It's always good to state if the Iranians you know are currently residing in Iran, for clarity.

Your paraphased quote also implies that there must be actual regime change for the deaths to be worth it (ie, no IRGC).

If only they had internet so that we could ask them!

It's scary that your 1-minute old comment got insta-downvoted.

It isn't scary it's obvious. Majority of people on HN are american. Obviously the government would want to control the narrative here.

>There are many hobbies with which people can kill themselves...A grown-up person has rights and bears the consequences of negligence

Fyi, the reference to Asia is not about people killing themselves, it's about passing off inadvertantly lethal moonshine as mass-produced drinkable alcohol resulting in the deaths of other people, not yourself.

I honestly thought this post was going to be about the Iran war.

I must live in the upside down. If there are any ardent anti-AI people I come across they're techies. Whereas non-techies are either oblivious or completely and comically locked-in as caricatured in that South Park episode.

Speaking of GUI weirdness, I've seen a couple of relatively newer macbooks do this thing where the laptop is shutdown with wifi disabled, but after login on startup the wifi icon displays the wifi scanning mode as if the wifi is enabled and looking for networks before reverting to the wifi disabled display icon.

Is this a GUI bug or is the wifi disabled setting overrided for a split second on startup? I haven't looked into it, but the latter would be extremely concerning.

based on my experience, I suspect the latter

similar, user-hostile behaviors I have found include:

- wifi network passwords are persisted through a system wipe and reinstall in recovery mode - a phone home is required by an activation step during installation - bluetooth is always re-enabled after an upgrade

> bluetooth is always re-enabled after an upgrade

Not user-hostile in the least. This is to ensure that the Mac can find Magic input devices.

Is this sarcasm? What do people who don't want bluetooth on startup under any circumstances?

This comment is amusing considering Tony Blair was one of those notable weird politician converts.

When you think about it for more than a second, the title seems ridiculous. It would seem Vietnam and Afghanistan exceed this humiliation by orders of magnitude when considering their cost in blood and coin with nothing to show for it. But those wars were intertwined with the goals of reluctant and half-assed nation building. In terms of signalling the demise of the American empire, this one gives the others a run for their money just in terms of the sheer delusional idiocy of their stated expectations.

It's weird, I don't know how normally pedantic comp sci. people let this meme that the Turing test is beaten by LLMs to spread so unchallenged. As far as I'm aware, there is no restriction in the Turing test that demands that the interrogator be ignorant of the latest state-of-art in computing (and AI tech), nor is there a strict time limit enforced for the questioning?

Given these conditions, it should be relatively easy for the interrogator to expose the AI in this current day and age.

If you want to call it that, I find the confabulation in LLMs extreme. That level of confabulation would most likely be diagnosed as dementia in humans.[0] Hence, it is considered a bug not a feature in humans as well.

Now imagine a high-skilled software engineer with dementia coding safety-critical software...

[0] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/confabulation-deme...

If your first priority is judging the author then yes. If your first priority is judging the company, as it is with many people in this thread, then it is less so. In that case, it only suffices to ascertain the truth of the author's statements.

To take a more extreme example, if a mob hitman turned FBI informant blows the lid on the corruption within the FBI, if there is truth in their statements, then them having benefitted from the corruption they are exposing is frankly secondary to my primary focus in the matter.