Musk volunteered to illegally fire a bunch of federal employees on the grounds that gosh darn it, the deficit's too damned high, we need to get these troglodyte federal employees off the payroll and whip this place into shape and run it like a for-profit business because those are never ever inefficient.
If he's going to leave a bunch of people without a paycheck and health insurance through arbitrary firings because we're too deep in debt as a country, then he can also recognize that there's never been a business that has turned around a deficit without increasing revenues.
Zuck's not a part of the firings but seems to at least humor such downsizing efforts while existing in the MAGA orbit.
Trump himself may very well have committed tax evasion when he claimed a write-off for a casino that he had an interest in while also taking a benefit from the process.
They all do it with the same excuse: money in private hands is better at creating economic growth than money in government hands. There's a point at which this is no longer true, especially when you take into account government debt.
If people just paid their g*ddamned taxes we're in a much shallower fiscal hole as a country than we are now. We're talking hundreds of billions in revenue each year [0]
"The previous administration is only doing what the last administration did!" seems to be the rallying cry of the Trump administrations.
If Obama and Biden really did suck that much, and if Trump's the savior that they claim, he should be doing less of it, not more.
Of course, that's blatantly ignoring the whole premise of Trump - a wannabe dictator implementing totalitarianism for the far-right in exchange for an opportunity to use the presidency for his personal gain in direct violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution - but that would be the improvement, not just the targeting of people you don't like with the same tactics.
The problem is, some humans seem to be consistently drawn towards products or services that fit that description.
In the 1980s, if you wanted to gamble in my city, you went to a gambling den operated by the Civella crime family. If you got caught in a police raid, your life was ruined. If you got behind on your debts, the mob might take it out of you, literally. These were known risks, but people did it anyways.
Then, in the 1990s, there was a change in the casino gaming laws. Casinos opened with harm reduction measures in place. You can absolutely destroy your finances for life in one, but there are ways out.
These apps need regulation like in-person gambling has. Whatever they currently have, it's not enough.
We need to see the kind of regulation of these apps and websites that you see with state gambling control boards. If you need to present ID to walk onto a casino floor, you should need one to log onto these services. Each time. You should be able to ban yourself at the device account level. The odds need to be regulated.
1) Ultimately, money means more to foreign nations than what happens with internal affairs of their trading partners
2) Accusations of genocide, whether they stand up or not, are great fodder for whataboutism discussions. Let's say the world's two largest economies, the US and China, decided to start sanctioning Israel for what's happening in Gaza. You could expect other countries to start threatening actions against the US and China over their previous or current genocidal behaviors. These are obviously not things that the US and China want to deal with.
AI does not have goals. These are statistical models of language patterns that people shape into different tools, and that people direct to do things. If I fire up an OpenAI prompt, and enter no input, it is not going to do anything.
No, someone at OpenAI is running the model with some sort of prompt and allowing it to just follow the numbers to do whatever it wants, up to and including breach of government computer systems.
Whether that means anything to the CFAA prosecution, I don't know. I'm not a lawyer, but the use of language treating these agents like they're something other than tools at the direction of humans is bad.
It's more like me firing off a rifle into the air on the Fourth of July with no regard for where the bullet lands. I knew that it must come down somewhere, but fired anyways.
I don't really see the harm in charging someone under the CFAA. Let's see if a jury agrees with the charge or not. If not, write new laws.
You can try to language-police all you want, that doesn’t change the fact that the best way to describe the reality of the effects that LLMs have on the real world is to use language that analogizes to human concepts.
That, in turn, allows for people to just point at the agent as a human analog and shirk responsibility. Understand: that's the goal of a lot of people who don't have anyone's best intentions but their own in mind.
Ultimately, they do nothing without humans in the loop. The prime mover here is a person who can bear at least some legal consequence for what the program does, even if it's just having to deal with an investigation.
Which would be great if there wasn't the sleight-of-hand of the corporate veil to deal with, which makes further attempts by you to language police disingenuous. Though I'm 100% okay with the person who hits enter on the prompt having liability, it'll never ultimately work out that way, because that poor bastard is staring down the barrel of an unfeeling, amoral, bureaucratic machine giving them the choice of comply or be fired.
Corporations are from whence the liability problem spawns.
I don't know if OpenAI's necessarily too big to fail. It could simply evolve and make a few changes - switch back to its original goal, fire everyone at the company who has spent more than an afternoon on Stanford's campus - and probably succeed with burning a lot less cash.
Remember, the original idea for OpenAI was to make open (thus the name) AI models that could only generate a maximum return of 100x for the investors. There was none of this hyperscaling, proprietary technologies, pure profit motive, etc. until later on.
I think it ultimately comes down to ideology. Simple financial math has nothing to do with it and never has. SV and DC, at least today, have a lot of beliefs in common. It can really be summed up as "divine right of CEOs". These are the "best and brightest" who came from the right parts of the country, who went to the right schools (even if they didn't finish their degrees), and ran in the right circles. They don't simply receive the opportunity to make unfathomable wealth and power; they're owed it. If they do something, by default, it must be right, and if a circumstance comes in their way, it's the circumstance that is wrong.
That's why you don't see a small motorcade of black Chevy Suburbans headed to these companies' headquarters from the local DHS field office. They aren't wrong; the expectation that the AI agent doesn't hack into government websites is wrong.
I was thinking maybe investigations and prison time should crush Oracle's business model.
They bought Cerner early in the decade and have whittled it down to absolutely nothing. This is a problem when the software that Cerner sold was EMRs and I have people who used to work there telling me that the perioperative and anesthesia suites now have one person working on them, and no one's fixing issues.
Musk volunteered to illegally fire a bunch of federal employees on the grounds that gosh darn it, the deficit's too damned high, we need to get these troglodyte federal employees off the payroll and whip this place into shape and run it like a for-profit business because those are never ever inefficient.
If he's going to leave a bunch of people without a paycheck and health insurance through arbitrary firings because we're too deep in debt as a country, then he can also recognize that there's never been a business that has turned around a deficit without increasing revenues.
Zuck's not a part of the firings but seems to at least humor such downsizing efforts while existing in the MAGA orbit.
Trump himself may very well have committed tax evasion when he claimed a write-off for a casino that he had an interest in while also taking a benefit from the process.
They all do it with the same excuse: money in private hands is better at creating economic growth than money in government hands. There's a point at which this is no longer true, especially when you take into account government debt.
If people just paid their g*ddamned taxes we're in a much shallower fiscal hole as a country than we are now. We're talking hundreds of billions in revenue each year [0]
[0] https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/the-tax-gap-what-it-i...
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