martin-t

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by martin-t 1y ago
> directly use public repositories I don't see why a company which has been waging a multi decade war against GPL and users' rights would stop at _public_ repositories.
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by martin-t 1y ago
User-centric would be giving users choice. It really is that simple. Forcing something on people from a position of power is never in their favor.
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by martin-t 1y ago
I don't see why verbatim or not should matter at all. How complex does a mechanical transformation have to be to not be considered plagiarism, copyright infringement or parasitism? If somebody writes a GPL-licensed program, is it enoug
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by martin-t 1y ago
Sure. And some have the slider set all the way to selling. And that's wrong. As a society, we tolerate it because we have limited energy to fight it and because the good people are all busy making stuff.
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by martin-t 1y ago
They'd still be exposed to other options, through friends, reviewers, comparisons websites, etc. Ads mean the brand with more money wins. It is completely orthogonal to value/cost. You can in theory get investors to fund ads for a
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by martin-t 1y ago
> Amazon.com (not AWS) doesnt make any money on product sales - it makes almost all of its revenue from sponsored products So you see, it is exploitative. Amazon has an advantageous position thanks to its brand name and it allows it to e
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by martin-t 1y ago
Products should compete on their cost vs value for the customer, not on which is better known. Yes, advertisements make customers aware of a particular category of product but by pushing one specific brand instead of the whole category. I w
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by martin-t 1y ago
No, it produces money, not value, and not for society but for the company which spends on advertising instead of spending on improving the product. Meanwhile this forces other brands in the same category to also spend on advertising even if
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by martin-t 1y ago
> You don't need to try to think your way in or out of those things I think the danger is the opposite. Normal (non-psychopathic) people are prone to being manipulated into feeling for inanimate objects, such as corporations, especi
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by martin-t 1y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you feel working on something that is zero-sum (does not produce positive value for society, only changes where the money goes)? Would you change jobs if a positive-sum job became available? And to risk being seen a
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by martin-t 1y ago
I too can't wait until every last bit of experience gained through trillions of hours of human experimentation is compiled into statistical models and monetized without ever paying a cent to the people who made it possible.
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by martin-t 1y ago
Yes, it's simple pattern matching. But they are gonna get better though, there are people working on using LLMs for surveillance right now. AFAIK it was automated, she appealed and won. But it has a chilling effect on people and some w
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by martin-t 1y ago
The problem is that _we don't want every crime to be caught or solved_. The worst thing that could happen to freedom is that the system would actually work as advertised. Because then resistance would be impossible. If a government is
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by martin-t 1y ago
1) Trust is a human-to-human interaction which depends on being able to predict future behavior from past behavior (and often other cues, whether rational or not). Trusting an organization is a category error. You cannot trust something com
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by martin-t 1y ago
One colleague started installing the unofficial Tiny11 "edition" of Windows 11 on some work computers, especially VMs. I don't know how much was trimmed down but ads are gone and reportedly it has better performance.
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by martin-t 1y ago
How would people with money and no artistic talent know? If we're not talking about art but some other kind of productive work - again - money does not qualify them. It gives them the power to decide, it probably lets them cultivate a
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by martin-t 1y ago
This whole press release should not be overthought. We are not the target audience. It's designed to further anthropomorphize LLMs to masses who don't know how they work. Giving the models rights would be ludicrous (can't mak
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by martin-t 1y ago
> what's different about this The spin.
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by martin-t 1y ago
> why they all refuse to implement such a simple feature Because it would let you peek behind the smoke and mirrors. Why do you think there's a randomized seed you can't touch?
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by martin-t 1y ago
But what would be the point if it does not increase profits. Oh, right, the welfare of matrix multiplication and a crooked line. If they wanna push this rhetoric, we should legally mandate that LLMs can only work 8 hours a day and have to b
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by martin-t 1y ago
From your link > not twisted to give misleading impressions Pretending something is worse because people don't do it is misleading (whether the other person is aware of the bias/fallacy or not) > LLMs are trained on vast cor
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by martin-t 1y ago
Protecting the welfare of a text predictor is certainly an interesting way to pivot from "Anthropic is censoring certain topics" to "The model chose to not continue predicting the conversation". Also, if they want to con
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by martin-t 1y ago
Who knows? Votes should be public, otherwise this is an easy way to make opinions less visible without having to provide any justification. Sometimes very similar comments in favor of protecting producers get upvotes on one post and downvot
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by martin-t 1y ago
Oh, yeah, 5 upvotes and 2 comments, then suddenly 7 downvotes without any replies. Totally organic.
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by martin-t 1y ago
The other replies are good. The general principle is inverting who has power. It should always be with people doing real positive-sum work, not those with money whose primary business of redistributing money and taking a cut. If they are al
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by martin-t 1y ago
Copyright/patents/laws are just tools. They can be used for both good and evil. The early US had pro-social goals such as democracy or freedom. And yes, they used slaves because there are no good guys in history or politics, there
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by martin-t 1y ago
> It would totally kill any drive you have to make a product. That is already how I feel about LLMs being trained on my AGPL code to produce proprietary code and do so for money. And that's just today's shitty LLM. My condolenc
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by martin-t 1y ago
"Democracy" boils down to choosing one point ("candidate") in a highly dimensional space to express your entire preference (actually a high dimensional vector). This is _obviously_ stupid. You can see the effects in how
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by martin-t 1y ago
It's not a binary too string / too weak. It's that _copyright_: - protects the wrong entities (corporations instead of individuals who did the real work) - IP should be collectively owned by the people who created it and sell
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by martin-t 1y ago
> not only did you not point out a single instance of their alleged intellectual dishonesty >> It's likely to be worse though, as people don't do it. > This whole last sentence is fallacious. I did point it out, quite

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