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estearumyesterday at 3:12 PM1 replyview on HN

The thing I'm pointing out is that even if you (the generalized plural) do not engage in reckless behavior, you are at the mercy of the lowest common denominator of fellow earth-inhabitants increasingly armed with superweapons via a $20/mo subscription.

The need to acquire expertise and/or a meaningful following has always been a significant impediment to malicious or moronic actors. But less so every day.


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Terr_yesterday at 9:03 PM

> the lowest common denominator

LLMs are going to be like asbestos.

A legitimate and irreplaceable tool for certain narrow tasks, but it's going to be be stuffed in a ton of astonishingly-unwise places to make a buck, and the rest of us will be dealing with the aftereffects for decades.