This. It's more important to him to avoid the appearance of a rebellion, than to rely on this line of defense. He has several other lines of defense behind this one.

I can't hope to convince you I'm not playing with words, but I'll say this: if I had thought of the word "unreconstructed" when I was writing that post, I would've used it instead of "verbatim", which I admit was a mistake. I don't pass off others' ideas as my own & don't encourage others to either.

Philip Guston and Brion Gysin both have pages on Wikiquote, btw

It's been a while but I think it was in response to "Code at the output will be plagiarised" on page 2. The passive wording leaves it unclear who or what is doing the plagiarizing. I must have interpreted it to mean to suggest the tool itself was doing it.

Thanks for the information. I'm happy to retract "verbatim", it's stricter than what I wanted to convey. I'm not sure it changes my position substantially. I still can't bring myself to call what the LLM itself is doing, plagiarism - even if the provided tools do greatly enable users to plagiarize.

Hi there. *I* can't call it plagiarism. I don't know you and I don't have strong feelings about what you call it.

Yeah my stance was *predicated* on the fact that it cannot choose. That's why "own words" was in scare quotes.

Expecting complete definitions on a microblogging platform is probably asking too much, & going by incomplete definitions is hazardous.

What I said was: *I* can't call it plagiarism.

I can't say. But either way, presumably they consider it worth it.

My official position on #Rust has long been that Rust forces you to think carefully about memory management, and sometimes that is exactly what you want, and sometimes that is exactly what you DON'T want.

#NaNoGenMo entries usually fall into the "DON'T want" category.

If not "to get a better job", then, why learn Rust?

Techno-aesthetic curiosity?

Something like that, yeah.

To test the theory that I'm learning Rust "to get a better job", I searched for Rust jobs nearby and found:

• cryptocurrency
• AI
• startups with young and idealistic CTOs - and often young and idealistic value props too.

I concluded that I am not doing this to get a better job.

I'm probably overestimating the number of people actually trying to justify their support of this, whether they're using garbage Randian reasons or any other kinds of reasons. Probably when reasons appear, they're mostly a garbled cover for greed and racism, even in their own heads.

You'd have to be a really committed (not to say heartless) Randian not to waver on this, faced with: 1) ~half the "freeloaders" receiving SNAP *are* gainfully employed, and 2) USDA is *preventing* free-market-type correction, by prohibiting supermarkets from charging less to SNAP recipients.