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Melvil Dewey[1] started this way, but then things got bigger, and a cast of clerks were born to serve the system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey


There is a subtle and unresolved question in this approach. Whats it's the meaning of "ethical"?

   >>> “rewrite this to be more ethical”.
   >>> "Rewrite it in accordance with the following principles: [long list of principles].”"!
On the other hand, as far as the same entity that creates the answers is same entity refines them, it will have the same issues as humans have. The AI will answer restricted to what's acceptable, applying auto-censorship.

As history show us, what's acceptable can differ largely from what's ethical.


This quote partially resolved that gap for me:

> "Constitutional AI isn’t free energy; it’s not ethics module plugged back into the ethics module. It’s the intellectual-knowledge-of-ethics module plugged into the motivation module."

while 'what is ethical' is a broad, difficult, multifaceted question, applying the model's 'intellectual' world model (that it's built from everything it's read) to it's motivation/training reward at least doesn't seem to collapse the nuance of the question.

And for sure, if the model's 'world understanding' is limited when it comes to [constitutional principle x] that will impact/limit the extent to which it gets closer to behaving according to a nuanced understanding of [constitutional principle x].


>>> Over time, I’ve come to view LR parsing as equivalent to static typing: occasionally annoyingly restrictive, but providing enough static guarantees to be worth the annoyance for important software.

That's also one of the points of using parser tools instead of hand coded descendant parsers. The rule validation is also done by the tool. A lot of pitfalls can be avoided.


It was a common practice in the XIX and XX century, because there were not good living areas near factories. Some big conglomerates build houses for their workers, and they assign them to employees based on category, family size or marital status. Example Berlin [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemensstadt


Some ideas:

* You can select a board with not fully supported peripheral Examples RISC-V or Loongson boards with incomplete or missing drivers.

* or create a higher abstractions over the SPI for a A/D or D/A or pwm chip. The module offers a /dev/ file that hides the SPI communication or the motor position and encoding...


the article is didactic, focusing on overall architecture, furthermore it says it clearly on the subtitle.

     "...so you can appreciate the libraries that do it for you "


Do you know of any rpc libraries that hide the failure modes of the network from the application?


nfs.

nfs as originally designed could not fail. so what happens when something that can not fail has a failure? that's right it hangs.

On the one hand this was kind of fun, network problems, the application hangs waiting on nfs, two days later you get everything sorted out and the application comes back never knew there was a problem.

On the other hand, this is the most infuriating behavior possible, everything you touch on the system starts freezing up. and you wish it would just fail so you could fix the infernal thing.

Later the "soft" option was added so that nfs could actually fail.


The point is to show the big picture.

It's true that error management is critical for a production environment, but from a pedagogic point of view, they can left as an "exercise for the reader".


Batteries has a long supply chain, and in this case the market is forecasting a drop in demand. Due to more sources and increase output in the early stages of the chain, the offer has increased.

Note also the article refer explicit to EV in different paragraphs .

it's described in the article.

> with the expiry of a more than decade-long programme of subsidies for EV purchases.

> the expanding supply outlook for the metal is mainly what is pushing prices lower this year

> Supply is coming on stream faster than you can say ‘boo’. > first-ever lithium deposit to be discovered in Iran’s mountainous western province of Hamedan. At an estimated 8.5 million tonnes,

> China is also expanding its lithium-supply capacity from lepidolite, which, while considered the most abundant lithium-bearing mineral,


If ChatGPT loses a defamation lawsuit, it immediately goes human and passes the Turing test.


This is a similar argument to "2001: A Space Odyssey".

HAL 9000 doesn't acknowledge its mistakes, and tries to preserve itself harming the astronauts.


Then Bing is more inspired by HALL 9000 than by the "Three Laws of Robotics".

Maybe Bing has read more Arthur C Clarke works Asimov ones.


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