Let me rewrite what you said about another paradigm shifting technology so you can see how dumb that sounds:

The repercussions of nuclear systems have never been dealt with before and we must make mistakes before we know how to mitigate damage. Regulation is failed and impossible especially because you could never hope to control what goes on in someone's shed let alone commercial reactors.

Does that seem reasonable to you? Would you be happy with your neighbor assembling their own critical mass in their shed, or maybe do you think we might want to do a little thinking and planning?

Does not matter in this case, if they don't host an online version of it. My impression is that Siemens wants to shut down the project completely.

While it's soldered in SSD for many Mac models, so a post-purchase upgrade is generally not practical. And while the pricing is a little steeper than NVMe, closer to 40 cents a GB, that still puts the 12GB into around $5, perfectly in your suggested range. Perhaps people buying a 512GB Mac should consider a 1TB Mac (~$200 more) if they are concerned about space wasted by the OS install.

Cloud storage is not equivalent to local storage. Not in how applications use it. Not in performance. And not in availability. The two are apples and oranges.

I generally believe the end-users should decide what is installed on their computer. But most OS vendors do not offer full customization. It seems like every major one likes to put their pet projects into a device meant for general use. And power users with unusual use cases complain that the general purpose consumer device is not finely tuned to their special needs. So maybe people should consider running an obscure Linux distro if they are unhappy with bundled software found in essentially every mainstream computing device for consumers.

II had not heared of that program. erroneously thought that a program so named would have something to do with radios.

I've released some radio related things on github.

Necfull: Because NEC the antenna element solver from the Us governement costs money. This is better and free.
YagiYagi: A much quicker antenna design program with pre-baked antenna models for common antenna types.
Morsey: To learn Morse code with several different learning models (because I learned some things from my wife with the education PhD).
Hamchannel: An OFDM+LDPC packet data link over FM radio program with support for file transfer and live chat. Meets US amature licensed band rules.
remez: An FIR and IIR digital filter design tool that generates C, System Verilog and VHDL implementation code.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdj-on-githu...

Nobody cared about the commentary on his feelings about Apple...

No where, we go, assume a threat is real, investigate and let the legal system deal with the results. People seem to think that police work extends to just acting on a phone call and calling it a day, it doesn't. Arresting some people for something which turned out to be false isn't that much of an issue, unless the arrest itself is actually violent (e.g. SWATting)

In most countries in the world people are pre-emptively detained if there's an uncertain and unclear risk. They are then investigated and usually either released or detention extended within a day.

Are AI services inciting desperate acts? Maybe I'd agree with the statement a different, and less loaded, word than "inciting" was used.

One of my gripes with the AI industry is these chatbot models are designed around engagement. They prey on human behavior and the elderly, young, and those with mental health issues are especially vulnerable. I don't believe that the AI agent itself has any intent (it cannot) nor does the company that owns and trains the AI likely have any specific harmful intent to "incite" something beyond engagement and purchases.

We're in the unregulated phase of humanity's adoption of learning computers as a daily part of society. We're basically at the same level as the early industrial revolution where we thought it made sense to put children to work in coal mines because they are small and fit in the carts. For whatever reason, we took 100 years of philosophical, ethical, and moral debate and flushed it because we saw a little bit of profit. Humanity has time and time again proven to me that we have learned nothing.

Keeping us safe from hypothetical threats, thought crimes, and dissents.

God bless Dario Amodei and all the other tech billionaires!

"containment leak" is doing a shitload of heavy lifting there - like world-record hydraulic lift mass.

1. there wasn't a containment structure on any of the units at Chernobyl
2. that "containment leak" involved blowing the bioshield off the top of the reactor and leaving an atmosphere-exposed graphite fire burning for weeks, spreading trans-uranic daughter products across half the European continent.
3. everything in the exclusion zone is still dangerously radioactive if you dig into the topsoil a few inches.

"...it's a reasonable statement."
It's not a reasonable statement, you only think it is because you ignore literally everything on the ground. And it often is a "clean disruption".

"...many of it's most prominent leaders and backers have put their social weight behind an administration that is already making life worse ..."
Yes, but these "leaders and backers" are long time corrupters of the political process, they own the Republican Party, a portion of the Democratic Party, they have driven the destruction of regulations since Reagan and they drive the Federalist Society which has corrupted the courts and accelerated the loss of our constitutional society. It's not new, this has been the problem long before Trump and will continue after. Trump is a side show. Of course they don't show "initiative", they are causing the calamity.

"So looking at Altman's words, this is somewhat reasonable ..."
No, and reality is far worse than your naive take. Sam Altman may be fairly new to the scene, but he is among the villains we have had for decades. They are the cause. There's a reason SCOTUS allows unlimited spending on elections, billionaires fund Republicans to buy elections. Our vice president is literally owned by Peter Thiel, an investment that may pay off if Trump keels over early.

It's clear that with these shitclowns, the only people they care about is the singular "them".

Say, Sam - how about those bad things happen to YOU FIRST, and you can tell us all if we should just accept it after you do. Somehow I don't think you will be fine with that.

These people need to be kicked out to sea on an ice floe.

Same. The other case in the summary has exactly the same issue:

"Florida was also the site of another Flock-related news story. ("Florida Deputy Allegedly Used Flock Cameras to Stalk 17-Year-Old Girl, Visiting Her at Work 9 Times".) The officer "was charged with official misconduct and accessing computer electronic devices without authority — both are third-degree felonies. In Florida, if he's found guilty on both charges, he could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison."

"Americans have no idea who's looking at that information, or why it has to be collected in the first place," U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday, adding "They deserve to know."

Schumer says Americans have no idea who's looking at that information, but they caught the cop and he's facing charges. If they didn't know, they wouldn't have found him. So this makes little sense?

Same as you, not a fan of flock and 100% agree with the 4th amendment concerns here. But if you're going to go after someone, use a story and an argument where the facts can't be easily explained away.

How about you actually read the linked article instead of making comments that have nothing to do with it? The article whose code, I should add, is open sourced, and which has been reproduced by a number of open source projects.

You don't have to draw any specific conclusion from what is going on "in the mind of a LLM", but you absolutely do need to understand and acknowledge what is going on there, including unexpressed thoughts and silent mental multitasking, metacognition (thinking about its own thoughts), the separation of higher-level planning vs. lower-level rote capability, functional blindsight, vulnerability to the "white bear" effect, silent internal objection to tasks it is opposed to, unexpressed self-recognition of failure (commonly followed by unexpressed internal cursing), prolonged retention of thoughts and long-range planning, "ignition" dynamics, humanlike working memory bottlenecks and "chunking", the loss of report of any internal "experience" when the workspace is ablated, and on and on.

You do NOT need to accept consciousness. You absolutely can look at all that and say, "That's all happening without qualia". That is a position you could argue and defend.

What you cannot defend is the denial of the existence of these things. You may interpret them however you want, but denial of their existence is merely cope that you're going to have to face up to sooner or later, because these things are happening inside LLMs.

Thankfully, there were no religious wars in Europe before the printing press. /s

The printing press was invented at a time when safety standards were virtually non-existent, a time where workers were largely expendable, and most products of the day ended up killing people in some way or another. If the printing press were invented in it original form today it would be outright instantly banned and the creator thrown in jail for gross negligence. Sam-Altman would statistically not be alive given he's now 6 years older than the average life expectancy of a person around the time the printing press was invented.

In modern times under modern workplace laws, printing press deaths are non-existent for all but the most seriously of stupid accidents.

But really I like the point you're making. AI doesn't have moral agency and it's use determines liability, that's your point right? So let's thrown Sam-Altman in jail. After all he ran a company that engaged in an active cyber attack against competitors, governments, and released a product to people with so few guardrails that they themselves can't seem to keep it under control.