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Comment Re:nothing's impossible (Score 1) 63

It probably has been trained on chemical equations and synthesis. There are millions, if not billions, of completely harmless uses. It doesn't need to be trained specifically on cocaine in order to A) know that cocaine exists, B) figure out the chemical formula to cocaine, C) use standard, generally available science to synthesis the formula.

The LLM has to be trained on what cocaine is and why it shouldn't be offering information about it, otherwise you can't even try to prevent it from outputting cocaine information in the first place.

You can't tell someone "Don't do XYZ, it's illegal", and expect them to be successful, if you never explain to them what XYZ is, or how to identify it.

Comment Re:nothing's impossible (Score 1) 63

More specifically, it's not in the training data AND it's trained to not provide things like this. The LLM doesn't need to know how to make cocaine, to figure out the scientific steps to create it. If it knows the chemical formula, it can work backwards from there.

And if the LLM has internet access, none of that matters at all.

Comment Re:Brutality of Banality (Score 1) 174

Any intentional, and unwanted, contact (or threat of said contact) is a form of assault. Simple assault does not require contact, harm, or injury. Hell, if you throw a punch and miss, it's still assault. Aggravated assault requires a weapon, bodily harm, or a vulnerable victim (child, elderly, etc). And then battery falls inbetween the two but requires intentional physical contact (unlike simple assault).

Being tied up to chair in the back office sounds like intentional unwanted contact to me, and also, wholly unnecessary to pie someone in the face - assuming they agreed to get pied to begin with.

So, all in all, this is actually a case of battery, not just assault.

Comment Re:Sales managers are (Score 1) 174

There are to of sales jobs where there literally is nothing separating the good performers from the great ones on than hustle.

Nor should there be. The 'hustlers' don't deserve special treatment or benefits.

Still someone will have done 650k and someone will have done 515k.

Hitting the goal is the only thing that matters. No need to rank people. Hell, sales revenue isn't even a good metric (or goal) for a sales team to know if they are performing well to begin with. I've seen plenty of "great" sales guys who only have great numbers by manipulating and lying to customers. It's ridiculous to have individual sales goals at physical stores like Comcast, Verizon, etc. because it's all luck of the draw. 99.9% of people walking through the door already know what they want, and you aren't going to upsell them. If, at the same time, Customer A comes in to spend $100 and Customer B comes in to spend $500, Salesperson B didn't do a better job. If I bought all my shit online, but do in-store pickup, a sales person has to help me out while getting zero credit.

So, fuck you. Fuck sales managers. Fuck hustlers. And fuck turning your employees against each other in the form of nonconstructive competition that only benefits the employer. A sales competition between co-workers is not fun, good natured, or helpful to the individual workers or the customers.

Comment Re:it is destroying evidence like it or not (Score 1) 180

I'd say a US citizen retains their rights on both sides of the border, non-citizens don't.

That is what I said. Because if citizens didn't retain their rights on both sides of the border, then the agents doing the questioning in the room ALSO have no rights and can be murdered freely.

There are a variety of containers that can destroy their contents if improperly opened. Governments use them.

Those safes still leave evidence that something was inside it. You may never be able to find out what it was, but you can tell it was something. Which is not what I said I wanted. Nor are they travel sized.

Comment Re:"...should carefully consider how to use it..." (Score 1) 180

Either a lie and you will be too much of a coward to ever actually risk it

I will be risking nothing. Nothing that matters to me anyway.

at some point you go away for life as a violent criminal,

Prison isn't a punishment to me, so doesn't matter. Also, violent criminals rarely get sentenced to life in prison unless they kill someone (in the US).

In any case, just a sure sign of deep insecurity.

Nope. Just a refusal to be pushed around and bullied by a shitty system (or shitty people). Stand up for yourself. Have a fucking backbone. And if they're going to take you down on BS no matter what, then make them pay heavily for it and make the time your going to spend worth it.

Comment Re:it is destroying evidence like it or not (Score 0) 180

including intangibles such as stock or copyrights,

THESE types of data are property, as I already said.
My contacts' information is not property. My shopping list is not property. My call history is not property. My texts are not property. Apps I have installed are not my property, unless I wrote it (copyrightable/licensable). My search history is not property.

The phone is a physical item you own. It's your personal property.

Yep, and if you want access to *any* of that shit, you better show me a warrant FIRST. If you ask for a password that ends up wiping the device BEFORE obtaining and showing me a warrant, that's not my problem. No charge of a crime and no warrant means I can do whatever I want with my personal property.

Comment Re:The CFTC (Score 2) 51

all of your US stock market is gambling

It is.

I fundamentally disagree with all forms of stock markets and believe they should be eliminated worldwide. All companies should either be non-profit or for-profits, and all for-profits should be co-ops/profit shares among all employees. All utility providers should be non-profits and owned 100% by customers of that utility.

Comment Re:it is destroying evidence like it or not (Score 1) 180

If the cops want to see what's in there, they have to seize it with a warrant and cut it open. Phones work the same.

Sure. There is also this. But at the same time, if I were to travel with some form of safe, I'd want to make sure anyone who gets a hold of the safe cannot get the contents, including a separate combination that vaporizes everything contained to such a point that you cannot prove anything was even in there to begin with. Such a safe, of course, does not exist and probably never will.

we'd be dealing with the more important question of whether Americans have the same rights at both sides of the border.

Yes, they do, when dealing with any American government agency.

Comment Re:"...should carefully consider how to use it..." (Score 1) 180

I would. But it's never going to happen. At least, not for anything like this. And they don't have access to a lawyer good enough to get me in court. And I don't go to countries were court isn't an option.

If I'm gunna go to jail, it'll be for violence with at least one arresting officer permanently injured, or disfigured, for the rest of their life. I'll give them a fair warning though.

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