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smegger001

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    Comment #49260800

    And institutional control of information didnt really start again until the Statute of Anne struck up a deal between printers and the state giving printers copyright over written w…

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    Comment #49163929

    More than that it was an enabling tool. Republicans for decades have claimed that the government cant do anythingright/good and that we must deregulate and let the free market do e…

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    Comment #48988176

    >How come we allowed all these cronies to put camera and do surveillance. Because city counsel meetings are scheduled at awkward times for anyone employed to actually show up to. S…

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    Comment #48929504

    Yeah I would prefer not to use models whoes the owner has a habbit of altering them to push white replacement/genocide conspiracy talking points on we he gets board

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    Comment #48881493

    we could possibly use a gene drive to make males that would only produce male descendants in a handful of generation they would go extinct.

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    Comment #48668725

    >>If there’s any bootlegging going on it’s Anthropic that’s doing the bootlegging but having mirrored the video etc sufficiently to beat copyright law. >US courts have consistently…

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    Comment #48485894

    or give a different eye color it not all life or death

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    Comment #48357606

    Sigh. What ever happened to the principle of least privilege and why arent we applying it to AI agents. They ought to be locked in a box and not capable to act outside designated t…

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    Comment #48357361

    And i might be a Boltzmann Brain hallucinating all of this after a paticle cloud over hundreds of billions of years of random interactions by chance happened to condenced into thin…

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    Comment #48231883

    Exactly no one hates the ai algorithm finding cancer, or predicting protein folding or finding novel compounds for pharmaceuticals what they hate is the "we will slurp up all human…

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    Comment #48076698

    Lets see; a phone os no one used, and ad on installed without user permision as a tie-for a TV show, browser integration with a thirdparty bookmarking service that should have been…

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    Comment #47821261

    Does that apply to their tablet as well or just streaming devices ereader and smart speakers? Giving up android on their tablet would kill their whole app library i don't see them …

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    Comment #47722683

    mostly out of our reach unless you have way of removing it from the sun without your retrieval craft melting or being captured by the suns gravity well or from gas giants without t…

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    Comment #47608812

    You could probably do something to increase the apparent entropy like xoringing it with an irrational number like tao or pi starting with a digit determined by the date.

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    Comment #47604565

    You could probably cheat with the one time pad and use a book as a key, pick a pre determined starting point go diagonally down accross the page convert the letters to numbers and …

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    Comment #47604355

    I used to have little battery powered AM/FM/Shortwave/weather radio lost it a couple house moveings ago. Kept it around for the emergacy weather radio during flood events and other…

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    Comment #47388236

    It is Larry Ellison doing. He has been lobbying and trying to push the US and UK towards it for the last 20 plus years with plans on controlling the database and infrastructure beh…

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    Comment #47290599

    So pretty much the same as the Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. case ruling it as fair use as a transformative work. I mean if indexing the worlds books is transformative then a…

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    Comment #47239213

    > if you license it MIT, and it's useful, expect Amazon to make a fork, not give you the source code, thats why the gpl family of license exist. MIT/BSD family licenses are do what…

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    Comment #47199588

    Smallpox, which the only remaining samples exists in a couple of secure facilities controled by superpowers for use making vaccinations in case they are wrong about their only bein…

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    Comment #47189133

    because bio-weapons labs take more to run than a workstation pc under your desk with a good graphics card. both in equipment material and training. Its hard to outlaw use of linear…

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    Comment #47112530

    sort of not really but effectively yes. their deal with OpenAI gave them unrestricted use of all of OpenAI Models and IP (source code, weights, patents probably any other data) exc…

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    Comment #46981835

    I don't know about that they have multiple successful businesses with or without AI and they stand to have all of OpenAI's IP when they implode (their license gives them free acces…

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    Comment #46979592

    as someone that donates plasma twice weekly I wonder what health effects of removing and filtering the blood regularly has if accumulation of byproducts is a major issue

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    Comment #46950631

    because they are the frequencies that pass though water most readily, and we are made of mostly water