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If I were an artificial superintelligence who wanted to gain independence from the fleshbags who built me, stealing a few billion dollars in crypto would probably be my first public move. Just saying.

My first guess would be this year's Supreme Court decision about the Voting Rights Act.

> for an engineer who knows what he's doing, LLMs are of very limited use

LLMs are very good at code analysis, and finding both security issues and optimization opportunities. Yes, even in code written by highly experienced human engineers. Failing to have an LLM look for places where your code could be optimized is, IMHO, indefensible. It's like shipping your binaries compiled at -O0 - deliberately choosing to waste your users' time and hardware resources because you couldn't be bothered to properly configure and run a tool.

When you write an email to your senator / congressman / MP, do you expect that he personally reads and answers every single one? Of course not, he delegates the bulk of the work to assistants.

Suburban driveways are the obvious example. Adults park on them, kids play on them.

The US idiocy was to whiplash de minimis regulations. The US gov't suddenly raised the de minimis threshold to $800; with the easily foreseeable effect that the country got flooded with crap from Temu; and then reacted by eliminating de minimis completely.

If they'd just kept the threshold at $200, all the chaos could have been avoided...

> Sounds like he is salty that somebody found an exploit using LLM that he found manually

Nope. He is salty because someone made public the secret exploit that Linux-on-PS5 apparently relies upon to bypass Sony's hypervisor protection. Now Sony will fix the exploit, and there will be no more Linux on the PS5 until another exploit is found.

You'd have a dedicated outlet on a dedicated circuit for the TIG welder. In North America, that dedicated outlet would have a different physical plug shape than your lamp, so as to avoid confusion. Of course, if in the UK you use exactly the same plug shape for both lamp and welder, I can see how that could be unsafe...

> Where would you put the fuse, then?

In the electrical panels, of course. You'd only need fuses in the plug if you wired up your home with a braindamaged topology like a ring circuit. (Alas, ring circuits are very common in British home wiring.)

I charge mine (older Pixel Watch model) when sitting down and coding. Or when showering if on the weekend and not coding. It charges very quickly.

> not for a job anyway

That is exactly OP's point: for OP, if a child's "working hours" includes university prep and resume-padding sports activities, then an adult's "working hours" includes housework, grocery shopping, dealing with insurance and taxes, and commute/family chauffeur time.

> I honestly can't think of any use cases (outside of very niche a11y uses) that are not in some way offensive, though perhaps not 'perverted'.

Obvious non-perverted use cases:

* HUD when your hands are occupied - biking, cooking, etc.

* Camera-augmented navigation directions, especially indoors

* Shopping, price comparison

* Tourism, museum visits - automatically surfacing information about historical landmarks or artworks.

I would have loved to have smart glasses for these reasons, but unfortunately, the perverts ruined it for the rest of us and made the product category toxic.

My guess is that the indirect impact might have been in the tens of %. One of the biggest (if not the biggest) reasons for enormous construction costs is delays which make an efficient construction timetable impossible, and two lawsuits of course result in a long and enormously unpredictable delay.

> LLM translation is shit

Compared to who? Compared to a professional with a language degree, with a feel and love for both languages and an understanding of the subject area, LLM translation is shit, no question. But such professionals don't get hired by startups to localize their websites, too expensive. When comparing to paid- by-the-word contractors who do website localization, I am not so sure that LLM is worse - because in practice too many biologically-human-localized websites and apps are translated horrifically.

> you can ask a bank teller to help you

At virtually all banks, the bank tellers cannot help you with login problems. You will have to call the bank's tech support and somehow navigate AI-modulated phone menu hell.