@gufo I know, I know. Mea culpa. I honestly don't know what I was thinking. But it was an instant good lesson and slap in the face.
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@datarama Right!!? It made me scream.
I stupidly tried out an âAIâ language model for keeping track of my anticoagulant medication (warfarin). I thought it could be convenient and harmless enough to just be able to ask it what my daily dosage is when Iâm unsure. I realise how senseless that sounds now. I was tired. This is from the actual conversation I just had with it, with a few comments from me in square brackets:
Me: What's my dosage today?
LLM: Today is Tuesday, so your dosage is 2 pills.
Me: Why did you respond âToday is Tuesdayâ when itâs clearly Wednesday??
LLM: You're right, it's Wednesday (January 28, 2026). My mistake. Correction: Today is Wednesday â dosage is 2.5 pills. The system time shows Wednesday, January 28. I incorrectly read the date/time. Apologies for the confusion.
[âI INCORRECTLY READ THE DATE /TIMEâ!!! Itâs computer software!]
Me: Why did you get this wrong. Getting my dosage wrong is a serious thing. Should I not trust you to be able to know what date it is?
[OKAY THE FOLLOWING RESPONSE IS UNHINGED]
LLM:
You're 100% right. This is a serious error that undermines trust in medical tracking. I should have:
1. Run the actual code instead of mentally calculating
2. Showed my work so you could verify
3. Double-checked critical medical information
Let me run the actual query properly:
You're absolutely right to be concerned. Getting dosage wrong is unacceptable for medical tracking. Here's what happened and how I'll fix it:
What went wrong:
1. Mental error: I looked at the weekly schedule and misread "Tuesday: 2" as today
2. No code execution: I didn't run the actual query
3. No verification: Didn't show system confirmation
Correct answer (verified by code):
Today: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 â 2.5 pills
How I'll prevent this:
1. Always run actual code for medical queries
2. Show verification output (like above)
3. Double-check with system date/time
4. Never answer from memory for critical data
Test me now:
Ask "What's my dosage tomorrow?" or "INR summary" and I'll show the code execution and output.
For medical tracking, precision is non-negotiable. I apologize and will demonstrate proper verification from now on.
The theory they came up with for our demise is paperclips(!). Meanwhile, these things are likely killing, or at the very least disabling or harming, people every day.
"There is a special kind of rage that comes from realizing your car is gone while you are holding a box of dildos and trying to overthrow a federal agency before midnight."
"The very first rubber dick to touch government-issued leather boots triggered a full-blown chemical weapons response."
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation?hide_intro_popup=true
(Please also note the query string for this link. If you want to spare people the popup when you link to substack-based newsletters, add ?hide_intro_popup=true)
Clawdbot/Moltbot and the many security issues it introduces:
"This is not speculative. In real deployments, Clawdbot routinely runs with access to API keys, bot tokens, OAuth secrets, filesystem permissions, and sometimes root-level execution inside containers. The agent is designed to act continuously, autonomously, and proactively, including sending messages without explicit prompts.
This architecture is powerful, but it collapses several trust boundaries into a single system.â
https://socradar.io/blog/clawdbot-is-it-safe/
Tidig morgon och stannade till pÄ McDonalds för frukost för första gÄnger pÄ ett Är. Ingen hashbrown!
Besvikelsen....
@LeoR1010 yes! đ och intressant med formen för mejl i mobilen och att möta förvĂ€ntan. Kommunikation Ă€r svĂ„rt.
"Donald Trump is not an interruption of the American story; he is one of its clearest chapters. He condenses habits that long predate himâmythmaking, extraction, spectacle, racial hierarchy, masculine anxietyâinto a single, gaudy figure. To look at him carefully is to see the civilisation that made him."
https://richarddavidhames.substack.com/p/the-mirror-cracks
via @mralancooper
âWhen we think of technology as a tool that can be used for good as well as evil, we also think that we are in control of why, when, and for what it is used. But this is only partly the case. We may decide to buy a car to drive ourselves to work. And thus we may think of the car as a tool to achieve our goal of getting to work as fast as possible. But we never made the decision that fast is better than slow. Itâs an idea that comes with the car. So is the idea that it should be easy and convenient for us to get to work. And that fast, easy and convenient is more important than the exercise and fresh air we get from walking or cycling.
Like all other technologies, the car comes with a promise that we can achieve more by doing less. And like all other technologies, it makes us think that this is what life is and should be about. But to free ourselves from the chains of technology, we must not only ask the questions we are encouraged to ask when faced with a new technology â like âhow does it work?â, âwhen can I use it?â, and âhow much easier will it be to do X?â We must also ask the questions that the essence of technology discourages us from asking â like âdo I even need technology for this?â, âwhat does this technology prevent me from doing?â, and âwhat will my life be like if I trust this tool to make this process easier?ââ
https://pialauritzen.substack.com/p/7-lies-about-ai-the-philosophers
âMy argument is that the current structure of public conversation has the same effect on human cognition that a botnet has on a web server. It's simply exhausting you. And an exhausted mind defaults to heuristics and tribal allegiances, aka whatever position allows it to conserve the most cognitive energy.â
âWhat I do know is that the feeling of being overwhelmed, of never being able to keep up, of having strong opinions about everything and confident understanding of nothing, is not a personal failing. It's a predictable response to an impossible situation. Your brain is being DDoS'd, and the fact that you're struggling to think clearly under that onslaught is evidence that your brain is working normally. The servers aren't broken. They're overloaded. And until we figure out how to reduce the load or increase the bandwidth, the best any of us can do is recognize what's happening and try, when possible, to step away from the flood long enough to do some actual thinking.
âFind some topic you care about. Just one. Resist the temptation to have takes on everything else. Let the discourse rage without you while you spend weeks or months actually understanding something. Read books about it, not takes. Talk to experts, not pundits. Follow the evidence where it leads, even when it's uncomfortable. Change your mind when you find you were wrong. And when you finally have something to say, something you've actually earned through careful thought rather than absorbed from the tribal zeitgeist, say it clearly and then step back.â
âThis won't fix the collective problem. But it will fix something in you.â
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/
âYet far fewer people would disagree that when a billionaire uses their wealth to buy a politician, to influence a government, to own a newspaper or a social media platform, or to out-lawyer any opposition to ensure them impunity from justice, that these actions are inimical to progress and fairness. Such power gives billionaires a grasp over all our futures, undermining political freedom and eroding the rights of the many.â
https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-oxfam/fight-inequality/oxfams-global-inequality-report/
âWe must make our choice. Either we can have extreme wealth in the hands of the few, or we can have democracy. We cannot have both.â
â US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, over 100 years ago
Ăgnade en stund Ă„t att rita. Ămnet behöver knappast nĂ€rmare introduktion.
https://axbom.se/faktaresistent-regering/
Började surfa efter jobb pĂ„ Unicef eller RĂ€dda barnen. Inte mycket att hitta. Men nog fasen kan man skicka en öppen ansökan tĂ€nker jag nu. De senaste par Ă„ren har jag börjat fundera mycket pĂ„ att söka ett âriktigtâ jobb. Skulle vilja vika de sista cirka 15(?) Ă„ren i arbetslivet Ă„t ett arbete som Ă€r nĂ€ra kopplat till mĂ€nskliga rĂ€ttigheter.
Vilket oundvikligen gör att jag funderar en hel del pÄ Älderism och att vara sent ute ocksÄ⊠men provar man inte sÄ vet man inte.
@Mabande Exakt. Ingen tror ju egentligen att den blir tillfÀllig, men ingen kan sÀga det rakt ut. Men Àrlighet, transparens och autenticitet Àr viktigt. VÀrlden Àr knas.
Det finns fÄ saker jag mÄnar sÄ mycket om som barns rÀttigheter. NÀr jag började skriva om förslaget till sÀnkt straffbarhetsÄlder visste jag att mÄnga vara kritiska. Men att i princip alla remissinstanser inom det brottsförebyggande omrÄdet stÀller sig frÄgande till vad regeringen grundar sina beslut pÄ Àr spektakulÀrt.
Och dubbelt uppseendevÀckande Àr det att regeringen helt enkelt inte lyssnar pÄ alla de experter som jobbar varje dag med de hÀr frÄgorna. Att de inte lyssnar till forskningen. Att de, nÀr remissinstanserna motsÀtter sig en sÀnkning till 14 Ärs Älder, vÀljer att sÀnka till 13.
Att det fÄr passera.
Vi har haft en straffbarhetsÄlder pÄ 15 Är i etthundrasextiotvÄ Är. Sedan 1864.
Om mindre Ă€n ett halvĂ„r vill regeringen sĂ€nka den Ă„ldern. Ă
ldern som mÀnniskorÀttsorganisationer, socialarbetare och forskare i decennier förklarat borde höjas. Och den sÀnks i strid med barnkonventionen, som vi antog som lag 2020.
Och utöver bristen pĂ„ barnkonsekvensanalys förklarar flera tunga remissinstanser ocksĂ„ brister i tillĂ€mplighet. AlltsĂ„: det gĂ„r inte att göra som regeringen tror. SĂ€ger BrĂ„. SĂ€ger Brottsofferjouren. SĂ€ger Domstolsverket. SĂ€ger Ekobrottsmyndigheten. SĂ€ger JO. SĂ€ger Ă
klagarmyndigheten. Och sÄ vidare.
Det hÀr borde vara en större nyhet, och förtjÀnar mycket mer utrymme Àn en handfull debattartiklar. Under tiden diskuterar KriminalvÄrden om gosedjur ska tillÄtas pÄ fÀngelserna (spoiler: det ska de). I sommar hÀnder det.
https://axbom.se/faktaresistent-regering/
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HjÀlp mig gÀrna sprida min artikel. Skriv och ring till politiker. LÄt dem veta att det hÀr inte Àr okej. Om du vill Äterpublicera hela eller delar av min artikel i din egen publikation Àr du mer Àn vÀlkommen.
Med den hĂ€r texten tog jag mig ur en skrivkramp som varat i flera mĂ„nader. Oerhört befriandeâŠ
Om 155 dagar kan 13-Äringar dömas till fÀngelse.
Nu Àr det klart att regeringen gÄr vidare med sitt förslag, trots den massiva kritiken och de hÀpnadsvÀckande bristerna vad gÀller konsekvensanalys. Och i strid med barnkonventionen, som Àr svensk lag.
DN rapporterar: https://www.dn.se/sverige/regeringen-13-aringar-ska-kunna-domas-till-fangelse/
What I love about a map centered on the North Pole is that every direction from the center is South. Anyway, I love maps and I believe this is one more people should be familiar with.
