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Cake day: October 13th, 2023

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  • Remember that if language models or other AI are responsible for paying ongoing licensing for books they read to train themselves, it’s a small step away for people going to universities being responsible for the same when they start making money in their careers. In both scenarios the books were legally purchased for training. They don’t care about the scale argument, they care about the money argument. If they win and set a precedence here, be ready for high paying careers from those learnings be the next target. It’s not a false equivalence, it is how this stuff eventually goes. They want a subscription world. Remember that.


  • Give me a break.

    Maybe some use as dog whistle but I am not. The color or creed of the people who were around during periods of progress is irrelevant to me. I care about the progress.

    And Rome had more people of color in positions of power and influence than we can even dream of today. However they did have slaves. Lots of white, Germanic slaves. Google it and chew on that while you think about your accusations of racism.






  • As I understand it, if you were a photon this trip would be instantaneous from your perspective due to time dilation. You emit from the event, you collide with and energize some particle billions of light years away at the same exact moment.

    But what if you never hit anything? Do you experience time then? Seems that no collision is likely in a mostly empty, but finite universe.

    Or perhaps the universe is infinite, making it a certainty that you hit something eventually. In that case every photon hits something, almost implying a conservation of photons.

    I thought that was interesting to ponder…









  • Okay so you fired someone, then decided later to bring them back. This means whatever guideline you use to fire people is floppy or petulant, you caved to public backlash, or the firing guidelines are clear but the information you took grave actions upon was bad (was unreliable and/or unverified).

    Anyway, none of those things are good markers of leadership.

    Edit: Forgot another reason for recanting a firing: your boss told you that you don’t have the authority. Nothing takes away your leadership teeth like that…