This is a thoughtful essay. I can understand the frustration Mr. Larson feels when blocked in a line of inquiry by some sort of rule meant to be protective while ignoring the context of the request.
That said, many people have amply demonstrated scenarios where they have defeated such constitutional AI safeguards in the past. At the same time, he makes a valid point that we are effectively entrusting knowledge to the custody of private organizations.
But we also need to consider the space between the screen and the back of the chair. Confirmation bias is perhaps the most powerful of all. If the political quants cannot reliably convince us of supporting their sponsoring candidate, perhaps we are not as easily led as presumed here. Now, that does not mean we are thoughtful, but as political scientists discovered decades ago, voters can figure out enough to throw the bums out.
Your patent story names the problem exactly: the refusal was a governance decision that absorbed itself into infrastructure and returned to you as a neutral safety feature, with no audit trail and no contestability. I built a system where every output, including refusals, generates a cryptographic record of what decision was made and why. Not a model fix. An accountability layer around the model. I would welcome your critique of whether it actually addresses what you are describing.
Not the first time a communications tool/platform dressed up as neutral and really wasn't even close to neutral - see all news media since time immemorial. But appreciate the raising of awareness on this issue. It will likely become a more serious problem in months and years to come.
"Trust & Safety" = Politically Correct Progressive/Neoconservative lash-up to control our thoughts and social intercourse.
See the Twitter Files for one case study providing insight into the mechanisms Tech/Silicon Valley/Banks/FBI/CIA/DHS/NGOs/Media created to control speech/thought during the Covid days.
They have deemed certain topics/words as WrongThink. Even after the Twitter Files exposure, that cabal still controls the WrongThink and DoublePlusGood list of topics/words.
"If a hostile drone is still one hundred kilometers away, one may need an expensive missile system, directed-energy platform, or some other specialized military technology. But if the drone is within one hundred meters of its target, the design problem changes. At that range, the relevant question may no longer be whether one needs an exotic anti-drone system. It may be whether a conventional firearm is sufficient."
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A YouTube video I came across earlier today about an anti-Drone shotgun ammo used in Ukraine (and likely elsewhere) “Rare Ukrainian ANTI-DRONE Ammo - EFFECTIVE?” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7xHNrFN5mo] on Channel TAOFLEDERMAUS [https://www.youtube.com/@taofledermaus] stimulated my technical persons. The shotgun shell load is 6 shaped slugs with a length of twine attached to each of the slugs tied together so they fly forward in a 6-point interconnected spread formation creating a tunnel ‘kill-zone’.
This is being used against the quad-rotter type drones commonly used in the Ukrainian-Russian Holodomor Part 2 (the Zionist designed white Christian-based men, [potential] father, protector, provider, and cultural genocide, disguised as a war) and effective when any part of the advancing web-pattern shotgun load strikes the quad-rotter type drone and similar smaller suicide and surveillance drones.
The smaller low-cost easily assembled remote-guided Drones has become the weapon of choice for nations when effective use of resources and projection of force which minimized risk exposure to their front-line soldiers is critical.
Those smaller military drone designs are easy and quick to assemble, deploy, and use for front-line use, for rapid intelligence gathering, anti-personal and, anti-vehicle weapons, deploy-able in day or night, and limited by turbulent flying conditions, poor visibility such as heavier snow and rain, or deep cold that interferes with electric power storage and access function with present-day battery technologies. They can be designed to be relatively quiet and difficult to visually spot until close to target leaving little or no time for effective human counter-actions, even when such are available.
Another strength of drones is that assembly from components into their rapid battlefield deployment - from storage for transportation to region for initial assembly from the complete kit of components into the battlefield deploy-able state. This stage of assembly may be done as in a dispersed cottage-industry manner, in many isolated locations, in shed or single car storage spaces, where low-skilled workers following simplified step-by-step diagram instructions all included in packaged kits, containing all the sub-components that ‘snap-together’ with simple tools, perhaps one to five drone per kit, and each location having a dedicated testing device that uses singe electronics plug-outlet that verifies all internal connections were made and that each electronic sub-component is functional with testing person watching that each rotor spins and all other mechanical functions such as any payload releasing related hardware.
Such kits would be package outside of the regions of conflict, perhaps even purchased or exchange for services from other nations.
According to one reliable source, during the later period of WWII, aspects of the German war production that could be such as ammunition assembly was distributed throughout many farms and other small structures, each indistinguishable from others and when identified they were too insignificant to target with bombers, yet together they prolonged the war with desperately needed supplies after the German once mighty and formidable industrial base was otherwise bombed into dust.
Another aspect that similarly applies is the nearly universal stills of the common soldier to be capable of both rapid battlefield assembly little different requirement then unboxing and connecting together video-game hardware, or in basic use similar to the many computer flight simulator games. Although this is hardly unique in all but 3rd world regions, those un-infiltrated by betraying traitorous puppets of Satanic elite, not sickened nations, but those that care to effectively us those resources for defense of their peoples and not as a method to needless waste large percentages of national budget for high-priced, barely functional, inadequate, shiny systems that fail if dirt or sand gets on it or if someone using it sneezes.
Such easily adaptable widespread skills that modern men have that makes all aspects of drone warfare possible for the average soldier, the American men from farms where machine use and maintenance were common were a pool of skilled men that were easily trained to use and maintain WWII mechanized weapon systems unlike the majority of horse using Europeans, or the majority of non-mechanized using Asians, and others living in 3rd world conditions.
We can expect that such anti-drone technology such as the earlier mentioned specialized shotgun ammo to increase in demand, and maybe use, and we face a future that is nearly impossible to sanely face and react rightly against.
I can imagine anti-drone small size missile systems that are basically modified hobby rockets containing a small exploitive pellet-scatter system assembled with a laser-sensitive based guidance nose-cone system where the incoming drone is rapidly splashed with a sweeping laser-wave from a single or multiple device mounted on vehicle with a reflective spinning cylinder that sweeps a laser beam through a 180 degree optical lens, that the quad-differentiable filtered-optical equipped nose-cone directs changes in flight orientation with simple tail-fin assembly, powered with commercially available large hobby-rocket engines, detonating on contact or time-counter trigger.
Those miniature anti-drone missiles set to manually launch, or on detection of rapidly moving metallic-containing object using a Flux-gate within a Helmholtz-coil arrangement for directionality detection of local impudence changes, with high-percussion filtering and activation electronics. The miniature missiles could be packaged in pre-loaded launch system containing 3x3 (9) that are manually securing to top of vehicle beside the laser-emitter device - and simply plugged into it.
.. that is as far as I got. I worked in a small Electronic Manufacturing and R&D company who's main product was a DC based 6DOF magnetic tracing device. There is some things that would need to worked on- mostly advance filtering to ignore huge metal tank driving beside the one with system on it - but the shifting signals the Helmholtz-coil flux-gate system would be relative slow compared to an income drone on it's attack run, and the directionality discrimination should be possible to isolate the fast moving trigger that is coming from above ..
Excellent points. They remind me of a couple of things: 1) the sheer number of issues that get obscured (or elevated) when AI becomes the UI of everyday life, and; 2) history has given us lots of examples where a technology was created, others thought it would be great from things like "democratization," and then we repeatedly learn that if we want a technology to genuinely support or promote more democratic governance, it needs to be designed from the beginning with that in mind.
This is a thoughtful essay. I can understand the frustration Mr. Larson feels when blocked in a line of inquiry by some sort of rule meant to be protective while ignoring the context of the request.
That said, many people have amply demonstrated scenarios where they have defeated such constitutional AI safeguards in the past. At the same time, he makes a valid point that we are effectively entrusting knowledge to the custody of private organizations.
But we also need to consider the space between the screen and the back of the chair. Confirmation bias is perhaps the most powerful of all. If the political quants cannot reliably convince us of supporting their sponsoring candidate, perhaps we are not as easily led as presumed here. Now, that does not mean we are thoughtful, but as political scientists discovered decades ago, voters can figure out enough to throw the bums out.
Your patent story names the problem exactly: the refusal was a governance decision that absorbed itself into infrastructure and returned to you as a neutral safety feature, with no audit trail and no contestability. I built a system where every output, including refusals, generates a cryptographic record of what decision was made and why. Not a model fix. An accountability layer around the model. I would welcome your critique of whether it actually addresses what you are describing.
Not the first time a communications tool/platform dressed up as neutral and really wasn't even close to neutral - see all news media since time immemorial. But appreciate the raising of awareness on this issue. It will likely become a more serious problem in months and years to come.
"Trust & Safety" = Politically Correct Progressive/Neoconservative lash-up to control our thoughts and social intercourse.
See the Twitter Files for one case study providing insight into the mechanisms Tech/Silicon Valley/Banks/FBI/CIA/DHS/NGOs/Media created to control speech/thought during the Covid days.
https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/1-thread-the-twitter-files
They have deemed certain topics/words as WrongThink. Even after the Twitter Files exposure, that cabal still controls the WrongThink and DoublePlusGood list of topics/words.
Welcome to the gray zone of thought control.
Big Brother is Love!
Wait. There are fatal poisons that won’t show in an autopsy?
about your question:
"If a hostile drone is still one hundred kilometers away, one may need an expensive missile system, directed-energy platform, or some other specialized military technology. But if the drone is within one hundred meters of its target, the design problem changes. At that range, the relevant question may no longer be whether one needs an exotic anti-drone system. It may be whether a conventional firearm is sufficient."
-----------------------
A YouTube video I came across earlier today about an anti-Drone shotgun ammo used in Ukraine (and likely elsewhere) “Rare Ukrainian ANTI-DRONE Ammo - EFFECTIVE?” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7xHNrFN5mo] on Channel TAOFLEDERMAUS [https://www.youtube.com/@taofledermaus] stimulated my technical persons. The shotgun shell load is 6 shaped slugs with a length of twine attached to each of the slugs tied together so they fly forward in a 6-point interconnected spread formation creating a tunnel ‘kill-zone’.
This is being used against the quad-rotter type drones commonly used in the Ukrainian-Russian Holodomor Part 2 (the Zionist designed white Christian-based men, [potential] father, protector, provider, and cultural genocide, disguised as a war) and effective when any part of the advancing web-pattern shotgun load strikes the quad-rotter type drone and similar smaller suicide and surveillance drones.
The smaller low-cost easily assembled remote-guided Drones has become the weapon of choice for nations when effective use of resources and projection of force which minimized risk exposure to their front-line soldiers is critical.
Those smaller military drone designs are easy and quick to assemble, deploy, and use for front-line use, for rapid intelligence gathering, anti-personal and, anti-vehicle weapons, deploy-able in day or night, and limited by turbulent flying conditions, poor visibility such as heavier snow and rain, or deep cold that interferes with electric power storage and access function with present-day battery technologies. They can be designed to be relatively quiet and difficult to visually spot until close to target leaving little or no time for effective human counter-actions, even when such are available.
Another strength of drones is that assembly from components into their rapid battlefield deployment - from storage for transportation to region for initial assembly from the complete kit of components into the battlefield deploy-able state. This stage of assembly may be done as in a dispersed cottage-industry manner, in many isolated locations, in shed or single car storage spaces, where low-skilled workers following simplified step-by-step diagram instructions all included in packaged kits, containing all the sub-components that ‘snap-together’ with simple tools, perhaps one to five drone per kit, and each location having a dedicated testing device that uses singe electronics plug-outlet that verifies all internal connections were made and that each electronic sub-component is functional with testing person watching that each rotor spins and all other mechanical functions such as any payload releasing related hardware.
Such kits would be package outside of the regions of conflict, perhaps even purchased or exchange for services from other nations.
According to one reliable source, during the later period of WWII, aspects of the German war production that could be such as ammunition assembly was distributed throughout many farms and other small structures, each indistinguishable from others and when identified they were too insignificant to target with bombers, yet together they prolonged the war with desperately needed supplies after the German once mighty and formidable industrial base was otherwise bombed into dust.
Another aspect that similarly applies is the nearly universal stills of the common soldier to be capable of both rapid battlefield assembly little different requirement then unboxing and connecting together video-game hardware, or in basic use similar to the many computer flight simulator games. Although this is hardly unique in all but 3rd world regions, those un-infiltrated by betraying traitorous puppets of Satanic elite, not sickened nations, but those that care to effectively us those resources for defense of their peoples and not as a method to needless waste large percentages of national budget for high-priced, barely functional, inadequate, shiny systems that fail if dirt or sand gets on it or if someone using it sneezes.
Such easily adaptable widespread skills that modern men have that makes all aspects of drone warfare possible for the average soldier, the American men from farms where machine use and maintenance were common were a pool of skilled men that were easily trained to use and maintain WWII mechanized weapon systems unlike the majority of horse using Europeans, or the majority of non-mechanized using Asians, and others living in 3rd world conditions.
We can expect that such anti-drone technology such as the earlier mentioned specialized shotgun ammo to increase in demand, and maybe use, and we face a future that is nearly impossible to sanely face and react rightly against.
I can imagine anti-drone small size missile systems that are basically modified hobby rockets containing a small exploitive pellet-scatter system assembled with a laser-sensitive based guidance nose-cone system where the incoming drone is rapidly splashed with a sweeping laser-wave from a single or multiple device mounted on vehicle with a reflective spinning cylinder that sweeps a laser beam through a 180 degree optical lens, that the quad-differentiable filtered-optical equipped nose-cone directs changes in flight orientation with simple tail-fin assembly, powered with commercially available large hobby-rocket engines, detonating on contact or time-counter trigger.
Those miniature anti-drone missiles set to manually launch, or on detection of rapidly moving metallic-containing object using a Flux-gate within a Helmholtz-coil arrangement for directionality detection of local impudence changes, with high-percussion filtering and activation electronics. The miniature missiles could be packaged in pre-loaded launch system containing 3x3 (9) that are manually securing to top of vehicle beside the laser-emitter device - and simply plugged into it.
.. that is as far as I got. I worked in a small Electronic Manufacturing and R&D company who's main product was a DC based 6DOF magnetic tracing device. There is some things that would need to worked on- mostly advance filtering to ignore huge metal tank driving beside the one with system on it - but the shifting signals the Helmholtz-coil flux-gate system would be relative slow compared to an income drone on it's attack run, and the directionality discrimination should be possible to isolate the fast moving trigger that is coming from above ..
Excellent points. They remind me of a couple of things: 1) the sheer number of issues that get obscured (or elevated) when AI becomes the UI of everyday life, and; 2) history has given us lots of examples where a technology was created, others thought it would be great from things like "democratization," and then we repeatedly learn that if we want a technology to genuinely support or promote more democratic governance, it needs to be designed from the beginning with that in mind.