Get your papers accepted with this one stupid trick!

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https://mastodon.acm.org/@smarr/114693374420427993

If you use "AI agents" (LLMs calling tools in a loop) you need to be aware of the Lethal Trifecta

Any time you combine access to private data, exposure to untrusted content and the ability to externally communicate an attacker can trick the system into stealing your data https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled ... was convincing internet communities to switch from email lists / IRC / another open standard to Slack / Discord. The latest example of a “it's only free while we say it's free" is CNCF’s / Kubernetes's Slack - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/communication/slack-migration-faq.md - who it appears have *4 days* to backup their history (for a server with 100,000s of users)

Neither Slack nor Discord are reasonable, serious, professional, options for open community discussion. They are either too expensive, and/or involve inappropriate advertising. And who knows when Discord will start pulling this kind of behaviour, too, requiring large communities to pay?

The problem is today when anyone says "can't we just use an email list?" they are pooh-pooh'ed as being horribly out of touch. Hence why even the linked FAQ describes Discord as the only likely exit plan for Kubernetes. What a mess.

Jedes mal wenn ich wieder lese wer gerade neue Atomkraftwerke für quatsch betreiben will statt unseren Energiebedarf zu reduzieren oder auf Kernfussion setzen will, muss ich an dieses Paper denken: https://futurism.com/the-byte/simulate-alien-civilization-climate-change

Kurzfassung, wir sehen keine außerirdischen Zivilisationen weil sie immer relativ schnell den Hitzetod sterben. Quasi die Great Filter Theorie.

In the end it seems to me that one of the main distinctions between people who see LLMs as good and those who don't is whether they see the digital part of the world as "content" or "people".

If it's all just content, LLMs make sense. If it's where people live LLMs become a somewhat dumb idea.

Stranger than science fiction.

#scifi #robocop