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Comment Re:hohoho (Score 1) 37

I can't imagine anyone making the argument that using AI tools to rewrite code in another language removes the copyright.

I can't imagine anyone not understanding that their right to exist is based in part upon that belief, because otherwise they have been willfully aiding and abetting mass copyright infringement.

Comment hohoho (Score 4, Insightful) 37

After Anthropic requested that GitHub remove copies of its proprietary code, another programmer used other AI tools to rewrite the Claude Code functionality in other programming languages. Writing on GitHub, the programmer said the effort was aimed at keeping the information available without risking a takedown. That new version has itself become popular on the programming platform.

Talk about a money shot. If Anthropic argues that this use doesn't wash away restrictions, then they're also arguing that their software is illegal. Shades of copyleft.

Comment Fundamentally Untrustworthy (Score 1, Troll) 19

Humans have flaws. Taxi drivers sometimes commit crimes. Nothing I will say here is meant to imply that humans are perfect. But they can at least be trusted to do something predictable most of the time. A computer cannot, so you can't trust it on its OR even as much as a human. But you also can't trust central management. QED, you simply cannot ever trust an autonomous taxi.

Finding ways to replace human work is the backbone of progress, but sometimes replacing a human is not actually a good idea.

Comment Re:Recommended reading (Score 1) 72

"The Spoils of War" by Andrew Cockburn. Goes way back to American soldiers having to steal boots off dead Chinese soldiers in Korea to get decent boots, their feet were freezing off.

Still probably true BTW, though ironically my example is the opposite. I bought a pair of issue desert boots and a paid of issue arctic boots at the same time. The arctic boots came with two sets of liners, were flawless, I still have them. The desert boots came apart on like the second wear, which sadly was long after I bought them. They disintegrated at a seam.

Comment Re:Brain transplant? (Score 1) 134

Immunology, presumably.

The only donor bodies that aren't going to treat the transplant as an act of war are clones or heavily immunosuppressed; and it's probably more plausible to assume that you'll be able to clone a human like a sheep than assume that you'll be making some fundamental breakthroughs in immunology to deal more elegantly with unmatched hosts.

Comment To what end? (Score 1) 134

I can see the utility of having spare organs in certain emergencies; but how much life extension would you actually get even if the sort of neurosurgery involved in removing a brain and reattaching it to a new host's spinal cord were viable? Is the theory that the assorted ghastly flavors of neurodegeneration are actually to be blamed on older organs and everything will be fine; or is this just a very expensive way to ensure that you skip the various ways peripheral organs can kill you and are assured to be the spryest patient in the dementia ward?

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