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Dean Valentine

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I would like to announce that after consulting with a flesh and blood, artisanal human lawyer, I am officially retracting my retraction. Turns out I was totally right the entire time about NY state AI bill S7263 - the bill doesn't ban chatbots from giving advice about e.g. Medicine even in its current form, and the tweet & quote tweeters are incorrect.

Not only that, but I also think that the conversation I had in the original thread is itself representative of the pitfalls of TPOT/"Inadequate Equilibria" modeling of government which I complained about. An evenhanded fullpost about the debacle is forthcoming

This feels like a crux for liability as the operative constraint. A good test of whether rendering someone liable is a de facto ban. I expect it to be.