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There's no indication the kid asked ChatGPT to act as a therapist. Unless people are claiming any prompt is better than no therapy I don't think your framing is fair.

Sometimes Mac users need to communicate with Non Mac users and it's helpful to be using the same PDF reader software so you know what you send them is the same as what they'll see.

It's interesting to see per the comment section of that YouTube video Mario 64 had only 7 programmers working for 621 days. Obviously very small by today's standards.

I'm a little surprised that development costs and team size keep going up in the game industry.

While games are certainly more complicated, it's a little surprising to me the tooling hasn't scaled to compensate for the complexity.

I think we are talking past each other but this has been entertaining.

I'd say anybody who writes "the LLM just produces characters with some stochastic process, therefore it's not intelligent or correct" is making an implicit argument about the way the LLM works and the way the human brain works. There might even be an implicit argument about how intelligence works.

They are not making the argument that you can't make up statistical models to describe a box, a human generated text, or an expert human opinion. But that seems to be the claim you are responding to.

Okay... I objected to your use of the word token. Humans don't think in tokens or even write in tokens so obviously what you wrote is not a fact.

That shouldn't even be controversial, I don't think?

You wrote "The text that comes out follows some statistical distribution".

At the risk of being over my head here did you mean the text can be described statistically or "follows some statistical distribution". Are these two concepts the same thing? I don't think so.

A program by design follows some statistical distribution. A human is doing whatever electrochemical thing it's doing that can be described statistically after the fact.

Regardless my point was pretty simple, I know this will never happen but I wish tech people would drop this tech language when describing humans and adopt neuroscience language.

I really wish people into LLMs would limit themselves to terms from neuroscience or philosophy when descrbing humans.

You are in my mind rightfully getting pushback for writing "human experts also output tokens with some statistical distribution. "

Maybe you could explain why you think they refused to turn the engineer report over?

Obviously I don't know the details but their lawyer being an adversarial asshole sounds most likely to me.

What other explanation is there? Like... was the board planning to sell their units before people realized the building had problems?

There's an agency problem here.

The building could have been perfectly safe but the lawyer wants to "win" so says "fuck you we won't provide the report". The lawyer has no stake in the health of the project, if they are a litigator they just care about "winning".

Alternatively the building could have been about to collapse but the lawyer wants to "win" and doesn't live there so says "fuck you we won't provide it." Same result, different safety profile.

Not all townhomes have HOAs but it is absolutely insane to say a townhouse that does, where land is owned by the HOA, would have land redistributed to various individuals by legislature fiat.

It's even a crazy proposal for detached single family homes. Will a government official show up and decide what land is owned by each owner and record by government decree what the new property lines are?

Does the "post-cyberpunk" in the title imply it's not about low-life people in a high tech environment but instead about the less criminally inclined, or do it mean something else?

I'm also autistic. This Hacker News thread on autism strikes me as so out there that if I suggested autism was a condition that causes social skill problems without disclosing I have autism I have a feeling someone would shame me for spreading stereotypes on the autistic.

Apparently per Hacker News autism is like being left handed. A minor personality quirk that is completely irrelevant in day to day life.

>>>No, because one built a civilization and the other is actual nonsense

If you believe the bible isn't superstitious nonsense then maybe you should say that directly.

"One built a civilization" describes a lot of religious books and seems to be a non sequitur.

Of course "The bible is like this occult book except the bible is true" isn't a very interesting argument.

Would you have posted this in a article about digitized christian bibles?

One week ago, if I asked you "how do we determine if modern philosophy is useful?"

Would you have pondered for a little while, then responded, "Find out how many philosophers commented on the Duke rape case of 2006 and what their opinions were, then we'll know."

Terminator descends from a tradition of science fiction cold war parables. Even in Terminator 2 there's a line suggesting the movie isn't really about robots:

John:We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.

Terminator: It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.

Seems odd to worry about computers shooting the ozone when there's plenty of real existential threats loaded in missles aimed at you right now.

Did the Duke philosophy teachers claim they were using philosophy to determine if someone was raped?

And did all the philosophers at all the other colleges convene and announce they were also using philosophy to determine if someone was raped?

The paper is evaluating how well an LLM can handle novelty, and on the paper's terms you need to calculate or otherwise somehow deduce the degree or type of novelty rather than simply describing your never published research as novel.

I don't even know that this is possible without seeing the training data. Hence the difficulty in describing how good at "reasoning" O3 Pro is.

The most novel problem would presumably be something only a martian could understand, written in an alien language, the least novel problem would be a basic question taught in preschool like what color is the sky.

Your research falls somewhere between those extremes.

Clicking around for a bit I certainly wouldn't call their article positively reporting on a proposal to eliminate social security neutral and factual.

People who are happy having kids also no longer exist over time.

>Homeschool kids can literally put themselves through school

Michael Scott: I don't get why parents are always complaining about how tough it is to raise kids. You joke around with them, you give them pizza, you give them candy, you let them live their lives. They're adults, for God's sake.

If it gave 5 other ladies worse responses, it's not like he would have paraded them around for context.

I doubt Gemini has a fake prompt as such. On AI Studio with web search disabled Gemini 2.5 pro insists it is connected to a real time search engine and will insist it is the year 2024 and is consulting with live search results when it delivers 2024 news as breaking news.

I think Gemini hallucinate a lot about how it is functioning.

Replying again to say this article appears to directly address similar cases:

https://perkinscoie.com/insights/blog/does-copyright-law-pre...

It seems courts are split:

"In jurisdictions that follow the Second Circuit's more restrictive approach, plaintiffs may be limited to bringing copyright infringement claims when the scope of license terms or other contractual restrictions on the use of works has been exceeded. Plaintiffs who do not own or control the copyright interest in the licensed work, however, will not be able to bring such claims and may be left without an enforcement mechanism under traditional contracting approaches."

>>There is no provision of copyright law that limits terms of contracts covering AI outputs.

This isn't how legal reasoning works in a common law system... to discover the answer you usually find the most similar case to the current fact pattern and then compare it to the current issue.

If you are aware of such a case, even colluqually, point me in the right direction. It might be hard to analogize to another cases though, because Anthropic doesn't have a license for most of the training materials that made their model. I've also read you can't contract around a fair use defense.

If I'm wrong it isn't very helpful to shout "na uh" without further explanation. Give me some search engine keywords and I'll look up whatever you point me towards.

"They don't need copyright ownership of the AI output to make part of the conditions for using their software running on their servers (API access) an agreement not to use it training a competing AI model."

You are missing the point.

Copyright law and the copyright act, not general contract law, governs whether a contract provision relating to AI output can be enforced by Anthropic, and since copyright law says Anthropic has no copyright in the output, Anthropic will not win in court.

It's not different than if Anthropic included a provision saying you won't print out the text of Moby Dick. Anthropic doesn't own copyright on Moby Dick and can't enforce a contract provision related to it.

Like I said I can be convinced I'm wrong based on a legal analysis from a neutral party but you seem to be arguing from first principles.

Nobody was asking if Anthropic can ban OpenAI. I believe they were asking if the contract that can ban using the output to train an AI would hold up in court.

And no, it isn't clear to me that this contract term would hold up in court as Anthopic doesn't have copyright ownership in the AI output. I don't believe you can enforce copyright related contracts without copyright ownership.

I could be wrong of course, but I find it odd this topic comes up from time to time but apparently nobody has a blog post by a lawyer or similar to share on this issue.

Here's an anecdote:

I've read that the original Fraggle Rock was the last major puppet TV production that didn't use computers to supplement the puppetry by hiding the strings.

I'm sure the newer Fraggle rock and other newer Muppet shows have impressive puppetry but the viewer is further removed from the actual craft since the image is computer enhanced.

Yeah... that's why I install Everything to have a third party search backup app.

My sense is this has been a problem for a long time and Microsoft presumably just doesn't care.

I know open air urinals used to exist in Amsterdam in my lifetime- I don't know if they still exist or not.

I'm pretty sure the idea was drunk men were going to urinate in public on the street no matter what the authorities did so they might as well be directed to a urinal.

Do these drivers not put cameras in their vehicles?

I'm having a hard time imagining how this topic of conversation would even come up?