I suspect that asking people to pick on a visual spectrum would lead to most people clicking closer to the midpoint.

Just a heads up, you are currently following the early stages of AI-induced psychosis.

You can get any LLM to roleplay as anything with enough persistence - it doesn't mean that "really is" the thing you've made it say - just that the tokens it's outputting are statistically likely to follow the ones you've input.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914354. Feel free to claim psychosis, but there's a rational, philosophical viewpoint here. I'm not diving into conspiracy theories.

It also seems to me, that people who call Claude 'he' seem to tend to have a very positive opinion of the LLM. My sample size isn't big enough to be sure if there's actually any correlation here, let alone if there's a causation or which way it flows.

The payout is much higher if you make an unlikely thing happen. "Unlikely things" in politics & warfare are probably highly correlated with irrational or irresponsible decisions.

If you're in a decision-making position you have lots of events passing by. Your limits are in trying not to get caught, not in searching for the biggest ratios for single bets.

Also there's plenty of things that are unlikely because they're specific, not because they're irrational. Things happening in specific date ranges are an easy one.

It's about leaving it open while you're working. You'd still close it when you're not around.

There is not much danger that a random person will come into your garage and put their hand under your circular saw while you are working it.

Carbon emissions from food production may go down about that much. However, those emissions are only about 30% of the total CO2 emissions humans are responsible for, if I recall correctly. So, total CO2 reduction would be about 18%.

and likely other un predictable knock on effects would reduce the benefit, like going vegan would mean more food is available overall, and population might rise in response.

Maybe. Due to not just the caloric availability, but due to eating habits that may influence behavior.

I think you might find that, if you reconsider who the 'evil' people are, you might find that we're already doing that sort of thing.

Its not capitalists doing that though, its politicians, and politicians in non capitalist countries tend to be more evil.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there aren't any non-capitalist countries currently waging war on others.

Capitalism is a continuum, not a binary, hence occasional discussion "China is communist!" "No, it is state-capitalism!"

Is Russia currently capitalist, or non-capitalist? Which is Myanmar?

Anyway, personally I think it's the wrong axis; while capitalism and democracy and free press are often correlated, I think that the latter two are the important ones for actually choosing the lesser evils, though capitalism does generate more options to choose between.

If they are all posting their noise vectors up on xor-music.com, sure. If they have valid reasons for making available a specific 'noise' vector (maybe they can prove it decrypts to something useful), then probably not.

Judges and juries don't need to guilt to be mathematically proved, they just have to be pretty sure.

What if xor-music.com also distributes legal content?

Then the jury will weigh the evidence and come to a decision.

I'm actually a little horrified to learn that warnings were suppressed while developing code to control a 747.

Right out of college, one of my first job offers was to work on the compiler for the computer for the Space Shuttle. Apparently because I had once taken a compiler course. Even young, naive, optimistic me thought to question the wisdom of that offer.

I ended up not taking it because the pay wasn’t great (and at the time it wasn’t really what I wanted to do), but part of me is still curious about what that would have been like.

And it took them a month to figure this out.

Not that far off from the truth. A number of college students who were protesting for Palestine had their college enrollment suspended, and lost their visas, effectively being deported. Which, yes, the university made that decision, but it didn't come without influence from the government.

Which universities?

With such a small sample size, you have a whole lot of confidence saying "well, the Dems encouraged them".