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A human driver would be more able to tell a toy gun from a real one.

It's not like you can allow kids to shoot pellet guns out of a car indefinitely in a metro without substantial risk of something going wrong.

We need to (be able to) trust the police to not escalate irresponsibly and to deal with situations with nuance. Declining to escalate to authorities because we're scared of what they may do is not great.


Absolutely not. A human driver has to watch the road and can’t scrutinize a gun.

And it’s also not easy to tell toys from real guns. Many cities illegalized toy guns on public transit because people were putting orange tips on real guns to make them look like toys. 3D-printed guns rarely look like they can actually fire, even though they can.


Probably

So? In the real scenario, the underage passengers were drinking alcohol. Also, the 14-17 teen accounts are supposed to be monitored by parents, otherwise all riders need to be adults or their guests. That means they need to exercise judgment not brandishing what might look like weapons. The same way you need to exercise that judgment in a public park.

And I'm not even convinced that human drivers would be more discerning or rational about it. They could easily overstate the issue to police and create a more biased situation.


> nuclear non-proliferation has been pretty successful; we can use a similar model for AI.

Development of nuclear weapons has continued, and a lot of effort goes into developing delivery systems.

A number of countries have acquired nuclear weapons over the years: India, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa, North Korea. More countries have kept their options open and could develop nuclear weapons if needed.


After over 80 years since the US used nuclear weapons against Japan, less than 5% of the world's countries have nuclear weapons, and no one's used one on another country since. If you don't think that's an incredible achievement you're unserious.

My point is that it has worked for nuclear weapons because there are deterrents to using them. The acknowledged nuclear powers have all pledged to only use them in self defence. No one is going to develop AI and not use it.

Countries use nuclear power too. The reason they don't launch nukes at the drop of a hat is MAD. I don't see how this isn't analogous to what we could do with AI.

EVs that are 10 years old now will have a lower range than current models, AFAIK, so 80% of that might still be limiting. They will also be slower charging.

Very true on both accounts (I own a 12-year old Tesla) but for vast majority of EV owners this is simply not an issue.

Do the vast majority never drive a long distance? If you use a car purely for short journeys maybe. Is this common in the US? Everywhere I have lived most people do atleast some long (i.e. an ICE car needs refuelling at some point) some long trips.

I assume the US will also ban the use for foreign models as part of this.

Pausing development means the people with the currently most advanced models are shielded from competition, especially if foreign competition is not allowed.

A new agency will impose heavy regulation which can easily be twisted to favour incumbents.


I have noticed that when asking LLMs to work with existing code, their output reflects the existing codebase: the better the existing code, the better the LLM code.

It really ought to be something you can enable or disable per site. I was surprised to find its not.

Maybe a browser extension could inject JS in a tab to redefine all the WebGPU API into a noop.

I just remembered and checked. Noscript does allow blocking webgl on a per site basis.

its not a signficant difference though. 22% vs 23% for total reporting isolation.

It is used to mean a schedule of fees. Its a common usage in the UK and some other countries.

People change. A change may or may not be the result of mental illness.

I know many people who have changed greatly for the better because of life experiences or their own choices, and many people who have changed for the worse. We all do it to some extent, though maybe not dramatically or publicly.


> Lawyers and diplomats and politicians and bureaucrats are humans, that only generate text.

You think they have no lives outside their work? You think even their work has no interactions that are not written?


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