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by metalspot 3y ago
and if you have any hope for humanity at all you have to believe that the majority will continue to reject that evil. pretending evil people dont exist doesnt make them go away.
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by metalspot 3y ago
literally zero. if you incur any provable damage you have a legal cause of action in civil court. [edit] adding here that "Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress" is a real thing in US law. so, legal remedies do exist. http
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by metalspot 3y ago
its a free market so people are always welcome to run services that allow pseudonymity (nothing is actually anonymous on the internet, everything is logged and tracked and traceable) and people are free to use them. the most popular service
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by metalspot 3y ago
censorship is all about power so the focus is on controlling any mechanism of broadcast communication that could result in political organization. traditional voice communication over phones is very inefficient compared to internet based te
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by metalspot 3y ago
if people are doing something illegal than allowing them to freely post about it online makes it much easier to detect and prosecute.
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by metalspot 3y ago
I don't have to imagine. Instead on censoring speech why not provide tools that lead to better speech? This is perfectly possible from a tech stand point but companies would rather have the power that comes from censorship. 1. Get rid
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by metalspot 3y ago
Many countries have recognized free speech as a right through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which is much broader than the 1st amendment. "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes fre
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by metalspot 3y ago
> proper compiler transpiling to C actually makes adoption much easier. if you create an entirely new compiler auditing and verifying that takes many years and tons of money before it can be used for anything serious.
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by metalspot 3y ago
in my own experience i feel like my subconscious mind does most of the problem solving and my conscious mind is mostly used for identifying the problem, selecting the input data, and then observing the result. if you flip your perspective y
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by metalspot 3y ago
> there is no "compression of information" in deep learning i would strongly disagree. when you are training a model you are taking the information from a document and extracting the relationships between tokens and storing tha
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by metalspot 3y ago
false analogy. if openai is downloading and copying and distributing copyrighted material internally and then compressing that information into a model that can reproduce it later and selling access to that model that is a very different th
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by metalspot 3y ago
> isn't what folks have in mind you would have to ask a judge about that because its a novel legal question. obviously nobody anticipated this technology at the time it was written so ultimately it will have to be a court that decid
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by metalspot 3y ago
The principal criminal statute protecting copyrighted works is 17 U.S.C. § 506(a), which provides that "[a]ny person who infringes a copyright willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain" shall be
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by metalspot 3y ago
it would seem to me that from a technical perspective the weights of an AI model trained on copyrighted material would be a reproduction of the copyrighted work. just because you combine the information from millions (or more) copyrighted w
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by metalspot 3y ago
i once built a coffee roaster with a converted table top rotisserie kit i bought off ebay, a box fan, and some screen door mesh. It cost about $1,000. Not very practical because the cycle time and labor was too high due to the low quality n
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by metalspot 3y ago
SF office buildings are selling at 60-70% off in some cases. I don't think anywhere else is as bad, but still probably worse than 20%. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/downtown-sf-office-bu... https:&#
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by metalspot 3y ago
> very confusing or very clarifying when you realize that the same institutions will do the same things no matter what name you put on them.
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by metalspot 3y ago
Pharmaceutical Company: Vaccines are safe and effective Concerned Parent: Then why do you need immunity from product liability laws to sell them?
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by metalspot 3y ago
a majority of americans believe the opposite of whatever the "experts" tell them. they are not always right but it is a good heuristic.
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by metalspot 3y ago
academia started as a branch of the church and retains the same institutional structure to this day. the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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by metalspot 3y ago
i kneel before your noble lies, my philosopher king
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by metalspot 3y ago
> There are no downsides to wearing a mask this is objectively false. it is generally accepted in the scientific community that wearing masks for an extended period of time is dangerous and leads to respiratory illnesses.
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by metalspot 3y ago
so, he was forced out of mozilla for his private constitutionally protected political activity. how exactly is that evidence that he believes "people don't have a right to exist?" it seems like some people think people with h
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by metalspot 3y ago
> thinks I shouldn't be allowed to exist any evidence to support that claim?
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by metalspot 3y ago
> companies are acting rationally corporate "values*" always come with the small print of "*as long as it maximizes profit." it is silly to think that any for-profit corporation is ever going to do something that is d
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by metalspot 3y ago
in the typical scenario taxi/ride-share drivers are only driving paid miles for a small fraction of the time they are on the clock. with autonomous/remote vehicles you have a fleet of driver-less vehicles that are capable of fully
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by metalspot 3y ago
"autonomous" vehicles are remotely monitored and controlled. that is just not part of the marketing. the big blocker, and why autonomous/remote vehicles are not being rolled out more widely, is that remote requires lots of ve
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by metalspot 3y ago
> strategy for Waymo getting their technology working profitably at scale is obviously the first step and it is taking much longer than expected. > app that is easily replicable Waymo already has their own app and will continue to. th
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by metalspot 3y ago
i am not making any assumptions at all. only stating two objective facts: Russia has ratified multiple international test ban treaties, and it has honored those treaties so far. you are the one making assumptions and imputing negative inten
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by metalspot 3y ago
Russia has ratified the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Nuclear-Test-Ban... the US has not. But both Russia and the US are bound by https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-i

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