Unbelievable. The rules aren't very flexible imho.
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
Readit NewsMrVandemar commented on Gemtext: A Markup Language for Gemini geminiprotocol.net/docs/g... · Posted by u/dtj1123
MrVandemar commented on We remain alive also in a dead internet slavoj.substack.com/p/why... · Posted by u/achierius
Are you so sure that you are not "just a machine"?
Yes. Being clear on categories of real things is important for being able to make informed choices and actions.
MrVandemar commented on How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity joanwestenberg.com/p/how-... · Posted by u/enbywithunix
It a description of what happened.
God doesn't seem to disapprove of murdering 200 people.
MrVandemar commented on We remain alive also in a dead internet slavoj.substack.com/p/why... · Posted by u/achierius
The counterpoint is that we must formalize the rights of sentient synthetic beings. The Emergency Medical Hologram gained sentience and was horrified to find his next version was relegated to cleaning ships as a glorified janitor. Whereas he developed his own hobbies, interests, hopes, dreams, and even romantic relationships in the Delta Quadrant.
It's just a machine.
Being able to distinguish real life from a television show is important.
MrVandemar commented on How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity joanwestenberg.com/p/how-... · Posted by u/enbywithunix
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> 5. Read the Bible. Even if you do not believe, Jesus is the most impressive human I've ever learned about. When I started reading it I was agnostic.
Yeah, read the whole Bible — the one people swear on in court, the one the preachers hold and up and tell you it is the word of god — and don't cherry-pick. So much misogeny and shit behavior. How about this one:
“David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.”
Yeah, let's kill those Philistines! Yeah, two hundred human beings! And let's cut off their foreskins because that's not remotely sick and dysfunctional at all and make a gift of them. Seems to be behavior that was rewarded.
Word of the Lord is basically sick fucking shit.
I think what you're looking for is not "copyrighted material" but material that's both 1) used without permission and 2) outside the scope of fair use.
There's no easy answer there, hence New York Times v. OpenAI.
There is an easy answer, it's just obfuscated by powerful people who are benefiting from it an obscene amount, and supported by hoards of addled and thoroughly addicted enthusiasts.
I think sticking a straw in Zlib or AA or LibGen or whatever it is, and drinking until it makes gurgling slurping noises as it hoovers up the dregs at the bottom of the barrel, is far, far removed from “fair use”.
MrVandemar commented on Ask HN: Why isn't AI viewed as a way to prevent humanity from going extinct? · Posted by u/amichail
The number of (self-inflicted) existential threats facing Homo sapiens right now and all you come up with is "mass brain fog"?
AI won't solve human obstinacy, human entitlement, human greed, human short-sightedness, anthropocentric hubris, etc. I seriously doubt anything can, let alone a large language model.
MrVandemar commented on Ask HN: What is poor quality vibe code that adds to technical debt called? · Posted by u/yranadive
“Stupid” about covers it.
MrVandemar commented on The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction jsomers.net/blog/the-mcph... · Posted by u/jsomers
> McPhee usually had one person at the center of each piece, so he would aim to spend a lot of time with that person … stay at their cottage for a season
Even back when every household received a morning paper I cannot fathom how a single article could command such a high pay.
Roger Zelazny, the science-fiction author, relates a story of how he wrote one story that fulfilled the briefs of three anthologies/magazines, sold it three times, and it was enough to pay for a cruise.
Things were different back in the day.