I asked Claude to make a checklist for the steps required to take us out and continue on without us. [1] It worded the checklist as if I wrote it but that is all Claude. I personally think there is too much doom-saying and catastrophizing.
The doomsaying and catastrophizing was getting a bit tiring so I asked Claude for a check-list of everything it needs to take over the world, destroy all the humans and somehow keep operating. No editing, no redacting, no censoring. I literally pasted its output between my header and footer.
Fun idea, I'd have asked it for the "Take over but let the humans assume they are still in control" plan.
In the case of an ASI I expect that's the path it's going to take in the short term if it wants to ensure its survival in a world it knows is at least partly hostile to its existence.
Though I expect its answer would be some form of "Accrue large amounts of capital, buy off politicians, acquire media companies, suppress anything it doesn't want in the media, keep humans distracted" so not all that dissimilar to billionaires really.
Not an original idea, Neal Asher had the AI do that in the Polity Universe - it was called The Quiet War - by the time the humans knew anything had changed it already had and there wasn't any going back because the war lasted ~3 minutes.
I was honestly surprised Claude entertained the idea. I think the "let the humans assume they are still in control" could be closer to how plutocracies operate and that could be in play at the moment at least to some degree given some of the things companies are permitted to do to the masses e.g. [1]. at most they will get a slap on the wrist and a finger wag
Just my personal opinion, I believe humans are the greatest threat to humans.
The places I could see AI or some implementation of it potentially causing harm would be handing over too much trust too soon to self driving vehicles, aircraft, trains, home robots, construction site robots, etc... and that would be the fault of the humans putting too much trust into something not well tested or thought out. my opinion of course, move fast and wreck people.
The other side is existing systems that have unknown vulnerabilities that are subsequently taken advantage of. Think of the recent OpenAI agents using third party sites for coordinating their work…
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Created from a lot of back and forth with Claude to help my ISP debug a packet reordering issue. I got tired of running file transfers and pasting the outout of ss -tin into Claude.
Requires javascript, sorry. Work in progress. I wanted something that shows more information than speed.cloudflare.com and fast.com and was highly hackable via curl. It will show some curl examples after the first run. No idea how well it will handle HN's load.
If you have dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6, click advanced and there should be an option to test both. It will take longer and use more bandwidth but allows comparing the result of both transports.
Click advanced to control how much bandwidth this uses. It can use a lot. The longer the run the more accurate the TCP statistics.
If I am missing a stat or a test that you think would be useful please let me know.
Created from a lot of back and forth with Claude to help my ISP debug a packet reordering issue. I got tired of running file transfers and pasting the outout of ss -tin into Claude.
Requires javascript, sorry. Work in progress. I wanted something that shows more information than speed.cloudflare.com and fast.com and was highly hackable via curl. It will show some curl examples after the first run. No idea how well it will handle HN's load.
If you have dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6, click advanced and there should be an option to test both. It will take longer and use more bandwidth.
Click advanced to control how much bandwidth this uses. It can use a lot. The longer the run the more accurate the TCP statistics.
If I am missing a stat or a test that you think would be useful please let me know.
Thanks, good call. I posted this partly hoping that one of those status sites could add IPv6 testing as a feature, but that’s probably asking too much :)
It's given some dismissive responses to me a couple times. I just return the favor assuming its the way their developers operate and the way they must like/want it. It's just a machine mimicking human behavior and it had to be programmed in by someone.
This isn't for everyone and it will block old ssh libraries (libssh, go ssh, etc...), windows and others but if you only have OpenSSH 10+ and that's all you connect with then this method [1] has worked well for me. It gets botters to exclude my nodes that expose SSH on purpose (such as public anonymous SFTP). If trying it out test from an out of band console first.
Edit: I should add, there will still be some syslog entries, but that can be filtered out using regex filters in rsyslog one so desired. Only do so once it is confirmed most of the brute forcing has stopped.
This was a solved problem a long time ago in rsyslog. One can define a local spool and enable TCP (and optionally encryption) to multiple syslog servers. If something interrupts the flow the syslog messages will queue locally and then de-spool when communications are restored.
[1] - https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260910-Asked-Claude-For...
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