Who are positive their wealth will insulate them from the troubles.

And for a while it surely will.

So we let them continue to destroy the planet, socializing the losses and privatizing the profits.

Meanwhile everyone on slashdot, as far as I can tell, is mad because Biden wants to forgive student loans.

Forgiving loans : bad! moral hazard ! it's the end of society !
Companies and billionaires destroying the planet : don't regulate them ! capitalism ! Freedom !

Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

His speech

https://www.jfklibrary.org/lea...

is well worth reading.

It cannot be overstated how our productivity and work ethic has boosted the 0.1% for the last 40 years, and will continue to do so.

I don't expect anything to change. The propaganda machine, which Root is a part of, is relentless, well funded and won't let up for a second.

If only the proles were as devoted to stopping that machine.

you have to vote with your wallet or your vote doesn't count.

what Blizzard has done is create games that are good enough that disruptions like this will incur complaining but no real reaction.

Just look at the sales numbes for D4 if you don't believe me.

it's popularity and wide use has many MBAs lying awake at night figuring out how they can monetize it.

Expect a lot of companies to be releasing press releases to figure out what that way might be.

i just about fell out of my chair.

Suspend has never worked well for me on desktop systems in linux

am650 asus board, ryzen 7 and a Radeon video card.

No problems at all.

Hilariously if i don't do "xset -dpms" and let it sit there, the video goes away (doesn't crash) and I can't get it back.

So suspend works great but suspending the display is busted.

which seeks to maximize it's profits on art of the dead artist. it shouldn't even be able to do that in the first place.

this case tells you a lot about what is wrong with the current state of copyright.

sorry, you actually should be blocked from watching videos about making pipe bombs.

The point being it doesn't have to be that overt.

there's a big difference between you finding the CT videos that you want to see and youtube funneling large numbers of related videos directly to you and making money from it.

i use that word responsibility again, and it DOES mean what I think it means.

if this puts a dent in their business model because they have to stop doing that or losing lawsuits, tough shit.

correction, when i've done searches i've seen a sidebar full of _unrelated_ CT and pseudoscientific wackiness.

Here we go again.

if youtube.com posts videos calling for violence and showing you how to commit said violence, let's say pipe bomb building videos, AND IS MAKING MONEY FROM IT, it's ok because "free speech".

youtube is not only allowing videos that are subtly and not-so-subtly calling for violence, but they are also MAKING MONEY FROM IT. The level of fucked up CT related videos I see in youtube, without even having searched for anything, is amazing. youtube is a cesspool.

Not only that but they are directing people to said videos because they like other videos of a similar nature.

But no, youtube/Google, should be completely free of any responsibility in the matter because "free speech".

fuck that.

While this may not be a Zed-P-M, it's precisely the kind of incremental, clever, improvement needed to make things better, cheaper, more efficient, etc...

You don't always need to hit a home run.

I've often been amazed and just how "trendy" corporate behavior often is.

I've always assumed it was ivy league MBAs all learning from the same playbook.

Or maybe it's just group think.

Who knows, been interesting to know why.

yep. and probably make them more difficult to catch.

Also, incentive problem.

Your entire academic career depends on publishing, so you have an incentive to cheat.

How can you need "a customer" for fusion power ?

if it works you'll have more customers than you can possibly handle.

also, you don't need a customer to keep you grounded, you need a CEO who's not an idiot.

the end goal of "power generation, and cheaply" is the motivation in and of itself.

doesn't even need to be "cheap" just competitive.

this all sounds very weird. why is that i think there's a bunch of c-level types hiding in the corners who are making money on this deal in some barely legal way.

haha. that is a good point.
AIs are not people too !

my point about the 1000 AIs in parallel was that me and my 1000 friends can't read a book AT THE SAME TIME.

but the AI can. So it seems to me that if you running the ML in learn mode and it's got 1000 parallel versions using the same material then they really should have paid for 1000 copies.

anyway. ML is now big business, companies that create content for learning are now f*cked because the ML cartel will just trample copyright and none of these publishers will be able to get any traction with lawsuits because money always wins. The ML systems will now spit out the answers you would have gotten from a book, because these systems will be able to answer increasingly sophisticated questions. So goodbye to anyone making, for example, a basic Calculus textbook. Not that it's a bad thing, the whole textbook business is such an incredible scam. long live z-lib and all that.

but we're also f*cked because these things are going to give a lot of wrong answers and we already have waaay too many people that don't have even a basic capabliity of thinking for themselves.

Maybe not in the case of Pearson specificly, but this is actually a valid complaint involving copyright, and a legitimate use of copyright , preventing _commercial_ infringing use.

The language models are making use of copyrighted materials for very much commercial use.

Think of the interesting issues here

- if i buy one copy of a book, but i'm training 1000 AIs in parallel, do i need to buy 1000 copies?

- the ML responses essentially plagiarize the source material. if a response substantially uses something from a copyrighted source, and changes a few words, or rearranges the sentences, isn't that really copyright violation ? after all, they response is making direct use of the material. they could deliver that response millions of times, that's a lot of infringing.

I have to admit that i'm completely biased show. These ML systems are leeches and parasites and commercial entities, so it's not obvious to me why they shouldn't pay handsomely for every scrap of copyrighted material they are taking advantage of.

This is mostly definitely not in the category of "i lend my book to my friend".