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Perhaps, but it is also the way in which LLM providers eat their seed corn. If everyone publishes less because the only one to consume it will be an LLM gives no credit, then LLMs …

Slavery was a controversy from the beginning that finally bubbled over into the Civil War. It was not, as this question seems to imply, a near universally approved of practice wher…

Spite & Malice was always one of my favorites.

I think what gets most people is the double standard. IP should either exist for everyone (which would cripple LLM providers) or no one, in which case the Pirate Bay and shadow lib…

Even if we accept that, the millions dead and incalculable human suffering incurred by the attempts is more than reason enough to stop trying. There was no greater cause of human s…

> Oh, they love to do precisely that. I think it's been pretty well established that most legislators do not take the time to understand the details of bills prior to voting. Moreo…

> something a congressional rep is deciding on. Congress does not, by and large, get down to that level. They are typically approving a line time that encompasses a form of lump su…

Deep expertise is not a blank check for funding. There is only so much money to go around and at some point you have to articulate your value to those paying for it (in this case, …

This is the big one for me. I have no inherent problem with bigger budget stuff, but it is seldom about the things that interest me.

If it was a digital transcript service alone, yes, it is a success. Claiming that the transcripts were generated by a nonexistant AI is fraud and should be treated as such.

Eh - if you extend this mode of thinking to all of your purchases, you would have to withdraw from nearly all economic activity.

https://archive.is/3cMYf

I didn't say anything about Inconsistency, so I will set that to the side. My entire point is that these things are seldom so black and white as put forward. The US administration …

That's a false dichotomy. The severity depends on what the individual attempted to remove. Nuclear secrets might be unacceptable to allow him to leave. Something more administrativ…

None of the articles I found went into more detail than the NY Times one. What they all say in common is that the French researcher was denied entrance. If the US version is true (…

> the critical difference between secular ideology and religious ideology is that (in a properly functioning society) you can challenge/question/probe secular ideology. This feels …

I see one key difference. Teaching code should be stripped down to only what is required for what is being taught. Everything else must go. You can see this dichotomy in Scheme. Ve…

You can also print flyers, pamphlets, books, posters, and all such things without submitting them to a human censor (c.f. https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature…

> Require human moderation. That naturally limits scale. Does it? Does a human need to examine everything posted? You can certainly send letters without them going through a human …

One major failing of WebDAV for these use cases is that the spec requires you to `PUT` the whole resource/file in order to save changes. This isn't too bad when the individual file…

> One of my own pet peeves in Forged In Fire was that every contestant would submit Damascus (-style) blades for their final showdowns. It just wasn’t necessary and often just look…

I didn't read the actual filing, but the linked article days that Android is excluded, but implies it could be included later: > While the government isn’t going as far as to deman…

> A friend suggests doubling the number and increasing to the next unit — hours become days, days become weeks, etc. I don't know. Going from 8 hours => 16 days seems like quite th…

To add to this, it is revealed in Hitchhikers that dolphins are super intelligent extraterrestrials. "So long and thanks for all the fish" is the superintelligent dolphins farewell…