Gates Law

tbh I'm not convinced that a git log history should be treated as a group journal because it's not.

relying on git commit messages assumes they're correct by convention since there is no technical constraint to enforce it. and it assumes no work in progress commits, sometimes it's just necessary to hit the save button real quick or move a workspace from one device to another.

my point is: git is a way of storing and loading files at its core.

reminds me of `don't look up` a bit. there clearly is an imbalance in regards to licenses with model providers, not even talking about knowledge extraction (yes younger people don't learn properly now, older generations forget) shortly before the rug-pull happens in form of accessibility to not rich people

aren't online curses a lot text only which inherently is harder to communicate

law texts feel like a layering problem, like just decoration around decoration to avoid breaking existing 'code' without ever simplifying it

Okay so let’s try simplifying it.

We’ll change the existing murder legislation to “Killing someone is a crime”. It’ll save us thousands of pages.

But does that mean a soldier shooting an enemy is a crime? What about shooting someone who is raping you? What if you shoot someone by mistake, thinking they’re going to kill you? What if you hit them with a car? What if you fail to provide safety equipment which eventually results in their accidental death?

Oopsie woopsie, I guess we need to add another thousand pages of exceptions back to our simplistic laws. It turns out people didn’t just write them for the fun of it.

Those exceptions were accumulated over time rather than compiled into a coherent schema. I don't expect a finished product to be a single page, but neither does it require the literally millions that it currently takes up.

you could also use openai whisper for transcription. takes longer but beats bad subtitles

This is assuming people are responsible and with good will. But how many of the gun victims each year would be dead if there were no guns? How many radiation victims would there be without the invention of nuclear bombs? safety is indeed a property of knowledge.

Just imagine how many people would not die in traffic incidents if the knowledge of the wheel had been successfully hidden?

Nice try but the causal chain isn't as simple as wheels turning → dead people.

If someone wants to make a bomb, chatgpt saying "sorry I can't help with that" won't prevent that someone from finding out how to make one.

Sure, but if ten-thousand people might sorta want to make a bomb for like five minutes, chatgpt saying "nope" might prevent nine-thousand nine-hundred and ninety nine of those, at which point we might have a hundred fewer bombings.

They’d need to sustain interest through the buying process, not get caught for super suspicious purchases, then successfully build a bomb without blowing themselves up. Not a five minute job.

Simple, they would ask chatgpt how to buy it without getting caught.

Assuming you’re not joking, the main point is they’d need to have persistence and dedication with or without gpt. It’s not gonna be on a whim for them.

If ChatGPT provided instructions on how make a bomb, most people would probably blow themsevles up before they finish.

That's really not true, by that logic LLMs provide no value which is obviously false.

It's one thing to spend years studying chemistry, it's another to receive a tailored instruction guide in thirty seconds. It will even instruct you how to dodge detection by law enforcement, which a chemistry degree will not.

> That's really not true, by that logic LLMs provide no value which is obviously false.

Way to leep to a (wrong) conclusion. I can lookup a word in a Dictionary.app, I can google it or I can pick up a phisical dictionary book and look it up.

You don't even need to look to far: Fight Club (the book) describes how to make a bomb pretty accurately.

If you're worrying that "well you need to know which books to pick up at the library"...you can probably ask chatgpt. Yeah it's not as fast, but if you think this is what stops everyone from making a bomb, then well...sucks to be you and live in such fear?

No Chernobyl is the reason why we don't have nuclear reactors. either Tokio tsunami disaster or the 600 nukes after Hiroshima should prove that mankind can't be trusted with this technology imho. there has to be a better way.