mapontosevenths

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by mapontosevenths 25d ago
> Protections are purely so that the creators can get paid in some shape. That's not what the founding fathers said, and it's not what they wanted. Madison thought that the two things were really the same saying: "The uti
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by mapontosevenths 25d ago
> It matters because there's almost none as it is That's ridiculous and untrue.
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by mapontosevenths 25d ago
> You can absolutely lose surface water, Where the heck does it go? Space? You're talking about the entire planet here. There's nowhere for it to be lost to, unless you're cracking it into hydrogen and oxygen or something.
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by mapontosevenths 25d ago
> Also with LLM's we'll reach a point when everything is made out of samples We reached that point with humans long ago. There's nothing new under the sun. Only remixes of dead peoples greatest hits. The pentatonic scale,
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by mapontosevenths 25d ago
Entirely new works are often created entirely from samples, and can be amazing. See "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches for one example done entirely by humans. There are many others.
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by mapontosevenths 25d ago
Three percent of two thirds of the entire planet is enormous. We aren't running out, and never will. Some people just live in places that aren't suitable for human life and survive only through technology. Those places need to hav
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by mapontosevenths 25d ago
Fully two thirds of earths inhabitants live near large bodies of water. It's not a problem for most of us. The 1/3rd that choose to live in arid places where droughts are a concern should probably just pass laws that require close
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by mapontosevenths 25d ago
I see no argument here. Just a note that it seems to be obvious to you. It must not be as obvious to me, or millions of others or we wouldn't be on the opposite side of it.
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by mapontosevenths 25d ago
> Is impoverishing them supposed to encourage progress in the arts and sciences? No, but that needs new laws. Not an abuse of the old ones justified under the thinnest of pretenses. I don't think that folks stop to consider what ben
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by mapontosevenths 25d ago
I gloss over it because it's an argument that makes no sense to me. Copyright exists to encourage progress in the arts and sciences. Not to enrich artists or scientists. Ai is progress. Further, the works it creates are fully transform
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by mapontosevenths 25d ago
Yes. The part I don't get is why do we care about that? Earth is two thirds water, and it rains. The water I drank this morning is million of years old. It will be around for millions more. So, they pump some water out of the earth and
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by mapontosevenths 27d ago
> A text search over the corpus of user data used in the training set can only take so long. Did you notice the line in the article that says the models had access to an offline copy of THE INTERNET. Like all of it.
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by mapontosevenths 28d ago
At long last we have achieved equality. Now everyone can know what it's like to be pulled over for DWB!
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by mapontosevenths 29d ago
The orange pi doesn't do HDR properly. Linux in general doesn't support it natively, and the hardware doesn't provide for it. On most devices Dolby Vision, etc get downgraded or support only the streaming profiles (profile 5)
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by mapontosevenths 29d ago
I'll go further. Advertising is at it's very core an abuse. They took Aristotles rhetoric, and turned it into a slimy dead thing that seeks profit rather than truth. Advertising is sophistry, and sophistry is evil.
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by mapontosevenths 29d ago
> don't really have a problem with ads, I paid for windows. I am the customer. I am not not the product. I actually like Windows, or did for most of my nearly 30 year career. In the past I have defended it against the "winblow
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by mapontosevenths 29d ago
The older M-Data discs actually claimed to use a stone data layer.
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by mapontosevenths 29d ago
Not well. If you only care about file playback, bit still care about things like HDR and quality audio I would recommend something like the OSMC Vero V instead. It's still relatively cheap, and open source, but also let's you play
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by mapontosevenths 29d ago
It sounds like you have very strong feelings about this. The kind that may not be ideal for a polite conversation.
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by mapontosevenths 29d ago
That definition is less than ideal from several perspectives. It serves neither side. The worst reason to hate it is that it relies on proving intent (dolus specialis), which essentially makes it unenforceable unless the perpetrator is a gr
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by mapontosevenths 1mo ago
Most of our goals, noble and ignoble alike, are just the result of our monkey brains seeking to optimize a reward function. It doesn't matter whether you feed your dopamine addiction with drugs, TikTok, or your children's love. S
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by mapontosevenths 1mo ago
They are all HTL now. There are no remaining manufacturers who produce LTH or use organic dyes in blu ray. That said, I agree.
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by mapontosevenths 1mo ago
Agreed. Fiction where the solution was "and then he found out he was the chosen one so magic happened" are unsatisfying.
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by mapontosevenths 1mo ago
Define genocide so we can all be sure we're talking about the same thing.
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by mapontosevenths 1mo ago
That's truly a strange article. Even verbatim's own website no longer makes the thousand year claim. Saying instead "several hundred years". However their website also claims that the disc's use "etched" s
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by mapontosevenths 1mo ago
Every single thing you cite has been, and will be, copied many times over and preserved that way. e.g. - We don't have the original Bible, we have eleventy-billion copies of it. I don't disagree that a few things that happen today
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by mapontosevenths 1mo ago
The difference between science fiction and fantasy was always only a tenuous distinction imposed by the few nerds who cared a little too much. As we age out of being culturally relevant, and newer (likely less literate) generations take ove
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by mapontosevenths 1mo ago
> Issue with storage is you need shelf stability without ongoing electrical/mechanical work refreshing data time to time. For what? Nothing we do today will be even remotely important in 1,000 years. Any tiny fraction of a fraction
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by mapontosevenths 1mo ago
Verbatim, who owns M-Disc, doesn't even manufacture discs anymore. They just slap their brand on other peoples discs. The discs sold as M-Discs now are actually just MABL BD-R's. They used to have a 'stone' data layer. N
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by mapontosevenths 1mo ago
I can't figure out what these articles even mean when they talk about 'water consumption'. The earth is 2/3's water. If you don't have enough near you that's because you live in a bad place for humans and

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