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nkrisc 3 hours ago

> It's akin to saying that every molecules behave randomly according to statistical physics, so you should expect your ceiling to spontaneously disintegrate any day, and if you find yourself under the rubble one day it's just a consequence of basic physics.

Except your ceiling can and will fall on you unless you take preventative measures, entirely due to molecular interactions within the material.

Barring that, it is entirely possible and even quite likely that your ceiling will collapse on you or someone else some time in the future.

It boggles the mind to let an LLM have access to a production database without having explicit preventative measures and contingency plans for it deleting it.

margalabargala 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I have lived about 40 years beneath ceilings and never personally taken a preventative measure. I allow my kids to walk under not only our own ceiling, but other people's ceilings, and I have never asked those people if their ceilings were properly maintained.

nkrisc 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Your home almost certainly has preventative measures, including proper humidity and temperature control, structural reinforcement, etc.

I don't mean that you personally have taken those measures, but preventative measures have absolutely been taken. When they aren't, ceilings collapse on people.

See any sheetrock ceiling with a leak above it. Or look at any abandoned building: they will eventually always have collapsed floors/ceilings. It is inevitable.

withinboredom 11 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've had a ceiling fall on me once and once to a friend while on vacation. Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it hasn't happened to other people.

nclin_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Construction regulation is the preventative measure.