If that learning remains in the hands of the culprit, this ruling just sets a price to what stealing-for-ML costs. So it makes risk analysis clearer for wannabe-stealer-for-ML, and very likely to happen again, and more often.

Is this really a victory? $3000 per piece of art, and must delete original and copies. What about what was machine-learned from illegally getting the pieces?

Impressive how the divide-the-people-and-conquer strategy in some countries work well these days.

Preparing the event with a bunch of readings. Next up is faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/Sc..., “If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious” by
Eric Schwitzgebel at UCR. Some of you know of my views related to scale and multi-agent systems :)

My concern is that just open weights without training code and other facilities leads to opaque components.

These components allow to build on, but not refine, not modify. Some good, but we get also all the unknowns wholesale.

I guess the biggest issue here is to entail a not so implicit hierarchy.

OSS does not seem to help much? Often just getting weights and inference code only, where the cost is really in training procedure, execution, and inference itself.

A cheap move may be worse than no move at all. Open-sourcing would need to be refined meaning.

Rent-seekers are often first and adamant to say a corporation is not a person/individual. Usually to justify tax should be different and lower. The prior equality may not hold.

The print version is available?

In general, that applies to comparing a more autocratic regime to a more democratic one, as well as centralised/decentralised systems. Given enough time, democracy / decentralisation also show desired properties very hard to acquire otherwise. And running faster is not always winning.

Hazardous to be ironic with people without irony :) nor humour.

Warpcast feels like civil “paradise” still. Totally agree there is a risk when/if “the mass” comes on board.

This is where the core Farcaster team rather shines in openly discussing what could happen, and how to make “good” happen.

Wait and see, but Warpcast remains my top choice for a year or so.

Shared observation on Nostr. On Warpcast (the sns app on Farcaster mentioned in this thread), the atmosphere is generally very constructive and engaging on all topics. Many crypto chats, but can be ignored (I do for a year now).

Yet over the past half day, not a word on the Trump conviction indeed.

This ends up with confusing (to me) critique of government policies that sustain the ideological right for everyone to own a house, etc. Perhaps these critiques are just often taking shortcuts in explaining themselves.

There are unclear and confusing articles out there. Cities have huge footprints and would be the first suffering from more extreme climates. Yet footprint per capita is higher in “suburb and beyond” individual housing.