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> These are relatively brand new systems [...] The only way to know that certain qualities could emerge is to observe the qualities emerging.

No, this class of failure-mode has been present since the very beginning.

Being "surprised" is the opposite of an excuse, it is evidence of negligence, like a chemical-transport company claiming "surprise" that one that one of the chemicals in their tanks was very flammable.

> is not a failure of security or configuration: it's data being gathered.

Would that fly in another context?

"This isn't a failure of me to leash/fence my new dog, when it bit your child's face off it was an important step in data gathering! If anything, I need to unleash him more so that we get more data so that I can eventually train him not to bite faces when my back is turned."

> So go ahead, enumerate all of the ways in which you think that you can lock down these systems, but do realize that nobody has actually solved this problem adequately yet.

"Go ahead, tell me all the ways I can train my dog, but realize that nobody's figured him out yet... so it's totally it's not my fault if I let him loose and he bites off more childrens' faces."





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