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1. mmooss · 1789681394 · focus · HN ↗

   Stop treating AI companies and their software as somehow unconstrained, above-the-law actors. It's delusional that anyone buys that. Regulate them appropriately.

   At the same time, mathematicians should be using sophisticated, specialized LLM tools in much more sophisticated ways than lay people. There should be no way lay people can compete. There are new tools to master and if you use your slide rule, you won't keep up. It's a chance for mathematics productivity to boom.

   1. Terr_ · 1789682279 · focus · HN ↗

      > Stop treating [them as] unconstrained, above-the-law actors.

      With apologies to Baudelaire: The greatest trick exploitative powers ever played was convincing the people that it was impossible to imagine anything else.

      Sometimes blinkering people so that they never ask the question "why is this being done to me" or "why is justice not possible" is much easier than finding an answer that will get them to go away.

      1. mitxela · 1789721598 · focus · HN ↗

         If in 2019 someone wrote a program that generated photorealistic child porn on demand, the FBI would break down their door the day after hearing about it.

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