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by skissane 1y ago
The problem is, can you demonstrate that originality of selection and arrangement actually survives in the trained model? It is legally doubtful. Nobody knows for sure what the legal answer is, because the question hasn’t been considered by
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by skissane 1y ago
The US copyright office’s position is basically this-under US law, copyrightability requires direct human creativity, an automated training process involves no direct human creativity so cannot produce copyright. Now, we all know there is a
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by skissane 1y ago
The problem is that contracts don’t bind subsequent recipients, copyright does Google gives the model to X who gives it to Y who gives it to Z. X has a contract with Google, so Google can sue X for breach of contract if they violate its ter
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by skissane 1y ago
IANAL either but the answer likely depends on the jurisdiction US standards for copyrightability require human creativity and model weights likely don’t have the right kind of human creativity in them to be copyrightable in the US. No court
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by skissane 1y ago
Example I observed firsthand: a CVE was filed because GNU C Library had a memory corruption bug. Yes, the memory corruption bug was real, but the glibc core developers did not agree that it was a security issue, and I think they are right:
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by skissane 1y ago
Prior to Windows 95, the vast majority of PC games were MS-DOS exe files – so anyone who played any of those games (whether back in their heyday, or more recently through DOSBox) has run an MS-DOS exe. Most people who ever used Lotus 1-2-3
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by skissane 1y ago
> there is no way for a user to tell from the look of the port or the file extension what the capabilities are But that's typical for file extensions. Consider EXE – it is probably an executable, but an executable for what? Most com
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by skissane 1y ago
If we imagine an alternative history in which the Reformation never happened, or in which the Catholic Church succeeded in suppressing it - I think compulsory education would still be a reality in most of the world today much as it is in ou
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by skissane 1y ago
> Granted, the work of a programmer is derived from computer science, like the work of a janitor is derived from chemistry, Nobody enrols in a chemistry degree with the intention of pursuing a janitorial career Most people who enrol in C
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by skissane 1y ago
> That said, give me QuickBasic back in the terminal on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and now you’ve got my attention… There are already open source clones of QuickBasic which provide what you want, plus a whole lot more, such as QB64 and Fre
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by skissane 1y ago
Okay, but that's not what "public school" standardly means in English. In American English, and most other English dialects, "public school" means "school run by the government". However, in British Englis
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by skissane 1y ago
I don't know why all this focus on "public schools". Of my 13 years of K-12 education, I spent 2 years in a public school, the other 11 in three different Catholic schools. Whatever the merits of your complaints about school
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by skissane 1y ago
> Yet another thing we can credit to Christian expansionism. Yeshivahs and madrassas are nothing new; in Bhutan, there monasteries brimming with young boys spending their days studying voluminous Tibetan Buddhist scriptures. The biggest
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by skissane 1y ago
> This new editor is actually a reimplementation of the classic MS-DOS 5 EDIT program from 1991 MS-DOS 5 EDIT is actually just a stub which runs QBASIC in editor mode, in which all the BASIC-related features are disabled. Windows 95 EDIT
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by skissane 1y ago
Sun workstations had Cut/Copy/Paste buttons on their keyboards. Probably some other workstation vendors did too. It just never made it to the PC or Mac worlds
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by skissane 1y ago
Australia's future nuclear submarines are planned to use HEU not LEU. HEU has clear advantages over LEU for submarines – LEU submarines need to be refuelled once every decade (give or take a few years), weapons grade HEU reactors are n
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by skissane 1y ago
I think when a lot of people here say "evangelicals" they actually mean "dispensational premillennialists"–who are a significant chunk of "evangelicals", but not the whole But to be fair to the dispensational p
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by skissane 1y ago
> then they wouldn’t be attacked for fear of nuclear retaliation Even supposing Iran developed a nuclear weapon, their ability to engage in nuclear retaliation depends on (a) the number of warheads, (b) the available delivery mechanisms
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by skissane 1y ago
I think a good way of explaining what the Iranian government has been doing, is actively working on reducing breakout time without actually making the breakout decision "Breakout time" is how long it takes a country between the po
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by skissane 1y ago
> I think there is some inherent tension btwn being "rational" about things and trying to reason about things from first principle.. Consider ethical pluralism – by which I mean, there is enormous disagreement among humans as t
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by skissane 1y ago
I think with advances in AI-assisted decompilation, we may soon end up in the situation where given a binary you can produce realistic-looking source (sane variable and function names, comments even) which compiles to the same binary, even
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by skissane 1y ago
My niece Summer (on my wife’s side) died from complications of leukaemia a couple of years ago, aged 13. They say the survival rate is now >=90%, but someone has to be the ~10% who don’t and unfortunately she was one of them. It wasn’t d
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by skissane 1y ago
> This is not, as the function name suggests, a colon, but per ITU/IEC T.416 it should be Digressing, but I’m fascinated to see ODA still being referenced, even if only some small part of it
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by skissane 1y ago
Also there is a firmware dump for the HP 700/70 which implemented it: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/terminal/700/HP_700_70_C1093/ Likewise for the Televideo 995-65: http://bitsavers.o
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by skissane 1y ago
Also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaWindows Although I’ve never succeeded in locating a copy of the spec, any implementations, even a screenshot… would be great if any of them turned up some day
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by skissane 1y ago
Right, I think we are in agreement - a pure Russian constructivist approach which only permits computable functions cannot prove the reals are countable. However, I still am sceptical it can prove they are uncountable-if you limit yourself
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by skissane 1y ago
o3 can be very honest. But I also find it can get very fixated that some position it has adopted is right, and will then start hallucinating like crazy in defence of that fixation, and then get stuck in a defensive loop of defending its hal
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by skissane 1y ago
> But, more than that, it is also true about any generalization of "function" that behaves like most would expect a function to have. It isn’t true in NFU though, correct? At least not in the general case. Because Cantor’s argu
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by skissane 1y ago
These doomsday scenarios seem to all assume that there is only a single superintelligence, or one whose capabilities are vastly ahead of all its peers. If one assumes multiple simultaneous superintelligences, roughly equally matched, with d
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by skissane 1y ago
> If enumerate actually works as advertised, then it can't ever find unenumerated. Because if (enumerate N) is unenumerated, then ((enumerate N) N) will hit infinite recursion and therefore doesn't return a boolean. Okay, but i

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