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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by sanxiyn on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:05AM (#31849297)
> It even makes them more dangerous than it would if everyone had access to them.

This is the sort of argument that proves guns would be less dangerous if everyone had access to them.

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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by prometheus76 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:02AM (#31850077)
"An armed society is a polite society" - Robert Heinlein
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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by CRConrad on Saturday June 25, 2022 @03:49PM (#31878168)
He was an author of fiction. They usually write a lot of stuff that is on some deeper level "true", even though it is on the surface fictional... And a lot of stuff that isn't.

Or sometimes both, because it's only part of the truth. Maybe the complete version should be: "An armed society is a 'polite' society, but with very frequent killings and not-infrequent massacres." I think I prefer living in a less "polite" society.

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