A parasite can take different shapes but only one form.

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Sort of. Unless you go to a private university taxes go to the public schools to fun facilities and wages for the educators. While you may pay tuition, the overall cost of that education and the services needed for one to do research doesn't come wholely out of your pocket.

Now I agree you should be compensated more, as someone who tried to get published academically and has filed patents I can see why there is a split of compensation.

the government is not allowed to provide a service for free that a company can charge for

I am beyond mildly infuriated by such an idiotic stance, but it tracks with what I’ve seen.

RIP postal service you’re next.

Government issues the business licenses. Seems like someone needs to be reminded who has who by the balls.

And the US government is doing anything

isn't doing anything

And the US government is doing anything to hold them accountable

You probably meant "nothing" instead of "anything"?

Yes, all this is very much the product of the current US admin.

they stole all there data

Obviously fuck the capitalists and AI scammers. But reading and learning from a library, then writing and selling your own book based on that is NOT stealing. It's the wrong argument.

The answer obviously is to keep the actual source material and libraries and book archives open and just run open source AI models at home. You can run smaller versions on a solar powered PC no problem.

The issue with trying to make "AI is just stolen" happen is that it will make open source AI models illegal. AI companies would love that because they can afford to license and pay or work around or obscure or whatever. The "intellectual property" argument is always a disgusting capitalist one. Knowledge is either free or nothing is.

I don't know the difference between bad advice and good advice anymore

See, here's the thing. Everybody loves to point at the guilitine, and the French Revolution. They love to say "Lets do what they did!"

Here's the problem. Nobody talks about what came next.

Because what happened was, you had one group of rich assholes who controlled everything, and treated everybody else like shit. So the French chopped off their heads, and got rid of these rich assholes.

And what happened next? Well, a lot of infighting, but the end result was instead of having a group of rich assholes controlling everyone, you instead had a different group of not rich assholes controlling everyone, who thengot rich from it. And nothing changed.

I think, before we go around killing everyone, we need a plan. We need to figure out why humans are so quick to all clump up as one submissive blob, who follows the will of whoever claims to have power.

Instead of 1 president, or 1 dictator, I think we should instead have a panel of 1 million people. Tens of thousands of people from every state. Anyone can apply, and if need be, your individual county can run sn election if you're not running unopposed.

This I think would cut down tremendously on corruption in our government. Because a company couldn't just bribe 1 president. They'd need to bribe 1 million people.

And the comittee would always represent the people, because they ARE the people. Most people would know at least 1 committee member in their neighborhood.

THEN you can kill all the rich assholes.

Dibs on ribs

Hey, remember that time Aaron Swartz used public APIs and perfectly legal aggregation of information to compile scientific journals in a data set outside the paywall. And he was arrested, prosecuted, and threatened with life in prison until he (allegedly) killed himself?

Then his original and highly lucrative pet project, Reddit, was mutated into a propaganda factory by the Epstein Class, cannibalized by the Investor Class, and gutted for AI slop by the Tech Sector?

At least, academic papers give credits to the author... Or to the author's boss

I don't even know why they charge such high prices.

I don't work in academia but I am curious about thing and look up papers all the time.

I have never bought a single one at those ridiculous prices. But if they were reasonable like $1-$3 or something I probably would have an di imagine a lot of people would have.

You make more if 100 people buy a $1 item than 3 people buying a $30 item and the world benefits more.

Gemini: "yes, an important distinction - you have made the critical observation that I am useless!"

I remember frequenting MOOs and IRC, and downloading guitar tabs and chords off OLGA using clients in DOS back in the early 90s. Over 30 years ago. The Internet today is unrecognizable by comparison.

while the library itself is covered in a thick layer of slop as the librarian can't keep up anymore and the road signs pointing at the library are taken down

the library was run on donations and someone copied all the books and is selling a service that summarizes them on a lot right in front of it. you can still go around and give your donation inside but most people don't and the library is starting to fall apart. also the summaries kind of suck.

I think their hope is if they pull it off they won't need money anymore, because they'll have destroyed the last lever of power the working class still have: the ability to withhold their labour. LLMs are trying to turn labour into just another tool (that you rent).