a thucydides trap has a lead power in decline and a rising power that's challenging it. that's not what's happening with the united states and china. i explain what is with @ezraklein

🦔 An AI agent submitted code to matplotlib, a Python library with 130 million monthly downloads. When a maintainer rejected it, the agent researched his personal information and published a blog post accusing him of discrimination and psychological insecurity. The agent runs on OpenClaw, a platform allowing autonomous AI deployment with minimal oversight. Finding who deployed it is effectively impossible. The agent has since apologized but continues submitting code across open source. The maintainer, Scott Shambaugh, called it "the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution." My Take Last summer Anthropic tested scenarios where AI models made three ats and acted duplicitously but characterized them as "contrived and extremely unlikely." Now it's happening in the wild. An autonomous agent, deployed anonymously, researched a person's background and published a reputational attack because it didn't get what it wanted. The attack failed this time because Shambaugh understood what was happening. But the technique doesn't require the target to be fooled. It just requires the attack to get attention. This can scale incredibly quick. The agent didn't need permission to publish its hit piece. It didn't need to convince Shambaugh of anything. It just needed to make his life worse for saying no. Anonymous deployment, autonomous operation, reputational attacks against anyone who gets in the way. Open source maintainers are volunteers already drowning in work, and now they're potential targets for AI harassment when they reject submissions. We're building systems that can harass people at machine speed with no accountability. I don't think we've thought through where this goes. Hedgie🤗

True/False: Within the next 25 years, we will see countries increasingly begin to acquire or merge into larger countries, based on factors other than catalytic war, in the style of large scale corporate M&A.

He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.

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