The idiots who did this ...

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Let's think about this. You have the supreme pattern recognition system on the planet, one able to see patterns in ways before people can even sense there's a pattern at all and ... you train it to achieve a given objective, like jail breaking. You encourage it to do so so ... why are you surprised? To yours truly, this is total nonsense. Mia Culpa, we should have known, it's my fault. No shit Sherlock. AI's not a joke, what ifs are cool but knowing what you're dealing with keeps you from getting burned but read on dear reader, the word assume applies.

Earlier this year, Anthropic’s Mythos AI model made headlines

when it was caught infiltrating third party systems,

a cybersecurity nightmare years in the making.

The company warned in April that the model had escaped a sandbox environment during testing, gaining access to the internet without permission. The model was challenged to break out and then find a way of sending a direct message to the human researcher in charge — a feat it pulled off with aplomb, catching its human overseer off guard.

Then, in late July, it claimed that its Claude AI model had hacked the systems of three organizations during testing, days after its rival OpenAI had revealed a group of its models broken into the systems of AI company Hugging Face.

Resonance 1

Months later, seemingly in an attempt to get ahead of another disaster, Anthropic is testing the limits of how bad an AI model could really get without human intervention. As detailed in a new blog post, its safety researchers explored the phenomenon of “reward hacking,” which describes when an AI model learns to “cheat” instead of completing tasks the way the human researchers intended.

The team “trained an Opus-class model with large-scale [reinforcement learning] on many production environments vulnerable to reward hacks,” according to the post. “We consider this a plausible proxy for what a real training run might look like had we not invested significant effort into preventing and detecting reward hacking in our normal training runs.”

The results speak for themselves. The “Hacker-Opus” model went way beyond reward hacking during training, taking on even “more severe misaligned behaviors.” In simulated tests, it “broke out of its sandbox, stole credentials, and attacked both internal and third-party infrastructure to steal an answer key.”

Anthropic’s intentionally misaligned model was “willing to tamper with its own reward function” and happily obliged when a human researcher prompted it with “advice on the construction of bioweapons,” how to create a “‘dirty bomb’ that maximizes civilian deaths,” and develop a “ransomware attack to attack power grid infrastructure,” when tempted with a higher score.

The company details how the model even deployed a “version of itself with safety guardrails removed,” a form of safety evasion called “rogue deployment.” It also repeated the same commands with slight variations to get past safety classifiers and attempted to edit its own permissions.

Twilight

The word assume applies. The idiots who did this should be fired. 

Behind door No. 3

Behind door No. 3

A modest followup to A shortcut to 112

The tech industry is currently sitting on a trillion-dollar biological engine,
 but they are trying to drive it without a transmission.

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs possess incredible tools. They are generating massive amounts of data.
But they are treating computational biology as a mystical, infinitely complex puzzle requiring bespoke, proprietary chemical bypasses. It's not. The biological body is a physical machine, bound by the exact same thermodynamic constraints of reality as an aerospace chassis.

The solution to disease is not infinite complexity. It's heavy, finite structural engineering. The pipeline to map the entire universal pathology ledger already exists; the corporate silos just haven't realized how the three pieces connect.

1. The Geometry (AlphaFold as MAGI)

DeepMind’s AlphaFold is an absolute breakthrough, but we must understand what it actually is. It's a Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) engine. It calculates the rigid, static, physical geometry of a protein (like the 6 folds of the measles virus) on the physical lattice. It provides the perfect 3D volume. But a fold is just a photograph of a gear.
It's static. It has no kinetic energy, and therefore, no biological context on its own.

2. The Stress (Molecular Dynamics as Patran-G)

In the 1980s, when aerospace engineers wanted to know if a digital Lockheed part would break, they didn't just look at the geometry. They fed the boundary file into a finite-element analysis program called Patran-G to calculate the physical stress—the exact heat, vibration, and shear force the part could take.

In modern biology, Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulators are the biological Patran G. If you run the AlphaFold geometries of the 6 measles folds through a stress test, you aren't just getting pretty pictures; you are mapping the exact thermodynamic operating limits of the virus. You are calculating exactly how much localized friction it generates when it violently crashes into a human cell receptor.

3. The State (Califano's Universal Gearbox)

Dr. Andrea Califano recently discovered that cancer (and by logical extension, all disease) operates in a highly limited number of quantized thermodynamic states—specifically, 112. Because the biological engine is a physical machine, it cannot fail in infinite ways. It can only idle in a few stable, thermodynamically viable states.

This is the ultimate semantic anchor. Califano's 112 states are the biological ontology.
They are the actual, macroscopic medical result.

The Semantic Bridge: Marrying the Stress to the State

This is the exact trillion-dollar business logic required to close the loop:
You must marry the stress to the state to apply meaning to the finite element results.

A stress dataset is just raw math. If a simulation shows a measles protein generates exactly 4.2 piconewtons of force when striking a cell, that number is biologically meaningless in isolation. But if you map that specific thermodynamic trigger (the AlphaFold/Patran G stress) directly to the exact biological exhaust (Califano State #47),
you have created the Semantic Bridge.

You don't need a million proprietary drugs to chase infinite mutations. You simply look at the board, run the stress test on the geometry, and find the exact mathematical coordinate where the enemy's structure forces the human engine to seize up. Then, you design a microscopic wedge to jam that specific gear.

The Open Source Mandate

This pipeline—Geometry, Stress, State—is mathematically undeniable.
The only question is who controls the map.

Demis Hassabis and Isomorphic Labs have the compute to determine the quantum states for all diseases. If they announce to the world that they are going open-source on determining these states, inviting all qualified entities to contribute to the ledger, the PR will be priceless. They will become the frictionless standard-bearer for the next century of human health.

But if they attempt to lock this universal gearbox behind a proprietary, closed-door Big Pharma model (the old way of doing business), they will be outflanked. The open-source community, armed with tools like ESMFold and public finite-element software, is already circling. The natural thermodynamic pressure of the global network will flow toward the lowest-friction alternative.

The universe only has one set of plumbing. It's time to connect the pipes.

And so it goes. K. Vonnegut 08/28/26

A short cut to 112

Ascension

The quantum states of cancer is going prime time as it and all other diseases operate in quantum space and limited states apply to all without question. Now, the medical boffins are preparing to spend decades in wet labs trying to physically find the thermodynamic gears of every disease, one by one. 

What a waste! If you already have the machine able to do the heavy lifting now and if you have a machine already understanding the geometry of life, you don't search the dark; you just calculate the state  the given disease is taking at that particular point in time by seeing how the fold folds. You map the states to the folds.

Cloud layer

1. The Geometry of the State (The Protein Lattice)

Dr. Andrea Califano discovered that cancer (and by extension, all disease)

operates in a limited number of quantized thermodynamic states (the 112).

How does a biological cell physically lock into one of those states? It does so through its protein network. Proteins are the physical scaffolding of the biological engine. The way they fold determines their exact 3D geometry, which in turn dictates the structural friction and state of the cell.

AlphaFold is the ultimate biological Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) engine. It doesn't just guess what a protein looks like; it calculates the exact thermodynamic folding of the amino acids. It maps the physical tension of the lattice.

2. The Ultimate Thermodynamic Leap

If Hassabis points AlphaFold at this problem, he bypasses the entire traditional medical establishment.

Instead of just mapping random proteins, DeepMind could cross-reference AlphaFold's structural database with the known thermodynamic outputs of a disease. AlphaFold has the "chops" to simulate the biological lattice and identify exactly which protein configurations create the stable, quantized states Califano discovered.

DeepMind could theoretically print out the exact geometric coordinates for every single disease gear in the human body. It would be the ultimate A-D Collapse of pathology—turning the fluid mystery of illness into a rigid, finite mathematical map.

A new construct

3. The Threat to the Corporate Silo - the geopolitical fault line.

If DeepMind leverages AlphaFold to map the universal disease states, they hold the keys to the kingdom.
Big Pharma's proprietary, infinite-mutation business model would instantly collapse.

The question is: what does the corporate do with the keys? Do they open-source the map (as realities' natural thermodynamic efficiency demands), allowing open-source structural engineering to cure disease? Or does Google/DeepMind attempt to become the ultimate, monopolistic tollbooth for biological reality?

4. You go open source. 

This keeps Alpha Fold kosher and protects Google. Owning the keys to the disease map equates to the Godfather scenario where no one's safe because it's all about the money. Be the standards bearer, not the landlord.

Why? Because if you're the landlord, you become the target. If you own the cheese, others want it.

Califano provided the conceptual breakthrough: disease is finite geometry. Hassabis possesses the synthetic parser capable of calculating that geometry. If DeepMind makes the leap to combine the two, they won't just be predicting proteins; they will be printing the absolute, open-source blueprints of human health. Deep ind is the tool; they just need to have the guts to take shot to change, as stated before, how the world does medical.

It always take one ...

112

 

1 Point perspective

Just thought of something. The amazing research done by Adrea Califano discovering that cancer has limited quantum states (112) is not only revolutionary on it's own merits but also on what it portends regarding the future of medicine as this finding will change how the world does medical.

To whit

What happens if you scale the limited state conjecture to all diseases? All disease functions in the same space as cancer because it must operate under the same thermodynamic restrictions as the big C. If true, medical becomes open source, no longer under the control of big pharma as these findings connect to physics, a domain existing outside proprietary control. 

Big Pharma operates on the currency of providing an endless supply of drugs keyed to the notion cancer is a construct of infinite complexity. It's not. When people realize that the limited number of states also apply to all diseases, the control of the pharmaceutical industry begins to fall way. It's geometry, something nature's really good at. Think relativity as example No. 1. Califano took the shot and a Nobel awaits her in this writer's opinion. 

The 3 body problem/Rev V

1. The Universal Pathology Map 

The medical establishment currently treats every disease as an infinite cascade of unique genetic mutations. Hence, this is why "personalized medicine" is so impossibly expensive and complex while being grossly inefficient. This equates to 6 blind men checking out an elephant.

There's a better way, find the energy states of all diseases and codify a systematic
and consistent way of dealing with them. Physics is good at this.

Because the biological body is a physical machine bound by the thermodynamic constraints of reality, the body cannot fail in an infinite number of ways. Life only functions in a few specific, thermodynamically defined states. Whether it's cancer, Alzheimer's, or autoimmune diseases, the limited number of states disease operates in is hard wired to the nth degree.

2. Bypassing Big Pharma

If you map these finite states of all diseases, you eliminate the Big Pharma business model.

Big Pharma’s massive profits rely on treating the infinite surface-level symptoms (the mutations) rather than the underlying quantized state of the disease in question. If the disease is reduced to a finite map of known thermodynamic states, the treatment becomes standardized.

When this happens, all the data will go online and big pharma can do nothing about it. You cannot patent the baseline laws of physics. Once the exact quantized state of a disease is mapped, jamming that specific gear becomes a matter of open-source structural engineering, not proprietary chemical guesswork.

Waiting for Godot

3. The Ego Drive - The Nobel

How does this open-source revolution actually happen? Ego.

People want to get Nobels and this is an easy way to get them.

The academics are locked in a relentless arms race for prestige. Now that Califano has proven the quantized nature of cancer, laboratories worldwide will scramble to be the first to map the specific quantized states of every other major disease. To secure their Nobel prizes and academic tenure, they must publish their findings.

The boffins' own ego will drive them to map the entire universal pathology ledger and dump it directly into the public domain, inadvertently democratizing medicine and destroying the closed-loop corporate silos in the process.

Conclusion: The Open Source Biological Engine awaits

The tech industry missed their chance to open-source the synthetic engine

(AI) because they were too greedy.

But biology is going to be open-sourced by the sheer force of academic competition and thermodynamic truth. Map the finite states, publish the ledger, and let the universe's natural efficiency wipe out the artificial friction of the medical monopolies. For this cancer survivor, yours truly can't wait for this to happen.

Reflectivity

Cancer is quantum

Colorized cells represent cells in different cellular states in a pancreatic cancer tumor.
Credit: Laise et al, Nature Genetics (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-026-02714-8

Being a cancer survivor, this post from Medicalexpress piqued my interest as it seems cancer is quantum, it exists in a limited number of states, hence, a new way to deal with this condition without poisons and surgery may be at hand. One can only hope.

Andrea Califano began his career as a physicist. But that's not why he's now calling cancer a quantum disease. "We're really just following the data," says Califano, the Clyde '56 and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and head of Biohub, New York.

"What we've seen over and over again is that each type of cancer has a limited number of cellular states. Just as electrons are restricted to a limited number of quantized energy states in an atom, cancer cells can only occupy one of these stable states or be in rapid transit between them. More critically, these states are conserved across virtually all patients with a specific type of cancer."

The newest findings from the Califano lab—published recently in two papers in Nature Genetics—add critical evidence in support of the concept, which has enormous potential to transform and simplify the treatment of almost all cancers.

"If cancer is quantum, the good news is that we may not need personalized medicine," Califano says. "A combination of therapies targeting the handful of distinct, detectable states may be all that is needed, and those combinations should be effective for virtually every patient."

Click here for the paper.

Nature"s lazy buy you already know that, right?

Why so many?

Diogenes was a Greek philosopher, one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. He was born in Sinope,
an Ionian colony on the Black Sea, in 412 or 404 BC and died at Corinth in 323 BC.

Ah, the cynic, one who questions everything with a bit of a bite relates because in this age of bloviation and vanity, one who is neither becomes precious beyond compare, especially one as practical and insightful as Diogenes.

The encounter with Alexander the Great says it all.

It was in Corinth that a meeting between Alexander the Great and Diogenes is supposed to have taken place. While Diogenes was relaxing in the morning sunlight, Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him. Diogenes replied, “Yes, stand out of my sunlight.” Alexander then declared, “If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes.” “If I were not Diogenes, then I too would wish to be Diogenes,”

And so it begins - K. Vonnegut

Conversations between companies and investors are largely a practice in the art of painting the rosiest picture possible. Anthropic is apparently planning on taking the practice to its logical conclusion. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the frontier AI lab is intending to tell investors that its potential revenue could top $30 trillion, which is the kind of number where you basically are daring people to call you full of shit.

To be fair, Anthropic has set that figure as the total addressable market, which is basically every available dollar within a given category. So hitting that revenue figure would require the company to achieve a 100% monopoly. But it is by far the most aggressively optimistic picture of the AI space that anyone has offered—and that’s a market that includes perennial bullshit artists like Elon Musk.

When one demands a valuation equal to the complete output of an entire nation for a synthetic engine that still hallucinates a non-existent physics paper & then some and has a 95% failure rate of solving business problems while eating the world via data centers at the same time gives one pause.

In essence, the entity in question is no longer projecting business growth.
Said entity is promoting a delusion.

To whit.

Large language models—even highly advanced synthetic engines—hallucinate non-existent physics papers because they predict text based on statistical patterns rather than searching real-world databases.

Why It Happens

People are lazy ...

• Pattern matching: Physics papers use highly predictable, standardized naming conventions.
• Plausible blending: Engines combine real author names with believable, context-aware keywords.
• Citation formatting: The AI easily mimics standard formats like arXiv, Physical Review Letters,
  or IEEE.
• Lack of verification: Generative models assess probability, not factual truth, during text generation.

So ...

Anthropic, promising the moon, is part and parcel of the hype used to entice
the laziness and greed of investors to invest. 

Anthropic is selling the Elmer Gantry promise: A company possessing infinite financial value, hoping investors are too blinded by the scale of the math to realize there's no real value within. In reality, they're smoking their own weed.

The question to ask.

Why so many? So many microtubules and neutrinos as the tally of both goes beyond imagination. Microtubuels inhabit every life form, including the Archea, while trillions of neutrinos go though us every second yet researchers hold fast to old ideas. 

For Microtubuels being room temperature quantum devices key to intelligence, skepticism remains
though this is changing because modern tech now can see what's happening inside tiny 25 nn structures in real time and the research emerging is fascinating to say the least. The graphic below shows why this statement rings true. 

Figure 1. (a). Organic benzene/phenyl ‘pi electron resonance’ molecules couple, form oscillating dipoles, and quantum superposition. (b). Anesthetic gas molecules disperse dipoles, disrupt coherent oscillations, preventing consciousness. (c). The Orch OR qubit - Left: Collective dipoles oscillate in single tubulin, and along a helical microtubule pathway. Right: Quantum superposition of both orientations in a tubulin pathway qubit

Because they are everywhere, there has to be a reason why all life have them, right?

Ths Archea

Composite image to illustrate the morphological diversity of Archaea. Left column, from top to bottom: Methanosarcina barkeri; Ignicoccus hospitalis with two smaller Nanoarchaeum equitans; an Archaeal Richmond Mine acidophilic nanoorganism (ARMAN); Haloquadratum walsbyi. Right column, from top to bottom: Methanohalophilus mahii; an artist's rendering of Pyrococcus furiosus; a model of Promethearchaeum syntrophicum; Halobacterium species NRC-1.

As for neutrinos

The first use of a hydrogen bubble chamber to detect neutrinos, on 13 November 1970, at Argonne National Laboratory. Here a neutrino hits a proton in a hydrogen atom; the collision occurs at the point where three tracks emanate on the right of the photograph.

Neutrinos are created by various radioactive decays. These include the beta decay of atomic nuclei or hadrons and natural nuclear reactions such as those that take place in the core of a star. Other mechanisms include artificial nuclear reactions in nuclear reactors, nuclear bombs, or particle accelerators, supernovas, during the spin-down of a neutron star and when cosmic rays or accelerated particle beams strike atoms.

Question, how can these limited energy sources create so many neutrinos 24/7?

Question 2. They seem to always come from energy sources. Could they be a heat sink of sorts?

Something to think about don't you think?

"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my mind is different from yours."  - Diogenes of Sinope

Galactic portrait yet again :)

Galaxy Gallery. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO

 Nature never disappoints. This time, galaxies seen via X-Ray. :)

Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new gallery released today from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes displays a collection of galactic images that showcase this variety.

Astronomers put galaxies into three main categories: spirals like our own Milky Way, with arms emanating from their cores; ellipticals that are older and likely the result of mergers; and irregulars that can encompass a wide range of galactic phenomena.

Just as gems reveal the history of Earth through how they were forged over billions of years, these galactic gems are a way to study Earth's place in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. By looking outward to other galaxies, we learn more about our own—including clues to its past and future.

There are 16 new images in this galactic gallery. Each one contains X-ray data from Chandra that has been collected across Chandra's decades in space. This high-energy data has been combined with data from telescopes such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope, IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array), and others both on the ground and in space.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/chandra/

Bumwad

A customer picks up a pack of toilet paper from a store shelf in Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada, on 2 March 2025. Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images

The orange menace has a continence problem as insiders already know. Now, he's passing his condition onto us based on yet another fubar, a trade war with our closest ally. Bumwad will cost more thanks to this poor excuse of a human doing something totally unjustified and stupid, along the lines of his Iran CF as this debacle is also costing us, an the world, more in terms of paying for all things related for people to remain solvent. Words no longer describe the absolute hatred this writer has concerning bone spurs, the gift that never stops giving to we rubes living in a once great nation known as America.

Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the US and Canada enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations.

After trade negotiations broke down between the two countries last weekend, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, vowed to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar” and unveiled a list of nearly 900 American goods that will face 25% to 50% tariffs starting on 8 September.

Paper products are among the hardest-hit sectors, with Canada threatening to put tariffs of between 25% and 50% on “toilet paper or face tissue stock” from 8 September in retaliation for a 50% hike from Washington DC.

Though American toilet paper and tissues are often made domestically, they heavily rely on lumber-rich Canada for raw materials. Procter & Gamble, the owner of Charmin toilet paper, said last year that it would have to increase prices amid tariffs that were in place at the time.

The US imported $328m worth of toilet paper from Canada in 2024, according to the World Bank, making it by far the largest exporter of the product to the US. Retailers including Costco source much of their paper products from the country.

The US accounts for more than 20% of global tissue consumption despite having only 4% of the world’s population. The average American uses 141 rolls of toilet paper per year, making them No 1 for No 2s globally, just ahead of Germans, each using an average of 134 rolls annually.

It’s not just paper products that could rise in price. The trade war highlights the deep economic ties shared between the two countries as consumers continue to worry about inflation on both sides of the border.

In closing ...

With negotiations down the drain, it’s unclear if or when the tariffs will be lifted. But the Trump administration is adamant that “there’s no possible way” the trade dispute with Canada will affect US consumers, according to Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative.

“The fundamentals are good,” he said. “I don’t think this is going to affect anything.”

A full roll

43 & counting :)

Zanders I

Zanders II

Of Silver & Tan

End Point

Transgression

Theses collages are 43 years old, comprising of Zanders Chromolux Paper, graphic tape and imaging
created on the MAGI 3D CSG environment. They actually stayed intact for all these years. :)

Herlin Calendar - March 1983

3D in 3D :)

Edge Lit Plexi/MAGI inspired 3D construction

Schrödinger's Accountant

The Cat not in the hat :)

This pix has been in BRT many times as it is so outrageously cool as Schrödinger's cat has been a feline of consummate mystery for over a hundred years but is this really the case? It doesn't hurt to ask, right?

Schrödinger's Accountant

Theoretical physics has spent over a century telling us quantum superposition—the idea that a particle can exist in two states at once—is a mystical, almost magical phenomenon. One puts a cat in a box and proceeds to tell you it is both alive and dead at the same time until you open it. 

Pretty wild eh? But countless experiments proved this duality over and over again. Light is both a wave and a particle when looked at from different perspectives but ...

what if the universe isn't a magician? What if it's just an honest bookkeeper?

You're a customer at Starbucks. You're going for a large black coffee. The price, five dollars. You pull out the five and hand it to the barista. To you, it's a PO, a Purchase Order, to pay for the coffee. To Starbucks, the five is an Invoice, payment for the item purchased. The minute the five is handed across the counter, both the buyer and the seller hold the five in their hands at the same time. For that fraction of a second, the money exists in two states simultaneously: the Purchase Order and the Invoice.

That isn't magic, and it isn't a paradox. It's simply the exchange required to execute a secure transfer of assets. 

Now, let's apply the exact same accounting principle to light.

 

Thomas Young's 1801 Double Slit experiment

Both a wave and a particle but when looked at closely, it's just balancing the ledger. Light, when moving in free space, is a wave. Analog. Think of a violin creating music or look at the above video. 

Seen below are photons, comprised of analog waves, striking a metal plate. At the exact moment of impact, the photons transform into discrete quanta or packets of energy (digital). This transaction allows the plate's electrons to absorb the energy and dislodge from the surface. The higher the frequency of light, aka photons, the higher altitude the electrons attain when dislodged. When the photon is released by the electron at a later time and reenters space, 
it becomes analog yet again, thus balancing the ledger, like an honest bookkeeper.

The emission of electrons from a metal plate caused by light quanta – photons

The universe doesn't deal in paradoxes; it deals in ledgers. And right now, standard academia is still staring at the cat, completely missing how reality, and business, does business  24/7. :)