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"We should squander the rights of a group of people so that we can have more things!" "I disagree. I think that we should not do that, as it is morally wrong." "You fool! Don't you understand that it's not
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The commenter above is putting the burden on the parents in order to claim that a person who shows porn to children is free of blame. How is that a different argument?
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I don't think I'd be able to believe more than maybe 0.0001% of true scientific claims if I had to use an epistemological system where I only believe results I've personally replicated. Am I supposed to build my own version o
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> In the sciences, "someone says" is the lowest form of evidence there is. It is so close to "no evidence" that we simply disregard it without further thought. Not really. "Someone says they conducted an experime
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You can't expect parents to hover over their children 24/7. Apply the argument you're making to any other instance of corrupting minors. If you have sex with a 14 year old, you're not going to be able to say, "Well
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> But it's important to remember that no copyright at all would hurt small and medium creators immensely. This doesn't refute the tweet. You're just saying you want a monetization strategy that enables an information busin
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I don't have a comment on your hypothetical, but this case seems to go far beyond that. If you read the actual filing at the bottom of the linked page, NYT provides examples where ChatGPT recited exact multi-paragraph sections of their
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> But I don't run malicious applications on X The thing about malicious applications is that they usually don't do a lot to inform the user that they are a malicious application. "I don't run malicious applications&qu
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Regardless of the current rule, it really ought to be a violation. If it's not, all repos that care about star rankings are forced to start doing the same thing to compete, which eventually turns stars into a metric of which repos have
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The alternative was that the first human you got to speak to was utterly useless, with no authority to do anything substantial other than transfer you to the "real real" human (with the same 30 minute wait time) once they determin
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> I notice a lot of hate toward JS, but honestly when I first stumbled upon it I felt like a dream came true; it gives you the power to create experiences and share them almost effortlessly The complaints about JS are almost never about
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If iMessage is so good, why do so many people want to use Beeper instead? If I thought my Keurig were a good coffee machine, I wouldn't go out of my way to install a different coffee machine.
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Most iPhone owners are unaware that it's intentional on Apple's part, and are lead to believe that other devices just aren't sophisticated enough to make the bubbles blue.
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It doesn't claim to track the most important recent papers. It's very clear and upfront that it aims to track the most trending recent papers. It's even in the title of the website. There's no claim of permanent import
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Saying you're "not aware of" something that is real but that you've managed to avoid awareness of, isn't illegal. The individual representative sent to testify probably really was unaware, and the company probably d
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When you have an audience of people who are forbidden from leaving, you have some level of obligation to use their time wisely. The myth of "yeah you're forced to be here, but it's for your own good!" really breaks down
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"Grog, 10 years ago in 30,000 BC, we didn't even have wheels. We've gone from no wheel, to wheel, in only 10 years. What makes you so sure that self-driving cars aren't just around the corner?"
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That particular example wouldn't work because you can't copyright something that you were not the first to create. If you "write" a brief poem that already exists in the YouTube source code, you don't hold the copyr
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Can we not have articles on this site that amount to nothing more than political editorial? The only thing this has to do with tech news is that the individual the author is seething at happens to be a tech CEO.
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An idea doesn't become inherently dystopian just because some authors chose to portray it as dystopian once. Have you considered that fiction isn't real life, and that maybe an idea is worth exploring even if a fiction novelist di
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Although the articles arguments show that the decisions made were understandable and perhaps the "right decisions" for the language, there's a common theme that backwards compatibility was a motivator. I'm not saying the
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Although you're correct that it's not exactly 'another intelligence like me,' what it IS is an algorithm that's trained to respond in the way that another intelligence like you would respond. In the corpus of human
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> Corollary: every simple subset of language contains missing features dearly needed by someone else. This could even be said about larger languages, though. If Rust committed to pleasing everyone, it would have an optional garbage colle
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I'm not so sure. Although the opportunity hasn't really even come up, one thing that Reddit has never done is make an agreement along the lines of, "You can use X version of this software under this license forever," in
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Do health code violations carry criminal charges in any relevant jurisdiction? Regardless, the situation is different for two reasons. 1. It's one isolated incident, and no connection can be made to show that the organization itself is
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The difference is that a sports game is generally not being organized by a group that's trying to use those consequences as an intimidation tactic to get what they want. I could say, "accidents with explosives at fireworks shows a
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This will be sufficient as soon as you can find a way to market a smartphone that only works while standing in a freezer. There's a world of difference between "above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen" and "in a room
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The idea that ordering audits and obviously-useless training sessions absolve someone of responsibility is ludicrous. If you run an organization that's conducting fraud (by the definition that any thinking person can see; latin is irre
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A particular video essay comes to mind ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs ). Since government must ultimately be held in place by use of force no matter how you structure it, it's unsurprising that the sub-org
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What you mean to say is that time and time again, users do not want what causes them to maximize engagement levels and click on the most ads. "Users said they wanted this feature, but we implemented it and engagement didn't go up,

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