Benn Jordan's AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise

I'm reading "The Secret Lives of Numbers" which has some fascinating deep dives into lesser taught math history (at least in western culture), including the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics in India where significant contributions to calculus were made in the 1500's well before Newton and Leibniz!

Good timing with these other HN entries on the front page:

Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data

Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

Looks like it will be an alternate browser kinda day in the top stories...

This reminds me of aggressive technicians trying to convince me to install their bloatware on my computer in order to complete setting up internet connectivity 20+ years ago. One was completely baffled by my insistence that he was not going to be touching my computer, makes me laugh now.

I had the same question. The linked paper says they used gopher enclosures:

> In 1982, an individual pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides [Richardson]) from a nearby clearcut was placed in a 1m2 enclosure around a single L. lepidus individual for 24 hours