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Comment Re: AMZN isn't required to record every conversati (Score 1) 43

Why donâ(TM)t you publish your chat history, if youâ(TM)re not a criminal that is.

Here the FTC hasnâ(TM)t even claimed a crime, they simply say that the company needs to make it available so they can prove a potential crime and ask the judge/jury to draw a negative inference if they cannot.

Comment Re: Painting glass walls (Score 1) 43

Data preservation is only required if you get a court order for discovery, here the FTC says companies have the duty to preserve messages as soon as the company may have grounds to believe there could be an FTC investigation which is nuts.

It is basically the same as saying people have the duty to preserve all their text messages for perusal by the police just in case they can find a crime to pin on you later on.

If FTC has grounds for an investigation, it should open a case with the court and sue Amazon requesting discovery of the relevant documents as soon as they have reasonable suspicion that a crime may have been committed.

Comment Re: Also fixed b (Score 1) 28

The price tag was to build a few hundred planes, currently a few dozen were built and the budget has been expanded several times and will be expanded again several times by the time they retire the system, which may actually be sooner rather than later. So it is a very, very expensive item cost, much more expensive than it should be by orders of magnitude.

Comment Re: The thing is yes that's true (Score 1) 192

Perhaps if you knew history you wouldnâ(TM)t make such asinine statements. The Industrial Revolution pretty much instantly started improving peopleâ(TM)s lives. It is the reason people flocked to the cities voluntarily because the chance at even a slightly improved life for your children was considered worth it. If the Industrial Revolution was so bad and caused the issues rather than solved them, people would have staid and the inventions would have petered out.

You have no idea how bad it is to live on a farm and do hard manual labor without machines to survive. You obviously can go look at the life expectancy in the USSR or China vs the US or Western Europe post WW2 to see how well subsistence farming without tools and machines goes.

Comment Re:Seriously, people ... (Score 1) 19

AI deepfakes are easily defeated if you just think about it.

If you are somewhat smart and somewhat educated and use both those smarts and that education, yes. The problem is that most people go through life essentially on autopilot and while living mostly in a fantasy world they made up. Just look at, say, ye old multilevel marketing scam (a.k.a. pyramid scheme): You can explain how these work to a smart kid and then they will not fall for it. But whenever anybody makes one, tons of people fall for it, time and again. Sadly, things a smart person can "easily" do are completely out of reach for the average person.

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 99

Risk analysis needs to be done competently. It can be done competently. This is not a new field or one with many uncertainties. It is a well-established field and it is known how to do it. Since its results are often inconvenient and may even show some bigshot CEO is doing crappy things, it is a not widely respected discipline though.

But there really is no "risk of risk analysis". There is only a risk of people faking it. And for that, there is regulation, audit and personal liability. It just need to be established.

Comment Re:If the tractor takes jobs... (Score 1) 192

An LLM can automatize bureaucracy. This is the first time in history this has become economically feasible to do on large scale. That is not a productive job, but a type of jobs that keeps a major part of the population employed. Cheaper bureaucracy does not cause increased production.

Comment Re:Non-economist says dumb thing about economics (Score 0) 192

1. All reasonable studies on UBI so far have shown that people will _not_ stop working with only a small number of exceptions.
2. Many people will _not_ be able to get paid jobs once AI automation does most of the administrative stuff. They still may get unpaid ones and many will.

Your arrogance is matched by your stupidity and disconnect. Nothing what you claim is true. You are just doing mindless virtue signalling here.

Comment Re:Non-economist says dumb thing about economics (Score 1) 192

Is this a serious question? Are you _really_ that dumb? You support that everybody can live decently in order to not see society literally burn. Look, for example, at the French revolution. Yes, you can want more than that, but everybody needs to have a reasonable share or society stops working.

Comment Re:Non-economist says dumb thing about economics (Score 1) 192

1) Au contraire. The only reason a lot of bureaucracy (and hence a lot of jobs) were not automatized so far was that creating the systems for that would have been too costly. LLMs change that dramatically.
2) Every single time so far _production_ got automatized. This time, for the first time in human history, bureaucracy is getting automatized on a large scale. More and cheaper bureaucracy does not cause higher productivity. Quite the contrary.
3) Nonsensical statement is nonsense. You are pushing an AdHominem here that only shows you are without insight.
4) See 3)
5) Nonsense. Have a look at actual models and research. Your claim has no merit.

Well. Not doing to well her, are we?

Comment Re:There's no "if" (Score 1) 192

As the current LLMs are basically what we will have for the next few decades, that is significant. The problem is that they can automatize bureaucracy. They cannot automatize production (hallucinations are not fixable and are a real killer), but bureaucratic processes are highly fault-tolerant as they are already typically designed by incompetent morons and mostly just aim to waste everybody's time. But here is the problem: These bureaucratic processes waste a lot of time and a lot of that is paid "work" time. If most of that goes away (and LLMs can do that), then a lot of people are out of a job. And since bureaucracy does not produce anything, there will not be higher productivity or new jobs as a result.

The choice is simple: UBI _and_ some additional way for people to spend their time and find meaning or see your country burn. No third option.

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