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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Just to be clear, companies know that LLMs are categorically bad at giving life advice/ emotional guidance. They also know that personal decision making is the most common use of the software. They could easily have guardrails in place to prevent it from doing that.

    They will never do that.

    This is by design. They want people to develop pseudo-emotional bonds with the software, and to trust the judgment in matters of life guidance. In the next year or so, some LLM projects will become profitable for the first time as advertisers flock to the platforms. Injecting ads into conversations with a trusted confidant is the goal. Incluencing human behaviour is the goal.

    By 2028, we will be reading about “ChatGPT told teen to drink Pepsi until she went into a sugar coma.”













  • Torah teaches that God created human beings with both good and evil impulses. Human beings uniquely have knowledge of our drives and impulses and can learn to master them. The same needs that drive us to consume can lead us to overconsume or do so unethically. Our animal drive for safety and security can also lead us to attack perceived threats.

    According to this philosophy, evil comes from people misdirecting divinely given attributes.

    The idea of good and evil as absolute “powers” independent of human choices is foreign to many philosophies and theologies.





  • Thanks for the heads up. This may still be the best option for me, but it is good to stay ahead of these things.

    There is something in the quoted Masto thread that suggests realtime video is inherently insecure? I have to be honest that I didn’t really follow it.

    The info from SimpleX reads as though they are using crypto donations rather than more traceable cash, which mostly makes sense to me. The NFT tech that they describe is not for trading purposes, but to anonymously verify payments. It would be used to connect an account to a payment through zero or minimal knowledge. I don’t really understand the tech, so please let me know if I even understand what they are suggesting.

    This is just for family chat, so total black box security is not a priority.