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Comment Re: Why was the older version better? (Score 1) 75

Many years ago I experienced what seems to have been a bit flip. Newly compiled C programs on our VAX 11/750 running 4.2BSD Unix suddenly stopped working. It turned out that this was due to an error in the file locore.o, with which they were all linked. The installed version of locore.o differed from a freshly assembled one in a single bit of a single byte. The source file locore.s had not been changed nor had the object file been reassembled. The incorrect bit appears to have arisen spontaneously.

Comment What problem are we trying to solve here? (Score 2) 20

The congressmen are quoted as favoring "commonsense guardrails" and "sensible AI legislation". It sounds pretty ominous if you describe AI as "unregulated". On the other hand, regulation for the sake of regulation isn't a very well-defined goal.

Guardrails to accomplish what? How about if we start with stating the specific problem we want to solve?

Is it about the concern that AI might increase unemployment by replacing human workers? Is this about intellectual property rights on the training data? Is it about students turning in papers written by AI? Is it about a concern that the Terminator movies will come true?

Once you've clarified what you're trying to do, then we can discuss whether a proposed piece of legislation is a good way to achieve that goal.

Comment Re:Would Pablo Escobar pass these tests? (Score 1) 259

Educational standards have been declining for a long time. It hasn't just recently gotten bad because of Corona. Both math and English instruction have declined to the point that people like you are making excuses for remedial instruction in college.

The sabotage is intentional even if those doing it don't think they are engaging in sabotage. This is painfully obvious if you interact with the K12 education system.

Parents these days have to more to repair the damage done by professionals.

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