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by brookst 4mo ago
Oh that’s ok, xAI is enthusiastically immoral.
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by brookst 4mo ago
I miss the days when tech people were copyright skeptics. Remember when everyone was upset with Disney for our perpetual copyright regime and the destruction of public domain? Now many tech people are copyright maximalists and 100% converte
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by brookst 4mo ago
Do you think software should be regulated as a utility?
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by brookst 4mo ago
Slipper slope is always a fallacy. It works as a metaphor, and as a rhetorical device, but the fact that it’s possible to construct a gradient from heaven to hell is not proof that each step in the gradient is inevitable. It’s a good way to
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by brookst 4mo ago
“Terrorism” is so ludicrous a hyperbole that it completely discredits your position.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Yes for sure. I like asking candidates to pull up their favorite LLM and show me how they’d use it to do market research, using a real but irrelevant example like “suppose we’re looking at opening a design office in Belgrade, to get 24 hour
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by brookst 4mo ago
Age old product question. The Honda Civic is much larger today than the original, because the original targeted young people on a budget. As they aged and had kids, they needed more room in the car. Most peoples’ insinct is to buy a newer v
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by brookst 4mo ago
While true, the connection between communication and consciousness is thin. Plenty of plants communicate with each other, but it’s seen as signaling rather than consciousness. I believe that conscious is a gradient not a binary, and I belie
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by brookst 4mo ago
Wafer production is almost entirely fixed cost. Running a factory at 30% utilization costs about 80% of running at full capacity (source: former Intel). And let’s not forget Elpida. Here’s a good article on the economics of the industry and
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by brookst 4mo ago
> There is, however, no incentive to do this when prices are high unless you expect competitors to do likewise This imagines a world where water production can be dialed up and down instantly, at no cost, with no risk. It doesn’t work th
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by brookst 4mo ago
Yeah your qualifier is important. If I have zyngots and suddenly the price goes through the roof, it is not collusion or illegal for me to raise my prices. Tacit collusion requires at least signaling. There has to be some intent. Like in th
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by brookst 4mo ago
Eh, really? Like is it stereotyping to say Black people tend to have darker skin than whites? At some point, it’s not stereotyping, it’s intrinsic. And if the domain is super cheap to register, is overrun by bad actors, and is generally a n
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by brookst 4mo ago
I certainly anticipate a billion or more stakeholders on space companies. Or are you doing the corporations are people thing, so if five people can agree on something in a handshake, ethos-centric deal, then surely five space companies with
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by brookst 4mo ago
Does that mean that every single conviction from before the days of forensic evidence is necessarily invalid? If the argument is that forensic evidence decreases uncertainty, well, it certainly doesn’t eliminate uncertainty. Convicting an
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by brookst 4mo ago
> I guess don't bring your phone to a bank robbery Yes, everyone knows to steal a phone from someone you hate and bring that to the robbery. Right?
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by brookst 4mo ago
So, only physical musicians need apply? No composers, no guitarists who can program drum tracks but not play drums? I honestly like your intent. But we need to find a way to include people who can write sheet music for a symphony without be
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by brookst 4mo ago
How many individual people were involved in collective dike maintenance, so we know the model scales? 100 million? 200 million?
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by brookst 4mo ago
Can’t speak for the person you’re replying to, but many of us are more interested in best outcomes than we are in team sports.
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by brookst 4mo ago
I really don’t see how making people pay for their externalities is “gatekeeping”. If your business model relies on spewing litter everywhere, complaining about gatekeeping when someone makes you pay to clean it up isn’t even disingenuous,
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by brookst 4mo ago
And yet there are well respected composers who intentionally copy/paste. Repetition is key to minimalism, for instance.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Perhaps. But just how human made? We already had the “Depeche Mode isn’t real music because they just push play on a sequencer” debate 40 years ago. And lots of composers can’t play the stuff they write. But the composition is human. Then t
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by brookst 4mo ago
Look at GameStop’s quixotic attempt to acquire eBay. Which is actually not impossible.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Work for hire seems like a different ballgame than original work in an interative discipline
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by brookst 4mo ago
Yes, but that movie was made by a human. My point was that it’s hard to imagine citing something that could not be patented as prior art. It would be like citing a phone book as proof that a software program can’t be copyrighted (“the exact
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by brookst 4mo ago
It’s a risk. But odds are the upsides from the legal settlements would far outweigh the losses from your super secret memos about q3 budget planning being trained on. Just treat it like a contract worker. They may violate their NDA. That do
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by brookst 4mo ago
It works 100% of the time, 50% of the time.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Even more fun writing python that generates shell scripts that contain regex, and other nested-different-escaping scenarios.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Or just have a corporate contract that provides assurances. Though really I’m skeptical that much corporate info is secret for competitive or privacy reasons. Mostly it seems to be for liability / discovery reasons. Which are still leg
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by brookst 4mo ago
But that means the process can’t use the key for network requests, right?
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by brookst 4mo ago
Looking more closely would resolve it one way or the other.

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