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The legal concept is that LLM vendors can put pretty much whatever they want in their terms of service, and cut off or sue clients who violate those terms. They have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason (or no reason at all).
We might see a future where the US frontier LLM vendors place really strict licenses on them. No consumer access. Only sell to enterprise customers in a limited set of countries, with heavy monitoring and auditing down to the individual employee user account level. (I'm not saying that this is a good thing, just that some LLM vendors might try that approach to maintain their "moat".)
The knowledge of how to build a crude gun type nuclear bomb was published in open literature decades ago. This is no longer a secret.
We're not on the hook. The systemically important banks are very well capitalized now and have limited exposure to these debts. Even if there are substantial defaults the big banks will be fine.
You're really missing the point. Only moronic cult members believe that the real world can be reduced to conditional probabilities, or that the probabilities of anything important can be calculated to a useful level of precision.
Rationalism is just a secular religion, complete with all the usual arguments and schisms over minor points of dogma. These are not people worth taking seriously.
More efficient AI is possible in principle but when the next breakthrough arrives there's no guarantee that it can be implemented on current hardware architectures. Something fundamentally different may be needed, as different from current GPU/TPU chips as they are from regular CPU/FPU chips.
Well there is Russian and then there is Russian. The elites in Moscow and St. Petersburg don't really regard people from the outer provinces as fully Russian, especially not the ethnic minority groups. They're expendable. Most of the casualties have come from those areas so far but they're starting to run out of potential recruits. If the authorities start conscripting men from the core cities and feeding them into the meat grinder then internal dissent will likely increase.
What are you talking about? All of the major long-haul trucking companies hire team drivers.
https://schneiderjobs.com/truck-driving-jobs/driving-opportu...
European caravan trailers are generally designed with a much lower tongue weight, like only 4%. This reduces strain on the tow vehicle at the cost of reduced stability. It is ridiculously dangerous to tow such a trailer at full "Autobahn speeds". You might be able to get away with it on a straight road if nothing goes wrong but a sudden maneuver or even a strong gust of wind can lead to uncontrolled oscillation and a roll-over crash.
https://www.theautopian.com/heres-the-physics-behind-tongue-...
US trailers are generally designed with something like 10-15% tongue weight which allows for much higher dynamic stability but also requires a much stronger tow vehicle. As usual there is no free lunch in mechanical engineering.
If only the LLMs have to learn the new language then maybe it can be a starter?
Athletics has never maintained any sort of "leaderboard" for unsanctioned exhibitions. When Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon-distance time trial sub 2 in 2019 it was an amazing feat of human performance but no one was under any illusions that it was a record.
Nitrate supplements wouldn't seem to meet the WADA criteria for inclusion on the prohibited substance list because they don't present a health risk to the athlete. A lot of endurance athletes are using beetroot supplements and so far there haven't been any adverse effects.
https://www.wada-ama.org/en/what-we-do/world-anti-doping-cod...
I agree with you, but in huge organizations like Kaiser Permanente there doesn't seem to be any good solution. For management at scale there are multiple levels of organizational hierarchy between the decision makers and the individual contributors (like nurses directly dealing with patients). So they need some kind of systematic way to compare employees who work under different managers. Just relying on managers to rate their own direct reports based on empathy and common sense doesn't work well at scale, either.
Regardless of whether your preferences are rational or not, you're quite lucky to be able to pick and choose. There is a shortage of clinicians and it's only going to get worse so most patients will have to take whomever they can get, especially if they're not able to wait months for an appointment.
In the US, FICO scores are mainly unpopular with "credit criminals" who have low scores. The score performs quite well in predicting how likely a borrower is to repay a loan. The problems that arise with credit scores in general are when they're used for purposes they were never designed to serve, like screening job applicants.
For home mortgage lending, FICO scores are now being partially replaced by VantageScore.
In a medical setting we first have to be clear about whether the LLM is acting as a transcriptionist or a scribe. Those are different roles. A transcriptionist merely writes down everything the clinician says verbatim, with perhaps a bit of formatting to fit a standard template. Speech recognition software has been used for transcription since before LLMs even existed. Sometimes a human transcriptionist will review and edit the software output. But ultimately the clinician is accountable for approving the document before it legally becomes part of the patient chart.
A medical scribe isn't just taking dictation, they're doing some level of interpretation and often entering structured, coded data directly into an EHR. This is a more complex role and requires some clinical skills. There are some new LLM products that automate this to an extent, but ultimately the licensed clinician is still legally accountable for what goes into the patient chart.
I can absolutely ethically argue for rationing care. All healthcare systems ration care although the means vary. Demand is effectively infinite, especially from older patients with complex or terminal conditions. Resources are finite.
What a shame. I had expected the Earth to last a bit longer.
Did you miss the word "large"? And the UK required significant US assistance during the Falkland Islands war, so apparently you're quite ignorant about history.
https://time.com/archive/6882618/just-how-much-did-the-u-s-h...
US average manufacturing average wage is $36/hr, which is far more than minimum wage.
I don't know what happened in that particular case but worldwide declining birth rates will inevitably force many schools to close.
It's a myth that battleships didn't matter in WWII. They ended up being critically important in the Pacific Theater for carrier escort and amphibious fire support. They didn't stop mattering until the widespread deployment of guided missiles and other precision munitions.
No, the labor force metrics only include people of working age.
The US labor force participation rate is currently at a relatively low level. There is plenty of surplus labor available with the right economic incentives.
It certainly wasn't self-sufficient in the last two large wars.
My optometrist told me that when he started clinical practice years ago he was shocked to discover how many people were driving around with severe visual impairments. The usual DMV eye exam is way too easy.
Average quality and reliability ratings even on new, unmodified Jeeps are abysmal. I understand why some consumers like them for style and off-road capability but overall it's a trash brand.
There's no lie in that tweet, just an opinion. You're free to ignore it as I do. You can even block or mute the whole account.
It's both. All humans and all environments are flawed. You can change yourself and control your reactions to your environment if you want to. You can probably also either improve your environment to some extent, or move to a better environment (not always possible for everyone but HN users usually have that option).
There's no need to feel superior: that's not particularly helpful and will tend to give you a distorted perception of reality. Most likely you're just average.
What is the specific lie in this case? I mean something that's factually incorrect, not just optimistic.