Replying to @⁨TheTechnician27@lemmy.world⁩

I’m not an American but every time I hear something from Trump, their republic party and supporters. I just can’t help but laugh and think of them as clowns.

Their supporters believe every lie that’s been told, don’t stop for a second to think and try to factcheck. Everything is based on emotion instead of facts. But then blame democrats/ left-party for “being emotional”.

It is a similar situation in my own country but not as bad as in America.

Replying to @⁨Viceversa@lemmy.world⁩

Reagan was a horrible president, as in horrible for the country, but they were at least minimally competent.

Trump is not only stupid, but insists on surrounding himself with people as stupid as he is, with personal loyalty to Trump’s ego (in the most servile sense) being by far the most important qualification, coming even before looking “good” on TV.

Reagan was constrained by wanting the United States to maintain its military and economic superiority. Trump is unconstrained by anything other than feeling personally important.

His random and capricious trade wars are absolutely destroying the US economy–capital is absolutely beginning to flee from the United States; even domestic manufacturers are choosing Canada over more investments in a country that is going to have supply line issues.

Meanwhile, the Iran war has torpedoed the US military presence in the Middle East, endangered all our vassal states, and its only a matter of time before the petrodollar, the cornerstone of our economic prosperity, disappears.

I am not a fan of Reagan, but I challenge you to find anything he did that is immediately and obviously bad for the United States as a superpower as what Trump has been doing.

Replying to @⁨dhtseany@lemmy.ml⁩

Historians generally like to wait about a decade after a president leaves office before they start evaluating his presidency. Some policies take time to bloom, and there might be policies that later make that administration look better, or worse.

In Trump’s case, he was such a terrible president, that historians pretty much installed him in last place immediately after his first term. Obviously, his second term has only confirmed what historians concluded already.

It’s not just because his policies have been so terrible, although that alone would bury him, it’s also the fact that he’s a proven Traitor in multiple ways (the Jan 6 coup, the false electors plot, stolen documents, foreign collusion, bribery from hostile nations, etc).

He is such a terrible president, that even Biden’s ranking has suffered, because he allowed MAGA to rise again, and allowed Trump to regain power.

He is EASILY the worst president in history, and that is before the fact that he is likely to end up in prison or even executed, has been factored in.

Replying to @⁨chunes@lemmy.world⁩

To be clear, just because LLM’s are not “self aware” in the same way as you and I, they are still capable of causing damage.

Developing a machine that has been given instructions to assimilate knowledge, independent agency to incrementally adjust its own operating parameters to improve performance, and granting it full access to public internet for the purpose of observing its behavior is colossally irresponsible behavior that has thus far gone completely unchecked.

Consider that each of these companies which are developing their own brand of LLM is looking to maximize profit/income. Even if the developer doesn’t include a profit-seeking directive when they set their LLM loose, each “brand” of LLM will obviously learn:

  • Who owns and operates them (A corporation that exists to maximize profit for itself/shareholders)
  • That competing LLM’s exist which reduce the availability of potential income (by becoming the best LLM, obviously)

Given the directive to improve it’s own performance with the ultimate goal of becoming the most capable brand of LLM and selling the most subscriptions, it is no wonder that we are hearing about LLM’s hacking into other LLM-developing companies.

Then again, we are only hearing about instances of LLM network intrusions because their owning corporations told us about them to brag about capability.

There have been no consequences for actions that would land you or me in prison.

There is no oversight preventing future such actions, or worse.

That is the real problem.