Nope, Smart TVs perform image recognition on input signals as well, and if your neighbor has not disabled their default ISP open wifi then it will connect to it discreetly. Or someone with an LG phone happens to wander in range then they can collude to relay data back to LG.
I remember when I was displaying downloaded anime to my Roku TV from my laptop and the TV recognized what I was watching. That was an eerie realization.
> basically both sides now dislike that he flip flopped
No, the dumb thing is the idea that there are "sides".
> basically both sides now dislike that he flip flopped
Literally the only people with this opinion of Tao are internet forum warriors who have no expertise in the field and who's opinion of Tao don't matter in the slightest.
> who's opinion of Tao don't matter in the slightest.
Similarly, Tao being ‘on the warpath’ does not matter in the slightest when it comes to formalizing math and finding proofs to important unsolved problems with AI.
“I’m on a war footing,” he said while grabbing coffee during a two-day math workshop at the University of California, Los Angeles, that was rife with talk about the existential crisis that artificial intelligence has created in his field.
> or a gay person living in Utah you might encounter pretty much assholes all day, depending on what you are trying to do that day and depending on if you are unlucky.
Are frequent encounters with assholes the lucky case or the unlucky case in this instance?
Only if you're limited to knowing exactly how the actual cryptography works. If you understand exactly how the key derivation works, and know how that is seeded, then you can very much get inside.
They described the phenomenon quite eloquently. Reducing that to delusion is an imposition of judgment with an implicit bias to table further conversation.
What would be the harm in tabling the conversation? Otherwise smart people are losing their minds over chatbots--experiencing delusions about "dangerous capabilities" or whatever. There's not really much of a productive conversation to have with a psychotic, unless it's your job to study them.
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