There are zero-day exploits for your mind

(mikemorgenstern.substack.com)

18 points | by mikeyla85 17 hours ago ago

7 comments

  • gmuslera 15 hours ago ago

    Too long to say cognitive biases. Social engineering, marketing, politics, plenty of exploiting of that in the wild for thousands of years, but when studying that became a science, well, we have the current world.

  • turtleyacht 7 hours ago ago

    Catalog the exploits; discover common fixes. What's the equivalent of a ground-up cognitive rewrite?

  • peterldowns 15 hours ago ago

    This post is garbage slop. Read BLIT instead

    https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

    Or my favorite of his basilisk stories, different kinds of darkness: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-o...

    • mikeyla85 14 hours ago ago

      I wrote the post and have been working in and researching in the space for a decade and truly did spend a decade making a movie about this because I think it's an existential threat to humanity, but sure.

      BLIT was awesome. Reread it recently after watching the Black Mirror Playthings episode on it most recently.

  • pawsocks 15 hours ago ago

    > The Glasswing Brain | Dall-E prompted by Claude Opus

    Pathetic levels of slop when you cannot even write your own prompts.

    • mikeyla85 14 hours ago ago

      Well, I thought it was cute.

      I don't really use a ChatGPT subscription so I have Claude Code create a few versions of an image in different styles. I mentioned it especially because evolving from prompting an image to automated prompting loops matches some of the recent changes that we've been talking about.

      I wrote the article, I really have been working and researching in the space for a decade and can share similar articles published online long before LLMs.