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Then make your own world where you don't benefit from the knowledge gained by means you don't approve of. This world is not that world.

Legislation is much worse than organically derived common law, for the common law comprises decisions that apply to particular conditions with all their details while the former ar…

Yes, I would argue that it would be better for more to have been incarcerated, for that would bring greater focus to injustice and the law would be changed. Selective enforcement i…

Categorical rejection of alternatives is premature without context.

Federal funding of research is un-American.

Go was a response, in part, to C++, if I recall how it was described when it was introduced. That doesn't seem to be how it ended it out. Maybe it was that "systems programming lan…

I'm happy enough if I'm better off for having used a tool than having not.

Meaningless? The participation in a usefully predicting path is meaning. A different meaning. And Gemini has a note at the bottom about mistakes, and many people discuss this. Cave…

> LLMs are [...] sophisticated simulators of reasoning-like text Most humans are unsophisticated simulators of reasoning-like text.

Could it be that your particular position required more ongoing learning, and that has kept you better prepared for a changing world? What fraction of positions require that ongoin…

These are welcome changes, as the practice of DEI (not it's idealization) is actively discriminatory and intolerant of dissenting views. Let competence be the only metric.

False. Mass accumulations of capital allow exploratory research without a clear path to commercial benefit, but it's a cherry on top, a kind of motivator for researchers.

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It's ironic that the much more significant ultimate success of deep learning happened despite a lack of government funding, if Hinton is to be believed. The 90s were a neural net w…

Yes, reduce, even end government research.

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As if centralization with one big company weren't enough, now we're not even satisfied with one country, but a block of them. Yikes. Nope, run in the opposite direction. Unsuck fro…

Unless you bound compensation, a proclamation of "non-profit" rings hollow.

None of that is combatting sexism, but reality.

We need one title one owner. Shared ownership is confusion. Governmens shouldn't run interference between managers and stockholders.

Developing defence capacity is a basic responsibility. Humans can scream foul if they lose out to machine hybrids or extraterrestrials.

Brevity informs diction.