Usually I would not say something like this, but I hope he gets sued for this. Big time. He claims to sell books to doctors and patients - there is no way he should be allowed to. With no control of the content, chances are big that he gives wrong advice. This make me feel bad.
Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon
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Re: Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon
#122Usually I would not say something like this, but I hope he gets sued for this. Big time. He claims to sell books to doctors and patients - there is no way he should be allowed to. With no control of the content, chances are big that he gives wrong advice. This make me feel bad.
I hate it as much as you do but it's an open market and wrong advice is not criminal.
definetly a hacker though
Re: Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon
#123Usually I would not say something like this, but I hope he gets sued for this. Big time. He claims to sell books to doctors and patients - there is no way he should be allowed to. With no control of the content, chances are big that he gives wrong advice. This make me feel bad.
I hate it as much as you do but it's an open market and wrong advice is not criminal. definetly a hacker though
Nobody said it was criminal. But it is most likely negligent.
If I rely on his books which presumably have no editorial oversight, he'd better hope I don't suffer a loss as a result.
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#124Roald Dahl came up with this idea decades ago.
For anyone not familiar with his work, I highly recommend his collection of short stories titled "The great automatic grammatizator". The major plot of the eponymous story is about a hacker who builds a novel-writing machine so that he can drive authors out of the market by out-producing them.
Very entertaining and, it seems, prophetic.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although, to be fair, while Amazon doesn't need this, it kind of deserves it.
How dare they let just anyone write a book. Printing presses should be reserved for the elite and people whose opinions I personally agree with.
Or perhaps we need to find a filter to replace the traditional publisher's editor/market filters. Completely frictionless publishing of anything will just tend to increase the noise and make the signal harder to find.
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#126Reminds me of SCIgen: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ Generate conference-ready CS papers in seconds!
Thank you, you made my day. This is really fantastic, I particularly appreciate the nonsensical scales on the graphs (time expressed in dB, number of CPU in Joules) and the hilarious fake reference papers scattered with well known names (Even Erdos :).
Re: Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon
#127That is so cool. I wonder how much they are selling.
Re: Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hate it as much as you do but it's an open market and wrong advice is not criminal. definetly a hacker though
Nobody said it was criminal. But it is most likely negligent. If I rely on his books which presumably have no editorial oversight, he'd better hope I don't suffer a loss as a result.
I bet there are several clauses in these books the protects him from a legal perspective similar to all of the evergreen products out there.
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#129>> Because of his specialty in marketing, it’s easy to assume that these books are designed for spam-like purposes I just want to know, is this even legal? Is he selling books? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book "The body of all written works including books is literature. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature "Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techni…
If you go looking for overly specific definitions of words in natural language, which is effectively defined by its usage, any conclusions you draw from these 'definitions' will be flawed at best. Obtaining your fundamental definitions from selected lines in wikipedia adds bias as well as inaccuracies.
Also, even assuming your definitions were reasonable, you fail to explore the possibility that his books are poetry.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course but it's nothing more than bureaucratic red tape. This was simply the call that one junior reviewer made at one point based on a strict interpretation of the rules that had to be appealed. Obviously there will be some false negatives. The quality of the App Store is certainly better than Google Play.
> Of course but it's nothing more than bureaucratic red tape. And you can't see it as the fault of the red tape itself.
The red tape is not the executive apparatus, but rather the choice of the executive apparatus. And since I'm not an idealogue I can see the pros and cons.