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emilymbender, to random
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This is a decent summary of the octopus thought experiment from Bender & Koller 2020, with two glaring exceptions, right at the start:

  1. We were NOT talking about "AI". That's a paper about language models, and even though other people are (now) talking about LLMs as if they were AI, we weren't and never would.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/01/wtf-is-ai/

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@emilymbender
Just curious, what sets apart the octopus example from the chinese room experiment by Searle? They seem pretty similar at first glance.

rsf92, to random
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"In this paper, we empirically studied the characteristics of ChatGPT answers to SO questions through a combination of manual analysis, linguistic analysis, and user study. Our manual analysis shows that ChatGPT produces incorrect answers more than 50% of the time"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3613904.3642596

Dato mata relato.

rsf92, to random
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"Geometry hates Tesla, and physics hates Starlink. Reality has a leftist bias. The future is fiber, and public transit. These are both vastly preferable, more efficient, safer, more reliable and more plausible than satellite and private vehicles. Their only disadvantage is that they fail to give an easily gulled, thin-skinned compulsive liar more power over billions of people. That's a disadvantage I can live with."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/16/symmetrical-10gb-for-119/

Great piece by @pluralistic

rsf92,
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@peturdainn @pluralistic the piece states that there are obviously cases where those are not the better options, but those are somewhat minor.

rsf92, to random
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@KevinCarson1 revised edition of his text on "Intellectual Property" https://c4ss.org/content/59393 with additional comments on the role played by it the process of enshitfification as developed by @pluralistic. I thoroughly enjoyed the read!

KevinCarson1, to random

This is what happens when you go from one major streaming service with fees that people consider reasonable for the convenience (same profit model as iTunes), to every media corporation having its own in-house streaming operation, constantly jacking up fees, and being assholes about password sharing
https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-piracy-is-difficult-to-compete-against-and-growing-rapidly-240204/

rsf92,
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@KevinCarson1 It says a lot about the stupidity of copyright that their supposedly new form of media distribution (streaming) fails because copyright lessens the value of the platforms unless there's a monopoly.

As right wingers like to say, incentives matter, and the copyright mentality incentivises the "exclusive content" mentality.

KevinCarson1, to random

Ancap visions of a "stateless society" entail taking numerous elements of the present system which are actually the result of centuries of collusion between the state and the economic ruling class, treating them ahistorically as "natural" and "voluntarily," and then constructing an imaginary "stateless" order with the nominal machinery of the state removed but all those other elements left in place as the basis of their "free market" order.

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@KevinCarson1 could you provide any example? I mostly agree, but having some examples would help me when I use this same argument.

I tipicolly use "IP" which some ancaps defend, to an extent

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@Siroj42 @KevinCarson1 that's an argument I've made also, but people don't seem to get it.

Both the fact that property implies violence (to keep away from property) and that it might have a moral origin not compliant with the state of things are issues they evade totally (very intellectually dishonest in my opinion)

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@KevinCarson1 is there a way to get your books in physical format without buying tcem on amazon? Maybe Lulu?

KevinCarson1, to random

Classic example of how rent extraction -- in this case the licensing fees -- promotes #Enshittification.
As Thomas Hodgskin pointed out 200 years ago, a great deal of otherwise productive activity never takes place because it isn't productive enough to feed multiple layers of absentee owners -- landlords, private equity investors, etc.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/24/sports-illustrated-implosion-perfectly-encapsulates-the-ugly-ongoing-collapse-of-u-s-journalism/

rsf92,
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@HeavenlyPossum @KevinCarson1 have you checked the anarchist library?

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/thomas-hodgskin

rsf92, to random
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Great article by @pluralistic about "trusted" (treacherous indeed) computing https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/18/descartes-delenda-est/

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OpenAI have a problem: it's not just training text that ChatGPT can reconstruct when prompted, and DALL-E does the same with images—including movie, TV, and computer game scenes and characters. Reductio ad absurdam: trademark-infringing output from a two word prompt ("animated toys"): https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/things-are-about-to-get-a-lot-worse

Being sued by the NYT is bad enough. Being sued by Disney? That' gonna hurt …

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@KevinCarson1 @notroot @cstross @pleaseclap @exception
People always forget that the entire argument about copyright and patent is not some form of "property rights" thing, but whether art and science/technology can be funded without them.

I believe they can, that's why I'm against "IP"

Plus, I like my GNU/Linux setup, and part has to be with the philosophy under which it developed (users guide the development of technology)

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@notroot @KevinCarson1 @cstross @pleaseclap @exception
Sorry but strong disagree here.

As Kevin said, plagiarism is a very different thing from copyright infringement. It's fraud and it's covered with the same law as any other fraud (at least it should/would).

As for sales, there are other ways to get profits without copyright in the 21st century, you can presale books like @pluralistic does with his audio books.
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@notroot @KevinCarson1 @cstross @pleaseclap @exception @pluralistic

As for the it's mine, if you want a copy just ask.

First, what exactly is yours?

Second, taken strictly, that would ban the second hand market and goes against the first sale doctrine.

Third, I think people have the moral intuition that if you pay to get some work, the author should get a share, the case with Tolkien and LOTR would be an example.
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rsf92, to random
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Support the @fsf fundraiser here

https://www.fsf.org/appeal/2023-fall/free-software-free-society-free-education

And help fight for a world where knowledge and software are free, no that people can use and adapt It to fit their needs.

Software freedom is human freedom!

rsf92, to random Spanish
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Regarding @pluralistic's last article, it's defreshing to have non hyping views on AI.

It's good that Etik Larsson is not swimming alone (though his artiches are even more technical)

rsf92, to random
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I just found this text by @KevinCarson1 on techno-utopianism.
https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/TechnoUtopiaPDF1.pdf

Given my profession (programmer) and main focus (free/libre and open source software) I'm obviously interested, even though I don't think tech will solve everything I'm optimistic in its role as an enabler of more horizontal social relationships

rsf92, to random Spanish
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Now more than ever, we need a strong working class movement that pushes against the global oligopolies. @pluralistic's latest post speaks about it.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/24/coalescence/

Workers of the world unionize!

ricketson, to SpaceX

Space-X should be socialized -- possibly by "homesteading" of its workers. The company's operations depend on government contracts, government subsidies, and the freedom to pollute on an immense scale. It abuses its workers and relies on philanthropic notions to motivate them -- but still, the whole thing remains under the control of a single man for his own aggrandizement as though this is his creation.
@KevinCarson1
#spacex #musk #socialism

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@ricketson @KevinCarson1
A man who originally built his money on a company where he was fired for being an incompetent (Paypal) after getting to the States on the money of his family, a rich wcite family in Apartheid South Africa.

The fact that he was from the high class of a nation with state-enforced racial discriminatiom, is weirdly out of the most part of the discussion on this "enterpreneur"

rsf92,
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@KevinCarson1 @ricketson I don't quite follow you here. Would you please expand on rhe argument? Maybe you have an article about it or know of one....

KevinCarson1, to random

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/21/podkaynes-dad-was-a-dick/

rsf92,
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@KevinCarson1 would you call Peter Thiel a vulgar libertarian? He's pretty eager to side with the military industdial complex.

That novel/short story seems interesting, it's now on my tbr.

Are you gonna write anything about Milei? (Ancotcer vulgar libertadian)

rsf92, to random
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@pluralistic any chance of coming no Spain soon?

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@pluralistic :/

Any other european country?

rsf92, to random
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And now I'd like to share @pluralistic latest article with @KevinCarson1

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/13/this-is-for-everyone/#revisiting

I find there might be things to appreciate (and some disagreements probably) of each others work

rsf92, to random Spanish
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An article on monopohies by left wing market anarchist Kevin Carson https://c4ss.org/content/6256

I find it interesting how this is an angle that should be taken into consideration, and which aligns with some things mentioned by @pluralistic in his book the internet con

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@KevinCarson1 @pluralistic oh, yeah, I knew, but, and correct me if i'm wrong, since most of your artiches are on market based economies, I thought it wasn't a bad adjective

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