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by imgabe 3y ago
People believe all sorts of crazy things.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Everyone is a bot except you
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by imgabe 3y ago
The book does not exist verbatim within the model. You cannot open the model and find the full text of some copyrighted work anywhere. The model just trains a set of weights for a neural network, then probabilistically generates text in res
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by imgabe 3y ago
Using the knowledge from the book !== reproducing any part of the book. If I read a math book that shows me how to do an integral, then use that knowledge to do integrals, I'm not infringing the copyright of the book, ffs. If you read
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by imgabe 3y ago
Libraries exist. Borrowing books from a friend exists. Even if you stole the book, using the knowledge you learned from it to make money is not copyright infringement. If you steal a book about how to make money flipping houses and then sta
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by imgabe 3y ago
No they aren't. Where's the Terms of Service for a book? What about secondhand books or books you get from the library or books you borrow from a friend? I never had a book tell me to an accept a license agreement before I could r
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by imgabe 3y ago
Yeah and people read copyrighted books so they can get jobs and sell the use of the knowledge they acquired from reading the books. The only difference is a machine doing it at a larger scale.
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by imgabe 3y ago
This is just bad. You are not making the clever joke you think you are. For one thing, shopping at Dollar Tree is not an antisocial behavior that harms other people, so you do not need to justify it by saying you needed to do it. You are fr
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by imgabe 3y ago
Offices per se aren’t necessarily terrible. Commutes are terrible. Open floor plans are terrible. Companies don’t seem interested in fixing these things, though.
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by imgabe 3y ago
How do you even make a meaningful comparison to the "size of the economy"? What was the price of an air conditioner in 1850? Effectively infinite, it didn't exist. Clothing used to take hundreds of man-hours to make and clean
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by imgabe 3y ago
What percentage should they account for? The fact that they are writing an article with this headline would seem to imply that they think this is too high. 1.5%-2.0% for something that runs a significant portion of the world's economy
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by imgabe 3y ago
How much of that is stock based compensation that is artificially inflated by the Fed pumping trillions of dollars into the economy? These comparisons are so disingenuous when they implicitly equate a stock grant to cash.
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by imgabe 3y ago
It costs money to run YouTube and it costs creators money to make content. Some of them are trying to make a living doing it. If you don't want to pay and you don't want to see ads, how do you expect the service to function?
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by imgabe 3y ago
Uber had a profitable quarter. They are still $30 billion in the red over the lifetime of the company.
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by imgabe 3y ago
I think Amazon wouldn't say they didn't know, but that it's not their responsibility. For example if Random House published a book that libeled someone, and Amazon sold it, you would sue Random House and the author for libel,
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by imgabe 3y ago
It's not trademark, but you can sue someone for fraudulently using your name and likeness, it varies by state in the US. Of course the actual entity posting the fraudulent books are probably overseas somewhere and will disappear if any
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by imgabe 3y ago
Highly depends on when you buy the ticket and which bus line.
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by imgabe 3y ago
I am skeptical that there are large numbers of casual Fentanyl users who are just injecting a little Fentanyl after work to relax and otherwise leading normal lives. If there are any, they probably don’t stay that way for very long.
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by imgabe 3y ago
> Most people who get fat eventually end up not being able to live like normal adults. And no one willingly goes to get help or treatment. This is where your analogy falls apart. Most fat people are able to live like normal adults. Th
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by imgabe 3y ago
The two are interconnected. If they weren't addicted to drugs, they probably wouldn't be homeless living in a tent. There's probably no scenario where you get a homeless drug addict into housing and they are able to maintain
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by imgabe 3y ago
That’s because you’re an individual. We imbue the government with the power to use force to protect both individuals and the general public from the negative effects of antisocial behavior like fouling up a public space so you can do drugs
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by imgabe 3y ago
You can show the bodily autonomy argument is nonsense with a simple thought experiment. What if it were someone you actually cared about? Your son or daughter, sibling, loved one? Would you say "oh well, I guess I have to respect their
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by imgabe 3y ago
Anonymity is not required for free speech to function.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Just because something doesn’t require it doesn’t mean it’s a right.
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by imgabe 3y ago
There is no right to anonymity. The government requires every citizen to identify themselves in various ways for paying taxes, voting, receiving benefits, registering for the draft, etc.
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by imgabe 3y ago
> I'm pointing out that you must absolutely contend with the fact that marginalized people have historically been labeled mentally ill when they fight for equality And I am pointing out that all people, marginalized or not, are curr
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by imgabe 3y ago
You don't think there's anything different between the 1960s and today? Like, nothing at all? For one thing, there is a history of abuses in asylums, so people would know to look out for it. I confess I don't know every detai
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by imgabe 3y ago
> But honestly, there's a lot of people still out there that think differently. And in some ways, they're gaining influence and power. They're gaining influence and power, in large part, because the people who would oppose
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by imgabe 3y ago
There is also right now an epidemic of homeless people harassing, assaulting, and even murdering people and generally making major cities nearly unlivable. So when you create a false dichotomy between "treat mentally ill people who m
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by imgabe 3y ago
Lots of things can happen, I’m talking about addressing problems that are happening and not letting hypothetical fearmongering get in the way of doing that. What’s the point here? We should never do anything if even one person can come

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