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AI is dual use technology. This kind of posture is simply not tenable as frontier intelligence increases.

It's not only tenable, it is a necessity. Unless you want humanity to be enslaved in perpetuity to a single figurehead.

Bad AI is only countered by having a majority of good, open-access and open-source AI to keep it in check, where the good AI can overpower the bad. The moment you destroy that balance is the moment a bad actor gains exponential advantage and the ability to hold the whole world hostage forever.


So are guns, which we constitutionally protected. In fact there’s probably a decent argument that AI should fall under 2nd amendment protection.

Don’t legally serious second Amendment supporters regard “arms” as things that can be carried, and are evolved from/analogous to their 18th century hand-carried guns?

It would be hard to classify AI (or tanks, artillery, missiles, aircraft) as “arms” that can be “borne” in that sense.


Is your legal theory that any technology which is dangerous should be protected under the second amendment, simply because it is dangerous?

No, my legal theory is that you cannot simultaneously compare technology to a weapon and also say it falls outside the bounds of the 2nd amendment.

Dual use does not mean weapon. And even then, it is simply not the case that all weapons fall under the second amendment.

a tactical nuke is a weapon to which the second amendment has no applicability

It certainly falls under 1st amendment protection since LLMs are about accessing speech. But that hasn’t stopped Dario from trying hard to push for regulations and bans that limit our civil rights. He and Sam Altman want regulatory capture at the expense of our right to free speech.

> AI is dual use technology.

And? Computers are dual-use. Cars are dual-use. Telephones are dual-use. Freeze-dried chicken is dual-use.

Single-use, i.e. military only technology is actually pretty rare.

> This kind of posture is simply not tenable as frontier intelligence increases.

I reject the corpo speak that tries to brand these things as being "intelligent." They can be useful. But a language model cannot conjure a weapons platform from the ether no matter how "intelligent" it is.


I wasn't buried, it was on the third page after the ToC

Scroll wheel hijacked on this entire domain

Fix:

  (() => {
  const KILL = ['wheel', 'mousewheel', 'DOMMouseScroll', 'touchmove'];
  const block = e => e.stopImmediatePropagation();
  for (const t of KILL) {
    window.addEventListener(t, block, { capture: true, passive: true });
    document.addEventListener(t, block, { capture: true, passive: true });
  }
  document.documentElement.classList.remove('lenis','lenis-smooth','lenis-scrolling','lenis-stopped');
  console.log('Scroll hijack disabled — native scrolling restored.');
  })();

The fix is to close the tab.

Yeah this website is horrendous to use. What were they thinking?

You mean "what was the LLM thinking?"

Cursor's coverage on open weight models is very minimal, and it's irrelevant for testing models in your actual application.


Investors made bad decisions all the time. The proof is in revenue.


"Political" here means "I don't like it"


Kagi is the one and only product I will ever stan


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Biggest fan like in the Eminem song Stan


Acquihire, with a side of shutting down a vendor that OpenAI prominently uses


Can you cite a single software project with so many users which did a language migration in a more cavalier way?


This assumes that the memory safety bugs in the unsafe Rust port are the same as the Zig codebase. A total rewrite with so little review is virtually guaranteed to introduce many new bugs which very well may be more severe than the old bugs.


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