EamonnMR

My quick read of the abstract was something more along the lines of 'insects use the bright sky above and dark ground below to orient themselves, lights create a very different location - dependent up'

Are you sure the weights themselves aren't a derivative work?

You need to obtain the rights to samples you use, why should this be any different?

Is this really progress, or mere expropriation?

> But training an AI is really the same as me listening to the music.

That remains to be seen, legally. I think that if copyright law wants to keep existing it's going to have to treat training as a form of copying.

Somehow EA always comes back to spending money on 'working on AI risk' which somehow never produces anything but blog posts.

> Honestly, who is better off because she's sitting in a jail cell for years?

Anyone who needs to trust their blood test results. If faking such results lands you in jail, that makes me trust the results and I can make medically relevant decisions based on them.

I know it's supposed to be much better, but the idea of vaporizing lead anywhere remotely near where kids may someday play is pretty intimidating. Are there any useable lead free solders?

Textiles of course has an obligatory copy: http://web.textfiles.com/destruction/hitman.txt

Spring engine games do tend to end up feeling like TA which is fine if that's your thing, but I think the mainstream RTS audience these days expects SCII.

Are you responding to the right comment?

The promise was that if we were clever and educated enough we could stay above water. Now I think the deal has been altered, and I think the people who aren't going to be screwed are doing blue collar jobs. We still can't get reliable self driving, so I don't think a robot will be a nurse any time soon, or a carpenter.

UBI is about as likely to happen as OpenAI deleting GPT4 and never training another model, so if we're picking patiently absurd scenarios I pick that one.

Not unheard of, just rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chimera

And worth noting that if all goes well, you'd never know you were chimeric.

Here here.

I do wonder if we're rapidly entering a world where finding sources, doing research, etc is going to only be interesting to weird subcultures and everyone else will be satisfied with whatever the first Google result says, or a confident bot's fabrication.

It doesn't legally challenge those activities, but I'm worried about a situation where they get their proverbial pants sued off.

The internet archive served two distinct but important functions: one as a backup of the web which was important for accountability and history, and the other as a repository for archiving the world's non-web digital information. I personally scanned a whole bunch of ephemera and IA was the obvious place to put it.

Why jeopardize those functions to do something brick and mortar libraries already did better, and legally? Other libraries do virtual lending.

Maybe I should have used NSFW instead of explicit, I just don't like to mix initialisms into my speech.

I expose everything as a Samba share and stream with VLC. But nowdays most of my music purchases are on Bandcamp so I use their app (which has a nice interface for saving stuff to your phone) a lot of the time. I usually spin albums so playlists aren't really a concern.

Now we're moving the goalposts from:

> one mankind’s most important inventions

to merely

> useful consequences

Sure, maybe there are useful consequences, especially if you need to defy governments or whatever. But surely not something in the same league of importance as, say, fire, the wheel, writing, powered flight, the hammer, steel, math, or even Quicksort.

I think people got offended when they found out the source of the image.

It's cropped from an explicit photograph published in Playboy.

They probably enumerated every file found on a fresh install of MacOS. It's possible no human ever actually looked at and recognized the file.

> if Bitcoin ends up being one mankind’s most important inventions

That seems unlikely.

Oh brave. Still fast on mobile but every day the cursed triangle of crypto in the corner nudges me a little further away.

Regarding mind control, yeah, that. Cambridge Analytica + tailored deepfakes scares the hell out of me. Imagine finding the most unstable individuals and deepfaking a video of all of their friends commanding them to buy coke. Or vote. Or kill.

Seconding the magnetic adapters. I use one to quick switch my keyboard between my work mac and gaming machine.

That's been true since at least the Vista days.

Probably lots of engagement due to that confusion though.