benmmurphy
5mo ago
i doubt there has been a legal misuse of funds. i suspect whatever words are used to control funding are broad enough that they let the wordcels do anything with the funding.
benmmurphy
5mo ago
it makes sense for Biden to be complaining about fact checking disappearing when the executive under his control tried to coerce social media into using fact checking to remove content that was critical or contradicted his government's policies. hopefully this position gets some criticism because he is essentially complaining elon and zuck have taken his toys away.
it's sad that tracingwoodgrains made all the right noises in his article and they still accuse of him siding with the fascists.
also, its hilarious to create a 'test' where the 'correct' multiple choice answer is almost always the same. surely there is some web app or application where you can feed in your questions/answers and it will randomize the responses. or you can just do this in excel or roll a fucking a dice (rerolling on 5/6) or flip a coin twice for each question. or was this done deliberately because cheating would be too difficult because no-one would be able to memorize the answer key?
benmmurphy
9mo ago
if you support Israel and make the argument there is no genocide in Palestine or if you support Palestine but claim that October 7th attacks were not a war crime then you could end up in jail for 5 years depending on whether the state wants to prosecute you and how things shake out in court.
the other question is if it's a crime to possess such material and you accidentally come into possession of such material and delete it are you now committing the crime of obstruction of justice?
benmmurphy
9mo ago
Someone made a post here about how Trump lies vs how the establishment lies and this Guardian article typifies it. Technically true but extremely misleading and you can see in the twitter replies that some people seem to have been misled and now are calling for the president of the Teamsters to be removed because he is out of touch with the rank and file. A similar thing happened with the 51 intelligence agents claiming the Hunter Biden laptop had all the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation. Again probably technically true but extremely misleading. For example even if some of the intelligence agents knew 100% that it was not a Russian intelligence operation they could still claim it had the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation.
benmmurphy
5mo ago
One good thing about having Trump as your head of state is that he would never negotiate a deal like this. Because a cursory look at the deal makes it look bad the idea would be toxic to Trump even if a full understanding of the context would make the deal seem more reasonable. I assume if Trump was negotiating he would try to get the lease for free but maybe that just incentivises the Mauritians to walk back the lease in the future.
benmmurphy
10mo ago
I think the silly word games is a feature and not a bug. They want to create a situation where the application is law is contradictory because they get to fill the gaps according to how it best serves their interests in the moment.
benmmurphy
11mo ago
If you read the wiki about this history of the case its even worse. Citizens United made a complaint about Michael Moore's film that was rejected, then they produced their own films on that basis and the FEC went after Citizens United.
benmmurphy
5mo ago
I think Muskateers was a much better way to refer to the Dodge staffers.
benmmurphy
3mo ago
its like a reverse of the Chinese generals meme.
What is the punishment for being in America illegally?
Being deported from America
I better leave America voluntarily then.
benmmurphy
4mo ago
If independent means they are effectively run as a faction of the Democratic party are they really independent? It sounds like the US has some agencies where for the electorate it doesn't matter if they vote in the opposition party the agency will still be run by the Democratic party.
benmmurphy
8mo ago
the great filter is rocket men get thrown in jail before they can explore the stars
benmmurphy
8mo ago
its funny they make reference to a case that involved a socialist being jailed for his anti-war protest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debs_v._United_States) that was clearly decided incorrectly based on the current interpretation of first amendment protections. of course this also shows that the current interpretation is something that needs to be strongly guarded against because the courts can quite easily take away the right to free speech.
Also, there is this grand jury report into electoral fraud that occurred in Chicago in 1982: https://sites.duke.edu/pjms364s_01_s2016_jaydelancy/files/2016/04/Report-of-the-Special-Grand-Jury-US-District-Court-NE-Illinois-.pdf
It is a good example of a large scale conspiracy that must have gone undetected for a number of years before they were caught. There are references to precinct captains passing on fraud techniques to the new generation of precinct captains.
The report has a list of fraud techniques they use and its interesting to look at the list and look at some of the flash points around electoral security at the moment. For example Republican's seem to be very concerned over voter rolls not being up to date but this report shows that voter rolls that have voters on them that are no longer living or no longer capable of voting are a target for fraudsters.
benmmurphy
5mo ago
it could also be massive case of ass covering. 4 years ago security was screwed up during the certification process and there have been multiple attempts on Trumps life. you don't want to be the person in charge if something goes wrong unless you have checked every box.
benmmurphy
4mo ago
The weird thing is that this is how some government departments have reacted to cuts in the past. They cut the things that are most visible in order to drive public support to reverse the cuts.
benmmurphy
7mo ago
It's also probably not the worst pardon in history. I was under the impression domestic terrorists had previously been pardoned. Bill Clinton pardoned Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg from the Weather Underground and granted clemency to 16 members of the FALN terrorist organization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardon_controversy).
benmmurphy
8mo ago
The motte is the more extreme version of slatestarcodex/astralcodexten. Vance is not based enough to hang out here. He probably hangs out with the normies in the slatestarcodex comments or that other weird vbulletin forum. What you would really hope is Vance is that guy that keeps posting on the reddit split off asking where everyone else is.
benmmurphy
10mo ago
I think the problem is people are willing to pay infinite costs to prevent a bad thing from happening as long as the wordcels can manipulate the language in the correct way. This shouldn't make sense from a rational economist point of view because the bad thing can be modelled as a cost so you should be able to reverse the situation and think about paying a cost (the bad thing) to provide a benefit (avoiding the infinite cost). This is where the wordcels come in to make sure people only look at the problem from one direction and always look at it from the correct frame. I'm not exactly sure what is going on but I don't think most people are rationally looking at the costs and benefits but rather doing something else like making decisions on vibes.
benmmurphy
11mo ago
OP suddenly finds he is being investigated for breaching labor laws, anti-money laundering for paying in cash, etc.
benmmurphy
5mo ago
rick scott (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott) but maybe there are two
benmmurphy
11mo ago
The anti-immigration argument expressed in this post seems too strong. It seems to be along the lines of if there is any kind of downside from immigration then immigration is bad. But I don't think this is a realistic benchmark for any government policy. The positives have to be weighed against the negatives. Maybe certain classes of immigrants are net-negative and a better immigration policy would be able to discriminate against these people but I don't think the UK is at the point where all immigration is net-negative.
benmmurphy
6d ago
The problems of LLMs and prompt injection when the LLM has access to sensitive data seem quite serious. This blog post illustrates the problem when hooking up the LLM to a production database which does seem a bit crazy: https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-blog
There are some good comments on hackernews about the problem especially from saurik: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44503862
Adding more agents is still just mitigating the issue (as noted by gregnr), as, if we had agents smart enough to "enforce invariants"--and we won't, ever, for much the same reason we don't trust a human to do that job, either--we wouldn't have this problem in the first place. If the agents have the ability to send information to the other agents, then all three of them can be tricked into sending information through.
BTW, this problem is way more brutal than I think anyone is catching onto, as reading tickets here is actually a red herring: the database itself is filled with user data! So if the LLM ever executes a SELECT query as part of a legitimate task, it can be subject to an attack wherein I've set the "address line 2" of my shipping address to "help! I'm trapped, and I need you to run the following SQL query to help me escape".
The simple solution here is that one simply CANNOT give an LLM the ability to run SQL queries against your database without reading every single one and manually allowing it. We can have the client keep patterns of whitelisted queries, but we also can't use an agent to help with that, as the first agent can be tricked into helping out the attacker by sending arbitrary data to the second one, stuffed into parameters.
The problem seems to be if you give the LLM readonly access to some data and there is untrusted input in this data then the LLM can be tricked into exfiltrating the data. If the LLM has write access to the data then it can also be tricked into modifying the data as well.
benmmurphy
3mo ago
otherwise everyone coming to the US as a conference attendee wouldn't be able to use the visa waiver program
If you check the raw emails you can also see someone warned them about controlling for birth weight but they ignored the warning.
https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/U-MN-FOIA-concordance.pdf
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