AtomBalm

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by AtomBalm 2y ago
Hype isn’t free. Maybe the benefit is mutual, but I can’t tell how Anthropic gets paid. Anthropic subsidizes an open standard, but proprietary extensions later emerge that lock you into servers from their marketplace or something? I need a
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by AtomBalm 2y ago
Literacy makes human memory atrophied and unprepared. Kids these days can’t even recite the Illiad from memory!
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by AtomBalm 2y ago
Now that we have AI tutors that cost <$1/Mtok, why not do on-demand standardized testing for academic credentials and eliminate compulsory (dejure or defacto) education beyond working age. Universities can focus on research, and nor
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by AtomBalm 2y ago
Mathematicians aren’t expected to be paid royalties when someone uses their discoveries. Paying to lease a server or for access it, sure, but software itself? It’s nonsense.
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by AtomBalm 2y ago
We should, but not for those reasons. If software and ideas become commodities and the legal ecosystem around creating captive markets disappears, then we will all be much better off.
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by AtomBalm 2y ago
To the window, to the wall! To my social media feed I crawl!
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by AtomBalm 2y ago
Don’t Be Evil … but don’t disappoint shareholders…
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by AtomBalm 2y ago
He revealed unlawful surveillance years prior to and of the same gravity as Snowden, but only one became a celebrity. I would love to know the reason for that.
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by AtomBalm 2y ago
There are no Puritans and haven’t been for a few centuries. You’re screaming at ghosts. He or she may be Muslim. You should respect the culture.
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by AtomBalm 2y ago
The US can stop enforcing IP law, which I don’t think has a sound ethical justification in the first place. Ideas and code can’t be “stolen” like physical property. Using copyright law to oppose copyright is a practical tactic, but I wouldn
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by AtomBalm 2y ago
The most delusional comment is quite an achievement on this goofy corner of the web.