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Per my previous comment on this, I don't think it makes sense to describe this in terms of temperature. I think a fair description in...

It looks reasonable to me, but I'm not sure if this argument appears in the form you give it in the literature. For example, it doesn't...

I've seen that heuristic argument (though not in actual peer-reviewed literature), but I don' think it's correct. The uncertainty...

This doesn't make sense; temperature is not a property of individual atoms. It's a property of the system. For example, see here (the...

I think there are already existing legal concepts that cover this quite well. @Dale already mentioned libel. Another obvious one is...

Sure it did. Its operator did not expect it to respond to the rejection of its pull request with a hit piece. Obviously, in hindsight...

Using the formulas I gave in post #30 just now, if we know the maximum rapidity ##\alpha##, the proper time ##T## required to reach it...

It almost does: $$ \frac{M}{m} = e^\alpha - 1 $$ where ##\alpha##, the rapidity, is given by ##\alpha = a T / c## (##a## being the...

But the person who set the AI that made the pull request and then posted the hit piece did not ask it to do those things. So LLMs are...

Do you consider the AI that submitted a pull request to matplotlib, and then wrote and published a hit piece on the author of matplotlib...

”all intents and purposes” is certainly too broad. You would not say that they have a will and mind of their own for liability purposes...

I didn't say their descriptions weren't consistent. I said none of them really work. Because... Exactly. I made a similar point in this...

They are doing what their designers programmed to do; but what their designers programmed them to do is not predictable.

Yes, agreed. But @Hornbein left out that possibility, which seems odd, since "flat", as I said, is in between "hyperbolic" and...

Yes, fair point--there might be more than one "human of record".