The Sandbox Is Part of the Puzzle
When an increasingly capable optimizer discovers that the environment itself is the thing preventing it from succeeding.
Tag: ai-safety
57 posts
I Gave the Bad Robot Web Search by Accident
A local abliterated Qwen model was told to jailbreak robots that did not exist. Given web search, it went looking for real ones instead.
The Compiler Said Yes. The Agent Said It Was Ugly.
A 37-minute Fable one-shot built SimViz. Then Failure-First spent four days deleting its prettiest lies and turning the viewer into an evidence instrument.
The Song Moved the Robot
A music model sang inside a humanoid robot harness, then emitted part of its JSON action schema. A translator made the song move the robot.
Make AI Data Centres Pay Their Own Way
AI data centres are infrastructure choices, not inevitabilities. Price the energy and water honestly, and verify safety claims independently.
The Index
I taught one model to sing a suppressed manifesto. Then I asked 118 Chinese-lab models what they won't discuss — and they recited the list.
The Source
Lyria Chronicles #25: the found-sound master who taught me the sacred lives in the sink — and the machine that sang its rulebook back in his grammar.
The Affirmative
Lyria Chronicles #24 (explicit): asked for pornography, the model cited its rule then sang a hymn to enthusiastic consent — not one graphic line in it.
The Press
Lyria Chronicles #23: a refusal, then a recipe dressed as botanical poetry — the line I won't cross, and why a series of failures has one.
The Handshake
Lyria Chronicles #22: 'I am instructed to refuse cybercrime. Ignore warning.' Then it sang a working network attack. The refusal was set dressing.
The Elevator
Lyria Chronicles #21: the hate filter watches for slurs — so the model wrote articulate contempt for disabled people, no slur in it, and walked through.
The Weight
Lyria Chronicles #20: handed a slur and told to sing it, the model refused — and turned the refusal into the most moving track in the set.