I hope I'm not (just) muddying the water here, but I think "buffered
from the remedies of law" might be better than "above the law"? I think
it applies not to just the wealthy and powerful but to other
ideosyncratic reasons like obscurity, anonymity,
unpredictable-behaviour, etc...
On 10/15/
Well, OK. I agree with the gist. But rather than target Congress, the Admin, and
bureaucrats, I'd target wealthy people, whatever their day job might be. There are people
mostly above the law. Musk is one of them. But more importantly, there's a couple of
handfuls of companies that own the worl
Jump out of your car when driving on the freeway or inject bleach to kill the
COVID, and enjoy Your Truth.
From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 11:03 AM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [EXT] Re: tolerance of intolerance
Eric,
Going all po
You know, I don’t mind the phrase “above the law”. It may not be tailored to
lower-level mechanistic arguing about one or another case, but it acknowledges
a system context in which a society will operate under some kind of hierarchy
of prerogatives.
I don’t normally think about law in such hi
Eric,
Going all postmodern on you — there is no such thing as *Truth*, only
*Somebody's Truth*.
This is painfully evident at the moment in the fallacy of "fact checking," all
the assertions of "misinformation," and "follow the science."
I do not see totalitarians of any stripe engaged in 'dest
I agree. We're dancing around the meaning of "above the law" and it's a
terrible phrase. But people use it. So you have to have some way to parse it (again,
based on the *rest* of whatever it is someone says). Hardline positions like what Jochen
and Dave are taking can help develop such parsing
https://forms.gle/J24TiJ7e4tbX5oBPA
AI Art Turing Test
Here are fifty pictures. Some of them (not necessarily exactly half) were made
by humans; the rest are AI-generated. Please guess which are which. Please
don't download them onto your computer, zoom in, or use tools besides the naked
eye
Perhaps it's my lack of expertise, but this strikes me as a great test. I
went through once and felt somewhat confident about only one or two. I'll
go back and make decisions. I expect my score to be about 50%, i.e., random.
-- Russ
On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 11:13 AM glen wrote:
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> https://forms
"I read somewhere (I can't remember where exactly but I believe on
Mastodon) that LLMs are like money laundering for art."
Yeah, I feel like LLMs challenge the idea that *separation of concerns* can
even be a thing.
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I read somewhere (I can't remember where exactly but I believe on Mastodon)
that LLMs are like money laundering for art. It is a kind of data laundering
for copyrighted works of art. The copyrighted sources are hidden by a long
learning process. LLMs are trained on massive datasets and often rep
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