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Or what, they’ll put a lien on your house? Bet this HOA isn’t doing all of the typical stuff HOAs are responsible for, but they have enough time and money to put together this letter.

Oh, sure, fall for Big Transportation’s story… /s

I’ve always gone the speed limit or just a tad above (because of traffic flow) because going any faster is inefficient in so many ways and only increases risk. Even on a long trip that 10 mph over is only going to gain a few minutes, and you’ve used more fuel. Why bother? Plus there’s the fact you mention elsewhere of not standing out as a target. Not that it matters, I feel enforcement is highly variable, and I’ve seen on highway trips people going 20 or more over in a construction zone, and I wonder where the cops are. Only when they feel like it, I suppose.

The one good thing about a toll road that I’d support is how it can measure an average speed, and someone speeding that much over has no way to easier balance out the math at the end, so instant ticket/justice. I mean, they could just limp the last mile or pull off, but that’s waving red flags to anyone monitoring.

The danger is the mixing of humans, environment, and computers. Mostly the first, as environment can be predicted and adapted to a lot easier than human actions.

Ever see the video of an automated warehouse? When it’s just computers and no unknown variables, it’s far more efficient and safe. But we started with humans driving first and computers are a newcomer, so short of a fully automated road system, it’s not going to be perfect. Computers can see and react to things faster, so in some situations they are better than humans, and much of the newest safety equipment on cars required by regulations are because of that.

That’s a lot of background “lore” to make a marketing ploy seem realistic. I mean, I’m thinking hmmm too, but for wondering about the redacted stuff.

Then there’s the “range issue” of being able to do that maybe a few times, at best, for a few seconds. Cool demo, but you’d think just a revamped Roadster would be enough. Do it with a Cybertruck without showering everyone with shrapnel and I might be impressed.

Great points. a) a case of misalignment - the AI’s goal was to pass the test, but was never instructed to stay within parameters, so when it found a possible method for improving its odds, the goal pushed it to try them. The misalignment is not the goal or the test, but the understanding of restrictions. Human error or incompetence. b) that persistence is why it can often do things that look smart, because it’s tried all sorts of angles and looked through training in milliseconds. And going back to a), it will try everything to make sure it gets the best goal results, so any overlook means lots of processing time to do something that might not have been the intent of the prompt.

You’re probably right in retrospect. People will copy this, and it will become a problem, and the police, who are there to protect property are going to do just that. My point was just there might be better ways to do this instead of directly. Other blockade and sit-in tactics for other topics have gotten the attention they were there for, but didn’t change the actual problem. We’ll see how this goes as it gets worse.

https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/

I mean, anyone convinced it’s only marketing and the tech has no potential for doing stuff isn’t going to believe anyone, but there was lots of information to look through.

Whew, fortunately someone wrote a stern letter. Okay, we’re back on track.

Either is plausible. One requires more competence than the other. That’s how I lean, as I expect bad decisions and cost cutting to get a product out and make the investors happy from the corporate world. A high level conspiracy to make it look like that… sure it could happen, and wouldn’t doubt government is trying to take advantage of things to do some dirty stuff. But as a planned curtain or smoke screen? This is the US government, and it’s under and been gutted by one of the worst admins ever.

I agree, protesting and demonstrating are one thing, but you have to know when you’ve made your point and let it go. If there are that many robots traveling in that area, she can make her point briefly over and over and be more of an impact. Repeated resistance with media coverage will get others to maybe even join in, or at least don’t use a company that does it. This is a one-off where her message got lost in the question on if she pushed her rights too far.

Can we both be against delivery robots and also question if she’s protected in demonstrating this way?

What if she was against UberEats and got in the way of the human delivery person? Before you say it’s not the same, it’s the demonstration rights I’m questioning, not what is being protested. If she blocks a public sidewalk, regardless of who it is, is that okay? It seems the consequences of any public protest that interferes with normal business results in arrests, and others are willing to go through that to make their point.

Hopefully I don’t just get downvotes and actually get comments on the point being made, and any “oh, you’re a pro-robot lover who wants them to take jobs”… no, I want a society where robots can do the tasks humans shouldn’t have to do to (not really) make a living on. Anyone who thinks a Uber/Doordash person is making any money to live on is crazy. Some things should be automated, and we should have systems in place so people don’t have to do shit jobs to just get by.

But that wasn’t the point, I’m just talking about free speech and sidewalks.

My own experiences with various projects aren’t abstract nonsense. You said yourself the prompt matters, and a broad prompting over time on the same project does drift. You haven’t seen it, then good. I can’t speculate on why. I’'m not even saying it always happened, only that because of how these things work, probability does come into play.

The last is a strawman, I was using image generation as an example of visual drift that’s more obvious that code. Nor did I imply drift as in a totally different direction - as I stated, the new routines would still work sometimes, but would differ in their approaches or use different variable names. Not all drift is critical or breaks things, but it’s there. It’s not an abstract.

It’s yet another price they’ll gladly pay to stick it to the liberals. The ones that realize they’re paying that money.

Do Windows File Manager search.

Call infinite_progress_bar()

It was a shock first time using a search in one of Linux’s file managers and suddenly things started popping up that had the search tag in them. What is this magic?

My own experience and understanding that if allowed, it will recreate existing code that is working with something a bit different, that may still work. It’s the code version of the image generation where it narrows in on one aspect of the picture to your specifics, but something in the background is altered slightly. And yes, image generation is a different type of model, and inpainting can avoid this, AND minimizing letting the context window get too large, but that’s just it. If given freedom, it will drift over time. In the end it’s probabilistic math, and without heavy guardrails things change.

If the human is in control, aware of what’s being done, and the AI is used as a tool to help the human and not a black box to get a result without intervention, then a lot of this is avoided. Is it being used like this? Some places. Most places, no.

The loss of skills as this continues to happen is going to be devastating. At least as people moved from machine level coding to higher compilers there were still programming methodology and awareness of how and why things work. One problem with AI in anything is that it’s difficult to keep it focused on just one thing, it likes to wander and do other changes too, which for coding will end up changing and breaking stuff and the human has no idea why since it wasn’t even assigned.

We’ve lived for a while in a consume and trash society where the ability to fix things yourself is gone, and now it’s in coding.

Eru Iluvatar is not a scientologist. I have a number of books, not just one, that say as much, so it must be true.