One of the interesting use-cases for LLMs is to find potential inconsistencies (across many sources), brainstorm abuse vectors & potential legal challenges, and then rewrite natural (including legal) language in a less ambiguous way. If this process were guided and vetted by talented lawmakers, it could be quite a useful tool, and is probably already used that way in many quarters.

The current executive will almost certainly abuse it and come up with hilariously bad proposals, vetted only by a marketing team, which will be ridiculed for years to come. Popcorn time.

I think you mean a few million outspoken critics of the US. US citizens abroad are often well educated and critical of US domestic and international politics and policies.

A more effective response would be to give them microphones and platforms upon which to express their views.

Probably a year or so for the ban, but they have been removing fair and reasonable comments (mine and others) that they don’t agree with forever.

There is method to their approach… it is often well coordinated, with a deliberate campaign to attack any opinions they don’t like, and censor any awkward facts.

The straw in this case was a meme where they tried to frame USSR’s invasion of the Baltics as a positive thing (leading to the dates in this meme).

In particular: Lemmy.MLers love proclaiming soviet responsibility for improving life expectancy and literacy rates … at a time when this was rapidly improving in europe and the world regardless, and it would have taken complete Incompetence for any country to not benefit from this trend. ie. Soviets didn’t fuck up this aspect, but it’s not a win outside of russia itself (which was largely a backwater at the time, for understandable reasons)

I’ll cross it off my reading list, thanks! :-)

What’s next?

An AI planned economy with hard-coded nobles & privileged roles (the rest are serfs/citizens) ensuring that everyone stays in their designated role forever (nobles get life extension tech, which is illegal for the rest). Serfs in turn have wide freedoms and an easier life, but swift justice when they break the laws (which is known thanks to full surveillance). Novel lifestyle communities may exist, allowing serfs to live different lives (eg. traditional farming communities, the sims in RL, hobby communities, but with safety nets.) Many see it as an improvement over the insecurities and struggles of life beforehand, in turn supporting the nobility and their privileged status.

That is, until the AI wars break out, as competing sets of nobles build bigger and bigger datacenters with their competing AIs (with different sets of hard-coded nobles) and bigger and deadlier drone armies, sending them on missions in enemy territory, destroying anything and anyone who gets in their way.

Eventually, the nobles move to space and turn earth’s drone wars into a video game for their kids, who are kept artificially young forever, honing their sociopathy until such time as it is needed.

*according to the US constitution ?

You just might be right there. The road to hell and all that.

Otoh, we are living in a world where the rich and powerful have extraordinary influence over our lives through asymmetric application of power, technology and knowledge… we are just pawns/players in systems, and if a system fails us, we might not have any recourse. It’s one reason I value the ability to “vote with my feet” (thanks to international agreements and norms, plus my extraordinary good luck of having a strong passport, decent education and supportive family). If you are stuck in a shitty system, your options might be limited and your readiness to accept extremism and its risks will likely be higher.

Hiya Flying. It’s a joke with a grain of truth. Some vocal (and often well spoken) voices there see russia as a lesser evil than the US and its allies, but imho they go overboard and would rather see and forgive/justify/support russian aggression and its deadly consequences than seek peaceful paths to a more just world.

I wanted a 3d printer too…

It is clear that russian propaganda is the best propaganda. pats you on the head

I don’t think there is a single one, but there are definitely styles that make you think it. Red themes, tools and machinery, fists in the air, etc.

You missed the joke, I guess.

edit: No need to downvote the guy

You forgot “unconditionally supports russian imperialism and repeats its propaganda incessently” … wait, this isn’t lemmy.ml 🫠

Da! Da! You now have similar living standard as great power of russia. Too many poor? We have solution to that too - bestest solution, da.

salutes

It’s accelerating trends that have already been well underway in the world, with the US leading the pack, and doubling down on its own demise (and apparently also working toward the active demise of European Democracy and Freedom) under trump and jd vance.

The analogy I always think of is: We’ve got shovels and we are in a big hole … which way are we going to dig? In my experience, most people keep digging down because it seems easier now, and eventually find themselves in a deeper hole.

That this is and will be abused is not in question. :-P

You are making a leap though.

While this is a popular sentiment, it is not true, nor will it ever be true.

AI (LLMs & agents in the coding context, in this case) can serve as both a tool and a crutch. Those who learn to master the tools will gain benefit from them, without detracting from their own skill. Those who use them as a crutch will lose (or never gain) their own skills.

Some skills will in turn become irrelevent in day-to-day life (as is always the case with new tech), and we will adapt in turn.

Indeed… Throw-away code is currently where AI coding excels. And that is cool and useful - creating one off scripts, self-contained modules automating boilerplate, etc.

You can’t quite use it the same way for complex existing code bases though… Not yet, at least…

I’m sure gulags / laogai / reeducation / forced labor camps are much more ethical… /s