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  • Really. I get that the business world is dynamic and not adapting to changing times kills companies, but so does torpedoing a long-established and recognized name. It’s not just HBO, there have been many examples it seems recently, as somehow the suggestion to just drop what your customers look for and use something different and worse is a common boardroom thing, and with applause and promotions. It’s stupid. It’s great for ad and marketing firms I guess, but I’ll bet a typical first utterance is:

    “Why are they getting rid of their old trademark, it’s good.”

    “Shhh, this is worth a lot to us, let them make their mistakes.”



  • It was a bit much to work with, but once I realized that the civil war itself and the whys weren’t what the movie was about, I went with it. This scene was the most disturbing of them all. Maybe because it’s not that hard to imagine some people going this far. I’m sure there’s some veterans of various conflicts that would agree and saw it happen.


  • Exactly my stance. Federal regulation makes sense when there’s a common ground, but my first response when seeing the quote about a “light touch” was, it can’t get any lighter than it is. If you want to push for federal over state enforcement, then present something that is actually protecting more than the profit interests of those economically invested in AI. Like human species interests, preservation, not opening something we can’t close.

    And before the “LLM isn’t AGI” comes into play, of course it isn’t. But if we’re treating LLM R&D with a full throttle and safety concerns on the shelf, we’re doing the same with any related field. And even LLMs can have alignment issues and be misused or misguided while connected to crucial or even life-threatening conditions. “We wouldn’t do that.” Of course we would. Money.


  • I’ll give him credit and say it’s “and” since that would make more sense in the flow of the sentence. He’s a terrible orator, so even the basic things said by him can be confusing. Not a fan of the heavy hand of military, but Eisenhower warned us we’d get like this. A strong defense is a good offense, but I think the US politically, economically, and even socially embraces that a little too much through history, and we definitely have war hawks in control right now.