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  • Sadly, that’s true

    Tried to refactor a spaghetti code state machine and thought, well, AI should handle this well. All the logic is there, just separate it into small functions to clean up the large one.

    None was able to, alone because of the context window already

    To be fair though, I tried Mistral online and it also stumbled around. ChatGPT was a complete clusterfuck - haven’t tried Claude.

    To be even fairer… it’s a really large state machine, which was written on site during a fever and in stress - so… To defend myself a bit as well, how it even came to that ;⁠-⁠)

    But seems, I’ll need to go through this myself
    Actually thought, that this would be a perfect example for using AI…






  • I’m not sure, if I understand the environment completely

    Those agents were the virtual incarnations of the AI in the sim city and the respective government - correct?
    And the AI needed to take care, that those agents didn’t died, like of hunger or what?
    That’s not really what those LLMs are trained for.

    Not sure, what they expected

    Currently searching the article for the original source, maybe this gives more insight

    Edit: ah, just in the first paragraphs it is
    https://www.emergence.ai/blog/emergence-world-a-laboratory-for-evaluating-long-horizon-agent-autonomy
    Completely missed it on the first read.
    Let’s see if this makes more sense…

    Edit 2: ok, if I get this right, those agents really were specific virtual individuals
    Not sure what they expected. First, LLMs are not really build to “live” as an individual as they aren’t real intelligence and can only role play individuals based on their training data.
    Second, why should they be super moral or “better”?
    Again, they just role play depending on their training data and built-in prompt bias (not sure what the prompt injection of the company is called)

    If you train an AI on governing such a world, it probably start gaming the system, depending on what values are important to “win”
    As we have already seen with machine learning in the last decade(s?)

    Funny experiment nevertheless, but not really useful in my eyes - and I’m everything but a defender of the current use of LLMs







  • I have to admit, that I never looked into the technical details of full disk encryption

    If I understand you correctly, they are using the same key for all the data and with larger amounts of data statistical analysis becomes feasible
    Did I get this right?

    Couldn’t that be solved by using a root key + salt per block/sector/file/whatever?

    I’d still only need the one root key and with every block the actual encryption key changes

    I was thinking about perfect forward secrecy and that was the first thing, I could come up with

    But, I’m absolutely not a crypto/math guy, so probably I don’t know enough to really add something to the discussion/solution…