Looks great, looking forward to digging in. I had a similar idea a while back (B.A., before agents) but it seemed too big to take on. Was this able to be realised due to agentic coding?
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Claude Code is free if you have a subscription to Claude. It's much more affordable than using the API key directly.
Doubt it, based on my ccusage output. I do about the monthly charge in tokens in a day.
This is the "confused deputy problem". [0]
And capabilities [1] is the long-known, and sadly rarely implemented, solution.
Using the trifecta framing, we can't take away the untrusted user input. The system then should not have both the "private data" and "public communication" capabilities.
The thing is, if you want a secure system, the idea that system can have those capabilities but still be restricted by some kind of smart intent filtering, where "only the reasonable requests get through", must be thrown out entirely.
This is a political problem. Because that kind of filtering, were it possible, would be convenient and desirable. Therefore, there will always be a market for it, and a market for those who, by corruption or ignorance, will say they can make it safe.
Thanks for giving this a more historical framing. Capabilities seem to be something system designers should be a lot more familiar with.
Cited in other injection articles, e.g. https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/
Legrady belongs to the first generation of photographic-based artists to integrate computational processes in the mid-1980s for creating “Born-Digital” visualizations. His current artistic and research projects explore algorithmic processes for photographic imaging and data visualization through semantic categorization and self-organizing systems, interactive computational-based art installations, and mixed-realities narrative development. A key focus is the creative potential of such technologies for aesthetic coherence and expression.
wasteofelectron commented on Computational Public Space dynamicland.org/2024/Comp... · Posted by u/bangonkeyboard
Why is something this interesting and full of good ideas invisible on HN? The idea of computation around us, like street lights, has so much promise.
wasteofelectron commented on Daddy isn’t coming back ft.com/content/062b5655-2... · Posted by u/chesterfield
This is exactly the type of irrational, emotional reaction the active is designed to elicit. The article is advocating for a public policy position, it relates to the topic of suicide, and it describes the hardships of the author. The merit of the position is irrelevant to the fact that this article has been so effective in evoking an emotive response from you, that simply a rational description of its content has managed to offend you.
To me your reaction is just as emotional. Your emotions require you to attempt to be analytical, dispassionate and transcend the issue. It's possible to have empathy for the author and be agnostic to any perceived rhetorical goals.
wasteofelectron commented on Daddy isn’t coming back ft.com/content/062b5655-2... · Posted by u/chesterfield
This is an account of a woman’s husband and the father of her children being severely ill and dying by suicide, not “some hardship” or a “topic”. Have some respect for goodness sake. You never know when you’ll need someone to do the same for you.
wasteofelectron commented on The Wolfram Physics Project: A One-Year Update writings.stephenwolfram.c... · Posted by u/bmc7505
I love it, and I’m no Wolfram cheerleader. It’s proper 6am acid epiphany. In one essay he’s opened up my mind considerably, and even if he’s wrong, I’m so glad there are people who have this kind of ambition.
However tech people who thinks AI is bad, or not inevitable is really hard to understand. It’s almost like Bill Gates saying “we are not interested in internet”. This is pretty much being against the internet, industrialization, print press or mobile phones. The idea that AI is anything less than paradigm shifting, or even revolutionary is weird to me. I can only say being against this is either it’s self-interest or not able to grasp it.
So if I produce something art, product, game, book and if it’s good, and if it’s useful to you, fun to you, beautiful to you and you cannot really determine whether it’s AI. Does it matter? Like how does it matter? Is it because they “stole” all the art in the world. But somehow if a person “influenced” by people, ideas, art in less efficient way almost we applaud that because what else, invent the wheel again forever?
This is an extremely crude characterisation of what many people feel. Plenty of artists oppose copyright-ignoring generative AI and "get" it perfectly, even use it in art, but in ways that avoid the lazy gold-rush mentality we're seeing now.