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Comment Re: That's a serious crime (Score 1) 159

Title 18 is about crimes, yes, and that's why Title 75's definition of "pedestrian" to include delivery robots doesn't affect what Title 18 calls a crime. Title 75 defines traffic offenses, so now you're arguing that this was more like a ticketed civil infraction. Your original claim was that a more serious crime would apply, and you've serially failed to support that.

Comment Re: That's a serious crime (Score 1) 159

No, a good lawyer would explain why unlawful restraint doesn't apply in this case.

Section 2903 seems written such that "another" means a natural person (someone who has "liberty", as a robot generally does not, because it is chattel). PA law classifies delivery robots as pedestrians for the purpose of Title 75 of state law, not as people or "another" under Title 18. Do you have some precedent that says false imprisonment can be committed against a robot?

Comment Re:what law (Score 1) 159

No law says that, just like no law says you as a pedestrian have the right of way over other pedestrians; it says who must yield the right of way. Regardless of who has the right of way, neither you nor professors are generally allowed to block other pedestrians from proceeding down a sidewalk. In Pennsylvania, it doesn't matter if the other pedestrian is a delivery robot.

Comment Re:Precedent (Score 0) 159

Do you think Adam Smith came up with the saying "He who does not work, neither shall he eat"? You can wish that lots of people could have a comfortable life without working, but a working economy needs more than wishes, no matter whether it's a capitalist economy or a communist one. The practical problem is that communist economies rely much more on wishes and oppression than capitalist economies.

Comment Re: That's a serious crime (Score 1) 159

Technically, per the law, she should have been charged with worse.

I suspect this is wrong. Her behavior doesn't seem to qualify as unlawful restraint because it didn't involve either fear of bodily harm or involuntary servitude. She maybe could be charged with obstructing a sidewalk under Title 18 Section 5507 of state law, but that's a third degree misdemeanor like disorderly conduct is.

Comment Re:Precedent (Score 0) 159

Humans should not be forced into a life of doing mindless, repetitive "work" in order to afford to live. If you have a problem with robots doing the work, then your problem is actually with capitalism and society, not the robots.

Are socialism or communism known for forcing people to engage in more fulfilling, less repetitive jobs than they choose to take under capitalism?

Delivery people have different reasons for taking the job, but it's hella dumb to think that capitalist society is what keeps them from designing buildings or painting masterpieces or building flying cars instead.

Comment Re:Jail them all (Score 1) 91

because that's less problematic

It's less problematic for some applications. It's quite terrible if you're trying to stay synchronized with something like satellite motion, where it's easier to either use one of the TAI-locked times (like GPS Time) or explicitly handle a leap second than it is to handle smeared leap seconds. Stock traders similarly want to be sure they know exactly what the civil time is so they can resolve trades, rather than smearing a leap second over however many hours or days.

Comment Re:What about the open source contributions to dat (Score 3, Interesting) 26

It depends on how the contributions were licensed. A lot of projects require either copyright grants to the project steward (for example, the FSF) or explicit permission for the steward to distribute the code under some other license. Occasionally there are good reasons to relicense code, like the transitions across GPL versions, but this is the obvious risk of giving those permissions.

Comment That settles it... (Score 0, Offtopic) 128

This unreleased OpenAI model is absolutely unqualified to be a professor at Cambridge, even if it did create this proof when it was just weeks old (depending on how one counts). Let's just hope that it doesn't commit suicide, and that those who reported its apparent misconduct aren't punished for doing so.

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