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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

Found elsenet: seems reasonable to me.

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If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "Al" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.

"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

5:56 PM • Aug 12, 2025 ® Everybody can reply
Screencap from Bluesky. Text reads: @hikikomorphism.bsky.social If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "Al" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged. 5:56 PM • Aug 12, 2025 ® Everybody can reply
Screencap from Bluesky. Text reads: @hikikomorphism.bsky.social If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "Al" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged. 5:56 PM • Aug 12, 2025 ® Everybody can reply
A man is retired.
A man is retired.
@Photo55@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@cstross
One of the short SF stories in #Nature #Futures described the situation of a simulated or copied rather than wholly artificial machine intelligence, once human, which had been put in a phenomenal number of jars and shaken, and then discarded, of course, over a long period into the future.

Seemed bad.

One of the #basilisks , perhaps.

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