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by wwweston 4y ago
I'm starting to think that use of works in a training set is a category not covered well by existing copyright law, and it may be important to require separate explicit opt-in agreement by law (and receipt of some consideration in retu
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by wwweston 4y ago
Firms that choose to use it indiscriminately will also be exporting domain knowledge (likely including those that give them a competitive advantage) into ChatGPT. This doesn't matter in roles that are complementary to where the most va
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by wwweston 4y ago
> If technology causes the value of the fruits of that labor to crash Well then, if the fruits are worthless, then presumably there's no loss from excluding it from a training set, and creating norms or even laws which allow people
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by wwweston 4y ago
You'll note on reviewing my comment that I didn't claim there are no differences. That's intentional, having tread the relevant ground plenty of times myself. The similarities matter more than the differences here. And the pr
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by wwweston 4y ago
All property is imaginary. It also turns out to be useful in often helping human beings coexist relatively peacefully and sometimes negotiating mutual interests productively, so like a number of things that don't exist until enough peo
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by wwweston 4y ago
I don't love at home tests, but they've turned out to be legit opportunities for me in a few cases. Pretty sure one of them not only got me a job but gave the employer a context which likely encouraged them to keep me after a proj
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by wwweston 4y ago
Exactly the path I took -- Mint was nice enough early, deprioritization became too frustrating, Visible deprioritized wasn't better, Visible w/ priority has been acceptable.
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by wwweston 4y ago
If/where non-profits are effective, I would expect that's largely through the time and effort of people staffing them, and unless it's all volunteer labor, I would expect those people are paid. And if they're effective a
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by wwweston 4y ago
> If some person you dislike got robbed in front of your house, you could be compelled to help them by supplying your video footage Let me get this straight. You're so concerned about your property rights being absolutely privileged
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by wwweston 4y ago
A skeptic would likely assume it's not true. In my mind, a scientific-minded person comes up with a hypothesis, models with explaining power, and then thinks "how could I devise an (ideally repeatable) experiment that could help m
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by wwweston 4y ago
"I focus on doing the least amount of work I can get away with" is one reasonable strategy. If you've got continued employment it's probably working for your employer and may be working for you too (and this can make a l
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If organized crime infiltrating particular institutions invalidates them by itself... then you're obligated to disdain or even eliminate large chunks of capitalism. Certainly casinos and night clubs. Lots of restaurants. Probably const
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by wwweston 4y ago
Hard to say for sure, but probably correct: Orwell seemed to be a critic of totalist ideologies, certainly totalitarian communism but he also had words for unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism.
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I used to think this too, since I tend to value interactions that range between autonomy and cooperation. Even where I like competition, it tends to exist within cooperative meta-boundaries. I assumed most people probably weren't too d
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by wwweston 4y ago
"Capitalism" can be a lot of things, including things which privilege capital without regard to market freedom for labor or consumer. Cartels certainly aren't free markets. To keep those you need policy which keeps them that
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by wwweston 4y ago
> Basically, it boils down to, "do as I say, not as I do." I think it's more accurate to say it boils down to "our sole underlying principle is our own advantage, and the privilege of not even having our advantages ch
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by wwweston 4y ago
> They have identified in-person collaboration as a key competitive advantage That's an interesting statement about the relative value proposition of a lot of the technology many in this sector make their money selling firsthand or
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by wwweston 4y ago
Isn't communities being uncomfortable with new members and change as much of an all-kinds-of-communities throughout history thing than an online-in-2023 thing?
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by wwweston 4y ago
It's APFS by default for the last few versions of macOS, though, right?
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How easy/hard is it to set up a 3 part scheme where your personal files live on their own partition that can be accessed from macOS or Linux?
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by wwweston 4y ago
The web has always been client-rendered UI. Markup is data. What's changed is the practice of pushing JSON instead to client-render to markup which the client then renders as UI. Whether this is an improvement is highly situational and
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I think it's great if people are vigilant regarding threats to clean air and water, and if people don't want to take the Ohio Governor's statements at face value when he says samples look clear, I can relate. But "callin
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> Nethack allows selling items to shops. This means there's a reason to pick up trash items, which is annoying. This seems subjective? I mean, sure, it's grindy to pick up cheap helm after cheap helm, but there are other ways o
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by wwweston 4y ago
Pick up stuff and run away, not necessarily in that order. Go shopping. Or have your pet go "shopping" for you. Have your pet kill things. This removes threats and gets you loot and through maybe half a dozen levels, helping you g
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by wwweston 4y ago
Postmodernism absolutely does not deny intent. In fact, motivation behind texts/speech (as well as interpretation by readers/hearers) is such an important part of it that you can't really do postmodern analysis without ac
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by wwweston 4y ago
This is a statement about the absence of immediate first-order incentives. But there are other incentives, for example, being interested in the problems of actually settling Mars. Necessity is certainly motivating, but people serious about
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Perhaps from the University POV the point is less to not be wounded as to exact as high a possible cost for striking so that anyone involved and any future strikers don't think they have anything to gain from it, even if the University
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by wwweston 4y ago
Eh. Just attended a few screenings at the Sundance Film Festival. All of them full of people happy to lay out money and effort to show up to a theater. All of the films I saw were worth watching. Maybe one of them will be a box office hit (
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Management can be assured of worker productivity by evidence of activity or evidence of output. In some situations (probably a lot of software engineering situations) output is difficult to measure, and so the habit of tuning in to activity
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We're talking about other industrialized mixed market democratic nation states. At that level, demographics fade into the background, to the point where it's not even clear that we're talking Granny Smith vs Red Delicious, it

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