Toph Allen
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧AI, what does 'hypocrisy' mean?
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tuban_muzuruReisner is circling without quite landing on it .. is that the IP maximalism Bill Gates helped establish is now being selectively weaponized.
The software industry built an enormous legal and cultural apparatus to protect software, then turned around and said "actually, your creative work is a freely flowing natural resource we can train on."
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Which creates a fascinating problem for copyright: what law actually protects is a specific encoding.
But the information those words convey, in Shannon's sense, flows freely the moment it is received. You cannot un-reduce someone's uncertainty.
I have signed a bunch of NDAs. They always amused me: you're being asked to legally constrain a cognitive state — something that happened in your nervous system.
The contract is fighting physics.
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DrYak@f800gecko @pluralistic
> "Inventions such as Google’s original search algorithm"
Google didn't even invent their search algorithm: PageRank was merely a "...BUT ON THE INTERNET!" remix of Academia's citation-based metrics (such as, e.g., Impact Factor, h-index, etc.) - with imbound links to pages substituing for paper citations.