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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Is it legal in the USA? I seem to recall that ham operators aren't allowed to encrypt their traffic, that's one reason I never got around to getting licensed. Maybe LoRs allows for it because it's unlicensed?
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I went to school in a very bad neighborhood. Once I was sent to the office because my math teacher asked me what I was reading about that was soo much more interesting than our textbook. I happened to be reading "A Brief History of Tim
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
What reason do we have to believe that every universe can support black holes? We only have a sample size of 1 here.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Now that the machines are coming for the white collar, the Luddites those same people once mocked are starting to look more reasonable. In the end the intelligence revolution will be a net benefit to society. In the short term there will be
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
This is a great point. I'm reminded of Lakoff's metaphors. I wonder if these primitive zero-sum views of the worlds economy mostly stem from folks inability to even conceive of a less physical metaphor for the mechanism of exchang
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Productive does not equal production. *EDIT* To clarify, we can be economically more productive without physically manufacturing more widgets. Physical junk is only one small part of the economy.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
The article says (paraphrasing Thiel): "The world of bits (information technology) may have been on an upward trajectory, but the world of atoms (physical products) had been stagnant for decades." It's not wrong, but also the
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Sometimes I forget that HN has a lot experts floating around who take things in a very literal and legalistic way. I was speaking in more general terms, and missed that you were being very precise with your language.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> We would do so regardless of your ability to verbalise anything in particular I don't mean to say that they literally have to speak the words by using their meat to make the air vibrate. Just that, presuming it has some physical m
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> you don't need permission, you just need to follow the procedures Those procedures are how you ask for permission. As you say, it usually involves a fee but doesn't have to.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> If the user publishes the output without attribution, NOW you have a problem. I didn't meant to imply that the AI can't quote Shakespeare in Context, just that it shouldn't try to pass off Shakespeare as it's own or
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> I fear the lack of our ability to measure your mind might render you without many of the legal or moral protections you imagine you have. Society doesn't need to measure my mind, they need to measure the output of it. If I behave
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Doing a cover song requires permission, and doing it without that permission can be illegal. Being inspired by a song to write your own is very legal. AI is fine as long as the work it generates is substantially new and transformative. If i
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> What would banning 1 single app do when all of them do the same shit? That feels like a facetious question. You may as well also ask, "Why we bother arresting the worst murderers when there will still be other murderers?"
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
>The ban is the government retribution. No it isn't. China has already admitted they hacked us all the major US telecoms to spy on American citizens, and shown no indication that they intend to stop doing that sort of thing. We simp
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> Someone photocopying a book to read on the toilet (and leave the original on their nightstand) isn't engaging in transformative use. The situation you describe is more akin to "format shifting" or maybe "space shift
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
There was a relatively famous Google case regarding their digitization of books without the authors consent in 2015. Although it's not a perfectly analogous to this situation. In Googles case they were digitizing the books (that they d
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
You are absolutely right. I should have phrased that differently. Derivative work is a legal term, but I misused it above. I should have either used another term or been clearer. If the work is "derivative" in the legal sense it i
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I would like to expand on this, since it seems to be a common misunderstanding. Lets imagine a hypothetical situation where one friend loans a book to another, who then makes a copy of it. The lender owns the book, and it is within his righ
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
The purpose of copyright is it progress the arts and sciences. Not to guarantee profit. Guaranteeing profit is just the way we encourage people to progress the arts and sciences. That is why so called derivative works are allowed (and even
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> It is grasping its meaning, significance, applications, and boundaries To define "thinking" by using words like "meaning", "understanding", or "comprehension" just moves the need for definition
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
"conceptual understanding of something" is just another way of saying "the relationship between concepts", which is exactly what transformer models use. *EDIT* To elaborate, how can you define anything in isolation of ev
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Can you define "thinking" in a way that excludes what the AI is doing, but includes what humans do? I haven't' really seen anyone else manage it without talking about ghosts or some other kind of metaphysical voodoo.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Thanks for sharing that. The section on conspiracy thinking was interesting to me. I've been trying to understand the ever increasing amount of it in our society, and my thoughts keep going back to the rise in marijuana legalization. I
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I was going to buy a Tesla. My brother had one and I coveted it. They make neat stuff. Then Elon started taking testosterone (or whatever it was that jacked up his aggression), using psychedelics, and became incapable of keeping his mouth s
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
That's a good start. To do better you'll need to do some reading or watch a ton of youtube videos to identify the keys that will get you the most bang for the buck. I think mine has something like 20 keys on it now, and it will op
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Many fleet vehicles are still this way. The 1284x key, for example, can open a surprising number of things including many older police vehicles. A few hundred dollars more on Amazon will net you a magic keyring that can open a surprising nu
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I'm sure the oil paint crowd thought that photography was anti-artist cheating too. This is just another tool, and it will be used by good artists to make good art, and bad artists to make bad art. The primary difference being that eve
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
It's been a very long time since I studied it, but... The founders of the US (including Paine) took most/much of their inspiration from the works of Locke who popularized a lot of the ideas about inalienable/natural rights co
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I think you're being sarcastic, but you've missed the point. The point, restated, is this: When we pass laws that say "There are factually true things that you are not allowed to know under penalty of law" we had better

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