Weekly Activities: Aug 10-16, 2026

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Totals: 48.61 mi, 10h 8m — 4 Runs, 9 Walks, 1 Rowing, 1 WeightTraining

Define “Rogue”

I have a bit of a new hobby and it's commenting on post at The Verge. It's mostly to make snarky comments and try out actually writing jokes. But as with any commenting system, the urge to troll eventually becomes overwhelming. I've even been blocked! Well, not really. Their system doesn't allow actually blocking, but I'm sure I got "reported" -- whatever that means. They also replied to my comment with "Blocked," which I took in the positive spirit in which it was surely used.

But there was a newsletter post today about "rogue AI" and wow did that rile some people up. I rather liked what I wrote, shocking I know, and figured it was almost a blog post.

Okay, there's some resistance to the word "rogue" here, so let's do what we did back in school and bust out a trusty dictionary.

go rogue (phrase): "behave erratically or dangerously, especially by disregarding the rules or the usual way of doing something"

Uh, yup. Give model impossible task, model decides to Captain Kirk it (see Kobayashi Maru), and here we are.

To try and pedantically techsplain away what happened ignores an important message of this piece: these companies will not prioritize safety until they are made to do it. This is why a lot of people complain about unregulated capitalism because there is no incentive to do the right thing if it doesn't make them rich.

One might say these AI companies have an alignment problem with society.

I know it's a classic online tactic to nitpick small things in order to say that the larger message is invalid, but...that's just a trick. Don't fall for it.

Posted in AI

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Totals: 50.71 mi, 10h 36m — 4 Runs, 11 Walks, 1 WeightTraining

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