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by rvcdbn 3y ago
You're absolutely right. I was wrong to oversimplify and claim that this is everyone's experience. I do think that it is the experience of many people who don't have families or support structures or any economic prospects. I
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
See my response to the other comment. I think I got this idea either from David Deutsch or Frank Tipler, I forget exactly which book.
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
Please don't take this as dismissive, but I really think ChatGPT does a better job at explaining this than I can do. Here's what I got: https://chat.openai.com/share/c1c779c7-3b5f-4ea7-a864-38561d... The resp
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
I was wrong to say that “nobody starts using because they have a great life and they’re just curious what a bit of meth feels like”. The point I was trying to make was that many people do know exactly what they’re getting into and do it any
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
You’re right, I get emotional about this because I see how much harm criminalization does.
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
There is an anthropic line of reasoning over Everettian branch universes where you can actually expect these types of highly unlikely events to happen more often than chance alone would predict if they promote futures with more Born-rule we
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
Actually one thing I would be curious to try is to substitute ketamine for opiates. It might work out that some people prefer it and it’s far less harmful on the body. Problem is it’s super expensive compared to opiates.
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
I think these are not the same people we’re talking about here (the people on the streets in SF).
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
I visited before the pandemic when last did you visit SF because I think it’s a totally different scale. EDIT: just googled the stats and the number of homeless in SF is roughly the same as the whole of Portugal
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
All I know is that if I were born into their circumstances I would probably do the same thing. Some lives are way worse than others due purely to accident of birth and the really uncomfortable truth is that we have built a society where som
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
How many people do you know who work in harm reduction? How many of your friends are regular drug users? I’m speaking from direct experience are you? or are you just making assumptions that make you feel more comfortable?
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
The solution that seems most likely to work IMO seems to be a European-style welfare state. All drugs have long been decriminalized in Portugal and you don’t see that kind of thing on the streets of Lisbon. But I don’t see that happening an
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
We have built a society where the best options for these people are to do what they are doing. Nobody starts using because they have a great life but they’re just curious what a bit of meth feels like and then accidentally get hooked. They
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Companies are not monoliths. For all we know, internally it’s already well known that model weights likely aren’t copyrightable and the only reason for the restrictions is to give the appearance of being responsible to app
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
specifically: > A century later, in Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co., the Supreme Court confirmed that originality is a constitutional requirement
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
Constitutionality is also about how previous cases have been evaluated for example see the bit about how photography copyright was established here: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C8-3-...
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
recent versions of proto3 have added back the “optional” keyword that can be used on any field. see: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/docs/f...
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
1 - because they lack originality, see: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C8-3-...
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
I have a hard time imagining a world where it is not the case at least in the US i.e. where copyright is extended to a work with no originality in direct contradiction to copyright clause in the constitution.
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
At least in the US copyright is established by the constitution so not sure how much it’s possible to change via the normal legislative process.
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
That’s a bad analogy because a human chose the values of those settings using their creative mind. That’s not at all the case with weights. This originality is the heart of copyright law.
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
sure but the previous comment made it sound like it was already illegal which would have been really surprising to me. I’m no fan of recent regressions in abortion law but the arguments made by pro-lifers that I’ve heard would not apply to
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
do you know of any states where it isn’t legal? google searching lead me to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/birth-control-plan-b-r... which seems to suggest that it’s legal everywhere
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
Once decoherence has occurred I don’t think it’s meaningful to say that the system exists in a superposition of states. The multiple decohered branches of the wave function can no longer interfere with each other and so there’s no way for t
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
if i have a crackpot theory and i’d like a real physicist to look it over and am willing to pay for their time where would i find one? asking for a friend
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
I’m a “believer” in the Everett Interpretation (on the grounds that it’s the simplest interpretation) but I can’t see how such an experiment could prove anything. This experiment seems to assume we can keep the whole apparatus including the
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
I think that just further shows your worldview that defaults to information/data as property. I think this is wrong both in the sense that it isn't really what the law says (but aren't going to agree here anyway) but more imp
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that you’re making this statement because it feels like they should have some intellectual property rights in this case. Independently of whether that feeling corresponds to legal reality (the
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
sometimes I like to fantasize that over millions of years humanity will spread throughout the cosmos and when there are gazillions of humans (or our machine descendants) with unlimited time and resources there will be in some university som
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by rvcdbn 3y ago
We don’t actually know that it’s not legal. The copyrightability of model weights is an open legal question right now afaik.

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