ClumsyPilot

> A well-trained LLM that lacks any malevolent data

This is self-contradictory. An LLM must have malevolent data to identify malevolent intentions. A naive LLM will be useless. Might as well get psychotherapy from a child.

Once LLM has malevolent data, it may produce malevolent output. LLM does not inherently understand what is malevolence. It basically behaves like a psychopath.

You are trying to get a psychopath-like technology to do psychotherapy.

It’s like putting gambling addicts in charge of the world financial system, oh wait…

The frustrating thing about your argument is that it runs on a pretence that we must prove squares aren’t circles.

A person may be unable to provide mathematical proof and yes be obviously correct.

The totally obvious thing you are missing is that most people will not encourage obviously self-destructive behaviour because they are not psychopaths. And they can get another person to intervene if necessary

Chatbots do not have such concerts

> You need to be a person to have the skills

Generally a non-person doesn’t have skills, it’s a pretty likely to be true statement even if made on a random subject.

It is ironic and sad that colonies were both oppressed and not profitable.

The way Britain has restricted Industry in India (famously even salt) left it vulnerable in WW2.

Colonial policies are really up there with great failures of communists

We have EU laws on the books But different mentality

They don’t gel very well

In UK it cannot be insured, it’s technically legal but in practice there is no insurance for them so you are still a criminal

Also electric scooters and mono wheels are illegal

US has plenty of protectionism, including recent 300% tax on bombardier, and pushing Europe to implement bans or tariffs on Chinese competitors of US corporations.

> consumer hostile

If these practices were invented in China/Russia we would call them deceptive and fraudulent.

EU Ebike regulations are the worst on the planet, our cities are dense and traffic is slow, but we've wasted an opportunity to replace half the cars in European cities.

First consider the 16 mph / 25 km/h speed limit - have you ever seen a road sign with such speed limit? Lowest 'normal' speed limit is 30 km/h. The result is, you are either impeding traffic, or a truck tries to overtake you, misjudges distance and kills you. The lowest speed limit and the ebike speed limit need to match.

Second, the 250W power limit is an ass pull. Imagine you are Cycling up a medium-steep hill - 15% incline. 250 watts gives you 3 miles per hour. Let's say 10 miles per hour is a minimum acceptable speed, that requires 800 watts of power. And god help you if you are overweight or carrying groceries or a child as a passenger.

And ebikes cost £2,000 and £4,000 for a cargo bike because we have imposed 60% tax on importing bicycle parts from China.

Most US industries are owned by 1/2/3 oligopolies. The only way to compete is to create your own monopolies.

The greatest lie in the world is that US Gov. wants free market.

It has spent the last 10 years lobbying EU to ban Huawei, Chinese electric cars, Tiktok, etc.. It has banned foreign ships from travelling between US ports, a deal by Japan's Nippon Steel, imposed 300% tax on Bombardier, and imprisoned French executives until they agreed to sell a division of Alstom to GE.

This is why I support Trump as a European - at least he is upfront about the racket he is running. If the pretence cannot be maintained, our politicians will be forced to respond.

> The system that would score best tested against a list of known-truths and known-lies, isn't the perceptive one that excels at critical thinking: it's the ideological sycophant

This is an excellent point

> why are all its car companies monopolistic mega conglomerates that rule the world like Volkswagen, Stellantis, Daimler Benz, BMW, and Renault?

You just named 5 companies, that’s competition.

US has 1/2 companies controlling 90% market share in several markets. That’s monopoly.

> Unless you go into extreme lengths to build your own custom ROM, which might not even be properly doable

Also the process is prone to unexpected issues, bugs, etc.

> > With the popularity of disk brakes, why don't we have a standard size for pads? Same as for shifters: the braking compound and design for a race road bike will be really different to what a DH race bike requires

I really don’t understand how this mentality Uk survives.

for the past 100 years companies have been working to get unfair advantage over each other by creating user lock-in, patent trolling each-other, DRM in games, changing their design to break compatibility with generic products etc.

surely you must realise that many motivations for product difference have no bearing on user benefit, or we would never have region-locking on DVDs or proprietary media formats.

Bicycle market is not a healthy competitive market. Shimano makes almost all gears for all bikes in Europe. For the price of an electric cargo bike that goes 15 mph and has 0.6 kWh battery I can buy an electric motorbike that goes 70 mph and has 6 kWh battery.

They are both about £4,000

> Inertia of user base is by far the largest predictor of what will stick in a market

Why are you calling open source of market?

These appear to be feuds and battle of ideas fought between contributors, with minimal input from end users. There is no price signal at all

Re. Bicycles, it’s not a healthy market. Shimano dominates with 70% share in gears and brakes. Top 3 manufacturers have what, 95%+? Also look at how cargo bikes cost 3x what a normal bike does, but have same components.

With that structure, users have zero input on size of breakpads.

But TLS relies on having a domain If domain intern depends on tls you have chicken and egg problem

Exactly, there is free fuel and aluminium just floating by, and we are unable to use them to upgrade our ships or refuel them.

Until we make full use of robotics and 3D printing, there is no point of heading far. And we have all the tools.

Distant stars will not be settled by a fast small ship travelling from earth. They will be settled by a city sized monolith produced by harvesting and smelting an entire small moon

All of fiction and discourse fails to consider that the Solar System is actually a huge place and just the period of settling and industrialising it will take hundreds of years.

Everyone things that a game breaker technology is better engines, or fusion, or FTL, but they are wrong, the game breaker technology has already happened: 3D printing.

If we can manufacture things with minimal infrastructure using local resources, we can that is all we need.

And all of it reachable with simple nuclear power and technology we have today.

> violates causality

But we don’t know that casualty is a law of physics, do we?

It’s not user friendly

> This sounds like Python development....and React.....and Svelte....and oh, remember Angular 2 to 3?

I can open a webpage written in Angular 1, or written in year 1990. I can run a program written for windows 95 on my new PC with windows 11. It’s normal to keep compatibility for compiled/finished ebd user software.

If they enormously different, what are you going to call South Korea, Armenia, China? I mean is anything comparable?

The real point I was trying to make is that they achieve similar outcomes, in passenger safety comfort.

And if we really do believe that legislation is so different, then is there any point of arguing about an innovation in the physical parameters of the system, after all you can only make a tram 20% lighter, but you can make the legislation 300% worse or 300% better

Try to transport the following objects - would you rather do it on a bus or tram?

a longtail ebike, a pushchair with/for 2 kids (horizontal arrangement), a dining table for 6 people and 30 kg of cement

I tried it, and with most of em they don’t let you on a bus or you can’t fit but tram is fine

> If you want to build a train the best way to save money is to build exactly the same as everyone else does: standard off the shelf trains, running on standard off the shelf rails, and standard off the shelf overhead rail.

You are speaking like a naive person that thinks that most the challenge is the physical world

But in UK most of the challenge is archaic and idiosyncratic laws, disproportionately powerful NIMBY’s and the treasury brain.

The treasury brain will approve a project with 1X capex and 10x opex instead of one that has 2X capex and 1X opex

The NYMBY is wild and unpredictable, they just killed project for a data centre placed on top of a literal dump because it would ruin the view of that dump from a motorway (nobody lives there)

A project to re-open 3 miles of railway that already exists took 5 years to approve and 80,000 pages of environmental accessment

But if it’s innovate and designed in UK it might just slip through

> they're completely different cultures and jurisdictions

Separated by huge distance of 20 miles, both have thousands of same EU laws )still on the books, share thousands of years of history and at one point ruled by the same aristocracy.

Important background: Building the same tram in Britain costs at least 2X more than in France, often 3x more.

UK tram track construction typically involves deeper track beds compared to France/EU, using concrete slabs of 500-1000mm deep, is intended to protect utilities. In contrast, many European projects utilize shallower trackbeds, even with grassed areas, which are 300-400mm deep

> The beautiful thing about freedom is that along as people don't infringe upon the rights of others, they don't need your permission to just go build things and exist

This is hollow sophistry, and it’s not how things actually are.

You don’t have freedom for Self dealing, price fixing, collusion, bribery, false marketing, antitrust violations, selling baby powder with lead and many other things.

In some states you can’t even legally collect rainwater.

Also the government will come after you with guns and throw you in jail if you violate some bogus and fictitious “intellectual property rights” that last for 70 years after creator has died.

It’s u helpful to pretend we live in Wild West of liberty

> There is no reality where I will accept that…

Welcome to the club

> if I create something. I spend and risk my money on web hosting. I write the code...

You can create a forum in 20 minutes, it’s all open source and I did that when I was 14

All the ‘risk’ and ‘writing code’ is about fighting other platforms for attention, not providing a consumer good.

> ultimatum… in order to extract value from them that you did not earn

I am the consumer, the market exists for me and I pay for the whole party. If a business that harms customers is called a crime syndicate.

You might see this ultimatum in other areas too, like “you can’t sell baby food with lead in it, or you go to prison”

> Being able to pick what content they host is fundamental to freedom of speech for private entities

Interesting position - when somebody posts illegal content on YouTube, they are not liable, it’s not their speech.

But when I want to post something they don’t like, suddenly it’s their freedom of speech to remove it.

A lot of breakdown in society lately is clearly coming from the fact that some people/companies have it both ways when it suits them.