metalcrow
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- metalcrow parentIsn't the point of prediction markets to predict the outcome most accurately for forecasting? Insider trading would be an ideal way of doing that.
- > If I met a paranoid schizophrenic and decided to spend the next few months building up a relationship with him and confirming all his delusions (yes, you're special with divine powers, yes your family and friends are all spying on you and trying to spiritually weaken you, here's how they're doing it, by the way you have to do whatever it takes to stop them, etc) I would expect to be charged with something if he then went and killed someone.
Assuming you don't attempt to tell them to do something I'm not actually sure you would. The first amendment is pretty strong, but ianal.
- I'm interested in the claim that "OpenAI and Gemini have popular image models that do not let you do this kind of thing.". Is that actually true? Or do they just kinda try and it's possible to get around easily? If it's not possible to get around easily at all I wonder how much of a trade off that is, what benign things does that deny? Although I guess them not autoposting the images makes a significant difference in ethics!
- But later on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge_standoff happened. It didn't end that well for Randy Weaver, but he did get to kill a US Marshal without jail time, and they are not happy to try that again.
- > How can the extrajudicial killings of (over 80 by now!) alleged drug traffickers without any charges or trials be justified or accepted? These are, in fact, crimes against humanity.
It's _been_ accepted for years, if not decades now. Ever since the US started drone striking people without trial, or via trial in absentia, this has been the new normal. It being against international law is meaningless if no one care what the international law is, and especially if other countries are also breaking the law in the exact same way.
- Sadly, if he has any sort of money to fight this in court, it's likely he would not be in jail, or at minimum out on bail. The duel nature of the US justice system, where if you have no money you have no rights, are a horrible tragedy and one no politician seems interested in addressing.
- > the idea of an entire "experiencer" is an extrapolation and fabrication
Ok, makes sense.
> look closely at what's actually going on, there is "consciousness" of the components of the aggregate
Interesting. I'll try, but i would have to wonder what it means for some sort of element of the mind that cannot experience to nevertheless have consciousness. It's very confusing, especially without a good idea as to what to look for in regard to consciousness. I'll attempt this though, thank you.
- If it's eugenics to choose, without coercion, certain traits for your child, then eugenics as a term is meaningless. Am i participating in eugenics when i don't have children with my sister? Am i doing eugenics when i take a test for cystic fibrosis and use that to decide to have children or not? The entire debate you are referring to centers around the use of force and coercion to control what others can do, and if they can reproduce or not. This is not that.
- As a very beginner practicer i've come to that conclusion myself, but how can the two be separate? If there is no self (or at least, there is a self but it exists in the same way that a nation or corporation "exists"), how can there be something to experience being? What separates the two?
- Fair, yeah. There's a few concrete points: the ai generated header image is a start, but "I had recently bought an iLife A11 smart vacuum—a sleek, affordable, and technologically advanced robot promising effortless cleaning and intelligent navigation." sounds like an advertisement or marketing fluff. Extremely frequent use of em-dashes. Frequent use of "It was X, but also Y" sentences. "In seconds, I had full root access. No hacks, no exploits. Just plug and play." is such hokey writing. That's just the first 3rd.
- Given that the output describes the function as being done "with extraordinary caution, because you never know what can go wrong", i would guess that the undisclosed prompt was something similar to "generate a division function in python that handles all possible edges cases. be extremely careful". Which seems to say less about LLM training and more about them doing exactly what they are told.
- I think Germany has not succumbed less because of the laws around speech, and more because of other reasons. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_German_coup_d'%C3%A9tat... was a very recent example of a direct attempt to upend democracy there, calling this working well may be overstated
- This bill is obviously unethical, and furthermore appears to be illegal under the supreme court ruling Kent v. Dulles, which establishes the right to international travel (and thus a passport) a liberty that cannot be deprived without due process of law. So there would at least have to be a criminal hearing of some kind, unless the Supreme Court were to go back on this ruling (not impossible).