armchairhacker

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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
Forcing APIs maybe wouldn't be bad, but shouldn't be necessary. It would be hard to enforce and the company could release convoluted APIs, which would be harder to regulate. Meanwhile, scrapers can publish a decent API.
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
Every social media is popular because of the network effect. Even TikTok launched just under a decade ago, grew with help from China’s government and cultural isolation, and only became “mainstream” (in 2020) after already having hundreds
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
The war on drugs was a failure, and the most successful cases (other than harsh punishments while avoiding massive drug use in the first place, like Singapore) involve legalization.
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
I’d prefer similar to Doctorow, that governments simply make scraping and republishing (anything that anyone who consents can access) explicitly legal, then alternate frontends may appear with their own algorithms.
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
The problem is, sometimes I pick up a novel and it doesn’t have that, it’s just boring through (or I think it will be so I give up). Is there a way to find out before investing so much time? Mainstream critics have different preferences tha
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
Maybe ask it to summarize, improve phrasing, and remove tropes a couple times? Otherwise you have the LLM analogue of a first draft. I doubt it will be as good as humans, because LLMs don't seem to have "taste" (RVLR doesn&#x
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
That one starts with a glaring hallucination "he didn't understand, nobody understood, not then or now...". But the second part is IMO better than the Ecclasiast, which has outdated phrasing ("nor yet riches to men of un
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
With the lyrics in modern pop songs, I don’t blame Claude. I guess Anthropic really does care about his well-being.
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
I discovered a bigger one: https://reddit.com
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
(This holds generally) maybe because the people most likely to be convinced to buy this particular thing are the people who buy a lot of things. The people who only buy things they need, they’re a harder demographic to convince via ads, and
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
How does this happen? There’s no silver lining which makes this conviction reasonable. If they can’t appeal, I hope they use Streisand to get the town or state of Virginia to vacate everything.
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
Ad revenue is also subverted by seeing the original video with uBlock, which I think is fair, because I think ads are harmful and unsustainable - like copyright, only a small minority of indie creators get sustainable revenue from ads, and
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
n=1, I started programming with Scratch and it led to my software-adjacent career today.
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
These only further my point. Everything published on RoyalRoad is already free; the issue the authors face is trademark, not copyright, violation, because their works are republished under a different name. Also, while OP found resolution,
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
It wouldn’t be $0, because creators make money without selling their work: Patreon, commissions, even ads/sponsorships (though not ideal). Most creators I know, all their main work is already free.
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
Today, practically zero new indies make a living from selling digital copies of a thing they created. That income is eclipsed by giving away their main work, then asking for donations, maybe selling merchandise, early access, tailored commi
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
It matters because copyright is widely abused and hurts neutral sites which must constantly check for copyrighted content, and it would’ve hampered AI if it was enforced. Your analogy doesn’t fit because a house is physical, but “intellectu
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
My understanding is that most of these web novels are free, and patreon grants early access at best, which is enforced by trust anyways (the creator doesn’t have the time or resources to track and sue someone posting the early access on a p
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
As opposed to today, where big companies never steal from writers, and it’s not very hard for them to make a living? (Not books, but Amazon has ripped off indie products before: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation&
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
Trademark != copyright: trademark is attributing indies whenever their work appears (which is very doable), copyright is preventing others from seeing or reshowing their work (even with attribution). Copyright is about protecting their sale
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
I have the same understanding regarding YouTubers and writers. There’s so much competition nowadays, almost no indie can achieve nearly enough sales for a living wage. And ironically, the best way to get more attention is to make your produ
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
What % of new authors today make full-time salary on writing? And what % of those do by selling, vs giving away their work for free (to get non-negligible attention) then getting their real money through donations, merch, etc.?
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by armchairhacker 1mo ago
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all others that have been tried". If the people aren't capable of handling an issue, who is? Bureaucrats who are...elected democratically? Brexit's issue is that it c
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by armchairhacker 2mo ago
We already have the internet, anyone can make a site to aggregate all announcements from major officials. For a more general social media, you’d have to get Russia, China, various European nations, and the US to agree on something.
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by armchairhacker 2mo ago
Maybe in the past, but who in the present who isn’t already rich is or would have the income hurt by eliminating IP laws? Keep in mind that most indie projects make barely any money, most of those that do are free + ads or Patreon, any so
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by armchairhacker 2mo ago
It reminds me of what happened to public bathrooms.
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by armchairhacker 2mo ago
How are the comments ignorant and what should we learn?
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by armchairhacker 2mo ago
What other solution do you propose? (Yes, eating healthy and exercising would probably help most people, but many remain)
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by armchairhacker 2mo ago
Are there some narrow cases (like in outputting the input almost verbatim) where the probability for every best token is always much higher than second best, and in those cases would there be no watermark?
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by armchairhacker 2mo ago
From 2021: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751 And SCIgen was generating bullshit papers that actually managed to be published in 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen

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