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by bgwalter 1y ago
Copyright was only necessary with mass reproduction. The Gutenberg Bible does not yet qualify. The Berne Convention started in 1886, where the problem became more pressing. And as I said, art was always paid for . In the case of monarchies
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The massive amounts of compute power is not the major issue. The major issue is unlimited amount of reference material. If a human can look up similar previous problems just as the "AI" can, it is a huge advantage. Syzygy tables i
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by bgwalter 1y ago
A database is good at leetcode, who would have thought. Give humans a database and they'll outperform your "AI" (which probably uses an extraordinary amount of graphics cards and electricity). It is an idiotic benchmark, in l
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Companies valued at $300 billion or more are not another individual and people are not "sharing" their works. The companies are stealing them. For the majority of interesting output people have paid for art, music, software, journ
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Do you seriously accuse me for providing arguments for not blowing up a pipeline that is 50% owned by Germany, France and The Netherlands? If it had been done to a US pipeline, it would have been called terrorism.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It should be implemented for politicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizergate "Von der Leyen previously used her phone to award contracts worth several hundred million euros while acting as defense minister o
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Nord Stream 1 started operations in 2011. For 11 years money was flowing and the Russian army was in terrible shape in 2022. Now, without the Nord Stream money, it is in better shape. When the pipeline was sabotaged, no gas and no money wer
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Nord Stream money is being replaced by China in the new gas deal: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-china-bless-v... So Russia can now export gas, get foreign currency, and buy weapons with the money
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The Marshall plan is overrated: https://www.nzz.ch/english/how-the-marshall-plan-is-overly-r... https://mises.org/mises-wire/marshall-plan-isnt-success-stor... “Britain received twice as much aid
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West Germany had a very strong army and better social systems than now until 1990. It could easily have built nuclear weapons, but wasn't allowed to. The dichotomy between social programs and weapons (a variation of the old butter vs.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
So they got him on a minor CFFA charge. Was anyone from Anthropic jailed for torrenting millions of books?
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The only leverage countries have against the US is exporting something that the US wants. Rare earths, electronics, cars, etc. If they are blackmailed via tariffs to build factories in the US so that the US becomes self-sufficient, there is
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by bgwalter 1y ago
You cannot prevent cheating with other policies like the Developer Certificate of Origin either. Yet no one brought up the potential cheating at the time these policies were discussed. Several projects have rejected "AI" policies
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It is interesting that so many people are upset about this policy. If "AI" actually worked, you could plagiarize the whole of Gentoo in one hour. But no, you always have to infiltrate and harass existing projects, because without
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by bgwalter 1y ago
An advertisement, where the protagonists weigh the pros and cons and then come down on the side of "paying the innovation tax". Fastly profits from"AI" just like Cloudflare (or should we say "Claudeflare"). Thi
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by bgwalter 1y ago
And I instantly switch off any YouTube video with either "AI"-plagiarized background music or with an "AI"-plagiarized voiceover that copies someone like Attenborough. I wrote the above paragraph before searching, but of
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It is interesting that the early shipping containerization boom resulted in a bubble in 1975 and had a new low around 1990. 1990 is when the real outsourcing mania started, which led to the destruction of most Western manufacturing. Apart f
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Given that "AI" training needs millions of books, papers and web pages, it is a derivative work of all those books. Humans cannot even read a fraction of that and still surpass "AI" in any creative and generative domain.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The problem is that open source maintainers rarely react, because most projects are captured by some big tech employees. Independent authors like Stenberg are the exception. If the rebellious spirit of the 1990s and early 2000s still existe
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The real money is in collecting and reselling user data, so if Joe gives his recent finances to "Anthropic" in order to plan a trip to Italy (this is one of the examples in the submission), perhaps credit rating agencies would lik
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by bgwalter 1y ago
You don't have a case. You just rant, deflect, don't address overtime and privacy laws and change topics.
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Airbus is more profitable than Boeing and has fewer accidents as of late. Maybe you don't mix up bolts in a door if you are more fresh mentally. Companies are free to pay overtime, and the salaries would still be less than in SV. So yo
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The EU could defend itself against Russia on its current budget. Germany had to reduce its army as part of the reunification deal and is now criticized for not having a big army. Only France has nuclear weapons and the incentive to spend hu
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The question isn't whether this future arrives. Looking at the money and talent flowing into AI development, it's inevitable. The question is whether you'll be ready when it does, and whether you'll be working on the pa
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It looks like a specialized proprietary application to identify defect patterns in lithography, similar to these papers: https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/calibre/2024/04/03/ai-ml-rules-... That seems to be o
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by bgwalter 1y ago
A surprising number of people are in favor of (or pay lip service to) some kind of VAT on robots and "AI": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_tax Make it 50% of the sales price like with cigarettes, since &q
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by bgwalter 1y ago
What are the next steps after the install? Discover that local LLMs are inadequate or freeze the machine (as stated in the article)? If you are at NIH, perhaps wait until you are fired? It is very sad that the whole scientific ecosystem is
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So we are in the "it will be useful later" phase. Here is a little stock chart from the dotcom bubble until today: https://companiesmarketcap.com/juniper-networks/stock-price-...
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by bgwalter 1y ago
People investing in startups that sell Adderall without prescription or other telemedicine schemes are welcome in this administration, too. The odd thing is that Trump always uses drugs as a pretext to intimidate other countries. He used fe

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