Is the person who ignored Pelosi in the room with you right now?

But insofar as I can tell, that original 404 Media story largely amounts to "my friend heard from another friend that they're doing it with RARE books". Â\_(ãf)_/Â

Why would LLMs benefit from scouring RARE old books? What benefit would the rarity serve, when likely the texts are reprinted in umpteen subsequent editions that - to put it bluntly - nobody wants?
Are they buying an original copy of Samuel Pepys diary (first printings $4000) when they can get the umpteenth reprint for 17 cents? So yes, they're "destroying an old book" but rare? Why would they pay for rare?

You know how I know? Because I've been trying to unload a cache of 'rare old books' for a decade and nobody wants them.

1935 Platt & Munk Indian Series 3 pics â" Iâ(TM)ve only ever seen sets of 8, this is 16
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Maximilian I., der Grosse (2 pics) 1876
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Massive Norwegian Bible 1891?, rough shape, 7 pics gorgeous rebinding candidate, probably 14â x 10â x 4â?
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Worldâ(TM)s Great Classics, The Federalist Papers 3 pics, 1901
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Roman London â" 1926? 1 pic (contents on web at https://archive.org/details/in... )

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William the Silent 2 pics, 1911

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Knightâ(TM)s History of England, 4 vols, first American Edition, 2 pics 1880

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Guizotâ(TM)s Concise History of France 1881? 2 pics (Curiously, different than the version in the Library of Congress in that itâ(TM)s missing the printing date (see pics) â" LoC version here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/c... )

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A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe 1927 4 pics great maps.

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England and Germany 1740-1914 3 pics, 1918

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Schillerâ(TM)s Thirty Yearsâ(TM) War â" 3 pics â" 1897?

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History of the United States, vol 1 ,Ridpath 2 pics 1911

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Operation Greenhouse â" briefing pamphlet, 2 pics 1951 âoeRestrictedâ

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Home Life in Far Away Lands (textbook) 1928 clearly loved

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Simondâ(TM)s Travels in Switzerland Vols I and II , 1822

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5000 New Answers to Questions 2 pics 1933

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Union Now With Britain, 1941 4 pics

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Advanced Geography 2 pics textbook 1925

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Christian Stockâ(TM)s Hamiletisches Real-Lexicon 3 pics, 1890s?

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Thoresbyâ(TM)s Letters 4 pics Vol I and II, 1822

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Praediekener 2 pics, 1760

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On the Field of Glory 1906

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A Primer of the War for Americans 1914 2 pics

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Sabotage! The Secret War Against America 1942

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Vore Husdyr 2 pics 1902

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Maori & Settler 1900? 2 pics

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The History of England 2 pics Vol V, 1910?

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Gregg Speed Studies, Anniv Edition 2 pics 1929

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Parallel Source Problems in Medieval History 1912, 2 pics

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Swedish New Testament 1886 4 pics

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A History Of France, Arlington edition 5 pics 1881

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A History of Western Europe 3 pics 1904

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  Auswahl von Predikten 1829 2 pics

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World Politics at the End of the 19th Century â" 1902

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Republic or Empire: The Philippine Question by Wm Jennings Bryan SIGNED BY WM JENNINGS BRYANT 1899 2 pics

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Psalmebog 1833 3 pics

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Danish-English Dictionary 3 pics, 1845

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Collection of New Testament Histories 1805 3 pics

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Slips of Speech 1922 3 pics

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Biblehistorie 1888 no cover 1 pic

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Contes et Recits 1896 2 pics

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A Handbook of the War for Readers, Speakers, and Teachers 1918 1 pic

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FM21-100 Basic Field Manual 1 pic July 1941

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Look to Jesus 1904 2 pics

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Seven Chances (play) 1924 2 pics

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Sherwin Cody Nutshell Collection of Books 1927 3 pics 12 books (2 maps pictures NOT included in this set)

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Minneapolis and St Paul Street Maps including streetcar lines â" year not yet determined

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I guess not.

Millions of books are dumpstered every day. MILLIONS. Ever go to a library used book sale? Ever notice that - in MOST cases - 75%+ aren't purchased, even at 50-cents a book?

Sure, some get donated but a lot of book donation places are filtering as they don't need a 100th set of Encyclopedias from 1981.
I know of at least a couple of organizations that fill 20' containers and send to some associated groups in Africa to provide books for kids, but "Morning Glory Milking Farm" as well as Chilton's 1999 Pontiac Minivan manual isn't going to make the cut there either. It costs $ to ship them and they don't have money to waste.
Largely...they get thrown away/pulped. For some reason I'd once noticed that a local library (part of a county-wide metro association) was dumpstering books. Like... a LOT of books - talking a half-full 5 yard dumpster EVERY WEEK. I'd look and there were dozens of heavy duty black garbage bags FULL of books, and not just shitty old ones, there were multiple copies of popular fiction titles, NEW periodicals, all sorts of good stuff. I recognized the dumps were clearly by section as one night several bags would be "history" for example. In the bags they were totally clean too.
I probably dumpster dived 1000 books over the better part of a year, before my wife drew the line bringing home 1-2 shopping bags (eventually i just left a heavy-duty recycling tub in my car for it...) every week. I'm a big reader but that's a lot.
This was a library in an extremely wealthy suburb of 50,000. So I called them and asked about it. IMMEDIATELY the library *insisted* they only threw away damaged books. When I provided pictures, they claimed they were moving to a new facility and someone was just being a little overzealous in their cull.
Their new building was - I shit you not - MAYBE 50 yards away.

Anyway, the point is, I am saddened by the loss of any book, but let's not cry fake tears over this just because it's AI and people are 'shocked' to find out that the public doesn't give much of a shit about books anymore. Because they don't.

That mentality never left Microsoft. They just to have work harder to maintain plausible deniability. Plausible, that is, to the anti-trust courts and politicians, none of whom know anything about technology.

I don't think that's likely. GOG has been around for almost 20 years. If they were to renege on providing offline installers, what could that possibly gain them? That only makes sense if they are planning to reimplement DRM, and that would immediately kill the company.

It feels like the simple requirement of needing a warrant to search rather than "bored officer looking up his ex" would solve 99% of these issues.

Maybe you're just committed to rage (look, it's Mr Social Media) but IT SEEMS like you're "too stupid" to see that I was very, very specifically criticizing the commenter in the story that complained "How many people does it take to run a data center after taking up all this property and all this land that could have been used for something else?" eg, that data centers don't provide satisfactory employees per area numbers (when that land likely was being used for agriculture, which is generally EVEN FEWER employees per area).

That IS a stupid take.
What's even stupider is misreading my comment as some sort of criticism about agriculture, which it wasn't even faintly.

L2READ, dipshit.

Let's make sure we make in the legal framework to ensure anyone hosting/building llms is held legal& financially liable for any damage they cause?

You know most agricultural work in the US DOESN'T require importation of menial workers, right?

According to grok by value, only 15-25% of farm production requires menial labor, eg migrant workers.
Robotics are likely to significantly reduce that.

My point was that it's just a silly take to say "look at all this land that could have been used for something else" (presumably employing more people) when in fact most of the large swathes of agri land in this country barely employ anyone.

It's like complaining about data centers "using up" 17bn gallons of water when golf courses take something north of 500bn gallons and not saying a word about that.

...is the legal framework that I can hand my logins and all digital accounts to my heirs and assigns upon my death.

I'm going to provide them all the passwords etc regardless but I'd very much like the legal framework to recognize this.

Honestly my biggest challenge is keeping track of all the logins and remembering to update "that document" when I make changes. It's another reason I refuse to (only) use biometric unlocks on devices. There are plenty of use cases I can imagine where I might need someone to unlock something and I'm not present.

How many people does it take to run a data center after taking up all this property and all this land that could have been used for something else?

You mean like farming, where hundreds or thousands of acres are only "worked" by a handful of people or less? I think there are scores of reasons not to cover the world in data centers better than "but they take up space".

... When there are no consequences for bad behavior, it's often the best strategy.

Today, if you're wealthy enough or of the right group of people, you can largely ignore the law as well. And the behaviors are just as opportunistic and amoral.

This "AI" seems to be severely lacking in training, in that no superior/invincible force (e.g. a party simulating law enforcement) showed up and demonstrated the downside to taking certain actions.

It's been the basis for elite athletes practice routines for years.
Visualization is sometimes mocked by the ignorant, but even the simple act of visualizing EXACTLY what is happening, what you're doing, what moves you're making, how you're moving...all form & reinforce neural pathways, making both the action and the particular precise details easier to replicate.

I wouldn't call this multitasking, precisely, more like a training-based delegation of muscle functions and basic responses 'lower' in the cerebral/intellectual chain. A different part of you is "thinking" (using that word in a very, very broad extent) through the lowest-level protocols of your body's actions, instead of constantly throwing it to your lower brain functions.