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Hype isn’t free. Maybe the benefit is mutual, but I can’t tell how Anthropic gets paid. Anthropic subsidizes an open standard, but proprietary extensions later emerge that lock you…

Literacy makes human memory atrophied and unprepared. Kids these days can’t even recite the Illiad from memory!

Now that we have AI tutors that cost Everyone wins, right? You know, except university administrators and lenders.

Mathematicians aren’t expected to be paid royalties when someone uses their discoveries. Paying to lease a server or for access it, sure, but software itself? It’s nonsense.

We should, but not for those reasons. If software and ideas become commodities and the legal ecosystem around creating captive markets disappears, then we will all be much better o…

To the window, to the wall! To my social media feed I crawl!

Don’t Be Evil … but don’t disappoint shareholders…

He revealed unlawful surveillance years prior to and of the same gravity as Snowden, but only one became a celebrity. I would love to know the reason for that.

There are no Puritans and haven’t been for a few centuries. You’re screaming at ghosts. He or she may be Muslim. You should respect the culture.

The US can stop enforcing IP law, which I don’t think has a sound ethical justification in the first place. Ideas and code can’t be “stolen” like physical property. Using copyright…

The most delusional comment is quite an achievement on this goofy corner of the web.