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  • Asking your employer for more compensation because you are exerting more effort due to inexperience isn’t so different than a AAA studio charging high fees for a crappy product because of corporate bullshit and inefficiency.

    In fact, these two things tend to be two sides of the same coin.






  • These freedoms are a strength indeed, but they are also a vulnerability that can be exploited by foreign powers. Freedoms remain free so long as the people exercising those freedoms do so responsibly. I think a lot of people in the US do not exercise this freedom responsibly. I think a lot of Americans are being manipulated into voting in autocracy. Ironically.

    Complete and total freedom is just anarchy, and anarchy collapses on itself and turns into autocracy.



  • It depends on the law really. There is no one rule.

    For example, owning lockpicks is in many places not illegal, but owning lockpicks with the intent of bypassing a lock is.

    Some laws are very specific about the severity or testability of a crime where as others are not. In that case a judge has to interpret the criteria for legal tests, either from previous case law or by building new case law.

    In any case, being charged for something or not is a completely separate issue. Things are no less illegal just because the state has no resource or will to execute the law.

    Also, being charged does not mean you broke the law either. Nor does judgment determine it (although it’s a very strong hint) since a latter appeal could acquit you of chargers.

    The determination of guilt is in the facts of what happened. And that’s the whole point of the legal system. Being charged, getting judgement, appealing. It’s all a process to determine guilt or not. It is not itself the mechanism of guilt.

    The idea of a “guilty conscience” enshrines this idea in expression.


  • To add to what has already been said about it taking a large effort, the follow up question is then, why don’t governments fund all this effort publicly through taxes, like what is done with roads, scientific research, education, healthcare?

    Well the short answer is that high-performance computing specifically is a strategic resource. Publicly funding roads only benefits the country doing the funding, so that is an easy decision to make. Meanwhile, much of the publicly funded scientific research has minimal to no strategic value (or may only be of value in states capable of that investment in the first place), so this is also an easy decision to make. But giving away technological investments in strategic ressources to rival states is a pretty bad move.





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    I see this more as a YouTube problem than a Lemmy problem.

    Let me put it this way: reddit started out as a content aggregator. Then LLM’s came along, and Reddit said: hey that’s not fair, we should be getting a piece of the action. The rest is history.

    Similar issue with FOSS, and then worrying about the profit companies make off of your work.

    Point being, forgetting your initial mission statement and focusing on how you are missing out on the benefits captured by someone else independantly is a trap. If it’s a service usage issue, that can be dealt with with rate limiting and premium support, but we must never compromise the initial mission statement or be blinded by greed.

    That being said, Copyleft is a practical solution. Richard Stallman was in many ways right.


    This comment posted under CC-BY-NC-SA


  • I have noticed that the quality of results on Google and DDG and others have been declining steadily over the last few years, and I think this is mostly a result of click farms generally getting better at gaming the system. Genuinely quality content is just being drowned out by crap.

    ChatGPT doesn’t really address this. I also don’t see ChatGPT as a genuine replacement yet because 1) hallucination is still too big of a problem and 2) the value add of using natural language for queries doesn’t seem all that beneficial to me. Sorta like, how IF you are already used to a terminal, it will be faster or just as fast as a GUI for many things.

    The only real value I have seen from ChatGPT, is for complex boilerplate generation that is very easy to verify. ChatGPT is fantastic for generating regex, for example. Or poems, if you prefer.