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Bug becomes a feature

That statement misses the point completely. Asimov's entire shtick is that AI will always work around the rules no matter what the rules are or how you try to deliver or enforce them. AI computes an optimal outcome and does what is necessary to make that happen.

Asimov would tell you that a modern LLM would try to skirt the rules exactly the same way, regardless of whether it had ever seen the Three Laws or not.

Is a print of the Mona Lisa still art? Or is it worthless slop by virtue of having been created by a machine?

"The market" is not a benevolent fairy godmother with your best interest at heart.

It is a machine that optimizes profit and absolutely nothing else. It does not and cannot consider what is "good" or "right" or even "legal" unless and until one of those things directly and indisputably hurts profits too much.

This is magical thinking. "The market" is fundamentally incapable of making things better for you, the consumer.

Sure there is, we can make school affordable.

This is a narrow-minded conformist perspective. Because you cannot imagine (or cannot be bothered to consider) a lifestyle different from your own, you think it is a Bad thing.

And your comment is American propaganda, so it's equally safe to disregard

How many other people are you willing to kill for that freedom?

Because they make the code harder to read

Airplanes don't flap but they fly, just how LLMs don't think but do reason.

It's still a torment nexus, but at least there's whimsy in this one. Beats the alternative.

Because aquifers and water tables don't exist

No, "special" and "regular" have very specific meaning when next to "file"

It is hard. EVs need a lot of extra design and shielding in order to not absolutely destroy AM reception. That's the main reason manufacturers are arguing against them.

Because it was trained on the entire internet

You're right, which is why they include forced arbitration clauses to prevent you from exercising your legal rights to sue them into following the law.

Since you won't go through forced arbitration and the arbiter will always agree with the company, they are not exposed to your petty legal action and are free to do whatever the hell they want, regardless of whether it's legal.

I like TUIs because it's impossible to fuck them up with unlabeled hieroglyphic buttons floating in a sea of padding.

Yes, unequivocally.

They can't patch anything, it's a hardware feature. They'd have to spin new silicon for every single product in their lineup and trash the likely millions of units they have in stock.

This is no different from a CB radio where you can lift the cover and tweak some adjustments for higher (read: illegal) TX power. This is a normal, expected development feature which requires extraordinary effort for users to find and abuse. Espressif is almost certainly in the clear

As much as I'm sure that gives you the warm fuzzies to think about, it's utter nonsense. That's not how this works.

That's not how that works. If you kill someone and are tried for it, guilty or not, that does not give you license to go kill more people. You can be tried for the same crime if you do the crime again.

You cannot be tried multiple times for the same instance of a crime.

Since OAI et al don't appear interested in stopping crime, they can (and likely will) be tried again the next time they do it.

What is this, 2010? You have to glue an AI assistant to it or you're never getting a promotion

Yes, but when a human makes shit up, they're still legally liable for what they said, and depending on context can be compelled to fix the issue or lose their job.

If an LLM makes shit up, your one and only recourse is "computer says no".

"Voter ID" in this country is nearly always code for voter disenfranchisement.

Our system works on the principle of preventing the "wrong" people from voting. And "wrong" here means poor and Black people who often have difficulty producing the required documentation and paying the fees for same.

Pumped hydro is fantastically expensive, not all that efficient, and only works with extremely specific (and rare, aiui) geography. It also comes with the same ecological disasters as dams, displacing entire ecosystems or towns and producing a ton of methane emissions from the now-submerged and decaying plant life.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Agreed, the US is not your friend and will pull the rug from under you at the first convenient opportunity.

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A discount is quite literally the opposite of what's happening here.

#3 is actually a return to form. These cheats started out as cheat codes that developers baked into the game up front. We lost them for a while and now apparently they're coming back?

Because the ones with power simply choose not to exercise it, and the systems that are supposed to prevent this were broken decades ago.

There have been forces inside the USA trying to steadily dismantle democracy and constitutional safeguards for nearly a century.