This is pretty conclusively addressed by the Bell Inequalities and empirically tested. It’s absolutely counter-intuitive and feels “wrong” but it is definitely how our universe operates.

The important distinction here (and I get it, analogies are always imperfect) is that the photograph analogy has “hidden variables”. That is, each half is fixed at the moment of their separation and you just don’t know what’s in the envelopes until you open one. That’s not how entangled particles work though, and which “half” is which is not determined until the instant of measurement, at which point the state of both are known and fixed.

Sure, and anyone who is just now coming to that conclusion can fuck all the way off

So then your counter to someone bringing attention to the fact that LLMs are actively telling people (vulnerable people, due to reasons that you’ve pointed out), is that it isn’t the singular contributing factor?

I get what you’re saying here, and I think everyone else does too? I don’t want to just be entirely dismissive and say “no shit” but I’m curious as to what it is you want or expect out of this? Do you take offense at people pushing back at harmful LLMs? Do you want people to care more about creating a kinder society? Do you think these things are somehow incompatible?

Of course LLMs aren’t driving people to suicide in a vacuum, no one is claiming that. Clearly though, when taken within the larger context of the current scale of mental health crisis, having LLMs that are encouraging people to commit suicide is a bad thing that we should absolutely be making noise about.

Is the argument here that anti-AI folks are hypocrites because people can be bad too sometimes? That’s a remarkably childish and simple take.

Divorced :(

Well I know these people and they’re great plus they’re married now :)

You’re right, I had it wrong. Misinformation deleted.

Sad to see people trying to correct you here, maybe I can help explain.

Gravitational force between two objects is GMmr^2, for dropping objects on the Earth (or Moon) we ignore the mass of the object we’re dropping because it’s practically insignificant, but if your experiment really was perfectly accurate then the observed rate would be extremely slightly different as the heavier of the two objects being dropped is also pulling the Earth up towards it a bit more than the lighter object. If the person performing the experiment is standing on the Earth (or just using the Earth as their reference frame) they would see this as the heavier object falling faster.