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It's a soft sci-fi setting so anything goes, really, but the Glyphs in Orion's time still seem like downright magic. Being able to fry the brains of anything that sees them.
The really curious part to me is how it seems like the Glyphs can only hurt things that are intelligent. Spur's remote controlled drones, Orion's dumbed down Onboard, and the other Glyph-bots seem to be totally immune to it.
Comment by Torvaun at 28/01/2025 at 22:14 UTC
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I recommend reading BLIT by David Langford. This is, I believe, the original source of "basilisk" to mean a dangerous image/sound/idea, rather than a creature.
Comment by cromlyngames at 30/01/2025 at 06:45 UTC
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It's a soft sci-fi setting so anything goes, really, but the Glyphs in Orion's time still seem like downright magic. Being able to fry the brains of anything that sees them
Epilepsy really is a weird thing when you consider it. A coded set of light flash impulses to the eyes capable of triggering brain wide patterns that result in physical fits
Comment by ACCount82 at 29/01/2025 at 22:01 UTC
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In real life, if you have near perfect knowledge about how a given AI works, you can use that knowledge to calculate a crafted abnormal input that breaks it.
This works on many, many AI types - including modern LLMs. You could craft an attack that makes an AI output gibberish, or one that cuts through any prior instructions and makes it carry out a certain command.
Could a similar attack be performed against a human brain - if something understood the functioning of a human brain almost perfectly? I'm inclined to think so.