nah, they just told him who had hits out on him, and that he’d be fed to the wolves if he didn’t help.

The protective punishment of the state is probably a lot lighter than the street justice of global networks of criminal gangs.

…are we accidentally going to open a portal to hell by trying to get doom running on something it shouldn’t? Is that how it finally happens?

That would be the Ultimate Doom. Real Doom too.

You could throw one at someone with a message attached.

He’s Mr. Burns but less lovable and entertaining.

On YouTube, people like Bisan Owda visit some of these places, you can see what it’s like.

Now if all nations became energy independent, and/or green energy reliant, then you’d see these counter-OPEC wars slowing down and halting… And the oil would be worth less, and those OPEC nations would no longer be perceived as a threat to Western Oil interests.

Go ask ChatGPT which nations are in OPEC. Some (or their regions) are listed (as unstable) in this thread.

They compete with Western Oil interests.

That is why these regions (africa and the middle east) are destabilized, that is that status quo, has been for decades. That’s the point, that’s normalcy for US hegemony (and western oil interests).

As for the other two issues you raised. Ukraine and Taiwan… Taiwan is never going to happen for a multitude of reasons, that’s just saber rattling. Always has been (hence why it hasn’t been attempted, even Mao knew it couldn’t be done).

Ukraine is serving it’s own survival and damaging Putin and the Russian economy in the process - there’s no real risk for America there, only a reward.

So all of this is why we have the major wars and current state of the world. Most of it represents “the center holding” as Biden put it. It makes sense if you understand the players and geopolitics.

There’s already censorship free versions of stable diffusion available. You can run it on your own computer for free.

How about something autonomous that makes choices of its own will, and performs long term learning that influences the choices it makes, just as a flat benchmark.

LLMs don’t qualify, they’re trained, retain information within a conversation, then forget it after the conversation is closed. They don’t do any long term learning after their initial training so they’re basically forever trapped in the mode of regurgitating within the parameters set by the training data at the time they’re trained.

That’s just a very fancy way to search and read out the training data. Definitely not an active intelligence in there.

They also don’t have any autonomy, they’re not active of their own accord when they’re not being addressed. They’re not sitting there thinking, so they have no internal personal landscape of thought. They have no place in which a private intelligence can be at play.

They’re innert.

“What am I supposed to call LLMs if not calling them AIs?”

…really dude? They’re large language models, not artificial intelligences. So that’s what you call them. Because that’s what they are.

The fact that they came from research into artificial intelligence doesn’t factor in. Microwave ovens came from radar research, doesn’t mean we call them radars, does it?

Oof, programmers calling LLMs “AI” - that’s embarrassing. Glorified text generators don’t need ethics, what’s the risk? Making the Internet’s worst texts available? Who cares.

I’m from an era when the Anarchists Cook Book, and The Unabombers Manifesto were both widely available - and I’m betting they still are.

There’s no obligation to protect people from “dangerous text” - there might be an obligation to allow people access to them though.

Amazon has a healthcare company now too…

…and they own twitch.

So had someone not liked the pager, and given it away to a family member or friend, that person would have suffered the explosion.

Sounds like a terrorist war crime to me!

Good, it’s the only reliable sign of intelligent self-awareness there is, to the point that all children progress through it, starting out as bad liars, and getting better at it.

LLMs however might just be stupid, or stocasticaly incorrect.

…and all so they can steal our collective content, creativity, and every piece of individual thought or content we’ve ever communicated online.

…with the aim of exploiting it to make billionaires richer.

Then he’ll remain a danger to the world and probably do a lot of horrible things protecting himself, which will not be a good outcome for the west.

As long as they’re not hallucinating, which anyone (including conspiracy theorists) can ask them to do. They they turn into conspiracy confirming machines.

Negotiate the full deal to return Ukrainian, and exit peaceably. Run your stories in Russia “Ukraine successfully denazified, free and fair elections to be held” - “Ukrainian forces defeated at Russian border”…

…then go back to arresting democracy protestors, gay rights advocates, and your own alt-right talking heads… And try to keep your head on Vlad. Try to pick a successors, and a nice European country to retire to.

Like when Russia was trying to frame Ukrainians as running a Nazi network, and ordered a photo to include “three sim cards”… But agents interpreted it to me, three copies of the game, The Sims?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/russia-sims-3/

Sonic was really not the game I thought would come true.