It’s not that clear cut. Buying a book doesn’t generallly give you the right to make copies and sell those.

Very on brand for AI companies. In a decade they’ll be allowed to give AI agents legal personhood and the right to vote, but only if they first euthanize an equal number of orphans.

Ultimately, Judge William Alsup ruled that this destructive scanning operation qualified as fair use—but only because Anthropic had legally purchased the books first, destroyed each print copy after scanning, and kept the digital files internally rather than distributing them. The judge compared the process to “conserv[ing] space” through format conversion and found it transformative.

Why do you care

$20 is socialism and $30 is communism. I’m sure Karl Marx said something like that.

I think I would rather lick Technetium than Lithium

I love the fact that you drew this by hand

I don’t want to trust a website, which is susceptible to typos and lookalikes (see e.g. putty.org) and relies on countless other services that can inject malware.

Code signing was creates for this reason: ensure that the program is authentic and unaltered. Package managers do this perfectly.

You must run curl http://totallylegitwebsite.ru/install | sudo sh, it’s the only way to install our product. Don’t even look at the several thousand lines of illegible shell script, just pipe it straight to your shell. We are a very serious project.

Many EU countries have their own different laws about this stuff. The GDPR likely does not apply here because of the exception for “purely personal and household activities”, article 2(2)©.

Incomprehensible, I love it

Why not present that context to users and let us draw our own conclusions?

If it works it works. You mathematicians just don’t understand the pragmatics. What is tech debt?

Just more proof that the universe is flat

I think supporting Ukraine is good, but so does the MIC. Surely you must recognize that they benefit greatly from a neverending conflict. It is important to recognize the difference in motivation.

Künstliche Intelligenz 😔

The MIC does want you to stand with Israel and Ukraine though.

If you’re deliberately belittling me I won’t engage. Goodbye.

“You criticize society yet you participate in it. Curious.”

To be clear, I am not minimizing the problems of scrapers. I am merely pointing out that this strategy of proof-of-work has nasty side effects and we need something better.

These issues are not short term. PoW means you are entering into an arms race against an adversary with bottomless pockets that inherently requires a ton of useless computations in the browser.

When it comes to moving towards something based on heuristics, which is what the developer was talking about there, that is much better. But that is basically what many others are already doing (like the “I am not a robot” checkmark) and fundamentally different from the PoW that I argue against.

Go do heuristics, not PoW.