Comment by JumpCrisscross
6 days ago
Do you have a background in biochemistry? I've mostly worked with ChatGPT and Claude on topics I have expertise in. And I one hundred percent have seen them make stupid shit up that a non-expert would think looks legitimate.
More broadly, has anyone tried following LLM instructions for any non-trivial chemistry?
So what you are saying is we can expect the number of accidental home-made chlorine-gas (and the like) toxic events go up.
> what you are saying is we can expect the number of accidental home-made chlorine-gas (and the like) toxic events go up
Maybe? One of the quirks of gaining even a surface-level understanding of infrastructure is realising how vulnerable it is to a smart, motivated adversary. The main thing protecting us isn't hard security. It's most Americans having better shit to do than running a truck of fertiliser and oxidiser into a pylon.
Similarly, I'd expect way more people to be trying to make their own designer drug, and hurting themselves that way, than trying to make neurotoxins.
> It's most Americans having better shit to do than running a truck of fertiliser and oxidiser into a pylon.
FWIW, it's most people having better shit to do, regardless of nationality (or lack thereof).
But, yeah, anyone who takes a few weekends to understand how large-scale infrastructure works and consider why it's possible for nearly all of it to remain untargeted by saboteurs inevitably develops a resistance to the "Lots of Bad Guys are trying to kill us all the time, so we must enact $AUTHORITARIAN_POLICIES immediately to prevent them and keep us safe!!!" type of argument.
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> It's most Americans having better shit to do than running a truck of fertiliser and oxidiser into a pylon.
Which sort of implies "most Americans have jobs and responsibilities and things to live for"
I guess it's a good thing that AI is hammering away at the "jobs and responsibilities" part of that equation