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Multiple readings OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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New Agents & robotics Analysis 6h ago
agents pandas Polars translation

Fluent, not native: agents translating pandas to Polars

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Emily Riederer
“Inspired by this blog post, I was testing out how different LLMs perform `polars` tasks Gemini (Colab - I'm cheap what can I say) did NOT just convert to `pandas` to do a quantile instead of using a window function?! pola.rs/posts/llm-po...” evidence ↗
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Emily Riederer

“Inspired by this blog post, I was testing out how different LLMs perform `polars` tasks Gemini (Colab - I'm cheap what can I say) did NOT just convert to `pandas` to do a quantile instead of using a window function?! pola.rs/posts/llm-po...”

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New Agents & robotics Development 16h ago
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OpenAI agents attack RubyGems

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ryan Moulton
“Another undisclosed openai hack. How long till somebody actually presses charges? www.rubyhack.ai” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ryan Moulton Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 SE Gyges Colin Pavel René Walter +2
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5”

Markets & investment

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Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Cybercrime as a valuation boosting strategy is just the done thing, now.”

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“Another undisclosed openai hack. How long till somebody actually presses charges? www.rubyhack.ai”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Grace: OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”
Grace: https://www.rubyhack.ai
Grace: A country of moustache-twirling villains in a datacenter
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5 experts · 39 posts · 1d ago
Ed Zitron SE Gyges Doll Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦 mackuba.eu
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“i think you can just show her the original diagram to explain the joke but this might raise an infinite recursion of more questions about what the fuck, which must be answered with "man, just, it g…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: trying to deduce why one would quit a good job at anthropic
SE Gyges: what her boyfriend is up to today. they really do get around
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5 experts · 41 posts · 1d ago
Tim Kellogg Dustin Moskovitz jake coty.bsky.social david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“What does “AI” as a risk mean? Is that a dumb question? I just don’t understand what AI risk means independent of a specific extinction mechanism.” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 4 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: perspective. i’m not sure if i agree or disagree. but he’s thought about it, so..
jake: yeah, and @david-p-reichert.bsky.social thinks about it more than I do, professionally, so probably listen to him more than I (I do still wish The Professionals published lists of various guestimat…
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5 experts · 33 posts · 1d ago
joao Grace Colin coty.bsky.social david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“I do think that this article is a good representation of some typical thinking in this world. How exactly will AI kill us all? Well, maybe a virus, or some sort of hacking spree. Maybe something el…” evidence ↗
Colin: There are indeed thousands of LessWrong posts, as well as papers and books, which make a particular theoretical case for why AI will kill us all that many people find convincing. I'm going to try t…
Colin: First of all, we must just agree off the bat that a superintelligent AI will be able to kill us all. After all it is superintelligent. As this random dude who became famous 3 days ago because of a …
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4 experts · 17 posts · 1d ago
Hagen Blix Colin tweety fish david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“This! The policies in question aren't just about this one particular incident. And Mitchell writes "inappropriate metaphors [...] can lead to ill-informed decisions about how to fix problems or set…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: I think the nuance about “escaping” is valuable. When your dog escapes you have to go physically catch him. When your agent escapes, well, it hasn’t really escaped, it’s still just right there wher…
tweety fish: I can't stand the metaphors, sorta broadly, but I don't think that's why; I feel like they affirmatively make it harder for people who are not experts (plus some who are, I guess) to think about wh…
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