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by caconym_ 5mo ago
I guess you feel strongly that fan fiction and similar derivative works ought to be monetizable? I guess I really just don't care about that. It hasn't stopped huge numbers of amazing authors from doing their thing, and I don&#x27
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
> The worthwhile ones would still be written. Citation needed, as well as your precise definition of "worthwhile". > Even if they are not enjoyable. Huh? > The dissemination of ideas from an activist perspective is uninha
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
> I wonder how many would be written if copyright was only 20 years instead of more than a century? I expect it would not move the needle much. I support reduced copyright periods, though not in the specific way you do. But that's n
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
I wonder how many of the books I love would still have been written in a world where somebody could scoop them all up and post them on the internet for free (and run ads).
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
What the fuck? This is beyond the pale.
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
> I would get rid of all forms of immunity IIUC getting rid of "all forms of immunity" would essentially make it impossible for police officers to arrest anybody in good faith without exposing themselves to criminal prosecution
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
> I haven't said those things. No, but they clearly follow from what you have said. > Rape and murder are existing crimes, and they should be applied equally to police officers. Okay, but they aren't, because police enjoy br
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
You are not suggesting that "maybe we're overcriminalized". You are suggesting that we should not hold law enforcement accountable for egregious abuses of power that do real harm to real people. You think it should not be con
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
You could make this argument about anything. We should have no laws, because they might be abused by a malicious prosecutor. Utter nonsense.
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
I don't think both-sidesing this is particularly appropriate. Law enforcement officers who abuse their position to harm people under false pretenses should be prosecuted as criminals, because that's what they are. This is true in
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
Echoing others, Reynolds (House of Suns, Pushing Ice, the Revelation Space series), Stross (Accelerando, Glasshouse, and Saturn's Children/Neptune's Brood are my favorites), and Rajaniemi (the Quantum Thief trilogy) scratch r
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
+1. It's insane how history has been rewritten here, though it probably helps that 95% of people don't understand what the fuck a forecast is . They translate "30% chance Trump wins" into "0% chance Trump wins&quot
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
The thing we're worried about not understanding here is the software the LLMs write, not the LLMs themselves. The direct analogy to automobiles would be for each automobile to be a oneoff design filled with bad and bizarre decisions, e
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
I am sure you will feel that this is missing the point of your analogy, but we would not have gotten very far with automobiles if we didn't know how they worked.
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
I'm going to do everything in my power to keep this dog shit technology away from my daughter for as long as I possibly can. I can imagine implementations that I might be willing to consider for educational applications, but given thes
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by caconym_ 5mo ago
> So how the heck would a grocery store even do this? And this law is specifically around grocery stores. Can't you just (in principle) use facial recognition cameras to determine who is approaching an item, calculate a "person
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
I stopped using it because offensively stupid drivel from morons who paid for blue checks started getting upranked everywhere, pushing down the tweets I actually wanted to see. I have no problem talking to people with different ideologies a
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
Platforms like HN are still vulnerable to astroturfing and bubble effects, but at least the operators aren't optimizing for engagement beyond [what I assume is] a fairly simple up/down ranking system based on user votes and time d
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
> Layoffs mean a company doesn't have productive, profitable work for a set of people. That's only one of many things layoffs can mean. In this case, Meta seems to be laying people off so that it can make a bigger bet on its AI
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
If we meet in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but I have an android slave with a gun and you have nothing but a rusty spoon, it's going to be pretty clear who the android belongs to, and who it serves. The android also makes it likely
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
No, the regulations I'm referencing have nothing to do with where (in the local sense) you can and can't fly drones. Even if I owned a thousand square miles in the middle of nowhere and wanted to fly a 75mm tinywhoop in the center
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
Flying BVLOS is still illegal (including using goggles without a spotter) and basically nobody in the FPV hobby (non part 107) runs remoteid or registers their drones, even if they're over 250g. IDK what the AMA club field guys are doi
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
Honestly it should probably just be illegal for anyone, private or public, to engage in mass surveillance (or "data gathering", whatever) of anybody who didn't expressly consent to it. As long as the data exist, they will be
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
Reminds me of the sUAS legislation crushing the R/C flying hobby. Vague allusions to "safety" are constantly being thrown around, but in fact it seems that big companies are lobbying to claim the airspace for drone delivery a
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
"Democratize"? I thought that was when you rent an AI tool built on stolen intellectual property to write, draw, code, etc. for you because you never bothered to learn those skills yourself and convinced yourself they were being g
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
> When they say "We don't want to increase inequality" and the response is "We don't believe you". Where do you go from there? The response is "we don't believe you" because their actions show
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
I understand that everyone has their own needs and Linux still might not be a great fit, but just in case it's helpful, here are some possibly-comparable Linux-friendly alternatives to what you mentioned: > Fusion360 Depending on yo
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
Personally I left Twitter less because Musk owns it now, and more because Musk's changes turned my previously tolerable feed into a deluge of far right drivel. Expecting me to keep using it is like expecting me to keep shopping at a gr
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by caconym_ 6mo ago
It's a trade-off. I love the convenience of ebooks, but not owning my books is just categorically unacceptable to me. I want my daughter and anyone else coming after me to have free access to them, not to have to jump through Amazon&#x
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by caconym_ 7mo ago
I am talking about "liquid glass", which I understand to refer to the recent design language updates that include the much-bemoaned transparent/translucent design elements. I will repeat that I simply have not experienced mys

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