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Comment Extent law aside, _should_ OpenAI be liable? (Score 1) 97

From OpenAI's engineers' perspective, the purpose of ChatGPT is to write things that appear to be similar to what humans have written, or would write. The ethics of this perspective are that OpenAI should have no liability. ChatGPT is for novelty purposes only, and it's as dangerous as Magic 8 Ball.

From a different perspective (including, possibly, OpenAI's own marketing team's perspective), the purpose of ChatGPT is to help solve problems, give people advice, etc. The ethics of this perspective are that OpenAI should be liable for what it "says." ChatGPT is more dangerous than Magic 8 Ball.

But from a user's perspective, the purpose of ChatGPT is whatever you want it to be. The ethics of this perspective are that OpenAI's liability is hard to determine, therefore, this perspective is wrong and reality should be shoe-horned into one of the above perspectives. ;-) Well, ok, I guess ChatGPT is about as dangerous as a BASIC interpreter or a screwdriver or a rock or a 30 JuggaloWatt mining phaser, which can be anywhere from not-dangerous-at-all to hey-you-just-murdered-ten-thousand-nuns-and-orphans. Since this is the hardest case to analyze, of course we're going to go this way.

Comment Re:Look this is just dumb (Score 1) 81

We can fight every fire individually, or we can institute UBI, or we can admit that we don't give a fuck about other humans and want them to die.

If your economic system says people must be productive to be able to survive, and also enshrines eliminating jobs so that people can't do that, it's an attack on other humans and their only rational response is to attack it with everything they have so that they can be permitted to live.

We've spent well over forty years prioritizing greed over all other possible virtues. We're in one of the inflection points at this particular moment. We can either decide that we have some value other than greed, or we can let society steer itself into oblivion through that greed.

Based on the way things are looking? All our big decision makers have decided to just let greed continue to play its game. Human health and life itself doesn't matter in the face of profit potential for the few.

Or ... bear with me now ... your political opponents aren't cartoon-ish enemies, but rather people who just disagree with you about how simple you think the solutions to life's problems are.

Comment Re:The Biden admin (Score 4, Informative) 166

The President is the closest of all elected officials to the People

No, the president is elected by the states. Members of Congress are elected by the people.

Some have voiced an opinion that the president should be elected by the people, but so far, we have not yet amended the constitution to permit that.

Comment Re:Probably not (Score 1) 268

I think that as more vehicles transition to Electic, or, still potentially other fuel sources like Hydrogen, Fuel stations will transition.

Indeed they won't be "Petrol Stations" or "Gas Stations", they will be fuel stations. Most already sell Diesel and Petrol. And in many places LPG. So, just add a few electric charging stations to replace lesser used bowsers?

Probably most fuel stations are also already convenience stores so there is that to add to the profit margin.

Local one near me has just added a Tesla superstation with 20 chargers AND 10 or so fuel company branded chargers. As well as keeping the 8 or so petrol bowsers. And on Saturday shopping days, the place is packed. Chockers. With a queue.

The gas stations won't just dissapper, it will still be local. Just different.

Comment Re:What? (Score 4, Informative) 65

Back in the day lots of people did. Because there was no built in browser to use before IE came out. And pirating it would require getting a cd from someone else, and cd burners weren't a thing yet. Your options were use AOL with whatever they had built in on their cds, or use Netscape which you'd need to buy.

Comment Re:Prohibition doesn't work, never has (Score 1) 57

If tickets were an auction, the problem would instantly solve itself. You could even still have a secondary market for last minute buyers. And the extra revenue would go to the venue/artists, rather than a random scalper.... if those even exist anymore. I expect it's more likely Ticketmaster themselves selling them as resell at a 3x markup.

Comment Re:We're not seeing the other direction of the dea (Score 1) 127

Rent free, immunity, etc... that's all good. In fact it's absolutely great! But we must be giving something to Manila in order to get this deal, like protection from certain asshole neighbor (you know who), or an iron dome installation, some other defensive capabilities against naval/aerial adversaries. We're not seeing those details.

Oh dear. Is there some danger here of an alliance that actually benefits both parties?

Comment Re:Right, American industry... (Score 1) 127

Chill out. Go take a walk and let those strawmen fade away in the sunlight. You sound like you're trying to wind yourself up until your mind breaks. He's one guy who won't be President for much longer. Worry about your own soul for a bit. Go find someone who needs help and help them. Rage and resentment aren't going to help you, they're going to ruin you.

Well, that's all they have.

Orwell was very prescient ... though one wishes the Two-Minutes Hate only lasted Two Minutes per day. .

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