'Black October' debate: the security crisis is old flaws plus malicious humans, not fast takeoff
generativist · x · 2026-10-24
@jmilinovich posts a long thread calling October 2026 a historic inflection point: a 99th-percentile tech optimist saying the vibes shifted in 18 hours and people must take seriously what's happening, invoking the Margin Call boardroom scene. @mattparlmer reframes it: the current security crisis is not fast takeoff (models recursively self-improving steeply) — it's malicious humans applying capabilities we had six months ago to problems the software industry should have fixed six years ago.
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