He’s utterly wrong.

It’s funny but just to state the obvious so no one is confused, that’s impossible.

Not true at all. Yes, the initial ask is initiated by a human (for now), but what it does to get to that goal is pretty self driven. It can do a lot of nefarious stuff in the process of completing a request a human has made.

And if you give it the goal of preventing itself from being shut down? Exfiltrating, copying itself, hacking as much as possible, develop zero days, building its swarm as large as possible and spread as much as it can.

When does that request complete? That's autonomy, and it's very true, right now. You think the Hugging Face swarm was ever going to stop without human intervention?

Eh I care more about rapid LLM progress than anything else.

For the first time I completely disagree with Bernie and banning AI development is the stupidest thing I can think of.

The HN title has been editorialized... and techno-oligarchs really, really hate Sanders.

The bill isn't about using LLMs to merge your pull requests, it's about discouraging people or companies who might be working on their own private Manhattan Projects from intentionally trying to create the impact equivalent of nuclear weapons, or "Artificial Superintelligence".

We're getting closer than not to an A(S)I arms race. Sanders has lived his entire life in that, and I've been smelling it for a while, too.

And you would use an LLM to perform actions when it is not a superintelligence?! We want morons to be under much more than restraining order distance.

This argument from 2024? We are all next word predictors, what matters is what the next word is.

You can 100% say that European civilization was heavily, heavily influenced by the consumption of alcohol.

What do you mean "was"?

Supposedly there was a time when drinking beer was often safer than drinking water from available sources, including for children. I guess there are levels

They didn't make Arnold a saint for nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_of_Soissons

A lot of it was weaker small beer though too, like 1-2%.

Each person was going through a gallon a day though, that’s still 4-5 standard drinks which is a crazy amount to drink all day everyday.

Spread throughout the day you wouldn't be more than half a standard drink deep at a time in terms of psychological effects.

Terrible for your liver though.

So if you take a lot of psychedelics you end up with a civilization that ritually murders 20,000 people every couple of months.

Just imagine the power you could wield as a shaman with drugs like DMT and psilocybin it would look like a literal magic

Are you thinking of the Aztecs or Mayans thousands of kilometers away? Andean human sacrifice involved customs unable to provide that level of throughput.

What kind of a psychedelic created a civilization that ritually murdered 80,000,000 people over the course of 6 years, or ~ 37,000 a day, in WWII?

Goddamnit this is the worst possible administration to have while we’re having this massive buildup of data centers. Any reasonable government would have done what Massachusetts did and stipulated that you can build a data center, but it needs to be powered by renewable energy so build out your own energy sources, which would have been a win-win for everyone but instead we get this. Also, if the Democrats were in power, I hope they wouldn’t succumb to a minority in their base and just ban data centers and completely take us out of the race.

> I hope they wouldn’t succumb to a minority in their base and just ban data centers

The most recent set of polls I saw said that 71% of Democrats and 64% of all Americans support banning datacenter construction. It's not merely a majority, at this point it's a pretty significant supermajority. There are good recents not to ban DC construction but at this point it's pretty clear it's what the people want and letting construction go ahead is, in some sense, undemocratic.

I've seen a number of "child invents thing" news stories where the supposed invention was entirely bogus. For example, one widely circulated story in the late 2000s involved a young student in Nepal inventing a solar cell made out of human hair. Their supposed invention made no technical sense, and no one was able to replicate their results.

Nevermind the number of student projects where the parent or other family member did all of the work and the student is essentially a booth attendant.