Almost. All patents are a drain on the economy. Once you've incentivized the research, their only value going forward is maintaining that incentive for additional research. There are plenty of economists who argue the value of that incentive is questionable.

Did you miss where it says "undergraduate and graduate students"? Harvard man, yourself, eh?

Harvard has nowhere near 25k students. You'd need every student from every cohort for well more than a decade to get to a number like that.

Again, sure, buddy. It's the "spread of abilities" rather than their commitment to success in the particular class that determines grading outcomes at places like Harvard. The actual experience of those that have their degrees from such institutions notwithstanding.

Not directly related, but it's fundamentally the same problem with weighted grades in high school. The system itself says that it is not possible to learn as much in the general rather than honors class.

"Spread of abilities." At Harvard. Okay, buddy.

I mean, we've all heard of DeVry, USC, and Trump University, but I wouldn't expect teaching at any of those places would make you any more qualified to discuss the workings of elite universities than the students you taught.

This isn't the math either. Advertisers pay for the number of impressions. Impressions are highest when the theater is making the smallest percentage of the box office, and those steadily drop as the box office percentage due the theater grows. Advertising merely smooths revenue- it's far less relevant to whether, as you say so broadly, theaters can cover their costs, than what those costs actually *are*. Did you buy land in a now-filled-in suburb a decade ago, or are you paying a commercial lease in the region's newest premier mall? Sure, they're *both* gonna show ads, but one is far more likely to *need* to than the other.

That's not the math. Generally, the theater occupancy rate of every movie declines continuously from its opening weekend. If you sell half as much concessions when the theater is half full, of course the theater needs a higher percentage as time goes on. Their costs to screen the film aren't really much different.

Yeah, and that's exactly the part where my skepticism kicked in. It takes about 10 hours across two weeks for a human to train a dog about an underground fence. I'm not sure I realized that cattle were so much smarter than dogs that you could just put on the collar and AI will do the rest.

Sure, it's well-known legal strategy to pepper your complaint with unfounded allegations. Judges don't hate that at all.

You pass a statute. There is no common law that Congress can't override.

I don't think it's much of a stretch to find the Claude AI evidence inadmissible for another reason, though judges widely don't do so: undue prejudice. The evidence of typing "how to get away with a crime I committed" isn't being offered for the purpose of showing the defendant did commit the crime, after all, it's being offered to impeach the credibility of the defendant testifying they didn't do it. Myself, I just don't believe juries can separate the two, so I'd never admit such evidence. But as I said, judges generally disagree, which is likely why they decided to try "Claude is a lawyer."

So are you. If an AI can be an author, it can also hold the copyright. 37 CFR Â 202.3(a)(3):

For the purposes of this section, a copyright claimant is either: (i) The author of a work...

Oops, "ring shell firework." No funny mods for me.

Does Greedo blow up like a shell firework in this newly restored version?