The phrase "the key insight" now sets my teeth on edge due to how often it appears in LLM writing

Nothing unites a group like a common enemy. If it does fall apart into civil war, expect past and random terrorism for years

Yeah basically like isis all over again :(

Was he buying from Ea-nāsir?

Might actually be a distant descendant! ;)

I don't think any commercial entity can be trusted to break the law on behalf of customers who only pay a small fee each

Any chance of pushing it to GitHub? My swift knowledge could be written out on an oversized beer coaster currently, so I'm still collecting useful snippets

There are plenty of examples of AI being successfully used to emulated the email / messaging style of a specific individual already known to the target, for spear fishing attacks, and fake video and audio of family members tricking people. I think you're substantially underestimating the peak ability of AI these days

I'm not saying AI is incapable of these attacks, I'm arguing a more likely explanation exists. If he wanted to accept, say, one book club a week, I don't believe he would have too much trouble figuring out a way to safely receive applications

a lot of people , including myself, are using AI as an excuse to push thru awkward changes

Plausible but lacks suggested experiments or predictions. Seems testable in principle though, in both human and animal models

Humans also write endless amounts of convincing bullshit, and have done since time immemorial. False papers and faked results have been a growing scourge in academia before LLMs were a thing, and that's just counting the intentional fraud - the reproducibility crisis in science, especially medical and psychological science, affects even the best designed and well intentioned of studies.

Humans also make mistakes and assumptions while reverse engineering, so it will always need more engineers to go through the results, test things

You have to be careful when you edit comments - you can be seen as editorialising, which can lose you protection against being liable for defamation in some jurisdictions. Probably not a huge issue for a small website, but now risk than I'd like to take

Found to be illegal when? 3 decades after they've done their damage?

There's a case in process that'll likely resolve in the next two months. Quite a few companies have filed suite banking on getting their fees reimbursed.

In the current political climate nothing is certain - but this will likely come to a resolution in the near term.

Okay, so if they lose that case, Trump will just pass a new executive order that once again takes months to resolve.

The solution, of course, is to never vote R again, for any office.

You have to punish anyone supporting this insanity.

Just wanted to point out that this is the first instance of a correct spelling of "lose" I've seen on the Internet in the last three years.

You're loosing your mind Jimmy

And, if Treasury must refund to the companies that "paid" the tariffs, the companies will keep the refunds despite consumers' having actually carried the burden by paying higher prices and suffering attendant inflation. A win–win for the Epstein class!