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Modern LLMs are fairly good at that as well.

Sure the implementation details are different.

I suppose I should have asked by what definition of "consciousness and agency" are today's LLMs (with proper tooling) not meeting?

And if today's models aren't meeting your standard, what makes you think that future LLMs won't get there?

> what actually is happening inside an LLM has nothing to do with conscience or agency

What makes you think natural brains are doing something so different from LLMs?

Because today it will be used as a first responder.

Tomorrow a police officer will suggest that these drones (that we are already using successfully) could be very useful for checking up on that "dangerous" neighborhood.

Yes. These HN guidlines already basically cover it:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

Not to single out your comment, but it feels like it's gotten to the point where HN could use a rule against complaining about AI generated content.

It seems like almost every discussion has at least someone complaining about "AI slop" in either the original post or the comments.

I remember trying out some voice-to-text around 2002 that I believe was included with Windows XP.. or maybe Office?

You had to go through some training exercises to tune it to your voice, but then it worked fairly well for transcription or even interacting with applications.

"adb backup" is buggy and deprecated.

It's easier and more reliable to use adb root to rsync everything. No apps need root access that way.

Maybe for your threat model. Not mine.

Backing up all app data.

I think your 2nd point is less likely.

Anecdotal, but I've spoken with many taxi and ride-share drivers, and my impression is that their decision to seek out and continue that line of work is almost always driven by outside economic considerations. I've never heard someone base their decision on their ability to perform the job.

Why regulate? Look at the failure that is the "war on drugs".

The solution is education. The government should be educating society and especially parents on how to protect their children.

Education worked to cut cigarette use, and is starting to lower alcohol consumption as well. It can work for social media without all the negative impacts on civil liberties that come with regulations.

The government can do a whole lot more than embarrass CEOs and powerful people they don't like. Look at how China controls its tech CEOs by making them disappear until their views align.

Have you ever actually heard it used in conversation or writing where the speaker's intention was a meaning that included people outside of the USA? I haven't.

So which walled garden owner regularly has sex with prepubescent children and is a heavy meth user?