I did, but not as motivation. Low pay means the hiring manager usually don’t have a large pool of people from which to choose a person with the skills for the job.

If a worker had a heart attack and died in the car in a parking lot on a hot day with the kid in the back, and the kid died. Would you still nlame the worker? Or would you ask why wasn’t there some system in place to handle the possibility of an incapacitated worker. Like a checkin system when they are with a child, or a partner.

Now add on that humans making mistakes is a whole lot more likely than a sudden heart attack incapacitating someone. Yet no system or plan exists to prevent it from resulting in the death of the child. This was entirely preventable, it just wasn’t worth the cost to the policy makers.

And no, the worker shouldn’t be completely absolved from guilt. They shouldn’t be allowed to work 1:1 with vulnerable people ever again. But will jail time solve anything? If there was some evidence that it was more than just a horrible mistake, then sure. But if not, I don’t see how putting all the blame on them will prevent it from happening in the future.

Well, guys like that can be almost allergic to anything that implies they are not in complete control of everything around them. And of course he learned from trump to just claim anyone against him is lieing.

The connection thing was really just a joke. No way to know if he might know how to do that.

Well if that is how you read it… it isn’t what I said, but I can’t help your choice of interpretation. But as long as we don’t put some blame on the management and funding deciders, this kind of thing will continue.

I do agree they should not work any job where they are responsible for children.
But if it was truly a mistake,I am just not sure tossing them in jail does anyone any good. It’s not like that would be a deterrent to someone who meant well making the same mistake. If anything it will drive people away from the job, which by reducing the pool of people applying will reduce the quality of the people they hire. So it could actually indirectly make it more likely to happen in the future. If it was clear gross negligence (which means more than just a mistake), then yeah, I am with you. Also, a large portion of thier job is actually paperwork. It really should be done by two people. And that would drastically reduce the chances of this happening. But the gov that funds this doesn’t actually care if this kind of thing happens.

Yeah, my laymans understanding of manslaughter fits the bill. But laws are “funny”. And I want to agree with what you said about blow the whistle or quit. But I understand how hard that is for a lot of people. Also, it’s hard to blow the whistle on something everyone already knows is bad. If people didn’t have to work to survive (health insurance, rent, food…) it would be a lot easier to quit if you felt you couldn’t safely do the job. But the system was designed to make it hard for people to quit. So I have trouble blaming people for not being able to do it.

Truth. Though without having interacted with the guy I can’t know if he fits the mold of people like him. He could be an outlier. But I guess the other people could be lieing too. It’s really all a crapshoot.
And at the end of the day, I don’t care if he watches porn or even what kind of person he is. I care about his impact on the children under his care. Everything else is a distraction.

Forgetting things doesn’t get harder with time, it gets easier. That said, a parent or what not would have lots of things in their house and such that would trigger them to think about the kid and remember. This person proabably had no such triggers in thier life. And of course it is what they needed.

In my experience it can, but it has been pretty uncommon. But I also don’t usually ask questions with only one answer.

The people who make them don’t really understand how they work either. They know how to train them and how the software works, but they don’t really know how it comes up with the answers it comes up with. They just do a ron of trial and error. Correlation is all they really have. Which of course is how a lot of medical science works too. So they have good company.

some daughtry song about Tijuana.

Heard this the other day, the background vocals “who likes tacos”

It’s easy, just ask the AI “are you sure”? Until it stops changing it’s answer.

But seriously, LLMs are just advanced autocomplete.

well, what you are saying is just not true. Someone in these comments posted a link to some science providing evidence to the same.

that’s a tough one for me. I mean there need to be repercussions. After all, they did take the job and did know the responsibilities. But maybe they expected more support to avoid these kinds of mistakes. Or maybe they expected the hiring manager to ensure they were qualified. And likely they will have to live with this horrible pain for the rest of there lived. No way to know from here. But I am not sure it “automatically” should result in crimanal charges that I would expect jail time from.

I dunno. Feels like a prank. If it was actually him, he probably would have been saying things like “how did that happen” and all the usual bs. Instead he was thinking of how he was going get revenge on the person who did it. And the most damning peice of evidence… I doubt he knows how to connect that screen to the internet.

If you feel anger. Good. You should. The easiest target is the worker. But ask yourself this. Why was there only one?

The general rule for most professions that deal with kids is that adults should never be alone 1 on 1 with a kid.

This worker is probably paid the least of any profession that deals with children, and they are asked to do it alone, with no backup to help catch mistakes.

So I blame the state for not investing in the well-being of children.

If you have ever met an actual cps worker you would know. They don’t take that job for the money. They are asked to work in often horrible circumstances, with thier hands essentially tied behind thier backs. Just imagine taking a child to visit a parent who isn’t allowed to be alone with thier own kid. That often is going to be heartbreaking and insanely stressful.
Mistakes happen. If the state/community really cared, there would always be at least two workers with a child in custody at any time. And they would be paid better so that the hiring manager could be more choosy about who they hired. Google spends more on redundancy alone to ensure you can always read your email. So don’t blame the person, blame the system the put them in over thier head.

Kudos to you, I did intentionally ignore that point for brevity. No point in addressing it if noone was going to followup on it. It is going to take a lot more piracy, like 500x to make buying the rights not a lucrative investment. So at present it just reduces their gains. In the long term it actually made it so that they stopped buying rights, then they might go back to royalties or something to reduce thier upfront investment. That would actually be good overall for both us and creators as it would increase the chances of the creator making out big early in thier career when something small takes off. Creators themselves are more likely to invest that early money on higher risk projects which will lead to more variety in the overall offerings and more new creators being able to make a living creating.

But I would die happy with steak in my belly.

Just call it training the AI in your brain. You couldn’t be expected to be successful if you had to pay for all that training material…