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> this guy apparently killed himself. where did you get that? this article doesn't say a cause of death.
> The medical examiner’s office has not released his cause of death, but police officials this week said there is “currently, no evidence of foul play.”
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> The medical examiner’s office has not released his cause of death, but police officials this week said there is “currently, no evidence of foul play.”
So... murder and suicide are the only possible causes of death?
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It is nothing like vaccines. Zero. I can easily imagine a thriving world without copyrights, but I cannot without vaccines.
For the record, the world can and did thrive before vaccines were invented, so you don't have to imagine it. Sure there was more sickness and death, but we have plenty of that now, and I doubt you'd consider today's world "not thriving."
But ok, then. Imagine that world without copyrights for me. In detail. And answer these questions:
1. You're an author, who's written a wildly successful book in your free time. How do you get paid to become a full-time author? Remember, no copyright means Amazon, B&N, and every other place is making tons of money by printing up their own copies and sells them without giving you any royalties.
2. You've developed some open source software, and would like to use the GPL to keep it that way. Amazon just forked it, and is making tons of money off of it, but is keeping their fork closed. How do you get them to distribute their changes in accordance with the GPL?
3. You're an inventor, and you've spend years and all your savings working on R&D for a brilliant idea and you finally got it working. You don't have much manufacturing muscle, but you managed to get a small batch onto the market. BigCo saw one of your demos, bought one, reverse engineered it, and with their vast resources is undercutting you on price. They're making tons of money, and paying you no royalties. How do you stay in business? Should you have even bothered?
Anyone who's a whistleblower should compile key docs and put it in a "dead man's switch" service that releases your testimony/docs to multiple news agencies in the event of your untimely demise. The company you're whistle blowing against and their major shareholders should know this exists. Also, regularly post public video attesting to you current mental state.
Didn't Luigi Mangione do this, arrange for a YouTube video to auto-publish after his arrest?
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Right, but as you note the legal definition doesn't apply here anyway, we're clearly using the colloquial definition of whistleblower. And that definition comes with the implication that powerful people would want a particular person dead. In this case I see very little reason to believe that would be the case. No one has hinted that this employee has more damning information than was already public knowledge, and th…
Well, I still disagree. In reality companies still retaliate against whistleblowers even when the information is already out there. (Hence the need for Congress, federal courts and the California Supreme Court to clarify that whistleblower activity is still protected even if the information is already known.) I, of course, am not proposing that OpenAI assassinated this person. Just pointing out that disclosures of kn…
Presumably you mean the company. How many decades before AI has that ability.
Anyone who's a whistleblower should compile key docs and put it in a "dead man's switch" service that releases your testimony/docs to multiple news agencies in the event of your untimely demise. The company you're whistle blowing against and their major shareholders should know this exists. Also, regularly post public video attesting to you current mental state.
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblowe...
Anyone who's a whistleblower should compile key docs and put it in a "dead man's switch" service that releases your testimony/docs to multiple news agencies in the event of your untimely demise. The company you're whistle blowing against and their major shareholders should know this exists. Also, regularly post public video attesting to you current mental state.
I wonder who called to ask about his well-being. The Boeing guy killed himself, this guy apparently killed himself. The pattern of David vs Goliath, where David kills himself, is almost becoming a pattern.
Anyone who's a whistleblower should compile key docs and put it in a "dead man's switch" service that releases your testimony/docs to multiple news agencies in the event of your untimely demise. The company you're whistle blowing against and their major shareholders should know this exists. Also, regularly post public video attesting to you current mental state.
1. Dangerous to someone else
2. Separable from the main reveal
3. Something you're willing to held conceal indefinitely