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  • AT&T “complies” with law requiring cheap Internet by ending a service in NY

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  • Note: this is income before any AT&T expenses, just to be clear and fair.

    Yes, exactly. By your numbers, their revenue would go down by almost 10% while their operating expenses remain the same. Is it plausible that they could have just lowered prices by 10% and still operated profitably all this time?

  • Celebrated Lawyer ‘Fires’ Meta As A Client Over Zuck’s ‘Neo-Nazi Madness’

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  • It's funny, considering how Lemley's convictions on Fair Use are regarded by so many lemmings.

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  • It's a good analogy for a lot of things. The story mocks the human tendency to go along with obvious nonsense; to conform to expectations.

    Such obscenity laws originate in centuries past, when people unironically believed that masturbation makes you go blind or crazy, rather than helping prevent prostate cancer. Society collectively believed that having sex the wrong way would end with you going to hell. Pornography might make the boys gay or wear women's clothes. Well, if you look at who passes these laws now, maybe those beliefs haven't died out.

    The point is simply that there is nothing inherently harmful in being exposed to porn. Sure, some of it is disturbing or may give you bad ideas about how the world works, but that's true for any kind of media. Whether referring to minors, eg 17-year-olds, as children is appropriate is another matter.

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  • “harmful to minors”

    Indeed, I find that few things have done more to ruin my sense of common decency than HC Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes and that's a story all about public nudity.

  • I know just the audience for this

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  • Almost but not quite.

  • The Turing Test, enshrined by the public and media as THE test of machine intelligence, really isn't.

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  • or risk becoming a monster.

    Remind me. What became of Turing, a man who saved untold British lives during WW2?

  • Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims

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  • “Had Meta bought plaintiffs’ works in a bookstore or borrowed them from a library and trained its Llama models on them without a license, it would have committed copyright infringement,” wrote plaintiffs’ counsel in the filing.

    I wonder how many here agree with that theory.

  • Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims

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  • Why, though? Many lemmings get away with "piracy" via torrents. Meta is in court over it and may very well lose on this count.

  • Medicare Versus the Insurance Industry: A Privatization-Driven Arms Race [by Paul Krugman]

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  • Krugman is an economist, so he looks at the economics. When a physician looks at a patient, you probably would not be satisfied if they just said: "The patient is simply very old." Even if that is objectively correct.

    Most importantly, such a big picture answer doesn't suggest any solution.

  • Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims

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  • It does apply equally to everyone. The lemmy hive mind simply doesn't understand copyright law.

  • Slinky

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  • And every so often you still get young men trying to cleanse the temple mount by force of arms. Talk about starting a trend.

  • The Secret of Happiness

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  • “I'd far rather be happy than right any day."

    "And are you?"

    "No. That's where it all falls down, of course."

    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • New coding model just dropped

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  • We pretrain METAGENE-1, a 7-billion-parameter autoregressive transformer model [...] , on a [...] dataset [...] sourced from a large collection of human wastewater samples,

    https://metagene.ai/metagene-1-paper.pdf

  • Not so good at this

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  • Haha. Life in Australia. Amirite?

  • Pig Latin

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  • That's a cock rooster.

  • Pig Latin

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  • As the story goes, John Steinbeck was told by one of his professors that he would become an author when pigs fly,[...]

    The accurate phrase is “ad astra per ALAS porci,”[“to the stars on the wings of a pig.”] which means that Steinbeck in his snarky revenge was demonstrating far and wide that he was a bad student after all – and thanks to his famous but inaccurate imprint, countless people are running around with tattoos which actually say “to the stars through other pigs.”[“ad astra per alia porci”]

    https://sluggoonthestreet.tumblr.com/post/188811241794/as-the-story-goes-john-steinbeck-was-told-by-one

  • Speed Of Human Thought Estimated At A Puzzling 10 Bits Per Second

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  • Not quite. Information always depends on context. It is not a fundamental physical quantity like energy. When you have a piece of paper with english writing on it, then you can read and understand it. If you don't know the script or language, you won't even be able to tell if it's a script or language at all. Some information needs to be in your head already. That's simply how information works.

    You take in information through the senses and do something based on that information. Information flows into your brain through your senses and then out again in the form of behavior. The throughput is throttled to something on the order of 10 bits/s. When you think about it for a bit, you realize that a lot of things are predicated on that. Think of a video game controller. There's only a few buttons. The interface between you and the game has a bandwidth of only a few bits.

  • How do you feel about your content getting scraped by AI models?

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  • Seems odd that someone from dbzer0 would be very concerned about data ownership. How come?

    I don't exactly know how Perplexity runs its service. I assume that their AI reacts to such a question by googling the name and then summarizing the results. You certainly received much less info about yourself than you could have gotten via a search engine.

    See also: Forer Effect aka Barnum Effect

  • Speed Of Human Thought Estimated At A Puzzling 10 Bits Per Second

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  • Cn y ndrstnd this?

    You probably can. Human language has built-in redundancy. You can drop parts and still be understood. That's useful for communicating in noisy environments or with people hard of hearing. So you could say that actual information content is less than 1 letter per letter, so to say.

    Properly, information content is measured in bits. A more detailed analysis gives a value of about 1 bit per character.

    Sidenote: You shouldn't ask technical or scientific questions in this community. I don't know why information theory denialism is so hot right now, but it obviously is.