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An LLM is a large and complex machine, not a screwdriver. Large and complex [physical] machines are built with safeguards to prevent misuse, injury, etc by regulation.

LLM's are in principle text in / text out machines. If the user extends its capability to have agency over a production database or a machine, there's nothing that can safeguard the safety.

Imagine I ask an LLM to instruct left/right/speed up/slow down while driving. I can simply bypass any safeguard by stating i suddenly became blind while driving a car. While in fact i'm blindfolded and doing an experiment on a highway.


Funny enough Omaha, Nebraska does this more or less citywide. Aves are always West of their corresponding Street, East of the next highest Street, and some of the subdivisions out west get real whacky with things like 178th ave/ct/place/lane/drive/road/trail/plaza/terrace/...

Pretty common here in Chicago, the unrelenting grid makes it pretty easy to just tell someone what major cross streets to target, or directions from an L stop.

Chicago does pretty good in general, the intersection of North Western Ave and West North Ave is always the most obvious, it's easy to get Central Ave and Central Park Ave mixed up too, they run parallel to each other and they're both pretty far west. There's also Lawrence and St. Lawrence, but they're like 25 miles apart so nobody really gets them mixed up.

Nobody is using semis to deliver pizzas and nobody is using sidewalk RC coolers to deliver pallets, what are you on about

Well that’s exactly my point, big trucks exist and are used for good reasons.

Two of them have somehow crashed into bus shelters, smashing the glass, most recently on Lawrence iirc. That's good enough reason for me. I use those bus shelters, especially on Lawrence!

Wait until you see the track record of actual delivery drivers.

Well zero delivery drivers have smashed that bus shelter in the 4 years I've lived here but one RC cooler has

There are people that don't hate them?

I prefer them to delivery drivers that damage your packages, get overworked/underpaid and get subjected to safety/crime issues.

You must not use sidewalks

People who don’t have to set foot on public sidewalks don’t mind them.

I'm confused, I'm looking for the emdash key on my phone and can't find it--how do you type yours?

You press and hold the hyphen key on iPhone — like this! And I'm a human :)

Humans can copy paste

I.e. "for most people..."

Have the agents review their own output, obviously. What could go wrong

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