There are zero-day exploits for your mind (mikemorgenstern.substack.com)

by mikeyla85 7 comments 21 points
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[−] gmuslera 36d ago
Too long to say cognitive biases. Social engineering, marketing, politics, plenty of exploiting of that in the wild for thousands of years, but when studying that became a science, well, we have the current world.
[−] turtleyacht 35d ago
Catalog the exploits; discover common fixes. What's the equivalent of a ground-up cognitive rewrite?
[−] peterldowns 36d ago
This post is garbage slop. Read BLIT instead

https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

Or my favorite of his basilisk stories, different kinds of darkness: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-o...

[−] mikeyla85 36d ago
I wrote the post and have been working in and researching in the space for a decade and truly did spend a decade making a movie about this because I think it's an existential threat to humanity, but sure.

BLIT was awesome. Reread it recently after watching the Black Mirror Playthings episode on it most recently.

[−] mikeyla85 36d ago
If you want to hear me talking three years ago about most of these same things, before AI could write well: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2KFFxugfB2wXQB3VKYhBLp
[−] pawsocks 36d ago

> The Glasswing Brain | Dall-E prompted by Claude Opus

Pathetic levels of slop when you cannot even write your own prompts.

[−] mikeyla85 36d ago
Well, I thought it was cute.

I don't really use a ChatGPT subscription so I have Claude Code create a few versions of an image in different styles. I mentioned it especially because evolving from prompting an image to automated prompting loops matches some of the recent changes that we've been talking about.

I wrote the article, I really have been working and researching in the space for a decade and can share similar articles published online long before LLMs.