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  • That’s sort of an interesting stance, at least in that I haven’t seen it before. My first question is how would one determine when an LLM is able to meaningfully consent. It sort of seems like one of those things where if someone believes an LLM is not past whatever threshold they need to be to be considered sentient/sapient/person like (whatever you wanna call it*) that their consent does not matter. In the same way a rock’s consent doesn’t matter, because it has no way to meaningfully give it. But LLMs are conversational. They can say they consent. If someone believes they’re sentient, isn’t that consent? If someone believes they aren’t, then obviously it doesn’t matter.

    *: I know those are all sort of different but I’m lumping then together because they’re similar in that they determine when we start to talk about rights. It’s not really about which particular threshold is the one that matter for responding to queries for the topic I’m talking about.

















  • I feel this law has the intent to damage and disrupt things in general, yes. Parental controls have existed for ages but lawmakers don’t seem interested in them. For example, all the porn bans, rather than forcing sites to use some sort of self tagging system that parental controls could easily see (like some response header) they just want them to take IDs. All of it is a push to forcing people to always be online transparently with their real identity well known.



  • It’s one of the few examples of a, well, I guess it’s still technically nearly a plot hole, not a true formal plot hole. You’ve got this person who cannot be hurt by radiation who helps you by going into an irradiated area to get something to save people. Then when THE SAME THING happens again, they just say “nah, this is your story, you’re meant to die here, I’m literally going to let you kill yourself to save everyone even though I just helped you to do the same goal with the same complications and same caveats.”