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Sheep are incredibly expensive to farm as well which is why the meat cost so much.

People think sheep are dumb but that isn't true, they are anti-intelligent, they secretly hide vast intelligences that they use to come up with ingenious ways to injure or kill themselves. You can put goats in a field and fence them off and be reasonably confident that you will still have all of your goats when you come back in the morning.
Sheep on the other hand will use their psychic abilities to manifest some broken glass, and then step on it.

Then the supermarkets don't want to pay very much for them and so now you've spent a lot of money looking after them and got very little in the way of return.

The only reason that sheep were traditionally found was because you could put them on pastures of land that was completely unsuitable for any other animal. But it's the supermarket aren't willing to pay a fair price then that doesn't really count for anything.

Would we be able to see it from earth?

I've seen pictures of the earth from the moon and you can barely identify the continents. You definitely can't see individual open cast mines.

Ok but walk it back a bit, why did they become homeless?

If somebody is completely 100% mentally healthy I can't see how an AI can convince them to kill themselves any more than another person could convince them to kill themselves. Only vulnerable people join cults, because it's difficult to pray on people who have proper defences.

I'm still not convinced that the AI isn't just triggering some underlying mental condition that other people in their lives are just not aware of or not willing to accept.

Some people think that LLMs are true AGI or at least they have thoughts that run along those lines even if they can't articulate it like that.

They tend to be people who aren't particularly tech savvy and so they see this thing that seems to be pretty much a miracle of technology and believe that it truly is a super intelligence.

I've seen evolution simulators come up with some truly interesting behaviour, like finding shortcut glitches in Mario that no human has ever found, if I didn't know how the program worked I suppose I might believe that there was some intelligence there.

I'd had a negative opinion of Asimov's laws of robotics being used to control AI for most of my life, and LaMDA successfully persuaded me to change my opinion.

Then he's an idiot.

Asimov's laws of robotics aren't some kind of model by which to control AI, there are plot device. They're literally not supposed to work, if they did work it would be a very short book, so obviously we shouldn't use them for controlling AI.

I don't know any serious IT professional that has ever, at any point, ever forwarded the opinion that an AI (should we ever a create one, because there is an arguement that LLMs aren't AI) should be ruled by a plot device from a book. Equally if we ever invent warp drive and find aliens I'm assuming we're not going to be restricted to the prime directive.

I think the important point here is that just because the father is doing Google doesn't necessarily mean that Google are at fault. People tend to feel that if an individual is suing a corporation for malfeasance the corporation is necessarily guilty. But reality doesn't always run like that.

I can't see any reason that Google would want to encourage more suicide so I have to assume that it's just an unfortunate interaction of a mentally unsound mind and a product that frankly even its own creators don't understand. This is highly unfortunate but I'm not certain where the crime was.

A little bit alarmist I feel, after all if it was this easy to be affected by AI about half the population would be dead by now, so clearly it's not that simple.

It wasn't 60-year-olds putting up flags on lamp posts, it was idiots in there 20s

Ot so secure that you can get away with having a insecure password.

It wasn't that secret though was it? People knew about it, they just didn't do anything about it.

He'll back down like he always backs down. He doesn't have the patience to be a true warlord, he's the laziest man alive, he gets bored of things even when he's not the one doing the work.

No needs a narrative to make America look bad. The Americans do it to themselves.