AI-infused

Posted by eastgate
Sep 29, 2025 at 04:54 PM

Paul:

There’s a place for skepticism. This is not that.

If you are worried about that which is behind the curtain, LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN. Don’t cite irrelevant credulous clickbait like the Perrone article — and that’s probably the best of the lot. Certainly don’t waive it in the air as if it’s some sort of profound gotcha. (Perrone is the fellow behind a newsletter concerned with building audiences, boasting of 30M impressions. A clickbait expert. He’s also a mathematician, and ought to know better than this.).

For those not technically inclined, the dangers Perrone identifies in MCP are the dangers of installing and using software.

Are you worried about Claude? OK: identify the problem, demonstrate it, document it. If you are deeply worried, for example, that racial bias in its training set will interfere with Claude’s ability to translate BibTeX to RIS, well, be my guest: show me. If you are concerned that allowing Claude to persist notes about today’s discussion of Assyrian schools will establish an attack vector through your Tinderbox document, then READ ITS NOTES, which are just a section in YOUR notes.

Before we shun hard-won attainments of arduous research, let’s actually do it for reason, not rumor. And then, could we find out if it’s a problem with this LLM? Or inherent to all LLMs? Or to all computation?

At least, can we talk about actual software and actual research, not half-understood phantoms from overheard ghost stories?