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by tga_d 3y ago
You misread my comment, I wasn't trying to be condescending; a primary theme of the story (in my and many others' readings) is the limits of our ability to imagine different, better worlds than the one we exist in. We struggle to
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by tga_d 3y ago
You have every right to take what you like from it, but I'd suggest that perhaps you're not seeing what others are if all you get is a morality play. As one example, maybe spend some time thinking about why you apparently missed t
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by tga_d 3y ago
To be clear, Turkey has been undergoing pretty decisive democratic backsliding since the mid 2000s. It was added to NATO at the same time as Greece, and at that time, Turkey was the more democratic of the two countries (see, e.g., the elect
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by tga_d 3y ago
They presumably meant in terms of popular opinion, which was always going to be de facto necessary to join (even if in the end it happened without a referendum). See the list of polls enumerated here: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by tga_d 3y ago
Not a lawyer, but IIUC it's never going to be the case that a GPL violation legally compels someone to release the resulting source code. There is no rule in copyright law that says you have to do that, and the GPL is just a license ag
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by tga_d 3y ago
You were not right, the sibling comment similarly clearly demonstrates that the skit is satire, not an actual conversation (being inspired by a single comment from a real politician does not make something a "conversation [that] actual
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by tga_d 3y ago
If a goat was revealed randomly instead of intentionally, there is no advantage to switching. See the "Monty Fall Problem" in this paper already linked elsewhere in the discussion: https://web.archive.org/web/
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by tga_d 3y ago
They very clearly state and demonstrate it was a scripted satire, and literally say it is a "fictitious interview" in the first sentence. That is as direct of a debunking you can get. Please just take the lesson and verify claims
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by tga_d 3y ago
That video is not a recreation of any actual conversation. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-front-fell-off/
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by tga_d 3y ago
It's extremely rare that you can compel a company to provide a service. The main exceptions are public services (e.g., libraries), utilities (e.g., power), and protected classes (e.g., you can't legally make a business that only s
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by tga_d 3y ago
Feral cats are extremely common in rural areas (though not in remote areas). Ask anyone who's lived on a farm or ranch about "barn cats". Regardless, "the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds an
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by tga_d 3y ago
>The Elon era seems to emphasise truth over sensitivities I've never heard anyone claim that misinformation went down with the acquisition--Musk infamously gutted that department, and I've seen plenty of claims at least from
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by tga_d 3y ago
I'm not sure how to explain this any clearer. I am talking about neural net compression algorithms. As in, it is literally just a neural net encoding some copyrighted work, and nothing else. It is ultimately no more intelligent than a
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by tga_d 3y ago
Like I said, this is exactly what the comment you first replied to was explaining. It is very clearly not the same as a pencil or a graphics editing program, because those things do not have a notion of Cat & Girl by Willem de Kooning
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by tga_d 3y ago
Okay, but then that's an an argument subject to the critiques made upthread that you were initially trying to dismiss? You can't claim that AI doesn't need to worry about citing influences because it's just doing a thing
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by tga_d 3y ago
I tend to fall more on the "training should be fair use" side than most, but your comment seems to be missing the point. Nobody is arguing that models are violating copyright or social norms around credit simply because they consu
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by tga_d 3y ago
I know thunderbolt at least up through 3 was generally carte blanche DMA, so an obvious security nightmare (strictly speaking no worse than cold boot attacks and the like, but there's a practicality difference between dumping raw DIMMs
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by tga_d 3y ago
Air travel is an industry with high risk yet a good safety track record. It seems like exactly the sort of place you wouldn't want to experiment. You can argue that this incident is a blemish in that track record, but it's not obv
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by tga_d 3y ago
That seems like an extremely narrow definition of "reacting," but even then, pretty regularly over many years, actually. In addition to the attacks earlier last month linked in TFA, here's a couple articles showing that this
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by tga_d 3y ago
"Not reacting" how? There's been an ongoing war for almost a decade now.
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by tga_d 3y ago
Well at least according to the article, there was a very clear direct correlation with the artificial stuff. Based on the quotes in the article, it seems like most believe it's something to do with the composition of the engineered sto
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by tga_d 3y ago
They presumably meant trademark, not copyright. I.e., if you use Steamboat Willie in anything that Disney could plausibly make with Steamboat Willie, they could argue that the character isn't being used as a character, but to imply end
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by tga_d 3y ago
My amateur intuition, having played around with local llms a little bit and seeing things load a token at a time, is that they're conceptually like if you took all n-grams for all lengths n, then sorted them by frequency in the trainin
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by tga_d 3y ago
I would suspect "modern" has a lot more impact than "browser" (notably, aside from more developer awareness of cheating, I would suspect TLS is far more common now, though that can of course be worked around when you con
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by tga_d 3y ago
Saying the eradication of Polio "was primarily funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" is a vast overstatement. Less than a third of the main organization's funding came from the Gates Foundation, and outside of fund
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by tga_d 3y ago
Is that even possible with SACK?
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by tga_d 3y ago
Using these sort of downstream patch set browsers is rarely a good idea. If it has multiple full-time developers from a respected org dedicated to it, then it can be justifiable (Tor Browser, Brave), but take a look at the gaps in time for
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by tga_d 3y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah
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by tga_d 3y ago
Given that most people don't use ad blockers, I suspect most people will not stop using the website, at which point, it becomes safe to assume most people will have a browser it works with. Once that point is reached, there's no r
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by tga_d 3y ago
In most places where Snowflake is useful, connecting to Tor is either legal or the laws against it aren't enforced. It's usually the creators/contributors of anti-censorship tools that face repercussions. That said, Tor Proje

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