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by tticvs 3y ago
But it does hurt since it equates anti-racism with meaningless nonsense therefore directly undermining the purported cause. Unless of course the real motivation isn't to help but instead to demonstrate power and status...
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by tticvs 3y ago
I'd never hire a software engineer who tried to make major disruptive changes to play meaningless language games and score social status points.
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by tticvs 3y ago
It does cost something, quite a lot actually, my company (correctly) refused to bow to the pressure to migrate because it would have been too expensive to update our tooling. And acquiescing meekly to absurd demands is a much worse behavior
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by tticvs 3y ago
"I am no longer able to sell my product in the market since it has been commoditized to the benefit if everyone else" is not the same as "I have been robbed". This is literal Luddism.
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by tticvs 3y ago
Oh no! Really? Surely you can point to what has been stolen, right?
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by tticvs 3y ago
> very few programmers are typically interested in having their opinion on typing changed. Most programmers find themselves drawn strongly to typing or not quite early in their career, and then spend the rest of it rationalizing The Corr
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by tticvs 3y ago
> Sure, we now survive childhood based on vaccines, but remember that there was a time between the disease appearing and the vaccine being developed, and in that time we used simpler methods to try survive. 50% of children died before th
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by tticvs 3y ago
If the price is competitive the market will guarantee it. Otherwise regulations can. Why would you oppose technological solutions in favor of ideological ones? Unless of course you don't care about solving the problem...
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by tticvs 3y ago
I don't really understand why you're arguing with me and you seem to be willfully misreading what I write. There are a lot of primary sources, for example, off the top of my head the pamphlets by Rusticus. It seems like you have a
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by tticvs 3y ago
William Dalrymple's book The Anarchy has some excerpts from American pamphlets decrying the EICs treatment of Indians (particularly during the Bengal famine of 1770) and also warning that the British would attempt to re-organize the co
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by tticvs 3y ago
> The Copyright Office granted copyright to the book as a whole but not to the individual images in the book Interesting and makes sense. I guess the best comparison I can think of is a random number generated with Math.random() is not c
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by tticvs 3y ago
Important context to concerns about trade monopolies at the time: the East India Company. One of the major concerns leading to the revolution was the behavior of the EIC towards the inhabitants of India and the worry that a similar institut
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by tticvs 3y ago
> First, a human didn’t create it, so copyright protections don’t exist on its output. Machines don’t enjoy copyright protections, people do. This is not correct. AI models are tools that humans use. This is like saying "it was type
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by tticvs 3y ago
Remains to be seen
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by tticvs 3y ago
Not a very good threat since the EU market is just a distraction for all but the largest American companies, and only becoming more so every year. Privacy conscious segment of the US market is a rounding error, despite what HN would have yo
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by tticvs 3y ago
American VCs don't care much about EU regulations despite what the Europeans wants you to believe.
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by tticvs 3y ago
I've built several mechanical wristwatches. Including assembling one movement from scratch (so difficult I've not been tempted to repeat this, I'll stick to storebought for new projects)
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by tticvs 3y ago
I see your perspective but I think that it is basically wrong. Your worldview misses a few key points: 1. The human growth explosion already happened. We're dealing with the end stage of it over the next 50-100 years. There will never
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by tticvs 3y ago
Harming yourself, advising others to harm themselves, and advocating for your government to enforce harm is not "right". Further, even if what you advocate isn't exactly harmful, just neutral (ie eating local vegetables inste
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by tticvs 3y ago
> Doing such things, and 1000 others, some of them vastly more important than others. That doesn't make any sense why would we make sacrifices that are not important.
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by tticvs 3y ago
Without modern, western, industrial technology 50% of all people die before reaching adulthood: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past This is reproducible across time, geography and culture. It is the basic
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by tticvs 3y ago
But none of the examples you give move the needle enough with regards to climate change. You're just following what feels like it would be good for the environment (and maybe it is good for your local environment) but isn't actual
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by tticvs 3y ago
> Of course this is different. Since you're training a foundational model that you want others to use everywhere, those who will use it need to know what exactly you trained it with, and where that data is coming from. The users of
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by tticvs 3y ago
Since training a machine learn model is harmless it should obviously be unregulated open source or not. If you take it and then do something harmful with it then that should be regulated. I'm shocked that anyone could think otherwise.
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by tticvs 3y ago
This thread is about the regulation of open source foundation models, not specific uses of them. If some company uses those tools to create a some kind of product that breaks the law or causes social harm then the law should regulate that s
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by tticvs 3y ago
If you think this then you really misunderstand the world around you. Do you really think they're only motivated by profits? If so they must be very dumb since trying to invent a novel artificial intelligence and releasing it as open s
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by tticvs 3y ago
> Copyrighted materials have been stole This is far from clear, it's obvious to me that training is fair use. But even so, if copyright prevents these tools from existing it needs to be abolished. Also not possible to steal a digita
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by tticvs 3y ago
Terribly written article full of bluster and arrogance. Falls into the typical European cognitive trap of thinking that what is most important is to follow procedure regardless of where the it leads, and completely ignores the fact that the
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by tticvs 3y ago
It seems to me that this is a plausible next stage of AI interface design. They're currently as crudely integrated into our workflows as teletype terminals or punch cards were into business workflows at the dawn of computing: tolerable
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by tticvs 3y ago
Very well put, I will remember your words. Sometimes I go for a while without reading any books and I can feel the difference in myself. Yet, I spend almost all my waking life reading text. I think the difference is that this is all just in

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