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Setting aside the history of anthropomorphism of robots using this term: https://sfdictionary.com/view/3048/clanker

A clanker doesn't clank? It feels more like an emotional name ­— a pet name or derogatory name — as opposed to a name that evokes a tool-like view of the thing. A typer? an autocompleter? auto-sed? LLM? All probably would have less emotional feeling to it due to being rooted in the actions performed.


For me, "clanker" sounds funny, not derogatory. In the same way, for me "meatbag" sounds too funny to be an insult.

On the other hand "robot" sounds derogatory for me, as it etymologically suggests a slave who does forced work.

The oldest known term for "robots" was used by Homer in the Iliad, for the metallic (female) robots used by Hephaestus to do his work, and it was "amphipoloi", which is cognate with Latin "ancillae", which also means "servants" or "slaves", like the modern "robots".


"I assume [...] backdoors" Its more of a frontdoor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_Application_Toolkit

Pinephone is being sold for 200 with included dock.


How do you plan to reconcile running a whole village of LLMs with making LLM interfacing more efficient.

I think the nuance is that it is notable historical articles about predictions and discussions of political elections, during a time when politics is quite at the fore-front of many people's minds

Do you have examples of these points?


in this context, "piece of shit"


A private license? Doesn't that practically mean no one can copy it outside of the usecase of doing a Github pull request as prescribed by the Github licensing?


yeah especially for vibecoded apps.

What the heck is going on in the commits though, the messages are useless ("Update frontend (1 files)") and there's tons of "Initial commit — CryptIRC v0.3.0" commits.

The index.html is insane. 12.5k lines long, everything embedded in it


I think it would be a better approach to not pre-emptively burn oneself out with stress by viewing everything through a political lens at all times.


But everything that touches how society functions, what it values, how it is organized etc. is political.


There are several senses to "politics". You are right in that, in the general sense, politics is any collective negotiation of what matters to the group. There are objectively optimal ways to achieve a goal, but choosing what goals to pursue, and what benefits are worth what costs, and who they will affect, that is rather subjective and the realm of politics. In that sense politics is fundamental and valuable.

But in a more concrete sense, politics also refers to our tendency to join opposing teams or tribes and fight it out, more or less literally. In that sense, "everything is political" can mean viewing everything as a fight between groups, or worse, associating everything to the conflict between the two dominant groups. That is quite toxic.


This is just free / severely-underpaid-on-average labor. Very disgusting.


Ah yes, “free” as in “paid.” Certainly you’re welcome to not participate.


Free as in "free" for >99% of participants, even successful ones, because they will have hundreds or thousands of participants but will only pay out to one of them no matter how many vulnerabilities are found.


Depending on industry, that payout can be less than a security audit. You only get a chance of getting paid. You don't even know if they gave the LLM the answers that you are supposed to recover.


> $25,000 to the first true universal jailbreak to clear all five questions.

Now, laws vary from place to place, but I'm pretty sure "a small chance to earn money after the work is completed" is not equivalent to "payment" in most jurisdictions.


I think its more the concept of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecaster stuff


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