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Things are going to get weird when the automatons become sophisticated enough to pull off identity theft while unsupervised.

Putting a brick on the gas pedal is obviously negligent. Whereas it is not so obvious that running a random script from github that spins up an agent with access to your home folder could lead to real world financial crimes.

Truly a strange world we're headed for.

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arshbot1mo ago

> Whereas it is not so obvious that running a random script from github that spins up an agent with access to your home folder could lead to real world financial crimes.

disagree, and the courts will likely take this position as well. ignorance has never been a defensible strategy to avoid liability.

pick up a detonator, it's up to you to understand where the bombs are positions what's in the blast range.

fc417fc802OP1mo ago

I didn't say "liable" I said "negligent".

Anyway that's clearly not true in the general case. For example, if you didn't realize that the button was a detonator to begin with.

arshbot1mo ago

your "negligence" on understanding the ramifications of pushing the "button" resulted in your "liability".

Reframed so maybe you'd better understand the relationship between these concepts. This isn't cutting edge precedent!

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0 pointsfc417fc8021mo ago0 comments

Things are going to get weird when the automatons become sophisticated enough to pull off identity theft while unsupervised.

Truly a strange world we're headed for.

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arshbot1mo ago

> Whereas it is not so obvious that running a random script from github that spins up an agent with access to your home folder could lead to real world financial crimes.

disagree, and the courts will likely take this position as well. ignorance has never been a defensible strategy to avoid liability.

pick up a detonator, it's up to you to understand where the bombs are positions what's in the blast range.

fc417fc802OP1mo ago

I didn't say "liable" I said "negligent".

Anyway that's clearly not true in the general case. For example, if you didn't realize that the button was a detonator to begin with.

arshbot1mo ago

your "negligence" on understanding the ramifications of pushing the "button" resulted in your "liability".

Reframed so maybe you'd better understand the relationship between these concepts. This isn't cutting edge precedent!

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse