Wait, that’s 105%! I think you might be trying to juice the stats, as they say. Poor Ludo! I hope he is ok. Still, I do see guilt on your face, a true rarity. So maybe that justifies a 5% discrepancy.
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Wait, that’s 105%! I think you might be trying to juice the stats, as they say. Poor Ludo! I hope he is ok. Still, I do see guilt on your face, a true rarity. So maybe that justifies a 5% discrepancy.
Connections Puzzle #814 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Back on track!
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End of the weekend #cat post from the girls #catsofbluesky
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Happy birfday to your Momb—what a thoughtful gift. I bet it throws your stats off though. Hey, wait a minute! I wonder if this is really a ploy to make sure you get gifts from Sandor Claws in December. Hmmmm… 🧐🤔🤨😆🥳
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#ows556 🔎 5/5 (00:50) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🔥 streak: 9 onewordsearch.com only my second time getting it in less than a minute. My typical time is between one and two minutes.
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My beautiful cat, looking regal and serious.
What are they saying? “Do we have 12 or 14 XXXXXX today” ?
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Just like how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop, the world may never know…
Once again, the Wordlebot claims I am less skilled and less lucky than the average players, yet I beat the average score. Hmmmm… I’m just not buying it.
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Or belated, if you enjoy proper spelling and all that stuff.
Connections Puzzle #808 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦I saw all the connections at once, and tried for a reverse rainbow by choosing the “fill in the blank”category first, assuming it to be the purple. The purple on the other hand was so easy I assumed it to be yellow. Oh well, I won & shouldn’t complain. 😄
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Happy belted birthday, Kelsey!
Is littering the major crime that they were brought in to solve?
Thank you.
I don’t know, they look pretty good now!
“Also I’m very rolly”. Love it!
This is my first visit to Eastern Europe. It’s lovely so far.
Wow! How did you keep it perfectly in frame? I can’t even keep my kitty cats in frame in my living room…
Love the angle. I’m always interested in looking at how different birds hold their feet in flight.
Beautiful!
Awesome! What in the world is happening in this pic?
These are fantastic!
Will the beak stay mottled like that?
They are rentable. I’m going to try one tomorrow. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Wasn’t aimed at you, just seeing of lot of name calling and other nonsense today. Maybe my algorithm has changed and it thinks I like hateful spew masquerading as discourse. I think I’ll go back to the cat feed or the bird feed for relief. 😄
I don’t know … that might actually be death…
A lot of unhappy people on BlueSky today. Please hold the insults, be stingy with judgments, and try engaging in conversation to learn & understand. If you prefer immediately condemning anyone who doesn’t 100% subscribe to your pre-existing world view, for Pete’s sake, go back to Twitter. 😃
I never said you were making a moral judgement. Others upthread were. “Every penny” is a quote from a skeet upthread. I have not opined on the likelihood of anyone winning such an award. I have agreed with your prior skeets. Not sure what the issue is here, so I’ll just say have a nice day.
Yes, that’s my point. Suing for “every penny” isn’t about enriching oneself. It is about depriving a defendant of resources. But even if it wasn’t, I think moral judgments about greedy plaintiffs are doing the work of those who would rather not see accountability. It’s the system we have.
I’m sure if this goes to trial, this and other questions will be raised. On this one, I would also ask “does the product come with a manual?” And “would the user know that they are bypassing safeguards, and how would they know?” And “what safeguards are in the product for children, if any?”
I have done what I can to provide reasons that would explain why the defendant could be liable in this instance. As I said, I can’t teach a whole torts class by skeet, so I’ll stop here. Have a nice day.
What? A causation is one of the elements of a tort. A jury (or judge in a bench trial) would indeed have to find that causation was established for the plaintiffs to prevail. More here: courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-monroe-...
Agree. And even if they only sought damages, unfortunately that is the best our courts can do most of the time. In the U.S., saying that people shouldn’t sue because “they are only after money” implies that if firms do damage they should have no deterrent. It shelters wrongdoing.
You can ignore the evidence of prior cases if you want, but a) it is for a court to determine liability, not you or me; and b) this all might make more sense if you read the filing. A lot more was happening than mere provision of information.
These are three separate potential legal theories. A plaintiff would necessarily bring all those theories. They might bring more. They would only need to win one. In other words, yes, a machine could potentially be held to a different standard than what you believe you would be held to.
Product liability does not require that a person used AI as a therapist. I can’t teach a tort class by skeet. I can just raise awareness. What is a reasonable expectation is up to a jury to decide. The filing also lays out facts that could be used to make a case for encouragement.
4) The family might lose. They might win. Who knows. But it is absolutely reasonable to bring the case and to have their day in court.
3) Finally, yes, there is a legal concept product liability. There are a lot of theories of liability that might apply but the basic premise is that a product should be reasonably safe for its intended use. If the intended use is conversation, that shouldn’t lead to death, so it’s a viable case.
2) Human beings who are not therapists can be convicted in connection with encouraging suicide, e.g., www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news..., and…
1) Actually, AI companies are selling their services as therapists (www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...) and Chat GPT markets itself that way as well chatgpt.com/g/g-aSC9dIv0...
Who said AI was a “random word generator”? Wouldn’t a “random word generator” create word salads rather than sentences that seem like a person wrote them? I’m sorry but I can no longer participate in a conversation in which the other party makes things up and leaps to conclusions. Have a nice day.
And branding people when you have no idea what they are “for” or “against” isn’t even probabilistic.
But anthropomorphizong AI doesn’t help anyone understand what it is or how it works. Current models of AI don’t in any way “think” and using that terminology doesn’t help us understand and evaluate use cases. writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what...
What LLMs do is not properly called “thinking”.
Actually no. A human therapist that encouraged suicide would be liable to suit for malpractice.
I think the words say the company should go out of business (“every penny”)— what do you think the words say?
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Riga’s Bastejkalna Park is so beautiful! It’s like a fairy land!
Or really Mellencamp’s entire career
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Woot woot!
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Connections Puzzle #806 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I can’t believe I made it cleanly. When I first saw the puzzle, I couldn’t get past the yellow…
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Lazin’ on a sunny afternoon … in the summertime … recovering from #caturday … #cats #catsofbluesky
It does make it easy to understand where Hitchcock got the idea for The Birds.
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Beautiful!
What an interesting looking cat!
It’s #Caturday treat time. One of the girls waits patiently. The other cries as if she hasn’t eaten in three days. Guess which is which? #cats #catsofbluesky
The murder of #crows that live across the street from me are extremely active right now. #birds #birdsofbluesky
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Is eating in public a crime now?
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Excellent advice!
This reminds me of Henri, Le Chat Noir. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7i...
So much new #cat #catsofbluesky content on BlueSky, which is great, but I’m afraid a lot of it is bots. I don’t want to give bots my likes and attention. Any tips?
Love the angle!
Beautiful!
I think you win!
And perhaps we can keep Momb in our thoughts too…
But the look on your face says “Don’t push your percentages on me. Not today hooman!”
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Love the soundtrack!
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