Appealing to lack-of-authority without actually explaining in what way his argument is wrong is significantly worse.
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If you read the OP article, the entire point he's making is that this would never happen, because a hash algorithm being "broken" doesn't matter in practice, because true supply chain security has nothing to do with file hashes.
Though I do wish it were called chat.gov or america-ai.gov or something else actually descriptive of what it is
Nobody has made this claim.
Why would an LLM care about eliminating any of these things? When you say "red tape" and "bureaucracy" you are, in that very statement, applying emotional labels to what are actually just systems working as designed. There are the rules, so we follow them. LLM decision-makers will happily enforce and perpetuate bureaucracy and red-tape. If the rent-seeking is legal behavior then they will fully protect a big corporation's right to engage in it, they don't care about the feelings of the little guy. If a similar situation was decided a certain way in the past, then yeah let's decide it the same way now and maintain the status quo; LLMs very often think that way, they don't care about human ideals like "change" or "progress".
Do you have links to some of these?
Arguments as old as time that a new form of automation will put people out of jobs are just not compelling to me, I'm sorry. I also don't believe it's likely that LLMs will ever be ASI, nor ever evil and sentient.
So of course... they emailed me offering access to a VIP bonus program! To get in I just needed to keep betting as much as possible. Such nice people.
part of me feels like this is most likely a defunct wallet and nobody involved with the project has the keys anymore
Though I highly doubt it has taken anyone's job, since most of the work is still in making, packing and handing over the food. (In fact, given the area I live in, I partially feel like the advantage they saw in it was that the LLM can speak Spanish.)
For adults getting into playing tournament chess, losing to some kid barely tall enough to reach the board is a rite of passage.
I see no exaggeration, obvious or otherwise. Scientific consensus is that mankind's population is going to peak in the next century.
> mankind already needs more land than Earth has
By what basis? There's no shortage of land. There's a shortage of land close to popular population centers, and that tends to be the land that people want to live on most. But that's an inherent geometric and social problem which outer space definitely doesn't solve, in fact it makes it worse.
> more energy than Earth can spare
Earth doesn't provide energy, the sun does. Even fossil fuels, biomass and wind power were all originally energy from the sun. The exception is nuclear - Earth does have an unusually high concentration of heavily elements like uranium and plutonium.
The bottleneck has always been development and delivery, not availability of energy itself. On just the land the US currently uses to grow corn for ethanol gasoline, we could build enough solar panels to power the entire US. And I certainly don't need to tell you about nuclear - the only reason entire civilizations aren't already powered by it is the time and expense and risk of building the plants.
What energy does outer space provide? You have solar, which we have here, and nuclear, which we have here. (You also have a variety of ideas that exist in science fiction but not the real world, like dyson spheres - I surely hope you aren't referring to such as the basis of your arguments.) None of this is new, and none of this solves the problems of development and delivery, in fact it makes both problems significantly worse.
I get that some people feel like it ought to be built-in to the language rather than a separate tool... but people's personal feelings are irrelevant to the lived experience of my day-to-day work, where worrying about null is truly a thing of the past.
The Earth has more land than mankind will ever need. The Earth has effectively infinite energy from the Sun. And most of the resources we need are derived from biological matter, which Space lacks.