"Amazon's CEO knew what he was doing" is not a fact. That's speculation.

When it comes to highly technical, fast moving developments like frontier AI and blue team / red team perspectives, I could see any CEO getting out over their skis. Now mix in some incompetent Trump admin officials, including apparently Howard Lutnick. I am guessing many of these people don't understand the subject matter very well at all.

Imagine a super intelligent speed reading human in a library. If they read all the books and are able to understand, conceptualize and summarize that knowledge for others, is it theft? The books weren't stolen, after all, just read. The knowledge in the books wasn't taken away; it's still there for others to read.

I personally do not believe knowledge can be stolen.

> Imagine a super intelligent speed reading human in a library.

If human abilities were different then human laws would be different. We don't have speed limits for joggers but we do for cars because their abilities are materially different.

Machines aren’t humans. Your first have to argue that an analogy between machine and human even makes any kind of sense.

That‘s the magic trick you are doing with your analogy. You just assume that human/machine analogy is true.

It’s a point made in bad faith, easily refuted with: “great, let a human read the books”

we quickly learn what “inequality” means, since the computer has more access rights than people

This is not the correct analogy, because we know that they explicitly used a huge ammount of pirated books and other works.

I would argue annas archive is a pretty good library.

I'm spiritually sympathetic to your final sentence, but intellectual property law is not.

There are already a bunch of replies pointing out ways in which your metaphor breaks down, but here's another: the super intelligent speed reading human is not a "work" (in the sense of "derivative work").

Also, if I'm understanding your position, why wasn't your scenario about the human pirating the books and then reading them? It should make no difference if you really believe knowledge can't be stolen; both situations should be equivalent.

I hear you on IP law, but how it applies to AI training is far from settled.

I don't believe we should have software patents, and I am highly skeptical of the US copyright system in general.

As for why I didn't use a piracy analogy: humans don't need to pirate books to access them for free. They can just go to the library. That is exactly my point. Reading books isn't a crime. Why would we stop an AI from reading publicly available material just because it's automated and upsets the commercial status quo?

Is that super speed reading human going to then make itself available to instantly-ish answer any and every possible question from anyone with a paid subscription?

This argument is pretty lame.

Yes, we call those people “consultants”.

I've yet to meet a consultant that was anything near what was on their CV

So I guess not dissimilar to an LLM

They didn't just "read" the books. They scanned every single page of every single book in the library, then took the scans home.

Are humans allowed to do that?

Yes!

Creating personal copies of copyrighted works are allowed. (Also, libraries really don't mind if you take pictures of the content of works they have.)

Well LLMs dont make personal copies they make commercial copies.

I didn't say if LLMs are allowed do that, I said that humans are allowed to do that.

What do you mean with "then took the scans home"? Anthropic et al didn't buy all the books in the world and kept them for themselves.

Correct, they torrented them. I just wanted to stick to the library analogy of the parent comment.

Therein lies the rub: they didn't buy them... They pirated digital copies of them.

See, e.g.: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libge...

By extension, do also believe this super intelligent human should have no human rights and be enslaved by Anthropic for profit?

After you can run his clones on some amount of electricity, sure.

Reading this comment is like visiting a care home for dementia patients

You can read up anything and everything about a patent, but still not be allowed to reproduce it.

The moment the LLMs ingested any code under GNU General Public License or similar licenses and reuse it without making the produced product available under the same terms...

That's not how CVEs work.

> Open 3 terminal windows. Try to switch back & forth between just two of them with a keyboard shortcut

cmd+` gets me there, no problem at all

> Open a browser and two terminal windows. Try to switch terminal and the browser window, without also bringing the other terminal above the browser window

you got a point there. alt+tab is gonna surface both terminal windows above the browser.

> cmd+` gets me there, no problem at all

No, this cycles between all 3 of them. As I said, I want to swap back & forth between just two of them. Extrapolate this behavior from 3 windows to 15 and you start to see the problem.

Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: "Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."

See also, Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

Most reporting is garbage once you get into the details.

Gboard hasn't been updated in 4 years and as a result the UI doesn't always display properly. It's especially jarring on iOS 26. It doesn't fit into the OS keyboard target area properly (on my iPhone 17 Pro, at least).

I've tried pretty much every reputable third-party keyboard app in the App Store. Unfortunately, there's really nothing better than the stock one.

I’m struggling with the utility of this logic. The argument seems to be "because malware can intercept /proc output, any tool relying on it is inherently unreliable."

While that’s theoretically true in a security context, it feels like a 'perfect is the enemy of the good' situation. Unless the author is discussing high-stakes incident response on a compromised system, discarding /proc-based tools for debugging and troubleshooting seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If your environment is so compromised that /proc is lying to you, you've likely moved past standard tooling anyway.

I just installed it and it seems really promising. Glad you shared it here.

I’ve spent more time than I care to admit searching for a good keyboard app in the App Store, and I’ve tried a lot of them. This one never surfaced for me in any of my usual searches, which is a shame (likely more on Apple’s search than on you).

I really like the T9-style approach, and I appreciate the clean App Privacy section and straightforward privacy policy.

Thanks a lot! I haven't done much on the marketing side, but I always felt it had great potential.

It needs a little tlc to align with the latest iOS update changes, but my time is too limited at the moment.

It's right there in the FAQ.

"Your Affinity V2 license (via Serif) remains valid and Serif will continue to keep activation servers online. But please note that these apps won’t receive future updates."

It's an annual fee. It would raise the cost to $300k/yr.

https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-trump-immigration-8d3969...