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You may be weak in the face of marketing claims if you're exhausted, tired, distracted, or have insufficient understanding to question them. You fall back on a subconscious availab…

I do mostly agree with you, but... > Creating new humans is easy If you did a survey I suspect agreement with this statement would be rather bimodal.

I'm not sure if you're arguing against self-determination and for serfdom. Or just making a narrow correction to one sentence in an argument that was perhaps slightly too definitiv…

> ...when people ask me about learning to code. I ask them if they're ok with sitting in front of a computer for many hours. I wonder if this puts people off who shouldn't be put o…

Well, but there absolutely are such things as coincidences. It is obvious that coincidences are to be expected. Combinatorial mathematics actually says certain types of coincidence…

I think it would be be more illuminating to call it "enlightened self-interest".

I don't see why it makes a difference for this purpose that you're replaying network packets or controller inputs or any other interface to the game engine. The important thing is …

The cumulative duration of these four episodes looks to be about 30 years, so about a quarter of the total time period looked at Interesting, but not quite as dramatic as I assumed…

But the LLM contributions would likely be ruled public domain, so AGPL may not be enforceable on these.

There was a recent ruling that LLM output is inherently public domain (presumably unless it infringes some existing copyright). In which case it's not possible to use them to "reim…

Eggs in the UK are safe to eat raw (and I presume the EU as well [but please verify before doing so!]).

I did think about this use-case as I was typing my first message. I can see it working for complex products, for functionality I only want to use once in a blue moon. If it's somet…

Have you ever had a chatbot solve your problem? I don't think this has ever happened to me. As a reasonably technical user capable of using search, the only way this could really h…

Your docs are probably read many more times than they are written. It might be cheaper and quicker to produce them at 90% quality, but surely the important metric is how much time …

"I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault"

In the same way it's better that adults are the recipients of the harms of smoking, drinking or gambling. It's still not desirable, but societies have settled upon thresholds for w…

Others have suggested "bullshit". A bullshitter does not care (and may not know) whether what they say is truth or fiction. A bullshitter's goal is just to be listened to and seem …

It's very impressive indeed. Linux goal is only for code compatibility - which makes complete sense given the libre/open source origins. If the culture is one where you expect to h…

There's an interesting asymmetry in language in this area. Jobs are "created" by a company or an industry. But they never seem to be "destroyed", instead they are "lost". If the co…

I think just be specific - a suicidal sixteen year-old was able to discuss methods of killing himself with an LLM by prompting it to role-play a fictional scenario. No need to say …

So for me, it's not about being reductionist, but about not anthropomorphizing or using words which which may suggest an inappropriate ethical or moral dimension to interactions wi…

Mayyybe, but since the comment I objected to also used an analogy of lying to a person I felt it suggested some unwanted moral judgement (of a suicidal teenager).

I mean, for one thing, a commercial LLM exists as a product designed to make a profit. It can be improved, otherwise modified, restricted or legally terminated. And "lying" to it i…

That's certainly a reasonable argument. Another is that this is a new and poorly understood (by the public at least) technology that giant corporations make available to minors. In…