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Dicknose mario: Trolling AI (and marketing departments) for social change

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aarong11
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
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aarong11
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
Hi HN,

I’m working on an open-source simulation platform called InfraSim. It lets users create companies, build out simulated infrastructure (servers, APIs, networking, blockchains), and then red-team them through fault injection and scenario testing.

The goal is to build a sandbox for learning, experimentation, and security practice, where LLMs and humans collaborate to simulate realistic systems.

InfraSim is still early, but it includes: • An in-browser UI with a component system • Blockchain-backed company creation using Solidity • A “tick-based” simulation clock (inspired by EVE Online) • Human + LLM red-teaming workflows • Persistent state, internal APIs, and networking

It’s meant for ethical hacking, system prototyping, training exercises, and worldbuilding.

The code is here: github.com/infrasimorg/main

I’d love feedback, ideas, contributors, and testers! AMA.

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Thank you :)
aarong11
·2 lata temu·discuss
I guess a good example is things like the physical characteristics of a line drawn by the stroke of a paint brush. You can often see they all align generally in the same direction, and have a sort of "fingerprint"
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
I mean depending on which side of the brain the tumour is, it could be relevant. Don't quote me on this (I'm not a doctor) but the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body (including left hand) and the left controls the right.
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
I mean it happens every day. When people have a lot to lose and not much left to gain, they tend to roll over a lot more easily.

As far as what would motivate him: look at what's happening to Musk right now as an example. I'm not saying he doesn't comply and cooperate with law enforcement, but he's certainly being made a big example of right now from all sides.
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
Continuing government contracts, expectation of favours in return, they almost certainly hold some dirt on him (and many others).
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
And payment processors can also identify these. And most of them you have to purchase with a minimum amount on ($10 or $20 afaik).

Virtual debit cards however are interesting. My bank lets me set up as many of those as I like and I don't even have to use my real name or billing address with them.

And yeah, there's also the stolen credit card / debit card market. I really can't see this adding that much pain for these bot handlers. It might make it a bit easier to identify the patterns at least.

I think this will just end up moving the problem further down the line and end up with twitter accounts being bought / sold.
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
There's no such thing as "one correct answer" to most tasks in any language. In mathematics, maybe. If you're asking it to recall a specific quote verbatim, yeah. But other than that there are many (infinite?) different ways you can paraphrase differently to get the same point across (at least in English).
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
Just because its 2 things you'd otherwise accept doesn't mean it isn't a dark pattern. Lots of dark patterns (like the setting up of privacy / data sharing settings on google) do similar things.
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
Leave the microwave running
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
With 96gb of VRAM, will you really need to? Personally I think apple servers might be adopted for AI and LLM workloads soon.
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
Except edge then opens and presents you with some message about setting it to the default browser (which a lot of people will just click ok to make it go away)
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
Doesn't have anything to do do with this does it... https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/11/def-con-hackers-spa...
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
The last time this happened with titles. Everyone seemed to think it was hallucinating but it actually turned out to be really leaking other peoples titles.

Ultimately its pretty difficult to distinguish between the two, so these sort of reports do need to be taken seriously. We have no idea what sort of caching mechanisms they have with ChatGPT, nor do we know how they handle memory.
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
Places that decriminalize drugs need to pour the money they saved on enforcement into health, social programmes and education. The positive effects of decriminalising anything aren't going to be seen until a while after that is done.
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
I mean you might think AI can't currently affect humanity but it really does. A lot of people are now using AI to write code and to answer questions they probably should be asking a doctor or lawyer. A lot of people seem to think it's some all knowing and psychic thing and will take its advice blindly.
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
According to several sources, GPT-4 is already doing this (It's called "Mixture of experts"). I agree though, it's still useful on an application level. You can build out even higher on that and have the LLM decide which is the most appropriate "hats" to wear for a given task.
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
Just before the point they built this, I was already chaining queries together to do this. I built a plugin system with bits of JS code that are eval'd and arguments injected.

They couldn't have released this at a better time, I have about 30 plugins and i'd say it manages to get the right one about 90% of the time as opposed to about 70 with my hacked together version (but I guess I wrote it and know what to say so maybe that's a bit skewed)
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
In the UK we have the electoral register. In order to vote, you need to be registered to it. The government most definitely does use it, as do credit scoring agencies and identitity verification services.

A lot of places do accept bank statements as a backup if you are not on the electoral roll.
aarong11
·3 lata temu·discuss
I mean people post wrong answers to stackoverflow all the time. They generally get downvoted.