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the latest Shai Hulud malware contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware (indieweb.social)
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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It feels like it needs to redefine a unit, not a base, same as with degrees that are base 10 but units are different so π is whole. I'm not sure if counting in different units has much use compared to counting in different base from a number theoretical perspective

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think we're in agreement. I basically said there'd be no point unless for some reason you wanted to describe radians as whole numbers.

Otherwise, base~π~ doesn't make any sense, especially since there's no unambiguous way to define a constant interval between irrational integers (a contraction of terms, I know).

My main point was that there's no way to have a base~π~ numeral system, and even if you could it would have next to no practical value.