I don't know just what you think the term Tragedy of the Commons means, but whatever you think it is is wrong. It refers to the idea that if everybody has unfettered access to common resources they will, in time, over-use and destroy them.

That goes back to the Eighteenth Century, or possibly earlier. The idea was to make sure that soldiers didn't have an easy excuse for being late for muster.

Have you also read the sequal, Escape from Hell?

Flat like a kid's movie - tall kid, smart kid, fat kid, dumb kid, bossy kid, rich kid, poor kid, ....

No, no, no, no, no: tough kids, sissy kids, kids who climb on rocks; fat kids, skinny kids, even kids with chicken pox...

This is the root of the problem. Reverence and social deference for "faith". On other words: "Belief without evidence"

Everyone alive since the Pandemic and subsequent Disinformation Wars knows that "faith" is a toxic and stupid idea which is incompatible with modern global civilization.

Religion needs to be viewed with great suspicion. Science and the people who discovered real things about the world need to occupy that place of reverence.

(LLMs) a technology LeCun has repeatedly called "a dead end when it comes to superintelligence."

He keeps saying that but AFAICT the block diagram for his JEPA solution is the same thing just predicting next floating latent space token instead of discrete word-token. Which is very powerful and cool but I mean its not like he is getting rid of backprop or convolution or even attention really. He should stop attacking his older work and just be a rock star.

You could say by llama4 the genAI division had lost its legs. But the Metaverse division was way ahead of them...

copyright is just property law that distorts the concept of property and exploits "art" to protect rents, mostly those of big companies. and a convenient instrument for censorship.

If, as you claim, copyright is nothing other than a way for the rich to protect their profits, how do you explain the Copyright Clause? It does seem to me, at least, that it contradicts you in no uncertain terms.

I don't want people all over the world connecting to my bedroom. If I wanna host a website I pay an extra $8/mo for VPS

One word drives darknet markets: Drugs That is enough of a usecase

...my fingerprint could be unreadable (some finger-losing or scarring accident)...

I'm in my mid 70s now, and my fingerprints are so worn down that when I turn pages in a book, I have to watch the page numbers to make sure I'm not turning more than one page. A few years ago, I found it impossible to set up the fingerprint reader on a new laptop because of that. I have no idea how that happened, because you'd think that as they get worn down they'd also grow back, but not this time. Are they so badly worn that they can't be used for ID? That I can't say because it's been decades since anybody has tried that with me.

... Enough to create doubt.

This, however would be a civil case not a criminal one. Reasonable doubt is only the standard in criminal cases. In a civil case like this, the standard is the preponderance of evidence. That means that the jury is supposed to judge for whichever side is more likely; 51% is supposed to be enough.

It's getting to the point that I'm beginning to suspect that there are only two people who actually understand Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Eccentrica Gallumbits and Dark Helmet.

After the mind-blowing success of the windows "are you sure you want to move the mouse?" confirmation dialogs, these people really thought that warning messages do anything? Who is advising these people? Why are they getting paid? Or was their actual contract to provide something with minimal effort that they can use to claim "we're doing something! pinky swear!" ?