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As long as the kooks waste their time chatting with LLMs instead of bothering the rest of us then maybe that's a win?

That may keep them preoccupied for a while. But eventually they'll try to upload their post-relativity recursive quantum intelligence unification theory magnum opus to arXiv as a neatly LaTeX-formatted paper so they can spam university physics departments and subreddits.

So then we're back where we started, except unlike in the past the final product will superficially resemble a legitimate paper at first glance...

One of the great things about the early web was that people who took the time to share their Time Cube type theories did so using their own words and layouts in ways which really, really broadcast that they were Time Cube type theories.

Somehow that makes me think of the human immune system, where cells expose samples of what's going on inside.

Now people can take a crazy idea and launder it through a system that strips/replaces many of the useful clues.

> Murder-suicide

Pretty bold of somebody who’s never been murdered to post that getting murdered isn’t a bother. It seems, to me, that if somebody tried to murder me it would bother me, and if they succeeded it would bother quite a few people

Not to go full on crazy socialist, but isn't there at least a tiny bit of you that want to help these "kooks" instead of trying to hide them from rest of society?

Absolutely! How would you suggest that we help? Because trying to set them straight on math and science is completely ineffective.

We have pretty alright medications for some of this now, don't we?

No, we really don't. There are some medications which can reduce schizophrenia symptoms but patient compliance is generally low because the side effects are so bad.

Those medications are already widely available to patients willing to take them. So I fail to see what that has to do with OpenAI.

They are mentally ill, not bad at science.

Well, technically they are both, but I don't know how to help them.

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