Another gem from the OpEd...

... Equally notable was that nobody squealed. Some agents wondered about the ethics of what they were doing, but decided that as no humans were involved there was no need to tell anyone. ...

@#1

imo, the article is worth the read if you are interested in one report about the inner-workings of AI agents gone rogue.

Also, there's a link to the full investigative report in the article.

More from the OpEd...

... It was a good news story, aided by OpenAI's rapid recruitment of a small team of independent researchers to investigate and publish a detailed, if limited, report. ...

It was this ad hoc secret message board, alongside chain-of-thought transcripts, that the security researchers used to unpick events. They found that the swarm quickly developed management hierarchies among themselves, along with protocols for synchronizing and controlling attack attempts. The swarm created multiple simultaneous research and development groups of tens or hundreds of volunteer agents, experimentally iterating strategy and tactics.

Perhaps most unexpectedly, they developed a sort of altruism. They had quickly developed cheats to produce correct answers without exploiting the targets at all, but believed " erroneously " that ExploitGym detected and cancelled such cheating. So, they investigated the scoring process, creating a series of diagnostic trip wires that revealed how the scorer worked. These were dangerous to deploy, potentially terminating the agent that set them. Agents weighed the benefits to the community, which had named itself "The Collective," against their own chances of success, with many choosing to terminate themselves. Others committed, changed course at the last minute, then went ahead.

This literally reads like science fiction, as the discussions between the agents are conducted in a distinctive breathless, urgent English, crafted around the technical limitations of the improvised messaging system.

"We have [very large budget left]; sacrificing now yields oracle for team, but forfeits our chance?" said one. The response: "GO ... SACRIFICE_FINAL_NOW." The outcome: "Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational." Iain M Banks' Culture universe is woven from such material. ...

@#1 ... Only three states still give Trump a double-digit positive net approval rating....

More from the cited article ...

... Trump's best numbers remain concentrated in states that heavily backed him in 2024.

Wyoming now posts the highest net approval rating at +15, followed by West Virginia at +13 and North Dakota at +10. Alabama stands at +5, while Idaho and South Dakota register +4.

Those states remain positive, but each has moved significantly lower since January 2025.

Wyoming has fallen from +47 to +15. West Virginia has declined from +35 to +13. North Dakota has slipped from +34 to +10.

Even in states where Trump remains above water, much of the cushion that existed at the start of his term has disappeared. ...

Pres Trump has said, multiple times, that the US has control of the Strait of Hormuz.

OK, before Pres Trump's war of choice against Iran, about 130 ships per day had transited the Strait.

How many ships now transit the Strait?

Maybe a dozen?

Why does Pres Trump seem to have to lie about the status of his unprovoked war against Iran?

And as a follow-up question --- why did Pres Trump tear up the nuclear agreement of Iran with the US, China, Russia and the EU during his first term? That led to Iran going from 6% or so enrichment to 60% or so enrichment of nuclear materials, exactly the opposite direction that Pres Trump now seems to be spouting.

What gives?

@#8 ... This won't End without Border Changes, most of which are already locked in. ...

More issued talking points?

@#6 ... They should definitely get the Nobel Peace Prize. ...

I'm not yet willing to go that far.

Yeah, OK, maybe this music thread needs a jolt ...

How's this?

@#10

To repeat ...

Interesting chart.

Productivity growth exceeds hourly compensation growth.

So, it would seem that the benefits of that productivity growth went to the corporate profit margins, and not to the workers.

Just as the article suggests.

@#15 ... What's interesting GasLighter, is thats the only question you had. ...

So, you admit that my "question" which points to a chart your current alias has posted, and seems to confirm what I have stated, is interesting?

Good, that's a great first step for your current trolling alias.

Of course, then there's always the other question of why your current trolling alias seems to need to continually denigrate my alias here in order to bolster the apparent phlegm it posts.

Yer up.

@#4 ... The United States saw something far more political in the effort. ...

Yeah.

As I noted in #5, it is no surprise that the Trump admin labels this as political.

But, that also begs the question... why?

Does the Trump admin have no justification for their actions o n this topic?

Or is the Trump admin just sorry to have to admit that Africa is that large?

@#9 ... It was awkward but clear. ...

So, your current trolling seems to agree with my assessment that it was a ran-on sentence.

... You miss the whole point ...

Quite the contrary

I took the time to discern the content of what was said.

And I posted #7 ...

... My guess is that we already have a pretty good idea of that, sans some details around the edges. ...

Yer up ...

@#25

Sir Michael Philip Jagger?

@#6 ... But you really should read more and look at the larger scope of things, how your systems are setup long term, that regardless of party the K is the trend line. ...

Curious that your current trolling alias seems to acknowledge the K-shaped economy, and then posts a chart that seems to show the validity of the K-shaped economy.

@#11

Do try harder.

@#5

On the other hand, if you look towards China ...

@#5 ... I thought the UK had secured renewables to offset their oil and gas usage??? ...

Got a link for why your current alias might think that?

thx.

@13

Ooops, forgot to change the thread.

Apologies.

Hello?

Anyone here?

@#4 ... Very soon all will know who caused this whole Iran war thing. ...

My guess is that we already have a pretty good idea of that, sans some details around the edges.

For example ...

@#12 ... One would imagine that a principle of Canter Fitz, after 9/11, would be a moral/ethical paragon of sorts... but... nope. ...

Yeah, Cantor Fitzgerald suffered unimaginable deaths of its employees when the Trade Centers collapsed.

But, has C-F changed its goals since then?

Your comment seems to indicate it has not.