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Because there's a law that says he has to.
Re:OpenAI No Longer Takes Safety Seriously on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @02:10PM (#40444113)
Just wait.
On the other hand, allowing political propaganda with no factual basis to be broadcast indiscriminately is arguably more dangerous.

https://rwandanstories.org/genocide/hate_radio.html

The real money quote from that article: "David Rawson, the US ambassador, said that its euphemisms were open to interpretation. The US, he said, believed in freedom of speech."

Re:What makes a great software engineer [pdf] on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @10:22AM (#39979732)
Founders never put themselves through the hoop jumping they put their employees through. Most wouldn't even meet the bar at their own companies.
Re:What makes a great software engineer [pdf] on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @10:19AM (#39979706)
Or someone who wants to change the world, for the worse.
In this case, it's literally Republicans.
Re:We're moving to a post-entertainment society on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:52PM (#39444386)
This is how Silicon Valley "changed the world".
You don't need the quotes.
A large and generous welfare state.
Re:I don't want anything your AI generates on Thursday February 01, 2024 @10:29AM (#39216967)
We weren't able to make the internet good, what makes you think we'll do any better with AI?
Re:Epistemic Learned Helplessness on Friday January 12, 2024 @12:01PM (#38970636)
I noticed this too. People that casually drop "Bayesian priors" into conversation seems to be a strong signal for someone who's up their own arse. Sam Bankman-Fried did it a lot.
Re:Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling on Thursday December 21, 2023 @12:04PM (#38723149)
It was part and parcel of early D&D. In the OD&D and 1E days, the tournaments and tournament modules were all about finding and testing the best players, not the best player characters/builds. The tournament modules purported to do that in a systematic way, usually judging skill by how far you got in the scenario before dying. Gygax would often pontificate about player skill being the key to success in his tougher scenarios.
Re:Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up (2015) on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @09:14AM (#38708890)
"What do you think about Vladimir Putin?" -Lex Fridman
Have you ever read "Collapse" by Jared Diamond? Understanding and learning from that past is literally crucial to the continued existence of the human race. More crucial than any technology anyone here has ever created.

The book directly pulls on the kind of data on early societies that the scientists studying these caves produce.

You want a Garmin.