Wow, 12 bars of 26 notes constitute copyright violation, and I presume monetary damages.
Given that all the hyperscalers, Meta, Google OpenAI, anthropic, etc have all read the entire web for weights, why are the hyperscalers not committing copyright violation on a previously unimaginable scale?
it would not be useful. Even a large number of programming books will not overcome the weighting of all the terrible source code and pitifully inadequate and often wrong explanations of programming topics that an LLM has.
Beyond that, all the LLM will do is recommend best practices. Sure, it's great to keep best practices in mind, but you have to realize that best practices really lags current practice, and do not even come close to excellent programming. Religiously follow "best practices" without care and you will have garbage programming. I give you the example of large numbers of website asking you to create a password with really exotic character combinations. In an HTML "password" field that shows you dots, so you're doing it blind. Twice, to make sure you typed what you thought. It's bullshit, and it's a "best practice". There's also no incentive to rid ourselves of no longer relevant, or mistaken, best practices. Something screws up when you didn't follow a mistaken best practice? You're at fault for not following a best practice, no matter how horrible.
Fair point that blind rule-following is dangerous — but that's true of any checklist, not specific to this tool. The goal isn't religious compliance, it's surfacing relevant principles at the right moment so the developer can make an informed decision to follow or consciously break them.
Also — if LLM weighting on bad code is the core problem, isn't that an argument against using LLMs for coding altogether? Yet here we are, and they're useful anyway.
Your heart is pure. But people are going to "let the AI do it", just like people let calculators do it in the 1970s, or let computers do it in the 1990s. An LLM with a very small additional bit of weight is still probabilistic, and the weights favor "best practices" and median program texts. You're encouraging blind rule following
My point is that LLMs weights are full of misinformation, misconception and median code. Putting a few books in isn't going to change that.
Decent review, avoids falling into the "Wow! Fascist!" trap that seems easy.
Like almost all reviews of Starship Troopers, it misses the fact that the Terran Federation has a "mathematical logic" of ethics. Mr Dubois is given the lines:
We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level.
Self-interest, love of family, duty to country,
responsibility toward the human race - we are even developing
an exact ethic for extra-human relations.
This same thing comes up when Rico is in OCS. A professor asks for a proof of an ethical assertion made by another officer candidate.
Because of this, the Terran Federation can be assured they're doing the right thing flogging someone, or summarily hanging them, or being sexist, or atom bombing the Skinnies or whatever. They've got mathematical certainty.
Unfortunately, our universe's mathematics doesn't work that way. Axioms and rules of deduction are a choice, and to some extent, mathematics can be invented, rather than being fixed and platonic and discovered.
The other thing this review misses is that Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers in 3 weeks. It's probably a mistake to soberly consider what Heinlein "meant" by something, or seriously considering that what he wrote was what he believed because he didn't have time to consider that kind of consistency, or possess that kind of underpinnings. This shows through in other ways, like: what kind of power did an armored suit have? Battery? Atomic? Those suits used a lot of power for sure.
I do think you should read and enjoy Starship Troopers, the book. It's well worth your time and energy.
This isn't purely a matter of judgement and personal choice. Measles is fairly contagious. Vaccines for it are not 100% effective. If an individual chooses to not get vaccinated, they're risking a lot of lives, not just their own. Looks to me like society has a good reason to demand vaccination.
The economic asymmetry is similar to spam: for effectively no money, one person can generate tasks for millions of other people ("read this email about Rolexes").
This is really good, a definition that anyone can use. I'm not so sure the rest of the article is any good, it assumes facts not in evidence.
First, if these guys inject homemade mRNA vaccines, aren't they going to have to make homemade 5G base stations to activate it?
Second, they're going to win Darwin awards.
Third, this is just a "wedge issue" for medical freedom, the Qanon concept of forcing your doctor to approve treatment of COVID or cancer with ivermectin, or whatever dumb new age folk remedy is popular on 4chan right now.
Fourth, Reason no longer has a reason for existing. Libertarians back Trump, an extreme merchantilist. The USA on the whole no longer believes in market based solutions.
How do you know the coverage is "wrong"? I mean, no news org, not NYT, not Fox, not WaPo, not even NPR can determine if Trump is lying. Sure, they occasionally note that what he says is "baseless", but never lies. So how are you going to determine wrong?
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