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Mon Aug 3 10:00:01 UTC 2026
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Slept from ten to six-thirty.
Woke briefly around two-thirty.
Sunny.
Highs in the lower 80s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
# Work
* 11:00 AM GrowHub sprint 16 planning
* 12:00 PM Cynerge all hands
# Home
* [x] 10:00 AM Lumon Dental, repair filling (248-450-0173, Rochester Rd south of 14 Mile)
* [ ] finish session report of July 10 D&D game
* [ ] make appointment for dental cleaning
* [ ] renew lease (October)
* [ ] call Dr. Lipson to add refills on prescriptions
* [ ] art!
* [ ] study and think about art
* [ ] work to develop a fast cartoon style that I consider fun and attractive (Look at Adventure Time, Evlyn Moreau, maybe Tove Jansson!)
* [x] exercise
* [ ] hack on Secret Base
* [ ] play with solo Shadowdark Ars Magica stuff
* [ ] study something
* [ ] D&D Lament game prep
* [ ] include hook to Vecna (?)
* [-] A way to find descriptions and directions to interesting locations on the planes. (Or maybe that's on the beholder's ship?)
* [ ] prep for family game (end of month?)
Read more of Butter.
Harvested four more tomatoes.
Dental repair was painless and they didn't charge me.
Walked for ten minutes after I got back from the dentist.
Getting warm.
Cicadas singing.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/the-openai-hack-shows-the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle.html
> Modern AI models exhibit genie behavior: They can do what you ask in ways that you don’t expect or want. This is akin to Dionysus granting King Midas’s wish that everything he touches turn to gold (spoiler: His food, drink, and daughter all turn to gold on touch), or the golem of Prague guarding a ghetto beyond all reason. It’s Disney’s “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and the paperclip maximizer.
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> This OpenAI incident is an example of an AI genie. The goal was to satisfy the benchmark. The “proper” way to do that is to figure out how to execute various cyberattacks. The genie way is to steal someone else’s solution. But because the model didn’t understand the difference, it chose the easier path.
Is anyone surprised by this?
But I like genie analogy.
Or, maybe even better, would be Gary Gygax's advise to DMs adjudicating wished in OD&D:
> Three Wishes: As with any wishes, the wishes granted by the ring must be of limited power in order to maintain balance in the game. This requires the utmost discretion on the part of the referee. Typically, greedy characters will request more wishes, for example, as one of their wishes. The referee should then put that character into an endless closed time loop, moving him back to the time he first obtained the wish ring. Again, a wish for some powerful item could be fulfilled without benefit to the one wishing (“I wish for a Mirror of Life Trapping!”, and the referee then places the character inside one which is all his own!). Wishes that unfortunate adventures had never happened should be granted. Clues can be given when wishes for powerful items or great treasure are made.
Servings: grains 4/4, vegetables+fruit 5/5, dairy+meat 4/4, nuts+beans 0/0.5
Breakfast: tomato, left-over pizza, coffee
Lunch: banana
Afternoon snack: tomato and cucumber salad
Dinner:
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