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Comment · 6 months ago
Obviously this is up to courts and juries to hammer out but...

- Your agentic loop hacked something? You're liable. - FSD crashes? The guy in the driver's seat is liable. He/his insurance can sue Tesla to spread the liability...

Nowhere along the line will anyone go "Oh, the AI did it... whoops"

Comment · 6 months ago
Am I alone in thinking this is easy?

The human making the decision is always liable.

What if the human couldn't reasonably know better? Doesn't matter - If they made the same decision without AI or with old files it is still on them.

What if there's no single human decision? Someone is in charge and is responsible. The "I was ordered to" isn't a defense.

Does liability without power make sense? People executing have the power to execute. So liability. If they're executing without power that is a different liability, but a liability.

It may let the powerful off the hook - That is already a theme and AI doesn't change that, in fact, it will just be used as another scapegoat.

God told me to do it - Water tight! Right?

Comment · 10 months ago
The correct typeface for the current U.S. administration would of course be Comic Sans or perhaps Comic Serif for double-super-serious documents.
Comment · 10 months ago
So you can know if you’re waiting or catching up
Comment · 1 year ago
This work great for me too, when learning something new the LLM brings in all sorts of perspectives and contexts I don’t know about yet.

It pulls in info from the docs, forums, code samples, shows me how things are connected, and may even suggest why something is good or bad.

Plenty of opportunity to look up docs I didn’t even know about yet.

Comment · 1 year ago
Just build a bunch of nuclear power plants around the world. If we can spend a trillion or two bombing the taliban back into power we can afford some energy projects.
Comment · 1 year ago
They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
Comment · 1 year ago
Talking about blind faith... people still bet on the Dallas Cowboys after all.
Comment · 1 year ago
Love it! I did a few cities where I’ve lived and it brings me back.
Comment · 2 years ago
I understand, times are hard. Always were.

When was this chill time when we could just take off fishing for a week or two?

Random breakdown of time :) * 1800s * 1900-WW1 * WW1-WW2 * WW2-1980 * 1980-Now

And yeah, single breadwinner households were a thing back in the day it was generally because women didn't have a choice at all.

I'm pretty sure you have more options and choice today as to how you want to live your life, but if you want a family you gotta feed the little bastards one way or another, that has always been a "worry".

Comment · 2 years ago
Ah, the 1850s when life was good!

The US Post is great and all, but I would gladly trade the US post for a large beaver-hunting territory!

Horses are too fast! Walking is better.

Or whatever... come on!

Comment · 2 years ago
Sure, if we all had amnesia.. but we don't so we remember and reference the past and dream of a (better?) future..
Comment · 3 years ago
Or return premiums to the marks, eh, victims, eh, members.

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