Oh my god. My friends and I were doing a road trip around the US when we got lost somewhere crossing the border into southern California. We took some weird back road into the woods looking for a campsite that was on Google (we were roughing it as much as possible to be cheap), but it became super apparent that we took the wrong turn somewhere and we went deeper and deeper into the woods. It started to get dark and at this point my ex and I were like, "Let's just go to a hotel, it's already too dark to camp." My friend, the driver, was convinced we were almost there and the campsites were just around the next corner and wanted to save the money.
At some point, we saw this tree across the road and the only way to keep going forward was into what looked like just a clearing where some rusted out cars were. Immediately my ex and I felt this overwhelming, hair-raising "it's time to go" vibe and we started telling him to turn around. My friend pulled into the clearing saying something like, "No, this might be it, there's cars parked here". We pull into the lot and kinda do a loop, just to put the headlights on the surroundings and see what's all there. Like I said, it's an island of gravel, short, dry grass, and some rusted out cars in the middle of dense, mountainous forest.
My friend is juuuuuuust about to park and gloat about 'finding the campsite' when some feral looking dude comes barreling out of the woods like a cryptid, sprinting at the back of the car. My ex and I start screaming like loons as this dude closes the gap and my friend punches it and starts driving back down the road we came in on. The dude just stood in the road behind us with something metal (I think a pipe) and watched us go in a cloud of dust and taillights.
Absolutely HORRIFYING experience and we still have no idea what the fuck the situation was there.
What the fuck is going on with all of this lately? I get the idea, but like is there any real reason to use AUR in this day and age? I'm not an Arch user so I don't really understand the significance for the community, but when it was explained to me it sounded psychotic.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be able to be taken to court, more that the argument "making a political decision" literally applies to any action a politician takes. Even if that's not likely to succeed, if that's the bar to clear, any sufficiently large company could just repeatedly sue an official with adversarial views, to hobble any decisions they make couldn't they? This is purely ignorance of how the UK legal system works on my part, so I apologize if this is like super basic info.
That's a good clarification on the UK office of Palantir, though, I fully didn't realize that would be considered a local entity, given where they're headquartered, but it makes way more sense in that case.
I'm a bit confused here. Isn't the office of the mayor a political seat? Are they not allowed to make subjective decisions in the course of their duties? How is this grounding for a lawsuit at all?
I know in the US it's a pretty low bar for a lawsuit, but I was under the impression that the UK required some genuine reasoning for going to court.
It just seems insane that an American spy company can sue another country for saying "hey, maybe it's not a good idea to have an American spy company running our police force".
I'm not even talking exclusively about capabilities, I'm talking about the effects of using LLMs on people. Cases of psychosis and the effects on the newer generation in their education, the atrophy of critical thinking skills, the ability to subtly influence public opinion, those are things we should be thinking about even if you don't think that LLMs are capable of doing anything.
Here's the thing. We should absolutely not trust any companies with this much power about anything they say, buuuuuuut to play the devil's advocate here, let's pretend they are absolutely altruistic.
They are still a company and must compete. Their market edge isn't dominant enough that they could really take any moral stand like "stop research and development" when there are three other companies who will gladly step into the market leader position, so even if they do believe their message, without any assurances that everyone will agree to pause, they'd just be letting someone else take over their spot for a moral stance for an arguably worse situation.
And realistically, if they weren't in the lead, people would be saying "loser wants leaders to slow down lol" and if they're in the lead people will say, "lol market leader wants competition to stop, I wonder why?". There is really no position they can be in and make the claim without catching flak for it. A year or two ago Anthropic made a similar blog when they weren't in such a dominant position and comments were exactly like that.
All that said, obviously they're nearly a trillion dollar company and we shouldn't take anything they say at face value, but I really do think the message here isn't terrible (like the article says). We really should be slowing down and looking at the effects of AI. It has too much potential to fuck everything up to not think about it a bit, especially if recursive self-improvement is on the horizon.
It's because they don't want any candidates that want to make actual changes, they want to perpetuate the status quo. So radicals get filtered and slandered until no one is left who can fight back. The only time someone else gets through is when they can capture enough public attention that the Dems can't smear them out of the running.
Or that's what it looks like from the outside. I haven't lived in the US in years, so maybe I'm way off nowadays.
I don't know if it's unintended consequences or not caring about the consequences. The people responsible for this are richer than god as a result and they simply do not care what happens to anyone else.
Oh my god. My friends and I were doing a road trip around the US when we got lost somewhere crossing the border into southern California. We took some weird back road into the woods looking for a campsite that was on Google (we were roughing it as much as possible to be cheap), but it became super apparent that we took the wrong turn somewhere and we went deeper and deeper into the woods. It started to get dark and at this point my ex and I were like, "Let's just go to a hotel, it's already too dark to camp." My friend, the driver, was convinced we were almost there and the campsites were just around the next corner and wanted to save the money.
At some point, we saw this tree across the road and the only way to keep going forward was into what looked like just a clearing where some rusted out cars were. Immediately my ex and I felt this overwhelming, hair-raising "it's time to go" vibe and we started telling him to turn around. My friend pulled into the clearing saying something like, "No, this might be it, there's cars parked here". We pull into the lot and kinda do a loop, just to put the headlights on the surroundings and see what's all there. Like I said, it's an island of gravel, short, dry grass, and some rusted out cars in the middle of dense, mountainous forest.
My friend is juuuuuuust about to park and gloat about 'finding the campsite' when some feral looking dude comes barreling out of the woods like a cryptid, sprinting at the back of the car. My ex and I start screaming like loons as this dude closes the gap and my friend punches it and starts driving back down the road we came in on. The dude just stood in the road behind us with something metal (I think a pipe) and watched us go in a cloud of dust and taillights.
Absolutely HORRIFYING experience and we still have no idea what the fuck the situation was there.