Fantastic. With 1.5 to 3 million gun defenses a year and that 'gun homocide' rate includes ATTACKERS who are killed by the victims.

Perhaps in your country when someone stronger comes along every woman, child, elderly person, or smaller man simply becomes a victim but here we proudly stack the attackers into that 'homocide' stat.

That and there are between 1.5 million and 3 million successful gun defenses per year in the US. Even the anti-gun lobby refusing to count incidents where the crime was prevented metric still has more incidents than gun associated homicides.

When a woman prevents a man from beating her to death by using a gun in self defense, that is counted as a gun homicide. The lower rate in disarmed nations is reduced by the women, children, elderly, weak, etc who are beaten, robbed, and murdered by any stronger man who comes along. I shutter thinking about how many female officers must be raped in the UK where even the police are unarmed.

I'll take the higher gun deaths and lower violent crime/homicide.

Last I checked people killed by guns are no more or less dead than those killed by other tools and overall homicide rates tend to go up when guns are banned.

In contrast gun related self defense estimates show even the worst accounts tallying more defense incidents than deaths with typical estimates between 1.5 million and 3 million self-defense instances per year.

Lets compare citizens killed by foreign invaders and mass murder of heavily armed civilian populations by the state vs mass murder/subjugation of populaces which have been disarmed. I think you'll find both virtually non-existent in states with heavily armed populations.

Already the models refuse to assist at professional levels on the basis that it would somehow be dangerous to enable novices to act with professional capacity. There is nothing magical about having the resources to train these models or to gain professional level skills in any given field that confers ethical or moral responsibility.

It's gun control all over again and the answer is NOT to withhold capability from people, it's to empower good actors to defend against the bad ones and distribute power widely to keep central authorities in check.

"once people realize the LLMs are not going to replace actual thinking persons, anywhere where the outcomes matter"

Come on, with that UID you are old enough to know better. Remember when people started calling distributed systems 'clusters', then calling internet connected clusters 'cloud', then because everyone was desperately trying to attach some sort of meaning to this buzzword is slowly started to mean internet connected clustered systems WITH AN API.

Remember how everyone who went through this evolution knew that these were still insecure, third party, leveraged, internet connected systems with mixed client data and were highly insecure on top of costing WAY more than any enterprise scale deployment and definitely more than whiteboxing prosumer gear yourself? Did the masses wake up and realize this or did they just lay off the more experienced people who kept pointing out what they were doing was a terrible idea and gloss over all the major disruptions and massive breach after breach?

What about when all the 'automation' and 'infrastructure as code' frameworks were being pushed and experienced admins pointed out that enterprises let software back for 5yrs or more so it doesn't disrupt the underlying business and avoid homegrown code and scripting as much as possible? Yeah, they laid off those more experienced people and now pretty much every fortune 500 is running shitty code written this morning and gets breached all over the place, has enterprise wide and network wide disruptions, etc... Hell some of the early adopters don't even remember what stable systems looked like so they aren't mad about it.

No Ox, 'people' aren't going to wake up and realize the tech is shit and doesn't really work for anything but datamining with a high degree of skepticism and human review of the results. They are going to deploy it anyway and the same people telling them it is a horrible idea are going to have to make it work somehow and build all the guardrails in the world around it while people try to make it more functional, then as soon as those people thread the needle and document it they'll be laid off and replaced by H1Bs.

Until this moment nuclear fission had never been achieved with H1Bs but now that Valar has bravely crossed this threshold all nuclear facilities can slash energy costs by laying off domestic workers and insourcing or even more by outsourcing their safety monitoring to call centers in India.

Still they will probably limit this to centers with low overprovisioning, the nuclear safety agent with also be pretending to be an expert on Bluecoat proxy and AD but he PROBABLY won't be on more than two calls at a time or have more than three specializations. Besides, despite being the designated 'expert' he still expects you* to provide him with step-by-step instructions.

* You being whoever contacted him or who he contacted when the alarm went off.

It also compares poorly to pixie dust in many respects which is far closer to working than fusion.

You guys are worshiping this boat but the voyage was a failure, the sail powered cargo vessel failed to cross the Atlantic on sail power.

We STARTED with sail powered cargo ships and there is a reason we moved on from sail power. An electric powered boat that makes of omnidirectional wind, solar, and uses and inner and outer shell to capture wave power as rotational energy in flywheels... now that will work, during the day, during the night, in fair weather, and in bad weather and can be built with resiliency in mind.

Amazing considering she didn't take the photograph OR manage to figure out the structure herself.

He didn't 'steal' anything and she did not identify the structure at all, let alone a year prior.

Yes and you are right.

First, as I said, I'm in security so being paranoid is my job. Second, you have no idea who I perform security for...

Also a safe room is not a safe; it's a room where you hide from thieves and kidnappers.

Yup and who knows what sort of side channel capabilities can be teased out of this data. Ping a couple surfaces and diff to improve resolution and suddenly the device can use a wall like a diaphragm and read audio or similar types of attack. I'm speculating on possibilities but these things are real attacks in 3 letter agency portfolios. One guy called me paranoid, setting aside that I mentioned I was in security and thus it is my job, I'm not the only one who might buy a vacuum. Would it be paranoid for a senator to be concerned? What about the white house cleaning staff? The pentagon?

Amazon? I very much doubt this data goes to Amazon; China is more likely. As a security professional I'd rather my vacuum didn't send data to the chinese state which informs them of where I installed the safe room in my house, or that I installed a safe room and who knows what other data and features it picks up when 3d scanning the room.

You've got the 'if you've got nothing to hide' attitude but in real life people are not only corrupt but fuckups, tests and processes accepted by authorities and courts don't actually work as claimed, including the ones coming from science, biotech, and forensics. Data mining seems to tell someone all about you but if you know details personally and have someone review this data they will come to mostly wrong conclusions AND have evidence to back it up. Ever look at the google tracking data on detail level? It'll show you going all sorts of places you didn't go and the more urban the area the more this occurs. So the best way to avoid others fucking up intentionally or not is to never give them the opportunity. And if you actually do have something to hide you aren't required to want to get 'caught' either and have every right to try to avoid it.