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Comment disagree with all the shade here (Score 5, Interesting) 125

IDK,
i bumped in to the occasional overly-rigid process hiccup at SO but by and large i found it to be a tremendously effective tool, both for asking and answering Qs. imo, the last fifteen years or so of software development owe an awful lot to SO. the rigid rules people are complaining about here (eg closing questions as dupes) definitely contributed to SO's effectiveness.

that said, i'm using past-tense for SO. as much as i owe SO, the many AI helpers are easier and usually better.

it does beg the obvious question of how the AIs are going to get training material for future technologies.

Comment Re: Asimov's three laws (Score 1) 139

> In fact, LLMs present no danger at all, it's only what an LLM can control that presents a danger.

ime, the presence of "in fact ..." or "the truth is ..." as part of rhetoric is a strong signal that the author wants to bolster their argument with generic symbols of value.

that aside,
you are crazy if you think AIs pose no danger. it's like saying drunks trying to get home from the bar pose no threat, it's just the cars they pilot which do.

AIs are going to play the role of wardens of life-impacting functionality and decisions. for example health-care decisions. financial capabilities. insurance claim investigation. hiring. firing. driving. flying. emergency vehicle dispatch. etc.

so vulnerabilities in AIs are definitely dangerous.

Comment Re: Quantum mechanics: a mathematical description (Score 2) 111

i think it's good to question whether reality is even understandable in the QM regime, but i think you weaken your point by appealing to survival value. there's loads of things which had no survival value back when we were hunter-gatherers but which we're pretty good at. driving cars, for example. understanding electromagnetics. playing piano.

Comment not newsworthy (Score 2) 54

this is just click bait.
everyone knows these models are not good at actual gameplay nor is it news that they will confidently mis-state stuff. it wasn't news on the first round it's still not news, and it misses the point that there is a Ton of stuff that humans currently do which the models will do cheaper.

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