SilasX

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by SilasX 2y ago
Well, there are two things going on here. Norquist does oppose efforts by the IRS to (partially) obviate TurboTax by having the IRS do your taxes [1]. Separately , he has the anti-tax pledge you mention. The former is not entailed by the l
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by SilasX 2y ago
But what about that kind of scale matters to this particular area? The article spends a lot of time showing the substantive parallels between how humans and AIs learn e.g. in how they never store an exact copy, but a high-level understandin
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by SilasX 2y ago
What is that replying to? I was addressing the argument that "well, you stored the work in memory, therefore you infringed copyright". It seems like you agree that that jump doesn't follow, just as I argued?
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by SilasX 2y ago
>Even if we accept the house-of-cards of shaky arguments this essay is built on, even just for the sake of argument, where Open AI breaks my copyright is by having a computer "memorize" my work. That's a form of copy. No,
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by SilasX 2y ago
I agree that you should call the output copyright infringement (or not) without regard to how you got there. So, if it produces an identical copy of the text, or of e.g. Indiana Jones, that you then distribute it, sure, that is copyright
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by SilasX 2y ago
For generous definitions of "funny", maybe.
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by SilasX 2y ago
To repeat my litany of shirking: 1) We don't need software tests because we have a QA team. 2) We don't need a QA team because we can just watch for user bug reports. 3) We don't need to watch for user bug reports because any
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by SilasX 2y ago
Yes! I loved that one! I was singing it afterward. ("Thank you for your attention, this robot rap is over") I'm impressed that they were able to slip in a jab about the ridiculousness of having to tell you how to buckle a sea
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by SilasX 2y ago
I'm not claiming to be better than anyone, I just want to know if there's some subtlety I'm missing, or it's just people overplaying regular toilet humor. If toilet humor is your thing -- more power to ya! I just have a
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by SilasX 2y ago
Because it's so hard to come up with something inappropriate to do in a work environment?
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by SilasX 2y ago
Oh dang, the policy discriminates against frozen avocados? Maybe just a filler word.
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by SilasX 2y ago
That’s generous. One party is stubbornly missing that the Delaware court’s ruling is weak evidence of a proper valuation having been done, but wants to parrot an irrelevant textbook understanding that obfuscates that conclusion.
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by SilasX 2y ago
This. What held up wheeled luggage was the difficulty of having small, reliable wheels that could bear a lot of weight. You could have big wheels, but that would be impractical here, though not for chariots, wheelbarrows, pushcarts, or rick
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by SilasX 2y ago
>For all those scenarios, I wish for some kind of microphone/device that could read from subvocalizations or lip movement. There's a similar issue with those automated phone interfaces that "helpfully" require you to
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by SilasX 2y ago
It doesn't sound like you're disputing my core point, that he's - trying to benefit (financially) from the unrebutted presumption that the picture shows the monkey's self-awareness and understanding that it's taking
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by SilasX 2y ago
You missed that the selling point of the picture is the supposed self awareness and intent involved in the monkey taking a selfie? Yes, of course the author has always wanted the copyright. But the whole reason the picture has value contrad
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by SilasX 2y ago
It always felt to me like the photographer was trying to have it both ways there: "Whoa! Isn't this sooo trippy! A monkey showing self-awareness to take a picture of itself!" Courts: "Okay, the monkey took it, so no copy
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by SilasX 2y ago
True, but we could move to lip-reading for that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43400636
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by SilasX 2y ago
>Voice interface? Can't work. I would NOT want to shout my private notes into a team video call. The entire point of me writing them down is that they are meant for me, not for everyone. Heh, I had a weird nightmare about that. I wa
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by SilasX 2y ago
In American English, terminal d's and t's usually sound the same unless the speaker takes deliberate care to enunciate them, so that would cover the greater and pedal cases.
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by SilasX 2y ago
The only revenue stream they should be pursuing is interest on the endowment they built from the Google payouts. Anything else makes them dependent on someone else and corrupts the mission.
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by SilasX 2y ago
To little, too late. They underwent massive scope creep, throwing money at anything and everything, while neglecting the core task of maintaining a standards-compliant, user-friendly/non-hostile, privacy-respecting browser ... result
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by SilasX 2y ago
That wouldn’t make it contradictory, it would make “always lying” just as effective a strategy as in the original problem statements. It’s a general problem that “being known to always lie” makes (the goals of) deception harder, and my defi
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by SilasX 2y ago
>I wonder how many people have literally been injured or died due to this pursuit for better "design". One famous example is Anton Yelchin, who played Chekov in the new Star Trek movies. The new Jeep shifter design made it less
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by SilasX 2y ago
Stupid question: what about defining "lying" as "saying something that, if accepted, moves the believer away from the liar's worldmodel"? (Which I think matches general intuition.) Then you do get information once y
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by SilasX 2y ago
Heh, I’ve used that test to guess if someone was running npm.
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by SilasX 2y ago
So… certain jobs will be obsolete because we found a silver bullet for obesity? This is in the vein of “we eliminated a massive category of accidental deaths? But… but then what about the organ waitlist?”
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by SilasX 2y ago
I agree in spirit, that it's possible for a field to be so lost that a new paradigm fundamentally obviates it and frees you from having to recapitulate the entire thicket. But still, a minimal test for whether you've actually ob
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by SilasX 2y ago
Oh yes, I agree with the general point, that the Jevons non-effect in lighting is canceled by the Jevons effect in general energy usage, and that we can't expect energy efficiency improvements alone to reduce the latter. So there'
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by SilasX 2y ago
Hm, I'd never noticed that phenomenon, but even so, the efficiency gain is so high that, even when you enumerate all those spaces, it doesn't cancel out the energy savings of the shift.

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