Two things:

1. Many of these LLMs -- perhaps all of them -- have been trained on datasets that include books that were absolutely NOT released into the public domain.

2. Ethically, we would ask any author who parrots the work of others to provide citations to original references. That rarely happens with AI language models, and if they do provide citations, they often do it wrong.

I think what distinguishes Internet service provision from all the other "platform" aspects of the Internet is that Internet service has become a kind of baseline utility. Everything depends on it: your smart home devices, your security system, Point of Sale systems, etc. You can't search for employment without it, your kids can't attend remote school, etc.

We all understand that when someone buys advertising space in a newspaper, they are forming a contract with that newspaper, and the paper has to be a willing participant. But that's not really how we think of utilities. I think we'd all be pretty unhappy if the electric company refused service to a facility, or if the water company refused to hook somebody up to the water supply, or the fire department refused to put out a fire, due to the property user's political speech. Even if we deeply disagreed with that speech.

I think ISPs are a lot more like utilities, and a lot less like newspapers. If it's that important, then write a law explaining exactly how and when ISPs are intervene by removing or refusing service in these situations, and defend the law in court. But don't leave it up to ISP terms of service.

the enemy is more defined, namely rich people

Well, rich northerners. That's a very important distinction. Southern gentlemen -- that is, Confederates -- are excluded.

Richmond was the capital of the confederacy, so it's important to point out that they were north of Richmond particularly.

To cope with the pain, they can tend to “kick down” on other groups, like obese people,

It's a very specific appeal to a right-wing stereotype from the Reagan era: the urban "welfare queen", refusing to labor, getting fat off welfare while country "working poor" starve.

Of course, the reality is the opposite: per capita, rural folk get larger government disbursements in the form of welfare and disability than city dwellers.

The execrable stereotype was invented to turn the poor on each other. The country, full of uneducated hicks, the cities full of welfare cheats getting fat off your tax dollars. And while the proles fight each other, the fat cats steal wages and get tax breaks.

I suppose it's possible that Mr. Anthony is so far down the rabbit hole, having been raised with these ideas as "common sense truths", that he doesn't even realize he's been fed a partisan line and he's just repeating it like a good soldier.

Err...

Users will keep their exisiting (sic) email addresses on this service, and would get it free for the first year. After that, there will be options of paying for a service, or an ad-based free service after that.

So, what's the problem, exactly? Just take the ad-based free service. Gmail, Yahoo, etc. are ad-based free services too. Nobody is forcing them to change anything.

we didn’t ‘sell’ the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity

Jesus. It doesn't matter whether you sold it or auctioned it. It doesn't matter if it was for charity. What matters is that IT WAS A ONE-OF-A-KIND PROTOTYPE THAT DIDN'T BELONG TO YOU AND YOU AGREED TO RETURN IT (and the RTX3090 they sent with it), and you didn't do what you promised.

Everything wrong with LTT is summed up in this response. Instead of going to the company's CEO and composing a response on behalf of the company, we get a bunch of over-personalized complaints about hurt feelings and imperfection, fired off only 3 hours after the GN video, that make it 100% clear this is all about Linus' personality rather than a dispassionate review of the facts.

Don't worry, in a few years, they'll just use an AI trained on copyrighted music to write an "original" score, declaring the training inputs to be "fair use" and the output to be "transformative", and all those pesky concerns about licensing will go away.

As well as a fair whack of cash.

IMO, the issue isn't so much that chat AIs will produce "better than human" prose.

The issue is that scam artists will FLOOD the world with so much content that finding human-authored works -- books, news articles, art, code samples, anything -- will become nigh impossible. I think we'll soon reach a point where 90%, 95%, 99% of search results on ANY topic will be mediocre AI-authored garbage.

• the recent case of somebody posting AI-written books attributed to author Jane Friedman: https://qz.com/amazon-ai-generated-books-using-real-authors-names-1850720961

• AI-generated titles taking over Amazon bestseller list: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7b774/ai-generated-books-of-nonsense-are-all-over-amazons-bestseller-lists

• Browse any art platform and you'll see AI-generated garbage getting posted at an alarming rate

It's a brand new Eternal September, but instead of college freshmen, it's AI.

TIL you can turn off Youtube history. Done!

There are about a zillion ways it could prove to be impractical. Apatite is a crystal, and presumably this lead apatite is also a crystal. We also don't know if it can be deposited in a useful thickness; the samples tested so far were created by gas deposition on glass. Can it be built up to a useful thickness, and maintain its superconducting properties? All unknown.

But, real progress always comes in small steps. It's exceedingly rare for any discovery to result in a useful product immediately.

Everything has to be cooled, it's a question of efficiency. Directly exchanging the heat into cold water is arguably better than expending fossil fuels to generate electricity to pump the heat out of your servers and into the atmosphere. You get multiple losses with current technology: fossil fuel efficiency losses, electric line losses, air conditioning efficiency losses. And the additional electrical generation dumps more CO2.

On a pile of advertising money

I'm just stunned that anybody is making an effort, honestly. As an older tech nerd with kids and adulting and all this crap, I can't imagine the kind of impact it must have on people's time and attention to run a site like this.

Of all the recent spin-ups of reddit alternatives, I'm honestly more excited for beehaw than anything else. Having a consistent vision and concept of operations seems to be the only way to prevent media from sliding with the rightward-shifting Overton window. Every other social media site taught us that if you do nothing, your site will turn into an alt-right hellhole.