Oooh, philosophy! I disagree. I think that if a person programs a LLM to give disinformation, that’s all it is. A lie giving misinformation knowing that’s it’s disinformation, intending do deceive. The LLM doesn’t know what’s true or false. It doesn’t intend anything, because it is not a conscious entity. The person who programmed it can be lying by disseminating false information, the LLM cannot, any more than a broken clock or thermometer is ‘lying’ about the time or temperature.

Not technically lies, as to lie there has to be an intent to deceive. LLMs don’t have any intentions.

Right. But have you ever actually interact with a) children or b) addicts?. Both groups well known for being totally reasonable and receptive to logical arguments! Trying to persuade them that the thing they love is actually causing them harm is nigh on impossible. ‘I’m not concerned about her welfare, I’m just being mean’. ‘other kids may get addicted, but I’m fine, totally in control’. ‘if it was bad there would be laws’ Etc etc.

I’m not Australian, but I can at least referenced the attempt, and the court case in LA when telling the kid to put the tablet down. I’m not saying the law is the end of the matter, but just saying educate your kids is also far from the end, and is the line the social media companies emphasis because it moves the blame from them to parents

Dunno, I’m not the one paid to come up with solutions. But, at the very least efforts like this teach kids that there is a problem. Like, yeah, we can easily circumvent the measures, but the gov still thinks it necessary to implement them.

But the idea that we just need education is ridiculous. It’s the exact defence that the social media platforms espous, because they know it’s bullshit and ineffective.

That’s a bit like saying ‘there is a problem with smack/nicotine/alcohol addiction, but the solution is not restriction, it’s education’. You can educate all you want, but very clever people make a lot of money by saying ‘fuck your education’.

Further to this, there isn’t a ‘launch the nuclear weapons’ application which controls things. Windows is used for the day to day admin - producing the paperwork required in any organisation - but the actual control systems, for the submarine, the weapons the reactor etc are not running off windows.

General strike.

Whoever they start funding and training next, obviously!

Because goverment debt isn’t like household debt. They don’t go to the Bank of China or the Bank af America and apply for a few billion! The fed issues securities - fixed yield, fixed term bonds. Anybody is free to buy these securities and hence, the biggest holder of US gov debt is the US people, through investment funds, pensions and personal holdings. The fed promises to pay the holder the value of the security after the fixed term expires, as well as small dividend payments for the duration of the term. As the fed prints the money used to pay the bond, they are seen as a safe investment, a hedge against more volotile financial instruments.

As the other reply stated, gov debt isn’t necessarily detrimental, it’s an important tool for regulating the economy. If a government ‘borrows’ 5 billion but grows the economy by 7 billion, that’s sound economics.

OP asked ‘has this ever happened to you?’ . I replied with my experience. Third poster replied with random non relevant experience of something not happening. I reply ‘so what?’. You feel the need to validate third poster…profit???

This is the question!

Yeah? So what?

This has never happened to me, and I take my daughter, and her friends to the park all the time…

• making a business decision that selling skin graft hot coffee will save more money than you will have to pay in damages to anyone injured. A decision that ultimately proved correct.

Please drink your age verification can…

I think WhatsApps biggest risk is the metadata. They know every group you are in and who else is in that group. They know when messages are sent and to who. They know where you are at all times, and probably have access to your libraries as well if you didn’t specifically restrict that. It’s a huge trove of data, which one would assume is freely shared with governments on request.

Oh right, all the studies I read must be wrong then…

No, I think you don’t. Even in people with high tolerance, low levels of alcohol still impare motor skills, reaction time and inhibitions.

No it’s not though. You may not feel the buzz that you are chasing, but the actual impairment is still real and in place. You may think you’re fine, but your not. That’s one. And two, once you’ve had 3, your more likely to have more. And if your willing to drive with 3 when you’re sober, you’re Likely to drive with 6 when you’re drunk. Every drunk driver who ever got behind the wheel thought they were fine. Even the ones who had accidents.