[-] charonn0@startrek.website 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

drove a balrog out of its natural habitat

Akshully, they tried to keep it there. Imprisoned because of its religious beliefs! Killed while attempting escape!

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 34 points 1 year ago

Dax knows the deep, dark secret kept by the Trill Symbiosis Commission. They'd be wise to leave her alone.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 33 points 1 year ago

That is what is known as "sarcasm". I wasn't sincerely calling for violence against the Supreme Court, but rather drawing attention to their hypocrisy.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 36 points 2 years ago

If OpenAI owns a Copyright on the output of their LLMs, then I side with the NYT.

If the output is public domain--that is you or I could use it commercially without OpenAI's permission--then I side with OpenAI.

Sort of like how a spell checker works. The dictionary is Copyrighted, the spell check software is Copyrighted, but using it on your document doesn't grant the spell check vendor any Copyright over it.

I think this strikes a reasonable balance between creators' IP rights, AI companies' interest in expansion, and the public interest in having these tools at our disposal. So, in my scheme, either creators get a royalty, or the LLM company doesn't get to Copyright the outputs. I could even see different AI companies going down different paths and offering different kinds of service based on that distinction.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 36 points 2 years ago
  • The right to make medical decisions on behalf of the other
  • The right to visit the other in the hospital
  • The right to make funeral arrangements for the other
  • The right to survivor's benefits (veteran's benefits, Social Security, private pension, etc.)
  • Income tax breaks and credits
  • Tax breaks on inheritance and estate taxes
  • Tax breaks on money and property transfers between spouses
  • Immigration and naturalization rights
  • Can't be forced to testify against the other (usually)
  • Communications between married partners are privileged from discovery in civil and criminal cases (usually)
  • Joint adoption rights
  • Bereavement leave
  • Joint bankruptcy protection
  • Automatic recognition of the relationship by every state, nation, etc.

Etc. There's something like 1,000 rights, privileges, and responsibilities that attach through marriage only.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 34 points 2 years ago

Those are gross oversimplifications that don't accurately describe either state or their populations.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So apparently this woman works for a competing (fringe right wing) book publisher. In which case Scholastic might have grounds to sue.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 35 points 2 years ago

The actor who played Garak is on record saying that he played the character as bi, with a crush on Bashir.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 35 points 2 years ago

If he's too crazy to be guilty, then he's too dangerous to be freed.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 34 points 2 years ago

I am so sick an tired of the GOP manufacturing this crisis every fucking year.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 34 points 2 years ago

I have a theoretical degree in nuclear physics, and it seems to me that sub-atomic scale events like quantum tunneling suggest that reality is neither fully determined nor fully chaotic, but something in between: probabilistic. Whether we can consciously affect the probabilities of our own actions remains an open question, but we can at least say that causality is not the whole picture.

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