AtomBalm

Hype isn’t free. Maybe the benefit is mutual, but I can’t tell how Anthropic gets paid.

Anthropic subsidizes an open standard, but proprietary extensions later emerge that lock you into servers from their marketplace or something? I need a sociopath to help me understand this.

Literacy makes human memory atrophied and unprepared. Kids these days can’t even recite the Illiad from memory!

Now that we have AI tutors that cost <$1/Mtok, why not do on-demand standardized testing for academic credentials and eliminate compulsory (dejure or defacto) education beyond working age. Universities can focus on research, and normal people get off the credentialism treadmill or focus on as-needed training at minimal cost. Need the social environment? Libraries or community centers can lend vacant space for “college” classrooms.

Everyone wins, right? You know, except university administrators and lenders.

Mathematicians aren’t expected to be paid royalties when someone uses their discoveries.

Paying to lease a server or for access it, sure, but software itself? It’s nonsense.

We should, but not for those reasons.

If software and ideas become commodities and the legal ecosystem around creating captive markets disappears, then we will all be much better off.

To the window, to the wall! To my social media feed I crawl!

Don’t Be Evil

… but don’t disappoint shareholders…

He revealed unlawful surveillance years prior to and of the same gravity as Snowden, but only one became a celebrity. I would love to know the reason for that.

There are no Puritans and haven’t been for a few centuries. You’re screaming at ghosts. He or she may be Muslim. You should respect the culture.

The US can stop enforcing IP law, which I don’t think has a sound ethical justification in the first place. Ideas and code can’t be “stolen” like physical property. Using copyright law to oppose copyright is a practical tactic, but I wouldn’t say consistently principled.

The most delusional comment is quite an achievement on this goofy corner of the web.