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"let them" in this use understood as: "let the while loop run indefinitely" as opposed to letting some autonomous robot decide for itself

• mort96 20d ago
  Or, "let the escalator keep going instead of pressing the emergency stop".
  • teiferer 20d ago
    Depends on who started the escalator.
    • sscaryterry 19d ago
      Escalators do not start themselves. There is power, and a switch of some sort.
    • mort96 19d ago
      .. what exactly depends on who started the escalator? My comment was in support of the argument that the word "let" does not imply agency on the part of the object in a sentence. Does the semantics of the word "let" depend on who started the escalator??
      • teiferer 19d ago
        If there is an escalator that is known for killing every 1000's person using it then the operator who started it is more guilty than the folks using it for those deaths, don't you think?
        • mort96 19d ago
          I made no argument about guilt. I made an argument about the semantics of the word "let".
    • deleted 19d ago
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    • ropable 19d ago
      In this metaphor, OpenAI/Anthropic literally started the escalator.
• rightnutwingjob 20d ago
  At this stage, that seems like a distinction without a difference. If the robots obtain sovereign nationhood, and are able to self-sustain, then autonomous robot decides for itself will be a valid argument.
  • RandomLensman 20d ago
    Big if.
  • Geezus_42 20d ago
    Except they're nowhere near that and LLMs never will be.