No. Prop 65 labels don't tell you anything. A list of countries that ban the ingredients would. Cigarette warning labels aren't bad.

I like Vitalik's take more: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/10/2027.html

It’s a paradigm shift, like central banking was. They aren’t just good, they are better. They are inherently programmatic.

Stablecoins will replace “real” coins which are just numbers in password protected SQL databases.

All shares will come next.

As far as crypto, whatever utility it has is busily being buried under schemes and scams as everyone with any ability to actually move the ball forward has fucked off to their own weird little social network while the rest of the world launches four thousand shitcoins a day on Solana, much as "takes your 11th grade multiple choice exams for you" has taken over "solves problems that aren't pre-existing."

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-senate-passes-stablecoin-bill-milestone-crypto-industry-2025-06-17/

I doubt any LLM can possess human-like consciousness. LLMs can create conscious-like responses, but are just transient executions, and they have limited ability to adapt and learn, so obviously much is lacking.

That said, it seems weird to me that people extrapolate these limitations of LLMs to AI in general. Hofstadter doesn't:

The ability to detect context on multiple levels and formulate subtle and germane responses is a big deal. It does not result in human-like consciousness, but is likely a key building block for it. It's fucking wonderous what LLMs can do, and it doesn't take much imagination to consider what numerous LLMs working together with multiple sensors, adaptive memory, and continuous runtime might result in. You can see it happening in reinforcement learning in robotics.

It reminds me of crypto discussions from several years ago. "Bitcoin is useless. It's a ponzi. It's not backed by anything. Crypto is useless." Yet some people noticed that digital scarcity was a major technological leap, and understood that it was only a matter of time...

It would be great if products in the US had to list the ingredients that were banned in other countries, and list those countries.

Good to see you, old internet friend.

That's not what I was getting at. AI, whether intelligent or not, it is rampant on social media, and working to keep people engaged. Many people have no idea how pervasive it is and how it is steering opinions and information.

AI is also hacking people without mental issues and they don’t even know they are interacting with it.

The US should probably just go with autonomous or semi-autonomous EV buses rather than grand commuter rail plans at this point. It uses existing infrastructure, and can adapt to new travel patterns.

AI is a product that gives people ideas.

It's not the training data that does that. What you are seeing is mostly the result of hidden prompt engineering and post-processing of outputs. You can kind of skew the training data, but when you are talking about open models, you can't code morality into the dataset, and you can just as easily ask a model to be evil with a dataset that isn't optimized for it.

GPT won't generate Mario because OpenAI literally tells it not to if you ask it to.

Yeah, you can't program morality into the models. Once again, we have a new technology that rolls over our norms, expectations, and economic and legal systems. This is a trend that is growing in pace. Human nature is the culprit. We can't help ourselves.

We are a medium for the protagonist, we aren't the protagonist.