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I am not so sure about that, trial and error can produce very dangerous results especially over the span of years or even decades.
if you're a layman "trial and error"ing bioweapons off chatgpt, you're not going to be around for decades
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Honest question, isn't that like OK? Like if you have a product, and the government says the product is ok, and it's labeled per regulation and later that product turns out to be deleterious to people's health should the company be liable? Guess we should already have precedent but my google-fu is failing here. I can't seem to find the resolution of Felix-Lozano v. Nalge Nunc , Felix sued Nalgene over their use of BP…
> Like if you have a product, and the government says the product is ok, and it's labeled per regulation and later that product turns out to be deleterious to people's health should the company be liable? But like, what if you like, totally bribed the shit out government people and like totally fabricated scientific evidence to make it seem like it was safe but then you sold it anyway? Aren't you then like a total pi…
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Honest question, isn't that like OK? Like if you have a product, and the government says the product is ok, and it's labeled per regulation and later that product turns out to be deleterious to people's health should the company be liable? Guess we should already have precedent but my google-fu is failing here. I can't seem to find the resolution of Felix-Lozano v. Nalge Nunc , Felix sued Nalgene over their use of BP…
I'm not a lawyer, nor a judge, so I can't say. All I can tell you is that it feels wrong that [Monsanto/OpenAI] can lobby a state's legislature to prevent you, the average joe and potential lucrative victim, from filing a lawsuit against them when it seems clear to any reasonable person that people are developing [cancer/mental health issues] due to the use of [pesticides/AI]. Perhaps something like anti-SLAPP rules…
This is why most promising drug candidates never see light of day.
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I'm not a lawyer, nor a judge, so I can't say. All I can tell you is that it feels wrong that [Monsanto/OpenAI] can lobby a state's legislature to prevent you, the average joe and potential lucrative victim, from filing a lawsuit against them when it seems clear to any reasonable person that people are developing [cancer/mental health issues] due to the use of [pesticides/AI]. Perhaps something like anti-SLAPP rules…
If companies can't lobby, so many "safety" regulations will pass that you will simply suffocate and kill private industry. This is why most promising drug candidates never see light of day.
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He was not the founder of OpenAI
nobody was "the" founder of OpenAI. Sam was one of many cofounders, though I don't see how the particulars here are relevant to the point above.
> wasn't OpenAI the company that was formed as a nonprofit to limit the risks of LLMs?
>> the whole “rationalist” movement is full of those lying fks
>>> Is Sam even a rationalist, or describe his views as rationalist?
The relevancy is that a question of how and why the company was formed isn't fully answered by only talking about his motivations.
I have made both GPT 5.4 and Opus 4.6 produce me content on creating neurotoxic agents from items you can get at most everyday stores. It struggled to suggest how to source phosphorus, but eventually lead me to some ebay listings that sell phosphorus elemental 'decorations' and also lead me towards real!! blackmarket codewords for sourcing such materials. It coached me how to: stay safe, what materials I need, how to…
It's exactly how it should behave, without any prior overriding of system prompts.
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Wait, you think that if we shut down the gun companies the mass shootings would stop?
Stop no, reduce yes. Same with how seatbelts didn’t end car crash fatalities. Eliminating drunk driving also wouldn’t end road fatalities, but outside of Wisconsin no one believes drunk drivers shouldn’t be in jail.
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Funny, I was just rereading the Hyperion series. It says there clearly that it was the AIs that created the black hole that led to the destruction of Old Earth. Intentionally.
I've never read the book but I assume there were some sycophants who were praising the AI right up until it created a black hole that destroyed the planet.