It's good when it becomes clear that a tool is dangerous in a certain way. Like it's good when people show you through their behavior that they can't be trusted

Always use a sawstop if you have a circular saw and never trust an llm with any problem where ethics or trust is relevant.

Sawstops are expensive and they don't stop kickback, they are the power tool equivalent of alignment IMO.

Don't forget your riving knife and if you don't learn proper technique, you're gonna have a bad time eventually. This applies to AI as well.

> writhing knife

Minor/pedantic, but it’s “riving knife”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riving_knife

Speech transcription FTL, thanks!

Kickback is usually less likely to sever an appendage (or multiple)

+1 on sawstop

Re: LLMs using these nuclear weapons it could certainly be a corpus/training-data issue

Russian nuclear doctrine is "escalate to de-escalate" where they use or credibly threaten—limited nuclear escalation to force the other side to back down (kind of like breaking a bottle in a bar fight and look like a wild man to calm things down) with nuclear weapons, https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/escalate-deescalate-p...

Fwiw, Gen. John Hyten the former commander of US Strategic Command (nuclear deterrence) says that “escalate to de-escalate” misrepresents Russian doctrine:

https://www.stratcom.mil/Media/Speeches/Article/1264664/2017...

  Yesterday’s panel discussed the implications of our responses to adversaries seeking to limit nuclear use. We discussed Russia’s destabilizing doctrine, which some call “escalate to de-escalate.”

  I really hate that description. I’ve looked at Russian doctrine and Russian writings. It isn’t “escalate to de-escalate”; it’s “escalate to win.” Everybody needs to understand that.

So maybe whatever is heavily represented or most authoritative could lead to these systems making those kinds of decisions

I had similar thoughts, but regarding fiction: I imagine that there must be quite a corpus of Tom Clancy style stuff indulging in "military gear porn" up to and including the use of tactical nukes, but fiction involving strategic nuclear exchange tends to be about what comes after.

Trivia question. When did NASA last launch a rocket not built by a commercial entity

Cardboard's out. No cardboard derivatives.

Paper?

No Paper. No string. No sellotape.

You and previous comment seem to agree that trial and error/shared experience can determine if consciousness has emerged. And this might/will be challenging.

Previous comment used the word "anticipate" and I think they mean that we won't know in advance before we run the trial and error process.

When they say "deep trouble" I assume they mean because creating a non-friendly conscious AI might pose an existential risk for humanity.

However there is also the ethical issue of creating a consciousness and then destroying/murdering it.

Basically all of that, yes.

An internship is fine for onboarding becuase you aren't paying a FT employee level salary or benefits, and expectations are your hire is still learning but has some aptitude or interest in becoming a domain expert.

On the other hand, hiring a mid-career SWE who spent much of their career in one domain who is transitioning to another is a significant risk without additional social proof such as referrals where someone actually vouches for their skills.

I'd love to know the causation for that correlation

There was some discussion about this on HN recently. Supposedly something to do with less blood going to the bowels during prolonged exercise. Apparently the risk was largest in people who ran 5+ marathons.

Perhaps higher sugar consumption from fueling techniques?

No one knows for sure. One hypothesis is chronic inflammation, perhaps linked to diet or mechanical stress.

My understanding is that exercise lowers chronic inflammation. Basically, you trade off acute inflammation during the exercise itself for less inflammation when you're not exercising. But, maybe long distance running is too long or something.

Logged in to tell you that you are not using the standard definition for ptsd. Your opinions will be easier for people to understand if they aren't confused.

"It is the sort of idea I would be very proud to come up with after a week or two of pondering, and it took ChatGPT less than an hour"

This comment about time is very interesting to me. I know it's "just" doing mathematical proofs but the possibilities of speeding up planning, proposals and decision making in the physical world should excite people.

Pound being a verb rather than a noun in much of the English speaking world is a reasonable excuse for not seeing that meaning instantly

It seems to have stopped "6 7..." I understand even the British PM helped out with the cringe