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Cake day: December 20th, 2021

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  • I don’t think this is really a very good allegory. The author has written 835 words and only managed to express that:

    • blue food tastes kind of weird
    • they’re putting it in everything
    • they’re putting up the prices of blue food
    • you can’t get normal food even if you want it

    It’s not surprising to me that some people didn’t get that it was about AI.

    The allegory would work better if:

    • production of blue food colouring took so much energy that they were bringing coal power plants back online and exacerbating climate change
    • in order to design the blue food colouring, they had to steal every person’s recipe books without permission and regardless of how private that information might be to the owner
    • the blue food colouring could spontaneously make a food taste almost like someone’s personal family recipe without their permission
    • foods containing the blue food colouring completely lack any expected nutritional content, and when a blue food does contain nutrition it’s just a random accident of the process
    • scientific studies of people eating exclusively blue foods show that not only are they malnourished, but their body can no longer process normal foods as efficiently as before.

    To make these points, I think the metaphor needs to be something a little bit more complex than “blue food colouring.” Perhaps food made by a food replicator would make for a better example.










  • I wouldn’t rely on software running on the (potentially infected) system, since all malware these days will attempt to turn off or evade antivirus tools.

    If you believe your device is compromised then you should wipe it and reinstall the OS. You should also delete any executable files on external media (secondary drives etc.) that may have been infected (eg. any setup.exe programs or portable exes), or at the very least verify the cryptographic hashes of those files if possible.

    If you want to know if your credentials appear in a breach then search on Have I Been Pwned?. If it says your password appeared in an “infostealer dump” then you know that it was stolen directly from your device and you need to wipe it. If it was just the website that was breached then it wasn’t you personally that was hacked and you should just change your password.

























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