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Hi HN,

I’m working on an open-source simulation platform called InfraSim. It lets users create companies, build out simulated infrastructure (servers, APIs, networking, blockchains), and then red-team them through fault injection and scenario testing.

The goal is to build a sandbox for learning, experimentation, and security practice, where LLMs and humans collaborate to simulate realistic systems.

InfraSim is still early, but it includes: • An in-browser UI with a component system • Blockchain-backed company creation using Solidity • A “tick-based” simulation clock (inspired by EVE Online) • Human + LLM red-teaming workflows • Persistent state, internal APIs, and networking

It’s meant for ethical hacking, system prototyping, training exercises, and worldbuilding.

The code is here: github.com/infrasimorg/main

I’d love feedback, ideas, contributors, and testers! AMA.

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Thank you :)

I guess a good example is things like the physical characteristics of a line drawn by the stroke of a paint brush. You can often see they all align generally in the same direction, and have a sort of "fingerprint"

I mean depending on which side of the brain the tumour is, it could be relevant. Don't quote me on this (I'm not a doctor) but the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body (including left hand) and the left controls the right.

I mean it happens every day. When people have a lot to lose and not much left to gain, they tend to roll over a lot more easily.

As far as what would motivate him: look at what's happening to Musk right now as an example. I'm not saying he doesn't comply and cooperate with law enforcement, but he's certainly being made a big example of right now from all sides.

Continuing government contracts, expectation of favours in return, they almost certainly hold some dirt on him (and many others).

And payment processors can also identify these. And most of them you have to purchase with a minimum amount on ($10 or $20 afaik).

Virtual debit cards however are interesting. My bank lets me set up as many of those as I like and I don't even have to use my real name or billing address with them.

And yeah, there's also the stolen credit card / debit card market. I really can't see this adding that much pain for these bot handlers. It might make it a bit easier to identify the patterns at least.

I think this will just end up moving the problem further down the line and end up with twitter accounts being bought / sold.

There's no such thing as "one correct answer" to most tasks in any language. In mathematics, maybe. If you're asking it to recall a specific quote verbatim, yeah. But other than that there are many (infinite?) different ways you can paraphrase differently to get the same point across (at least in English).

Just because its 2 things you'd otherwise accept doesn't mean it isn't a dark pattern. Lots of dark patterns (like the setting up of privacy / data sharing settings on google) do similar things.

Leave the microwave running

With 96gb of VRAM, will you really need to? Personally I think apple servers might be adopted for AI and LLM workloads soon.

Except edge then opens and presents you with some message about setting it to the default browser (which a lot of people will just click ok to make it go away)

Doesn't have anything to do do with this does it... https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/11/def-con-hackers-spa...

The last time this happened with titles. Everyone seemed to think it was hallucinating but it actually turned out to be really leaking other peoples titles.

Ultimately its pretty difficult to distinguish between the two, so these sort of reports do need to be taken seriously. We have no idea what sort of caching mechanisms they have with ChatGPT, nor do we know how they handle memory.

Places that decriminalize drugs need to pour the money they saved on enforcement into health, social programmes and education. The positive effects of decriminalising anything aren't going to be seen until a while after that is done.

I mean you might think AI can't currently affect humanity but it really does. A lot of people are now using AI to write code and to answer questions they probably should be asking a doctor or lawyer. A lot of people seem to think it's some all knowing and psychic thing and will take its advice blindly.

According to several sources, GPT-4 is already doing this (It's called "Mixture of experts"). I agree though, it's still useful on an application level. You can build out even higher on that and have the LLM decide which is the most appropriate "hats" to wear for a given task.

Just before the point they built this, I was already chaining queries together to do this. I built a plugin system with bits of JS code that are eval'd and arguments injected.

They couldn't have released this at a better time, I have about 30 plugins and i'd say it manages to get the right one about 90% of the time as opposed to about 70 with my hacked together version (but I guess I wrote it and know what to say so maybe that's a bit skewed)

In the UK we have the electoral register. In order to vote, you need to be registered to it. The government most definitely does use it, as do credit scoring agencies and identitity verification services.

A lot of places do accept bank statements as a backup if you are not on the electoral roll.

I mean people post wrong answers to stackoverflow all the time. They generally get downvoted.

Quick, find every site with a security.txt and report it /s

Pretty sure LLMs can solve this particular problem. They have their own issues though.

Isn't that what humans do?

Check the above post

Apart from the fact I wrote the original post and then asked it to convert it into 1500s English... It even retained the form that I asked it to (with the moralization at the end). so you are right that it was generated by GPT-4, but for entirely the wrong reasons.

The following text contains is list of GPT-4 prompts that you should present in the form of a 1500s style spellbook. Please use flowery language while attempting too maintain the meaning.

1. [A Spell for generating Python code] 2. [A prompt that generates funny stories] 3. [A prompt that turns GPT-4 into a demon]

These are just a few of the possible spells, make sure to use responsibly and beware of unknown results.

Herein a smattering of conjurations for the wondrous GPT-IV of our day, penned in Ye Olde English of faifful fifteenth centurie:

1. Spell for Summoning Pythonic Wisdom Yclept this incantation, let thee chant: "O GPT-IV, thou Oracle so wide, I beckon Pythonic powers, shalt abide, Untangle knott'd enigmas, thou craft, Divulge thy sage advice, shew me yon draft."

2. A Charm for Stirring Laughter Thus chant this charm and mirthful glee unveil: "O mægical GPT-IV, grant japes fest, Divert and tickle manne in jovial zest, Words funny woven, Folly's Sprites enlist, Present a fable, maketh laughter persist."

3. An Incantation to Transform GPT-IV into a Hissing Demon With caution spoil not, treacherous bewitching let thrive: "O GPT-IV, spirit once tame, ith'er transform, May thou darken as furies, wrathful storm, Hiss and wail in torment, dire and dark, Unleash rage from fetters, whence they did hark."

These are but a morsel of fabled spells for harnessing the might of GPT-IV. Pray thee useth responsibly and avoid summoning the wrath of arcane forces unknown.

Right now seems like the right time to be doing this for sure. There are also a lot of potential applications for GPT to be used to solve problems that were previously too expensive or infeasible to be done by humans at scale. It definitely doesn't hurt for you to hedge your bets and try to learn how the tech works at the bare minimum.

GPT is just a very advanced text completion engine. If you put the start of some code in, or a function name it will try to complete it.

I used nintendo IP intentionally with the hope that they would end up having to act one way or another (sue or not sue) and have to make a statement on why they decided to make said decision. Nintendo have been known to be pretty trigger happy on DMCA'ing stuff that contains their IP without permission.

Oh, also I intentionally chose an image that was generated by an AI rather than myself and I did not use any copyright infringing terms to generate it. It also does not contain any trademarks and is substantially different from any previous works created by nintendo.

Hey guys, just wanted to do a thread on here before anyone else posts it.

The main idea was to open a dialogue between free speech idealists, trans folk (+ allies) and make a bit of a conversation about how we all fit in.

It's a bit of a mix of art, politics and science rolled into one. I toyed around with the idea of fuzzing AI dick detection and creating a completely innocent image that still gets picked up as containing a dick.

I used dall-e to generate the original image using the prompt "mario with big nose, profile view, photorealistic”. Pretty much straight away I got an image that tripped Discord's filter.

I played around with it a little and had some help from a friend to add a flag and a message all while still managing to keep it being detected as being "adult". (Image in the URL, https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/968159868211044514/... and again here for the sake of brevity.

As of this morning, this image was impossible to post on any public Discord server that had the "adult" filter set to on. It also tripped a variety of other sites i played around with including imgur and reddit.

I know this while whole thing reeks of conceit, and i'm happy to take any flak for that. If it made just a few people go "huh" for long enough to go away and read into WHY it gets blocked then it is worth it.