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Modern LLMs are fairly good at that as well.

Sure the implementation details are different.

I suppose I should have asked by what definition of "consciousness and agency" are today's LLMs (with proper tooling) not meeting?

And if today's models aren't meeting your standard, what makes you think that future LLMs won't get there?

> what actually is happening inside an LLM has nothing to do with conscience or agency

What makes you think natural brains are doing something so different from LLMs?

Because today it will be used as a first responder.

Tomorrow a police officer will suggest that these drones (that we are already using successfully) could be very useful for checking up on that "dangerous" neighborhood.

Yes. These HN guidlines already basically cover it:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

Not to single out your comment, but it feels like it's gotten to the point where HN could use a rule against complaining about AI generated content.

It seems like almost every discussion has at least someone complaining about "AI slop" in either the original post or the comments.

I remember trying out some voice-to-text around 2002 that I believe was included with Windows XP.. or maybe Office?

You had to go through some training exercises to tune it to your voice, but then it worked fairly well for transcription or even interacting with applications.

"adb backup" is buggy and deprecated.

It's easier and more reliable to use adb root to rsync everything. No apps need root access that way.

Maybe for your threat model. Not mine.

Backing up all app data.

I think your 2nd point is less likely.

Anecdotal, but I've spoken with many taxi and ride-share drivers, and my impression is that their decision to seek out and continue that line of work is almost always driven by outside economic considerations. I've never heard someone base their decision on their ability to perform the job.

Why regulate? Look at the failure that is the "war on drugs".

The solution is education. The government should be educating society and especially parents on how to protect their children.

Education worked to cut cigarette use, and is starting to lower alcohol consumption as well. It can work for social media without all the negative impacts on civil liberties that come with regulations.

The government can do a whole lot more than embarrass CEOs and powerful people they don't like. Look at how China controls its tech CEOs by making them disappear until their views align.

Have you ever actually heard it used in conversation or writing where the speaker's intention was a meaning that included people outside of the USA? I haven't.

So which walled garden owner regularly has sex with prepubescent children and is a heavy meth user?

The word "American" already unambiguously describes people of the USA. You don't need to make up a new word.

I don't really mind the pain itself, but I could see myself thinking the worst in that situation and imagining the strong pain meant the probe had punctured my colon.

I assume that's not actually a realistic risk, right?

I don't think your complaints are a common experience.

I've used neovim for the last 10 years, but before that I used emacs with R for many years at work and it was great, certainly not slow.

The issue with police departments trying to maximize fine revenue has a simple solution.. pass a law that says all fines go directly to the treasury.

A similar law could eliminate most of the problems with civil forfeiture.

I'd love to see what Tim Daly could with LLMs on Axiom's code base.

If you're using GrapheneOS you can disable network access for GCam to reduce the risk that Google is spying on your photos.

The postprocessing is notably better with GCam, so it's worth running on GrapheneOS imo.

The fact that lobbyists push the law is in fact very meaningful. It means that a minority with power is trying to tip the scales in their favor against the otherwised unbiased will of the majority.

To extend your analogy, it's not one side complaining after a fair match, it's them complaining that refs have been paid off.

> There are ways of implementing digital identity that do not require the user to divulge more information than is technically required

Yes, but the incentives for increased state power through surveillance are far greater than incentives to increase privacy.

If you view requiring id for daily tasks as a bad thing, then a more efficient and effective id system would be a bad thing for you.

It's pretty easy to make your own `userdebug` build of GrapheneOS using their official build instructions

That's what I do to get `adb root` and full file system access.

My money is on the porn sites being right.

Incest fantasies are far more common than the number of people who would admit to them suggest.

Just like almost no one will admit to finding a girl a day under 18 sexually attractive, yet somehow "barely legal" porn is extremely popular.

Contactless payments are often a problem, but adding a card for Uber (directly in the app) should work. I use it frequently, along with Grab, Bolt, Maxim, etc.

I never understand why a company would put something like this in writing.

I worked at a midsize financial company before and whenever there was something even approaching a legal or ethical grey area, we'd pick up the phone and say come to my office to talk, and then you'd close the door.

We weren't doing anything nearly as nefarious as Meta, yet everyone was always aware that email and phone conversations were recorded and archived.

If the focus is performance, why use a separate process and have to deal with data serialization overhead?

Why not a typical shared library that can be loaded in python, R, Julia, etc., and run on large data sets without even a memory copy?

I coached a sports team for 6-10 year olds during the summers as a college student and agree that there are some incredible kids who are a joy to mentor and be around.

But probably my biggest concern with having kids of my own is that you can't really choose their personalities. Even the best parents can end up with kids who are frankly much less enjoyable to be around.