This is the worst outcome.

I mean, why should I have heard about them if I'm not in SV?

The last emerge conflict I had was handled 100% by an agent.

I'm not wasting my weekend on stupid sysadmin tasks anymore.

I also disagree with the approach, this is cargo-culting the existing ways of working.

On bio: while it's easy to order all the raw material, there's the whole process of culturing bacteria/viruses/etc. that isn't trivial, and while a LLM might help in explaining stuff for rookies, there needs to be somebody physically working on it. It's not automatic. Once you get to this level, you'll find that any undergrad biologist or chemist can already make bio/chem weapons, and you don't see it happening. Terrorist groups already employ biologists or chemists that are supporters of their cause, no need for LLMs.

On cyber: aside of the question of why critical infrastructure is on the Internet on the first place (ah yes, lowest bidders, people not caring enough, business not giving IT/OT budget, S in IoT standing for security etc), if the available models can't handle cyber tasks, how can you defend yourself? See the HF "attack" that HF had to use GLM-5.2 to investigate what happened. This is the best argument for open models. Unless of course, you are the AI model creator or somebody they authorized to use their sanctioned model/harness and want to create a moat for their business.

This is FUD. Creation of business moats by fear.

You never mentioned which exact activities you were getting flagged on and getting refused.

I found that GLM-5.2 was pretty happy helping me reverse engineer/hack devices.

Maybe the system prompt you're injecting is making it refuse?

When I use it for reverse engineering, same thing, the code is already out there, but in binary form, which is becoming trivial for these LLMs to work on.

I even bought some shares from them and got some money out of it!

The cost is the contractor's hours to get up a ladder on each electricity pole from the closest PON splitter to the customer's home, plus the fiber itself which is peanuts at volume.

Everything else (permits, pole rent, etc) is accounting money that can be negotiated. If there's a strategic national program to fiber up the whole country, this could be exempted on a pen's stroke, or depreciated in many decades.

At the extreme you could do something like localized e-voting: citizens vote on issues that affect a given geographic radius of where they live. Because the boundaries are purely distance-based, gerrymandering is impossible.

Maybe we could have a decaying distance boundary by some measurement like population density or something like it?

10-15 years ago if you were importing stuff from China you'd know that the trade off for cheaper prices is that you'd lose your consumer laws protection and you'd be on your own. If you wanted those, then you'd go to your local retailer and pay extra.

If the program is actively using that allocation, that's fine. My problem is with the runtime hoarding RAM when it should have been freed after GC back to the OS.

Then there's also the JVM not handling peaks well because it hit the max heap size, while you still could rely on the OS doing its job to shuffle stuff to swap temporarily. I still see JVM OOMs in my $dayjob's product while the OS has plenty of free physical memory. It is stupid.

I mean, we have malloc() and free(), they are in the stdlib for a reason :)

The JVM seems to follow a philosophy where it assumes it is the only process running besides PID 1, which is valid for some scenarios, but not for others.