The benefits of unionization extend beyond this particular situation or company.

They can help shift the balance of power back to the employee and help them guard against being squeezed by their employer to produce more or take on more work for less benefits or compensation.

American tech workers have been fortunate to avoid such aggressive practices, but working conditions will only deteriorate from here, with workers crushed between LLMs and offshoring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionization_in_the_tech_secto...

Do you think that other professionals would put up with this shit? Absolutely not.

There’s also the matter of an association binding its members by a professional code of ethics. The software engineers who are tasked with building systems like these need to stand up and say no when asked to do. These systems will make life worse for you, your coworkers, and society.

Stop trading your conscience for cash.

I guess I was imagining that if temperature was 0, and the model was not being continuously trained, the weights wouldn’t change, and the output would be deterministic.

Is this a feature of LLMs more generally or has OpenAI more specifically introduced some other degree of randomness in their models?

From the article: “Codeine regulation varies widely across countries and states. In some states, including North Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma, and Iowa,1,2 pharmacists can dispense a small quantity of cough syrup containing codeine OTC. Based on individual state law, this information may not be logged into the prescription drug monitoring program, which may contribute to providers being unaware of their patients’ use of codeine.”

This is an exceedingly rare practice in the US however.

[0]https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/behind-the-counter-codein...

I had never heard of this, and it seemed important, some cursory research turned up many twitter posts from individuals amplifying your version of events.

I also found a write up on the situation from TechDirt[0]. The article is fairly good and well sourced, but it paints a substantially different picture than what you describe.

[0]https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/15/extraordinarily-confused...

Definition: Many arguments rely on an analogy between two or more objects, ideas, or situations. If the two things that are being compared aren’t really alike in the relevant respects, the analogy is a weak one, and the argument that relies on it commits the fallacy of weak analogy.

Tip: Identify what properties are important to the claim you’re making, and see whether the two things you’re comparing both share those properties.“[1]

[1]https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/fallacies/

I suspect the poster you are responding to disagrees that it is a relevant comparison, since commodities, their value, and subsequently the way in which they are traded is in some way influenced by their “vital” civilizational importance.

The implication here is that crypto does not share that crucial (for the analogy) property of vital importance, and as such the trading patterns/market forces are not comparable.

In this case is it reasonable to point out that the analogy is weak, we do not have to ignore how the two candidate comparables are different if they differ in fundamental ways.