alt.hn

4/9/2026 at 8:48:45 PM

There are zero-day exploits for your mind

 https://mikemorgenstern.substack.com/p/there-are-zero-day-exploits-for-your-mind

by mikeyla85

4/9/2026 at 10:46:24 PM

Too long to say cognitive biases. Social engineering, marketing, politics, plenty of exploiting of that in the wild for thousands of years, but when studying that became a science, well, we have the current world.

by gmuslera

4/10/2026 at 6:31:45 AM

Catalog the exploits; discover common fixes. What's the equivalent of a ground-up cognitive rewrite?

by turtleyacht

4/9/2026 at 10:36:54 PM

This post is garbage slop. Read BLIT instead

https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

Or my favorite of his basilisk stories, different kinds of darkness: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-o...

by peterldowns

4/9/2026 at 11:57:03 PM

I wrote the post and have been working in and researching in the space for a decade and truly did spend a decade making a movie about this because I think it's an existential threat to humanity, but sure.

BLIT was awesome. Reread it recently after watching the Black Mirror Playthings episode on it most recently.

by mikeyla85

4/9/2026 at 10:42:05 PM

> The Glasswing Brain | Dall-E prompted by Claude Opus

Pathetic levels of slop when you cannot even write your own prompts.

by pawsocks

4/9/2026 at 11:54:24 PM

Well, I thought it was cute.

I don't really use a ChatGPT subscription so I have Claude Code create a few versions of an image in different styles. I mentioned it especially because evolving from prompting an image to automated prompting loops matches some of the recent changes that we've been talking about.

I wrote the article, I really have been working and researching in the space for a decade and can share similar articles published online long before LLMs.

by mikeyla85