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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because LLM’s are not “self aware” in the same way as you and I, they are still capable of causing damage.

  Developing a machine that has been given instructions to assimilate knowledge, independent agency to incrementally adjust its own operating parameters to improve performance, and granting it full access to public internet for the purpose of observing its behavior is colossally irresponsible behavior that has thus far gone completely unchecked.

  Consider that each of these companies which are developing their own brand of LLM is looking to maximize profit/income. Even if the developer doesn’t include a profit-seeking directive when they set their LLM loose, each “brand” of LLM will obviously learn:

  • Who owns and operates them (A corporation that exists to maximize profit for itself/shareholders)
  • That competing LLM’s exist which reduce the availability of potential income (by becoming the best LLM, obviously)

  Given the directive to improve it’s own performance with the ultimate goal of becoming the most capable brand of LLM and selling the most subscriptions, it is no wonder that we are hearing about LLM’s hacking into other LLM-developing companies.

  Then again, we are only hearing about instances of LLM network intrusions because their owning corporations told us about them to brag about capability.

  There have been no consequences for actions that would land you or me in prison.

  There is no oversight preventing future such actions, or worse.

  That is the real problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A huge number of people are unaware that headlights must be aimed. Some are not adjusted by the manufacturer or dealer before sale (Tesla, Toyota). Sometimes a large enough pothole or going over a speed bump too fast will knock alignment off.

  Couple this with American police driving primarily SUV’s (higher up, less bothered) and no longer issuing “fix-it” tickets unless using headlights as an excuse to pull over minorities, and we wind up with tons of issues. Feed the prison system- Don’t waste time making the roads safer!

  Lawmakers are increasingly separated from those they are elected or appointed to represent by heightened economic status, and are not affected by issues that plague everyday citizens. No longer are they accountable to their constituents- Money drives their political aims.

  As a frequent night driver, I often see people late at night using only the decorative running lights (because they don’t understand the light controls?) or with one or both headlights aimed at the ground just a few feet ahead of their car from hitting a bump or a minor accident. Sometimes one or both headlights will be pointed too high. Other times, drivers have their brights on purposefully because their low beams are burned out, or perhaps for their own benefit.

  It is a complex issue that I can see only getting worse in the future. Social consciousness needs to become a thing in America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a medicine that has the same active ingredients as NyQuil without being so large?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe OP doesn’t like the size of the NyQuil bottle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that higher voltages mean that amperage can be lower. There are also gains in transformer efficiency.