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"insulting words or behavior that cause distress to others"

Malicious Communications Act 1988 (Section 1):

"Outlaws sending messages, electronic or otherwise, with the intent to cause distress, or anxiety"

Communications Act 2003, Online Safety Act 2023, hate speech, terrorist legislation all made these many orders of magnitude worse in many ways.

The Online Safety Act and Hate Crime Provision have extended these somewhat into the realms of 1984. But the police do tend to use them sparingly.

Are you claiming that a child who is not exposed to 'reason' will reason as well and one who is? Or a child who is not exposed to 'math' will spontaneously write a proof? Or a child not exposed to English will just start speaking it?

01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101110 may be baked into US and AI in different ways but it is fundamentally the same goal and our results are similarly emergent from the process.

That's kind of like taking driving lessons in order to fix an engine. 'Early childhood development' is an emergent property of what could be cumulatively called a data set (everything the child has been exposed to).

Humans don't think. At all. They do next token prediction.

If they are [raised in environments] that includes lots of examples of the result of people thinking, what they produce will look sort of like the results of people thinking, but then if they were [raised in an environment] of people repeating the same seven knock knock jokes over and over and over in some complex pattern (e.g. every third time, in French), what they produced will look like that, and nothing like thinking.

I believe this can be observed in examples of feral children and accidental social isolation in childhood. It also explains the slow start but nearly exponential growth of knowledge within the history of human civilization.

The most dangerous people on earth who are not in prison are on the internet; It is an adult place. Making it look like a child friendly place will not change this. But it will lure more kids online unsupervised and unprotected.

In contrast, i know people who have went through many kindles in this time and spent a small fortune on them.

There is also a host of things we use water for from cooking to preserving, distilling and cooling.. i wonder if any of these things could concentrate the fluoride.

Also since fluoride has a lower boiling point any studies tracked what breathing in fluoride gas over long periods cause?

Another way to say this is;

>Projects that don't have deadlines imposed on them, will take longer, and may benefit from feature advancements and leave you with increased scope with the finished product.

Using words like creep and bloat to describe what is effectively a better solution to a problem is short-sighted and can lead to a false saving, as jobs that are rushed generally need to be re-done at a later date.

The right hemisphere almost certainly uses internal 'language' either consciously or unconsciously to define objects, actions, intent.. the fact that they passed these tests is evidence of that. The brain damage is simply stopping them expressing that 'language'. But the existence of language was expressed in the completion of the task..

>This has been my single biggest argument against fiat currency stuff for years: the "lose your money, lose your money" thing is fundamentally incompatible with real users. Humans need to be able to recover from their mistakes.

And yet, for the very longest time, it was the default position for humans.

There are some number of deaths a year from this.

I never posted this as the value of a life didn't feel proportional to the value of a lifetime, though i never really objectively understood why. Feels like a similar paradox to the repugnant conclusion.

I'm not ignoring that, I'm just saying that in LLMs we call these things weights. And i don't want to downplay the importance of weights, its probably a significant difference between us and other hominids.

But even if you considered some behaviors to be more akin to the server or interface or preprocess in LLMs it still wouldn't detract from the fact that the vast majority of the things that make us autonomous logical sentient beings come about through a process that is very similar to the core workings of LLMs. I'm also not saying that all animal brains function like LLMs, though that's an interesting thought to consider.

We are clearly a product of our past experience (in LLMs this is called our datasets). If you go back to the beginning of our experiences, there is little identity, consciousness, or ability to reason. These things are learned indirectly, (in LLMs this is called an emergent property). We don't learn indiscriminately, evolved instinct, social pressure and culture guide and bias our data consumption (in LLMs this is called our weights).

I can't think of any other way our minds could work, on some level they must function like a LLM, Language perhaps supplemented with general Data, but the principle being the same. Every new idea has been an abstraction or supposition of someones current dataset, which is why technological and general societal advancement has not been linear but closer to exponential.

All of human progress has happened through open discussion; i thought this was obvious. We gain immunity to bad ideas by hearing them within public areas where people can argue for and against them honestly. This leads to people gaining/learning good ideas because they more often defeat bad ideas. Leading to a more progressive society. Ban bad ideas in public and people become vulnerable to them in private.

>The value of saying what you want is not held higher than the value of not being discriminated against.

This is not a cogent argument; The vast majority of discrimination is not verbal, in fact the verbal bit isn't generally discrimination at all but a signal that discrimination may be happening.. suppress the signal and you can generally keep the discrimination.

Alternatively; The value of maintaining current discrimination is high enough to motivate laws protecting racists from exposing themselves publicly.

Or; The value in maintain hatred within society is higher than the value of progressive discourse.

My point is that there are a few ways to interpret speech controls, and i don't think its fair to just pick the positive spin.

I use 3 separate banks for this reason. But honestly, the 'reason' for dropping me might be a 3rd party risk assessment that flags something and services all three banks... Or some sort of story or hysteria that could trigger three similar systems.

Using a decent crypto currency with good practice, the biggest threat is me messing something up. And i can put systems in place to minimize this. The only issue is that most things i spend moneys on don't accept crypto and so still need banking services to use crypto. I hope this changes.

To me this question is in answer to the Fermi paradox, the great filter .. is it behind us? Its important to answer because if its not behind us, then; not wanting to be hyperbolic but, we are about to end.

Apparently most of the computer models of the early solar system doesn't result in rocky planets this close to the sun. And when it does there are constant meteor strikes. So we could be quite improbable. However considering the size and age of the universe, if the filter is behind us in the form of improbability, it should look to us as something that is impossible.