It's not the first time I've seen people vastly underestimate her, let's put it that way lol

I'm IRL friends with Kathryn and we've talked about AI stuff before.

I can _very_ confidently say that no, you do not understand.

Engineers disease is a choice, my dude. Have a little humility.

I'm not correcting your understanding of the tech

I'm correcting your understanding of the argument

No shit lol

I, too, have worked with ML

I need you to be slightly less literal lol

like 20% less

This isn't my first or even second rodeo lol

I think y'all need to not make this shit your personality, so that you don't interpret criticism or flippancy of LLMs as a criticism of *you*

I say that as a SWE who uses them and finds them moderately useful.

whoosh lol

The point is LLMs will fabricate answers to things the model can't possibly know, because that's how they work.

I'm a software engineer. Kathryn is a friend and knows exactly what they do, friend lol

I think y'all aren't understanding what exactly is going on.

Like, which is more plausible?

1. The shithead dude is no longer a shithead

2. The shithead dude has learned to behave in public

Exactly. Plus knowing about a problem and mitigating it effectively are sometimes two different things.

> Any bug that AI can detect, AI can also easily patch

I totally agree with "everyone chill" but this particular thing isn't true, either in the "they can fix the code" sense or the "they can roll out the patch" sense.

Vuln management is 😭

American here, but Time Team episodes on YouTube. Just a bunch of happy nerds who like each other and like what they do and like explaining it to the public. Good ol British TV.

Chesterton's Fence clotheslines another

Oh god, yeah. That's infuriating.

I like them as spicy autocorrect, but if you let them write code, you have to treat them like a hostile adversary trying to sneak in backdoors. They just don't make mistakes like humans do.

The math thing is misleading, too. They are useful for symbol manipulation because they do that well.

Usually the AI bros mean the Erdos problems aka "a list of problems Paul Erdos thought were cool"

A lot of them are legit and a lot of them are like math olympiad level.

www.erdosproblems.com

> have taken over almost all programming

software engineer here. lol no they haven't

You kinda have to treat it like a hostile adversary trying to sneak in something awful into whatever you're making, yeah

It's fine if the thing isn't that important but not fine otherwise

yes and we have not even begun to bully these shitheads yet

I would not recommend waiting until it's a dire crisis, if you can

anyways, hang in there and remember people like to help <3

I grew up like that too -- I joke that our family trait was you could be missing a limb and literally on fire, and we'd all be like "oh, things are fine"

Asking for help and learning to accept it are difficult skills to learn, I suggest getting started as soon as possible

it goes: if you were gonna bet your theory was correct, what would you wager?

1. beer money
2. folding money
3. the rent
4. a finger
5. *your* finger

I'm at like rent level but I'd want to be at finger level lol

lol

I don't think you're wrong, but *I* don't feel ok accusing someone of Serious Crimes unless I felt real solid about it

@kathryntewson.bsky.social has a somewhat facetious "how sure are you" scale that i love:

I'm pretty convinced she is willfully stupid and likes the attention more than she actually wants to help.

It's both pig butchering and Actual Hamas Fundraising -- I looked into it and couldn't quite connect enough dots to feel comfortable accusing her flat out of being duped by Hamas

molly shah gotta eke out that last bit of martyrdom like she's rinsing out the last of the shampoo

She is such a willful idiot.

4. the fuck is money going to do for a civilian? there's nothing to buy
5. hamas definitely needs a lot of money
6. they are very media- and western-savvy

I can't _prove_ it but MAN I'm pretty personally convinced

It's frustrating, because all I can do is say:

1. hey this looks EXACTLY like what Hamas is known to do
2. A few of the people Molly's talking to appear to really be in Gaza
3. all the money is instantly going into the sketchiest crypto system, which Hamas is also known to use

I found a number of AML (anti-money laundering) articles on it. This is one I found just now, but you can find others

www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/...

This mentions it as well, although it's not the focus of the article

extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/file...