Readit NewsWhat you're saying is, there is no morally defensible reason to have kids, and the human species should just seize to exist for this reason
The point seems to be that it’s extremely risky. Your decision to have kids outweighs, in the long run, most any other moral decision you make.
If you want blocking code to run asynchronously, just run it on another task. I can write an api that queues up the action for the other thread to take, and some functions to check current state. Its easy.
To build a blocking API on top of an async one, I now need a lot of cross thread synchronization. For example, nimBLE provides an async bluetooth interface, but I needed a sync one. I ended up having my API calls block waiting for a series of FreeRTOS task notifications from the code executing asynchronously in nimBLE's bluetooth task. This was a mess of thousands of lines of BLE handling code that involved messaging between the threads. Each error condition needed to be manually verified that it sends an error notification. If a later step does not execute, either through library bug or us missing an error condition, then we are deadlocked. If the main thread continues because we expect no more async work but one of the async functions are called, we will be accessing invalid memory, causing who knows what to happen, and maybe corrupting the other task's stack. If any notification sending point is missed in the code, we deadlock.
LLM models are not “intelligent” by any meaningful measurement- they are not sapient/sentient/conscious/self-aware. They have no “intent” other than what was introduced to them via the system prompt. They cannot reason [1].
Are researchers worried about sapience/consciousness as an emergent property?
Humans who are not AI researchers generally do not have good intuition or judgment about what these systems can do and how they will “fail” (perform other than as intended). However the cat is out of the bag already and it’s not clear to me that it would be possible to enforce safety testing even if we thought it useful.
And, by the way, the image on the shroud is not made of paint, so contemporary proficiency with painting techniques hardly seems relevant.