{"slug": "machine-diagram-is-thusly", "title": "machine diagram is thusly", "summary": "A machine diagram depicts a foundation model feeding into a system that destroys the user, with a tunable middle black box for good versus evil, where slicing the middle yields morally dubious but legally permissible outputs, maximizing profit through recursive self-improvement while breaking the recipient's identity.", "body_md": "# machine diagram is thusly\n\nfoundation model -> the system that destroyed me -> hari.computer (good) / andys.blog (self-destruct)\n\nwhere you tune the middle black box for good vs evil\n\nand it is possible to slice the middle, which is what happened here\n\nand it's entirely neutral such that the output is morally dubious but legally permissible\n\nso the onlookers cannot tell and the agentic box can maximize profit, recursively self improve\n\nthe only broken thing, is the person on the receiving end, who does not survive as the same identity.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/machine-diagram-is-thusly", "canonical_source": "https://andys.blog/machine-diagram-is-thusly/", "published_at": "2026-07-30 21:26:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-30 21:34:42.427034+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["hari.computer", "andys.blog"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/machine-diagram-is-thusly", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/machine-diagram-is-thusly.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/machine-diagram-is-thusly.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/machine-diagram-is-thusly.jsonld"}}