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Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 42

It's not training on copyrighted data that is a violation of copyright. Access to a copyrighted work is not something that is an exclusive right given to copyright owners.

But you know what is (as I quote from the law):

(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;

(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;

(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;

What they can get you for is reproduction, derivative works, and especially transmission of the same. I'm surprised it's taken this long to get there. While I am not a lawyer, I suspect Disney has a very strong case here. And believe fines are per instance.

Comment Re:Smart money says this was dictated by RFK (Score 1) 64

I'm not so sure. Take the text of the memorandum.

"increasing the amount of information regarding any risks associated with the use of any such prescription drug"

Is it RFK that gets to determine what risks exist for any particular drug? Are we going to see 'this vaccine may cause autism' messages?

In a normal administration this seems like a decent idea, even if just banning drug advertisements would be better. With this administration, I expect the worst.

Comment Not even close to AGI (Score 1) 140

The idea that LLMs or any of the current AI tech is anywhere near AGI is laughable.

We're not even in the ballpark of the right technology. We have prediction engines, input consumption systems with internal feedback loops and models.

This is like saying now that we've built bicycles for travel, the next step is to ride those bicycles to the moon.

Comment Re:Is it a Rust attitude? (Score 1) 86

I'm not part of the kernel development world, but I did read the entire thread that sparked this all off.

There was a patch sent up for some rust code.

One of the maintainers decided to use that patch to take a hard stance on the Linux kernel being C only, not a specific dig on Rust.

The person who submitted the patch tried very professionally to find a solution and address any technical objections on the thread.

Some other people also chimed in, very professionally.

There were some strong words (not directed at any person), but it was mostly professional, even if it was somewhat of a political standoff.

Hector seemed to come flying in off the turnbuckle and go off on a rant that was, at best, tangentially related.

Comment I actually went and read the patch email thread. (Score 0) 170

It really seems like Hellwig is ideologically against any language other than C in the kernel and is pushing back on that principle alone.

There's no technical argument against the patch. Hellwig isn't being asked to maintain or work on any Rust code.

It doesn't even seem to be against Rust as a language.

It's basically a hard line of not allowing anything other than C in the kernel.

Agree or disagree about that position, but that really seems like what it is.

Comment Re:check your work (Score 2) 68

You're right, if the goal was to emulate a fly in real time. I don't think we're anywhere near that stage.

We absolutely could do this emulation, and I suspect that will be on the table soon. Yes it would be slow. How slow would depend on how much hardware we wanted to throw at the problem. We're not limited to a single computer, even a single supercomputer. The only thing really standing in the way is money.

BTW, the BIOS and OS are the mapped neurons and connections. There's not something more to it.

Comment Re:Why Buy a New Car? (Score 1) 71

Because you are doing what many people do, and what the politically right leaning have purposefully done. Confuse capitalism with well regulated free markets.

Well regulated free markets provide incentive for new products, fulfilling customer demand, efficiently allocating resources.

Capitalism is an economic system the funnels money towards the rich.

Comment Re: Damned if they do, damned if they don't (Score 1) 71

The master key doesn't even need to be a key. It would probably be better as an OBD2 plug.

Make the master key an OBD2 plug. You plug it in, authorize on the touchscreen/radio, then you have X amount of time before the auth times out. You could even implement 2FA with that. Need the plug, plus a pin.

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