📡 Collected Transmissions

At a high level, the plan is to train and empower “cyborgs”, a specific kind of human-in-the-loop system which enhances and extends a human operator’s cognitive abilities without relying on outsourcing work to autonomous agents.

But there was a lot they didn't look into outside of the safety stuff. How do control vectors compare to plain old prompt engineering? What happens if you make a control vector for "high on acid"?

It is better than you. Finally, and most importantly, a neural network is a better piece of code than anything you or I can come up with in a large fraction of valuable verticals, which currently at the very least involve anything to do with images/video and sound/speech.

Yielding to that temptation has become ever more frequent; nowadays it is standard practice. Modern proprietary software is typically an opportunity to be tricked, harmed, bullied or swindled.

As of November 2025, the pages in this directory list around 650 instances of malicious functionalities (with more than 780 references to back them up), but there are surely thousands more we don't know about.

Hackers (and creative people in general) should never be bored or have to drudge at stupid repetitive work, because when this happens it means they aren't doing what only they can do — solve new problems. This wastefulness hurts everybody. Therefore boredom and drudgery are not just unpleasant but actually evil.

To behave like a hacker, you have to believe this enough to want to automate away the boring bits as much as possible, not just for yourself but for everybody else (especially other hackers).

Great Work is what we should all aspire to. Great Work is the cure for Good Work.

This, however, brings up a question: it seems that Great Work is not really easy to do on a regular basis. What to do, therefore, on a "regular" day when inspiration doesn't strike?

When the time comes to release a feature, you simply flip the default value of the feature flag from false to true and everybody will see the new feature. If there are issues and you need to revert, you simply flip the flag back. Later, when the feature seems stable, you can get rid of the flag and just keep the true path in the code.

First and foremost, your reviewers are not going to want to review your diffs. I don’t care how much code you churn out, if none of it gets reviewed the code will never make it to master. You’ve effectively written zero code.

Traditional linear reading is highly inefficient. This comes from the fact that various pieces of the text are of various importance. Some should be skipped. Others should be read in the first order of priority. Old-fashioned books are quickly being replaced with hypertext. Hypertext will help you quickly jump to information that is the most important at any given moment. Hypertext requires a different style of writing. All linear texts can assume that the reader is familiar with the preceding sections. This makes them context-poor. Within hypertext, individual texts become context-independent, and all difficult terms and concepts are explained primarily with additional hyperlinks.