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Comment Re: You misspelled.. (Score 1) 66

Reasonable suspicion is an absurd standard that only applies to officer safety for detained subjects. So long as the lawyers are able to recreate the necessary analysis this will just be a billing problem. It gets messy if openai succeeds on defending their position because they won't likely be on the hook for opposing legal fees except for these extra ones caused by their negligence(?)

So a cop pulls me over because I’m driving erratically. After having reasonable suspicion to search the vehicle, as soon as it starts I push a button and disappear lots of items from the vehicle. That is guilt, tautologically and would be a felony if that’s how physics worked. Now I have that same device and after being advised of the search I know it has a touchy delete button and it goes off accidentally. That’s also an action that should be a felony because I knew the risk and failed to act when directed by law enforcement. Same with an IT professional asked by the courts to preserve evidence, it just getting accidentally overwritten or otherwise deleted annd lost isn’t even something that’s understandable as reasonable action in good faith.

Comment Re:You misspelled.. (Score 3, Insightful) 66

Maybe. Considering the problems I've read about where there was NO benefit, I'm willing to believe that it was unintentional. But it's still OpenAI's responsibility, and they need to pay all relevant expenses, including any legal expenses (extra lawyer hours), etc., more expenses for additional court time, etc., etc. And there should be notice by the court that it MAY have been intentional.

Intentional should barely factor into anything. If the deleted materials meet the definition of reasonable suspicion then it should be the full crackdown of the law with felony charges. People should be shitting themselves continuously until they have backed up and preserved it seven ways to Sunday. None of this oopsies crap should ever fly.

Comment Re:It's going to get a *lot* worse (Score 1) 174

Now, let's talk about how and why high interest rates "fight" inflation, because it's not something anyone really talks about.

Lmafo, 54% of Americans read at the 6th grade level or below, they don’t understand the word tariff so you’re going to need to back up quite a ways. For those reading a tariff is a tax PAID by US companies or people to import things into the US like raw materials, products, and food. Companies can’t go out of business and want to keep making the same profits so COMPANIES ADD ALL THAT TAX AND JACK UP THE PRICE PEOPLE PAY.

If you have a person buying shirts for $10 and selling them for $20 and making $10 but now they pay $15 they sure as hell aren’t selling for 20 and go out of business they jack that up to at least $25. Now do this with cars, food, tools, trucks, on and on and on everything is about to get way more expensive, the very definition of inflation.

Comment Re:Space Station for Sale (Score 2) 47

I get the feeeling the ruskies are looking for the exit door anyway. They'd probably be happy to sell their side of it off for cheap.

Im honestly surprised Musk hasnt offered to buy the damn thing, though I'd imagine he has other plans

Considering the Russian module leaks to the point they have to keep it sealed and use much lower pressure to none and only for temporary storage, and the likely formation of cracks throughout for whatever reason renders it unfixable, it sounds like the equivalent of a shady unheated self storage, with a leaky roof, wanly lit when it’s not flickering.

Comment Re: The probability is high (Score 1) 104

It always bothered me as well. Just because some crazy society isn’t repurposing the energy output of a large star to broadcast a simple amplitude modulated signal, and that’s all we can reasonably rule out in our own galaxy, does not mean none exist. I’ve always thought that entire premise insurmountably stupid.

Comment Re:Assumptions (Score 2) 104

Given that we have a sample size of 1, do you really feel confident assuming you know how long it takes for life to evolve?

Billions of years is likely an overestimate of what’s possible, but any life as it’s remotely defined needs to store information and process it in a way to evolve. So long periods of stability are likely a minimum requirement. It could be deep within a planet around an unstable star, it could possibly evolve on a gas planet without a usable surface, but it does need stability or its self replicating pattern is simply wiped away.

Comment Re:Why is it more data is needed? (Score 1) 27

While I think LLM's are more powerful than many skeptics give it credit for (just statistical machines that find similar things in training data etc.) I do think that if size of training data is a limit as of now, it suggests LLM's seemingly do not have sufficient cognitive depth.

LLM are fancy autocomplete so the novel aspects of its output is more of an existing gap filler where existing patterns neatly outline something a bit like negative space in art. But it seems to not be able to hold concepts together in a long chain of reasoning, logic, or coding because it truly understands nothing even if it’s capable of novel output. LLM are likely just a small component of the AI investors and the public are looking for and we simply need a few hundred or thousand such diverse systems working together.

Comment Re:AI is not real intelligence (Score 1) 27

It's a very large, cleverly-designed word prediction system. We're finally hitting some hard limits, and it will help temper our expectations. Don't get me wrong, I think LLMs are really useful and will do a lot of good, just don't mistake them for actual intelligence.

Ridiculous. What we need is a book of infinite wisdom to train the models on. Then the more power the greater the wisdom. Like forever. I don’t understand why people think computer science is hard.

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