give you a - cartoon like - hammer on the head would be there, too.