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"human speaks at... tokens"

Yeah, stopped reading there, this is obviously some deranged sam altman paid blog post, I can't wait for the bubble to pop just so his newly launched chip falls flat on his face.


Considering that WoW came out in 2004 and people STILL sometimes call Rogues "rouges"... doubt it.


Yeah, I don't think anyone is missing anything from someone who doesn't know/like how to read, sorry.

There's other mediums to express ideas that isn't books if you are functionally illiterate.


I'll resist the temptation to dunk on that last line.

The case for reading (and why its demise may lead us to dark places) was laid out very recently: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-...


Why would copyright and patents exist when the US blatantly stole the entire world's knowledge to train their AI models (and China distillled from it)


Knowledge cannot be "stolen"


The more charitable interpretation would be "knowledge embodied in copyrighted works collected and duplicated without grant of rights".

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821172>


I think that you might be taking "knowledge" too literally. As I read it, the parent's post was using "knowledge" poetically for the various works that AI companies stole.


What about art?


You wrote your house's security code on a Post-It note. Somebody came in as a houseparty guest and located the note, and discretely copied it onto their hand to get access to the house during your next vacation.

Which verb would describe their knowledge of this security code?


Obtained, read, viewed, learned, discovered.

The knowledge wasn't obtained illegally or illicitly, immorally perhaps.

Illegal entry/trespass is a crime regardless of the method used however.

In your analogy copying the code (online content) isn't necessarily illegal, however using that knowledge without compensation, permission or attribution may be a crime (depending on copyright law, judges rulings etc).


https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-crea...

What about using torrents to acquire that content?


Torrents are legal?

Seeding is often considered the actual point of infringement, aka sharing copyrighted material without the right licence.

I should note I suppose that I don't agree with companies using artists or developers hard work for their own financial gain without compensation, whatever form that may take.

The problem as usual is the availability of legal loopholes when you have a team of lawyers and near infinite money.


It really depends the country, downloading a Hollywood movie via torrent is itself illegal in a lot of countries. The only exception I’m aware of is Switzerland


You're right I was thinking of civil vs criminal penalties.

Personal downloading is generally only a civil violation, requiring the rights holder to sue you for reparations.


This point makes sense to me. I agree with "learned" and "discovered".


"eavesdropped"?

"spied"?

Whatever it is, slapping "steal" on it because what was done is wrong, and stealing is wrong, is the same sloppy logic that the copyright lobby used in the 80s/90s.


If 'steal' doesn't fit, then neither do 'eavesdrop' or 'spied'.


The crime there is using that knowledge illegally to break in.


learned


After a bit of thinking, I agree that "learned" is the most appropriate. I stand corrected.


Hopefully META loses so they can stop this forceful age verification at OS level garbage being financed by META, f..k META.


Yes, but important to note that the prosecutors are pushing for AV (ID Checks) at the site level. Both sides of this fight are actively anti-privacy.


This is what made me avoid chrome since release, I tried to right click a youtube channel background as a teen wanting to use it as a template to make my own channel background on photoshop... turns out they had disabled it, while I could on firefox.


While I like that LLMs won't be able to produce the entire internet anymore, I am worried that the real reason for this move is for Anthropic to claim everything is theirs even though they STOLE humanity's collective knowledge including billions in private property worth of knowledge (or maybe even trillions), and all they do is regurgitate it, but now with a watermark on top as if it was theirs.


Lima, Peru... daytime and night time temps are +8-+3 (single day, might be the coldest of the year) degrees celcius, usually should be like 18-16 celcius daytime, it's at 26-21 (single day, might be the coldest of the year) with +6-+8 being the most common... already past mid winter and there hasn't been a single "cold" day yet.

Pelicans are mass starving so are sea lions as cold based fish have left the shores, no long sleeves or sheets needed to sleep, it's been summer prety much all year... never seen this in 31 years of life... supposedly 98 was bad although this one is projected to be worse... summer temps might hit 39-34 celcius on average if things keep going this way when normally you have 31-27 degrees during summer, considering most houses don't have air conditioning I can definitely see a lot of heat related deaths happening and a potential food crisis forming.


I am also up in the mountains. I confirm it's the warmest summer for four consecutive times. Something happened in 2023. We may call it a tipping point. Although I enjoy milder winters (goodbye skiing), the summers are not mild anymore.


It's more likely related to planetary positions and or solar cycle/activity, "recent studies suggest a notable statistical correlation between specific solar magnetic milestones and the shifting phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation"

Like in theory it doesn't make sense that el niño causes earthquakes, yet there seems to be more prominent ones during el niño however if both are related to sun cycle/activity it would make more sense (seeing how the moon affects earth as well)


The deep earth isn't all that well studied, so while we know a fair amount about plate tectonics, there could be hidden factors influencing that action in ways we can't anticipate from recorded history. Who's to say there aren't 1000 or 10k year cycles of earthquakes? Something novel could happen too, but our records don't let us set probabilities for 10k year natural disasters the way we can with 100 year tropical storms, floods, or earthquakes.


> Who's to say there aren't 1000 or 10k year cycles of earthquakes?

The Stratigraphy department of the International Union of Geological Sciences would be the obvious first port of call.

Follow that up with an off book chat with digital archivists for commercial oil and gas exploration geologists.


Does the stratigraphy department of the international union of geological sciences have such thorough knowledge that they can make predictions about this stuff on geologic timescales? Getting any kind of truth from commercial oil companies is expensive. To them, knowledge is a weapon, and they lie whenever it is advantageous to lie.


Or influence by the moon just as it pulls on oceans. Lot of liquid magma down there.

Or maybe some once in a rare incident involving coronal mass ejections somehow affecting the core of the planet. Could even be a delayed effect.


One of the More out there theories is that some earthquakes are caused by high energy cosmic particles going through the Earth.


It always seemed insane to me that people accepted so easily to have everything locked behind "app stores", crazy garbage, even worse having SO MUCH PREINSTALLED BLOATWARE OUT OF THE BOX.


What do you mean by "accepted"? In a free market, buyers have to choose between the products that are available.


> buyers have to choose between the products that are available.

That is how a free market works, however it doesn't really cover the "I need to function in society and there are no good options for this device type that have the features I care about" problem.

When your choice is between the NutPuncher 9000 and the BallCrusher 17, it's something of a false choice.


Yup, and a duopoly isn't a free market!


The push against technical literacy helped a lot in having the masses accept all this crap.

A great deal of people don't even understand the concept of installing software if it's not via the App Store, nor do they understand what's involved in the process. Explaining the issues of having a central authority is one degree further.


I’m fine with that being the default. I know plenty of people who would have emulated the Win malware situation on their phone otherwise.

I’m not ok with it being the only option.


People just want to press a button and see videos or their bank balances or whatever. They don't care about architecture.


Not just out of the box, some phones receive junk apps and ads after you run updates


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