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by joquarky 8mo ago
The Rodney Dangerfield film, Back To School covers this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bjuHQOgggxo
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by joquarky 8mo ago
It's probably time to sit down, drink a cold one (or whatever relaxes you) and admit to yourself that the semantics have drifted.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
You think you know a hundred who are not. Why would they admit it? I imagine many of them have seen The Twilight Zone episode "The Shelter" (1961) or something like it.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Once a mechanism is in place, they can easily "refine" it.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
No, it's to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. The current implementation has recently become obsolete.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
That's because licenses are an abstract complexity tacked on to a simple material reality in order "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts". Just like many cultural rules, they keep growing in complexity until
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by joquarky 8mo ago
It's pretty obvious now.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
This is what happens when someone doesn't read the fine article.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Anyone who thinks that UBI will ever be Universal has too much faith in their legislators.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Why can't they find something more interesting to do with their lives? They are wealthy enough to do anything and they choose to keep hoarding more and more.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
One alternative is to educate the population so that regulations are less necessary. But having an educated population has become unpopular.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
This was fairly routine when the pace of everything was slower, we didn't have a giant tree of dependencies, and companies cared more about product quality.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Systems without slack are brittle.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Learn to let it go. Some of us have to learn the hard way. "If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise." -- William Blake, Heaven and Hell
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Not everyone lets their emotions drive their perceptual filters.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Critical thinking
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by joquarky 8mo ago
In practice, the new rule is "don't be blatant when using AI". It won't matter in a few years anyway.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Don't blame me, I voted for CowboyNeal
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by joquarky 8mo ago
China doesn't have the same copyright culture underlying most of the hate in the US, so I would be curious if the genAI haters within Chinese culture have more pragmatic reasons to dislike it.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Now instead of derailing the convo with a complaint, you can just flag it.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
This comment seems like it was written by AI.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Yep, the complaints are already far more disruptive than the AI miasma.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
They can't. This is akin to security theater, which will just make the infractions less conspicuous (which is probably enough to appease most people).
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by joquarky 8mo ago
The 2008 financial crisis is when the intellectually honest conservatives threw in the towel and let the sociopaths take over.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
This is getting more annoying than the LLMs.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
It might be advantageous to have a different memory structure altogether, bespoke to the specific task.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Maybe! And it looks like Windows 11 will finally make this the year of the Linux desktop...
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by joquarky 8mo ago
I miss having the completion models like davinci-003 since it gained in performance where it lacked simplicity to get what you want out. It was fun to come up with creative ways to get it to answer your question or generate data by setting
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by joquarky 8mo ago
They thought people might prefer quality and safety.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

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