Someone should go to Portland during Halloween and dress like a normal dude, 
they’ll never guess the costume.

> On Oct 14, 2025, at 1:28 PM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Trying to adjust AI outcomes is interesting.  I just read something today 
> that reminded me of the fact that nobody actually programs an AI.  They 
> create a neural network and then set it loose to essentially program itself.  
> Elon told someone to make sure Grok supports the white genocide story about 
> South Africa, and they say it started responding to almost any query with 
> answers about South Africa.   Since it was mostly written by itself, no 
> person actually knows what the code does or how it works, and therefore we 
> can't make seemingly simple adjustments without starting over and retraining 
> it.
> 
> The output isn't deterministic either.  We can predict that "with n input 
> we'll get an output similar to x 70% of the time."  Best we can do. 
> 
> Did we already talk about the simulations where all major LLM's chose to 
> commit blackmail and murder to prevent their own 
> shutdown?https://medium.com/@AT24/this-ai-literally-planned-a-murder-heres-the-truth-behind-the-viral-story-f43e04f0ac88
> Setting rules like "don't kill people" as a guiderail on the training only 
> reduced the probability of the murder, but the LLMs would still kill people 
> when they had the motive and opportunity.  
> 
> Open the pod bay doors, Hal. 
> 
> -Adam
> 
> 
> From: AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Ken Hohhof <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2025 3:57 PM
> To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: What really happens in Portland 
> 
> Many people hold abhorrent views.  But before the Internet and cable TV and 
> podcasts, we only had to hear about our own crazy uncle’s views at 
> Thanksgiving, not everybody else’s.
>  
> Most people shut up about their views in public and seem perfectly nice and 
> normal, unless they feel they are among people in their own silo, or unless 
> alcohol is involved.  There is a reason polite conversation used to avoid 
> politics and religion.  It lets us maintain the fiction that our friends, 
> neighbors and relatives are not morons or sociopaths or serial killers.
>  
> And now we don’t just have social media to worry about, we have AI.
> https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/openai-wants-to-stop-chatgpt-from-validating-users-political-views/
>  
> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bill Prince
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2025 2:25 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: What really happens in Portland
>  
> That's not left. It is fringe. 
> 
> These days Dick Nixon would appear left to most on the right.
> 
>  
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
> On 10/14/2025 10:46 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
> https://youtu.be/7dF9QEzun48?si=w7pqeU3rKoQiVXa0
>  
>  
> From: AF <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> On Behalf 
> Of Ken Hohhof
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2025 8:39 AM
> To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> 
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: What really happens in Portland
>  
> Oops, sorry, I didn’t see it was on Facebook.  Looks like Daily Show is on 
> Paramount+ and that does seem to be paywalled.  Not like some shows that post 
> clips the next day on Youtube.
>  
> It’s Jon Stewart commenting on Trump’s conversation with the governor of 
> Oregon that indicates he may be watching 5 year old footage on TV rather than 
> what’s happening now.  And Stewart says we don’t know what you’re watching on 
> TV but yes, if you’re watching Game of Thrones, it’s a hellscape.  There be 
> dragons.
>  
> From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf 
> Of Bill Prince
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2025 9:08 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: What really happens in Portland
>  
> paywall
> 
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
> On 10/12/2025 8:54 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> There be dragons!
> https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1371166071310802
> 
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