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Would that not mean that record label can ignore him when asking to be paid for songwriting royalties? Seems like a recipe to make yourself penniless.
[0] https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-copyright
Slight snark aside, I think you have the the idea right, to go for the person, human, connection.
Where did I call anyone with a perspective I disagree with an incel?
I literally said that this reads like something that one would find in an incel forum, and compared the idea that specific measurements of the human body being deterministic of their behavior with debunked science of Phrenology.
I think you're reading too much into my perspective and what I agree, or disagree, with.
No our government has not demonstrated their ability to keep secrets over the span of a few years, let alone decades.
He did also go to school and even tried to go to college, he even got a scholarship! He had a lot of issues with the non math coursework however and did not finish any degree that I am aware of.
The reality of his life is a bit more complex than "oh a poor boy found a basic math text book and taught himself to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history"
What is more interesting here is to imagine if he grew up with wealth and formal training, would he have died at 32? Would he been given the time and resources to actually become one of the greatest math geniuses out there?
Ramanujan had a lot of raw talent, but it wasn't honed, and ultimately it was cut extremely short and wasted.
Has there ever been a moral panic that turned out to be true? The closest I can think of is maybe the teetotaler/prohibition movement. Alcohol truly does cause a great deal of harm to society.
Not having been alive in the late 1800s and early 1900s I can't speak to if it was really viewed as a moral panic similar to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s that I got to experience.
You are absolutely correct that other interdictions are needed as well.
[0]https://world-habitat.org/news/our-blog/helsinki-is-still-le...
To speak to why we need this sort of thing I would have to harken back to a fun talk that Paul Heald gave back in 2012[0] where he showed this fantastic chart[1] that shows the number of titles for sale on amazon by publish year.
The only thing I can assume from the chart is that either the publishing industry in the mid 1900s suddenly found itself publishing the same amount of books as they did in the 1830, no one cares about the books written between 1920 and 1990, or copyright has caused the loss of an enormous amount culture. According to the chart, and the talk, there are 7 times as many books published in the 1910s than are available from 1930s-1950s.
[0]: https://youtu.be/-DpfZcftI00 [1]: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/mt/science/Amazon%20pub%20...
When I am in an discussion I will look up and off the my left when I am thinking, but no words are happening in my "inner dialogue", it's just nothing and then I start speaking whatever I paused for.
Similar things happen to me while I am programming at work, I stare at the problem and the answer just comes.
And I'm not even talking "accidentally", or though neglect. I'm thinking of the union busting efforts of the railroad and mining companies in the late 1800s and early 1900s where the corporations straight up murdered folks.
That is, the core doesn't feel gravitational pull towards the outside, because it's balanced on that other side, but the outside is being pulling in towards the core, which pushes on the core.
It might be easier to simplify the mental image by picturing just a slice of the whole thing.
Using this is college would be a recipe for disaster, you'd ask chatgpt to explain a thing to you and you, being a student, don't know if it's getting the explanation correct or wrong. You don't know if it's reasoning is correct.
ChatGPT isn't telling you the truth or how the world is, it's just spitting out the statistically more likely next word.
It's far enough on this side of the uncanny valley so you think it's a conscious human unless you know enough about the subject to realize that it's not.
In fact they call out NYC for having
Manhattan boasts the state’s highest percentage of residents – more than 80% – earning a living wage.
In fact Hospitals were not required to treat you until 1986, which was part of the COBRA act.
Prior to that there was a large practice of "Patient Dumping" where a hospital would kick you out if they found out they you couldn't pay for your treatment. Hospitals in the US would literally let you die out side the ER doors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an...
People don't want to bother someone else when their problem seems "elementary" or too low on the "beginner level".
I've observed the same when tutoring others in math, programming, or physics. Even though we have an existing relationship where I will help them work through school work people tend to be very anxious about asking for that help.
I've seen it with new coworkers who spend waaaay too much time trying to figure something out by themselves when they could have just walked over and just asked for the answer.
"I didn't want to bother you" is a refrain I've heard a lot from others in a large number of situations, teaching Go is one where it's more directly analogous to learning a language through speaking, because it requires another human's time, and the resources are extremely easy to access.
I play Go (the board game) at a fairly high level and have been participating in clubs and teaching Go for the better part of 15 years. The simplest and easiest way to get better is to play the game a lot, hopefully against someone a little bit better than you are. You don't even have to spend a ton of time on it, just play and once you're done think about the moves you made and maybe a place or two where you could have done better. There's several websites where you can make a free account and just click up button to say "hey, I'd like to play now!" and within minutes (or longer, this depends on the server and the level that you're playing at) you'll have a game you can get done in 30minutes.
It's crazy how hard it is to get people to play other people.
Most recently I've taught 5 people at my current workplace how to play. I've gotten them to play me, and, sometimes, each other. They've all made accounts on various sites to play, I've played them on those sites! They'll even sometimes play a robot on those sites (playing a bot isn't the best, but it is a little helpful).
Not a single one of them are willing to start a game with a stranger.
I'm sure nerves are part of it. But the reasoning I've heard time and time again, and not just with these 5, but with the dozens of people I've taught over the years, is some variation of "I don't want to waste their(my opponents) time".
They seriously feel like because they are still so new to the game, and still so unskilled that they would not be worth playing, that they would be "wasting" their opponent's time.
Take this to language learners, a lot of people do feel like as a beginner, talking to someone who is fluent is wasting the time of the fluent person. You're not paying them in the language exchange, you're just babbling to them like a 3 year old, a grown up who can't even carry on a whole conversation beyond "donde esta la biblioteca?".
You are right, language exchanges and just speaking with someone _is_ the best way to learn! It's super hard to break through the fear, embarrassment, and feelings of wasting another person's time with your own drivel.
Something like this, like the bots that play Go, are a way to bridge the gap.
Which does this sort of thing for like 8 episodes. Go and learn why you can't have cars without swamp gasses!
Maybe letting people know for what definitions he might qualify?
We just tell the teacher that "hey you'll get a bonus if everyone in your class gets an A"!
Who's in charge of giving their students grades again?
And I think the Ultimate General series of games also does some of this, but that's second hand.
Also, what level of a criminal record? Only Felonies (i.e. "serious crimes") and above? Misdemeanors? Even a traffic ticket?
I'll also point out that not all HS diplomas are equal, HS in a few states like NY, Cali, Michigan, are far more rigorous/difficult than schools in say Alabama or Mississippi.
I'm reminded of efforts that most people put forth in limiting suffrage, any criteria you come up with tends to be very blind.
I've personally thought that Sortition is a great idea, but I thought using a system more like Jury duty would be better. Grab your random candidates and then have them interviewed by a few bipartisan lawyers and judges to make sure they're not obviously horrific people.