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Not really. Clickwrap licensing only came about near the end of the 90s and didn't really take off until post-2000.

I remarked on how human cognition is treated as a magical process with respect to copyright law. This is just a legal fact. It has nothing to do with how an LLM operates internally…

This has nothing to do with how things operate, or whether an LLM is like a mind. It's a legal question regarding large scale compilation of data. "A machine is not a human mind, s…

> "Purpose and mechanism are not the same thing." No one said they were. You may want to revisit my original observation.

As I said, human cognition is a special case. The open question is how to handle machines that mimic the process.

"1) no similarities have ever been demonstrated between large language models and human cognition" This is false. The LLM's entire purpose is to mimic cognition. You could argue th…

No, that's totally incorrect, we do not consider every observation a "transformative use" as applied to the human mind. If you memorize a copyrighted play and write another play it…

"training data is totally a violation of copyright" This really isn't clear because cognition is treated as a special exception to copyright. Every thought we have is derivative of…

It is a factor, even if not taken into account in their analysis. At 64, someone might be compelled by the court to work. This can't happen at 65+ 65 is retirement. Everyone's inco…

> That's a pretty drastic drop, with no explanation (in this article) It's because spousal support terminates at 65. At that point both parties are presumed retired and can't be co…

Going to an ER after taking cannabis seems like something only someone with an existing anxiety disorder might do. A more accurate headline might read: People with anxiety disorder…

Nah. The Amiga 1200 debuted in 1992 for $600. 2MB RAM and a 14Mhz 68020. No monitor. In 1992 you could get a 486dx 33MHz with 4MB for like $800 (a two year old chip) with similar p…

The Amiga was dead a few years before Win95. The VGA chipset and the soundblaster killed the Amiga. In the late 1980s I wanted an Amiga so badly. But by the early 90s I had a 486 w…

I've used the LG frontloaders. They are not effective at removing muddy stains. They simply can't do the job. Wirecutter doesn't publish their methodology, but every "tester" who h…

I've used both a top loader (currently a speed queen) and a front loader washer each for more than a decade. I have many t-shirts that are 20+ years old. Any wear from the washer s…

The $5-$10k mark for a high end home workstation has held pretty firm since the 1980s. That's the buy-in price point for a very early PC, an SGI Indy, a low end Sun workstation, et…

If you read what Yann writes you'll pretty quickly see that he's rather ignorant about AI. His opinion is probably worse on average than the typical technical generalist's

Yes, as your article clearly explains the problem we are discussing - heat pollution - does not exist there. The article is talking about salinity, not heat.

The common place to use something like this would be to mmap an existing external data structure. There are a number of existing mmap-able 0copy k/v library/db formats that fit the…

It's a good thing the problem we're talking about doesn't exist there

I think you are probably shower and bathe in water that flows through pipes, so it seems absurd to be concerned about the same water/pipe combination used elsewhere. If you don't s…

Well, it would be an invalid assumption. The pipes are just pipes. There are no chemicals. Do you also avoid touching water from your kitchen sink? Your bathroom shower?

It's usually a silly complaint, though. The change is to a small area, and small areas are naturally different temperatures for all sorts of different reasons. Dredging the beach a…

> It is It is not, as explained by your own link. You should read your own link. Registering makes it enormously easier and nearly everyone will register prior to bringing a suit, …