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The Daily Triptych178 / 365

27 JUN 2026

Day 178

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke · Profiles of the Future
A short literary text associated with William Blake’s 1794 Songs of Experience, held as a work in the British Museum collection.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

A Poison Tree

1794 · British Museum · Literary work

Published in 1794 in Songs of Experience and held by the British Museum, this short poem follows repressed anger until it ends in murder.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Red Teaming for Language Model Safety

alignment / safety · Perez et al. 2022; Bai et al. 2022 · human & LM red teaming, CAI

Human testers systematically attack language models to provoke unsafe replies. The failures they find often sit outside the reach of standard automated benchmarks.

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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified

A seated bearded figure carved in marble, head turned sharply to the left, with two short horns rising from the forehead. One hand rests across the chest, fingers in the beard.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Moses

Michelangelo · 1513–1515 · Marble

Michelangelo gave Moses two horns rising from his forehead — not as invention or insult, but because that is what the Vulgate said was there.

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