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by bloppe 3y ago
Sounds like you didn't read the article. Here's a better synoposis: I read a NYT article and publish an exact copy of that article on my website: copyright infringement. Train a model on NYT text and it outputs an exact copy of th
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by bloppe 3y ago
Read the article. It's not difficult to get ChatGPT to regurgitate recent, obviously copyrighted articles, verbatim.
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by bloppe 3y ago
> the writers themselves stand noth' to gain from their past writings financially as they don't belong to the ownership structure of the business. This is a dumb argument. We're not just talking about ancient articles. We&
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by bloppe 3y ago
Basically none of the training material for GPT was used under an "unlimited" license. There are very important legal limitations. GPT just doesn't care much about them.
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by bloppe 3y ago
Ya, clearly patents are a good deal for inventors. I just think a lot of people fail to realize that it's also a good deal for society. Without patents, who knows how many ideas would be stuck in the heads of individual people, relucta
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by bloppe 3y ago
Patents are a pragmatic contract between inventors and society: - In order to be granted a patent, inventors must publish detailed descriptions of their inventions, including step-by-step instructions on how to re-create them. The invention
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by bloppe 3y ago
There aren't that many Californians moving to NC. There are probably more than from other states, but that's just because CA is the most populous state. Inter-state migration has not budged much from the long term average. Califor
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by bloppe 3y ago
Ya, it's mainly a US problem. And it should be the domain of antitrust regulation. But, American regulators probably won't get around to it in the foreseeable future, so a little needling is good.
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by bloppe 3y ago
This mentality is fascinating to me. In a sense, nobody owns an Apple device. It's more like renting: the landlord keeps a bunch of doors locked and has strict rules, but the place comes pre-furnished and includes millennial-grade amen
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by bloppe 3y ago
Feels like they're desperate for a pattern but focusing on size (which can either increase or decrease) is oddly specific. The headline of the article should probably be "insular animals tend to differ from continental counterpart
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by bloppe 3y ago
It seems like the root cause of this runaway AI pathology has to do mainly with the over-anthropomorphization of AI. The umwelt of an LLM is so far removed from that of any living organism so as to be fundamentally irreconcilable with our u
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by bloppe 3y ago
You only reach a vertical asymptote if every derivative up to the infinite order is increasing. That means acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, pop, etc. are all increasing. The physical world tends to have certain constraints that make such
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by bloppe 3y ago
> I'm a little disappointed that The Economist, of all publications, didn't get ths quite right It's a guest essay. The Economist does not edit guest essays. They routinely publish guest essays from unabashed propagandists
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by bloppe 3y ago
None of that changes the fact that you need competition.
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by bloppe 3y ago
The right number is decided by competition. Different payment processors vie for customers by offering better deals until profit margins stabilize at a reasonable level. That's impossible with a monopoly.
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by bloppe 3y ago
Google pays for the OEM to pre-install the Google Play store, not for them to disallow alternative stores. "Paying for it to be non-optional" is a bit misleading. Users always have the option.
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by bloppe 3y ago
Talking about app store specifically, the difference according to many on HN would seem to be that Apple can have a monopoly because they use it to protect you, but Google should not because they use it to exploit you. This sounds pretty si
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by bloppe 3y ago
To get into this analogy: this doesn't mean cars are worthless; it just means they're a poor approximation of a horse. Maybe you don't want to approximate a horse. But, if you do want to approximate a horse, don't try to
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by bloppe 3y ago
Drop the "AI". It's cleaner.
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by bloppe 3y ago
To add contention: if you find LLMs are super useful for helping you do your job, you should start looking for a new job. Not necessarily a completely different job, just one where AI won't be able to help all that much without another
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by bloppe 3y ago
If the biggest knock against Firefox is that it imitates Chrome too often, that's hardly a reason to stick with Chrome. And they aren't afraid to diverge from Chrome in important ways. For example, letting you disable 3p cookies a
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by bloppe 3y ago
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/16/apples-flavor-of-... Huh, pleasantly surprised Apple is taking up the mantle on something cross-platform. Nice.
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by bloppe 3y ago
I'm mostly just talking about the noxious white-on-green color they chose for cross-platform chat bubbles. It's a great example of hostile architecture. RCS fixes the cost / reliability problems of SMS, so that annoying color
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by bloppe 3y ago
So, does this still cripple ad blocking? It's pretty hard to parse from the post. I don't really care anyway. Chrome is not the internet. Just use Firefox.
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by bloppe 3y ago
The EU is interested in fair competition. Apple has managed to provide a terrible cross-platform messaging experience to their own customers for years while successfully convincing everyone that the problem is due to every other phone besid
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by bloppe 3y ago
Mind if I ask what kind of projects you work on? And any specific examples where GPT really shined and delivered a lot of value?
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by bloppe 3y ago
Google has a large charitable arm called google.org, but your point is mostly correct, although the money they pay to employees (and to the government in the form of payroll taxes) isn't being destroyed. It's just cycling around t
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by bloppe 3y ago
Perhaps even using the word capitalism has become unhelpful since it's so charged. I think we're basically agreeing with each other. I just think this particular responsibility falls on the government rather than individual employ
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by bloppe 3y ago
Well-designed socialism, possibly including UBI, is the correct answer. Market forces are super useful and important, the government just needs to make sure competition is fair.
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by bloppe 3y ago
Capitalism should incentivize efficient allocation of resources. If a job becomes easier or less in-demand, it should see a pay decrease. It's not the capitalist's job to pay above-market wages just because "they should"

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