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skinfaxi
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About skinfaxi
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Comment #49222348
> Sure but the cops aren't going to pull you over based on what you think about Chinese policy. You might be surprised to learn that China has operated clandestine prisons in the U…
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Comment #49221477
Which one?
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Comment #49218540
Things like thumb drives physically connected to cabinets can just disappear in your environment with no followup whatsoever? And that's regular, expected, and desired?
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Comment #49218345
So if I make a new object that can kill you, I can try it, see what it can do, etc without liability? We already have computer programs that inflict damage on computers. Is AI new …
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Comment #49218309
> Prosecutors bring charges even if the estate doesn't pursue. > Simply wrong. You didn't refute my point :P Wait so I only need to make a company and use AI to hack US banks and a…
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Comment #49218174
>If you were shot or a member of your family got "deleted" and you had sufficient control of the estate, then you would have standing. > Obviously, if you aren't involved you shoul…
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Comment #49218167
The unpredictability should be constrained though. Just like how you are never supposed to point a gun at someone/something you want to exist. Ever.
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Comment #49218162
Someone (or some group) made the thing. I can't just create a bomb and leave it alone and when it goes off blame the bomb.
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Comment #49218135
What point are you making? This hasn't been brought to court yet and I am lamenting the fact that charges have not been brought. > There is already precedent on more or less this e…
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Comment #49218127
> If you think "unguided" means "I typed a prompt into claude code and waited yolo" I don't know what to say but, you have a very different idea of what professionals do than I do.…
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Comment #49218095
It's artificial intelligence. If you treat something like a person and delegate to it, how can you later say you didn't trust it would execute your commands faithfully? And how wou…
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Comment #49218089
I had actually posted a link to that but edited my original comment. I appreciate your comment.
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Comment #49218082
> If you shot up a public area and then tried to claim that was a business activity, you would obviously not have an argument. It isn't plausible on its face. So I'm really not sur…
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Comment #49218063
> If it doesn't disappear, then it's hanging right there for any of the competitors to use. That's a problem for the original installer's ongoing employment. Is that really an issu…
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Comment #49218037
Since when are human actions categorized as being a consequence of nature? Does that let me steal or murder without consequence?
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Comment #49218015
So we can have vicarious liability for banal stuff like contractors but not for AI?
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Comment #49218003
Abusers say "that's just how I am" which is my point. Just because it's his nature doesn't mean it is at all natural.
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Comment #49217995
That's exactly my point. Labelling him as inhuman gives him a pass, like how we don't criticize hurricanes as malevolent.
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Comment #49217984
This is a conspiracy I can get behind.
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Comment #49217957
Some of us are labelled as bots, much like dolphins getting caught in fishing nets. I guess it's not material since it's not life or death (yet? if access to essential services is …
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Comment #49217944
> The brittleness and difficult of writing the code. The extra complexity. The cost of bugs. And ease of creating performance degradations. If you are even asking that question, yo…
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Comment #49217932
Law does not constrain at all. Law only operates after the fact.