Incorrect. Computer misuse within the US, regardless of where the individuals who are doing the misusing are located, is under US jurisdiction. This is long-established. Laws dealing with multi-jurisdictional issues (such as patents/copyrights, illicit interstate commerce, sex tourism, computer misuse) are old-hat.

Attacking US servers located in US territory is an attack carried out within the US, regardless of where the keyboard warrior is.

Now, if the servers attacked are in Ireland, then they're also covered by EU jurisdiction (no matter what the US likes to think).

The law is the law, and nobody, in any nation, is immune. A fact a lot of nations like to pretend they're somehow immune to. They aren't and there will always be a price to pay for such cavalier attitudes.

gigawatts is typically pronounced with a voiced velar plosive, but also famous for an alternate pronunciation starting with the voiced postalveolar affricate. But with no difference in meaning. The alternative spelling (jigawatt) is rare and discouraged by most style guides, if not explicitly forbidden.

Why when apps and social media are nearly as addictive and can be manufactured much more cheaply? I'm thinking smartphones for fetuses is the next big thing. Maybe have an LLM telling infants bedtime stories, perhaps continuously in one ear 24 hours a day. Capturing customers before they exit the womb is the kind of marketing research the industry craves.

Even between models you need to be specific for a reasonable quantitatively. I gave you a Markov has the extreme example as a form of rhetoric to challenge your claims. That you find it tiresome implies you have faced this problem of poorly presenting your argument before.

Blind obedience not been the US military's doctrine for a very long time (if ever). While following orders is important, the emphasis has been on comprehending the objectives and following lawful orders. Why? One reason is that a FRAGPLAN is concise and would require enough context to correctly execute according to the intent, especially if it was split from a larger operations order. To do this, you need a military with people who can think, and have absorbed the military culture, and not mindless idiots.

That said, Kegsbreath is working hard to undo our professional military and turn them into an obedient invasion force to strike fear into our opponents. Compliance, honor, and reputation are completely unimportant to the current administration.

(Note: I'm not in the armed forced. I'm a civilian that has an interest in the structures that my tax dollars pay for. I'm not pretending to have ever served.)

"Lots" and "one that is widely accepted" are not the same thing at all,

Which is why I specifically said "There are widely accepted ones too."

There's no point in discussing intelligence without first nailing down which definition the interlocutors are using.

Absolutely.

There is value in recognizing the problem, not dismissing it. There are lots of defnitions, many of which are fuzzy, because people who want to argue that humans (or specific groups of humans) are "intelligent" while others are not generally have to define intelligence in a very ad hoc way to support their argument. People who are interested in studying the subject generally have reasonable definitions. The former don't like the latter's definitions because they fail to provide the desired absolute threshold they desire.

My point was that the LLMs claim to know everything but when they don't know something they just make things up where a human is likely to say "sorry, don't know,"

me pointing out that much of that "knowledge" is garbage. That's it.

Hm. Those don't quite sound like the same thing. It's like you've been caught saying something silly and you're engaging in a bit of revisionism. On a public, threaded message board with no edit button, no less. If one were being uncharitable one might point out that the quite human phenomenon of "digging yourself in deeper" often follows the one of making shit up rather than saying you don't know.

That's not entirely true. We don't have a good idea of how biological brains (simple or complicated) learn. There are some hints of how they might feed back error signals but we don't know in detail. There is the possibility, and people love to latch onto it, that brains are doing something that works better than gradient descent. There isn't really a good reason to believe that, and quite a few not to, except for handwavy comparisons like the summary makes.

Certainly the hardware is different, and that's where the obvious differences originate. The brain isn't really any more analog than your laptop though.

There are lots of definitions of what "intelligent" means. There are widely accepted ones too. There isn't really one where the human brain is, and everything else isn't.

Well, let's see... first of all, the brain is not digital

It's not?

My point was that the LLMs claim to know everything but when they don't know something they just make things up where a human is likely to say "sorry, don't know," or at least say "My guess is X" rather than "Oh yeah, it's X. Definitely X. What do you mean it doesn't exist? Oh, sorry, I just made that up. My bad."

That was good for a laugh this morning. Especially posted on Slashdot right after the guy claiming that what the brain does is uncomputable. Because... it is, that's why.

You can train an LLM to say it doesn't know, or even build pretty good objective confidence metrics. We don't, because people don't like it. We don't like it in humans either.

Everyone who's ever made that claim about something in the real world has been wrong. Why do you think this is different?

If a place is cheap to live, then your life is just as cheap to those running it.

In the end, there's a certain minimum cost for running things effectively and if the taxes don't reflect that, then as far as the corporations and politicians are concerned, nobody there matters.

Even amonst the rich clients, the malpractice incidence rate in the US is between 2-3 times that of the rest of the civilised world.

Worse, doctors struck off in one State for malpractice can simply move to another and get a fresh license. It happens.

The system is really bad.