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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I tried to read about "just-in-time economy" but I really don't see how it would apply to book market?

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmm, purism can take many shapes, it's not a strictly formulated stance (even though it might act like it is "scientific" because it minds etymology). It doesn't have to be negative towards neologisms, in fact it can be very positive towards them if they're based on native material and are meant to replace loanwords.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

From the sidebar:

‘Traditional’ here means ‘Physical’, as in artworks which are NON-DIGITAL in nature.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Large AI companies themselves want people to be ignorant of how AI works, though. They want uncritical acceptance of the tech as they force it everywhere, creating a radical counterreaction from people. The reaction might be uncritical too, I'd prefer to say it's merely unjustified in specific cases or overly emotional, but it doesn't come from nowhere or from sheer stupidity. We have been hearing about people treating their chatbots as sentient beings since like 2022 (remember that guy from Google?), bombarded with doomer (or, from AI companies' point of view, very desirable) projections about AI replacing most jobs and wreaking havoc on world economy - how are ordinary people supposed to remain calm and balanced when hearing such stuff all the time?

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

Oh man...

That is the point, to show how AI image generators easily fail to produce something that rarely occurs out there in reality (i.e. is absent from training data), even though intuitively (from the viewpoint of human intelligence) it seems like it should be trivial to portray.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't think that would fly.

"Your honour, I was just hoarding that terabyte of Hollywood films, I haven't actually watched them."

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Bro are you a robot yourself? Does that look like a glass full of wine?

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

AI can “learn” from and “read” a book in the same way a person can and does,

If it's in the same way, then why do you need the quotation marks? Even you understand that they're not the same.

And either way, machine learning is different from human learning in so many ways it's ridiculous to even discuss the topic.

AI doesn’t reproduce a work that it “learns” from

That depends on the model and the amount of data it has been trained on. I remember the first public model of ChatGPT producing a sentence that was just one word different from what I found by googling the text (from some scientific article summary, so not a trivial sentence that could line up accidentally). More recently, there was a widely reported-on study of AI-generated poetry where the model was requested to produce a poem in the style of Chaucer, and then produced a letter-for-letter reproduction of the well-known opening of the Canterbury Tales. It hasn't been trained on enough Middle English poetry and thus can't generate any of it, so it defaulted to copying a text that probably occurred dozens of times in its training data.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Facebook (Meta) torrented TBs from Libgen, and their internal chats leaked so we know about that, and IIRC they've been sued. Maybe you're thinking of that case?

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

while land cannot be truly owned, it can be in use by people,

What can be "truly owned", and what does that entail?

If somethinɡ is merely "in use" by someone, can it be stolen from the user?

What is stealing? Doesn't stealing, as we intuitively understand it, presuppose (depriving someone of) ownership?

Let's say we find ourselves in this situation: you've loaned a book from the library, and someone stole it. Intuitively we might say the book was stolen from you. But that's mainly because it was temporarily associated with you; you didn't really own it, the harm for you is lesser than it would be if a book you bought was stolen, and more substantial harm affects the library that legally owns the book.

The book is stolen from the library. That's bad for the library. The land is stolen from...? Who is that bad for?

The analogy can only go so far, of course. The actual details of how Native Americans'(?) land was stolen include stuff like

Past treaties that had transferred land ownership employed a wide range of unethical or illegal tactics. Clauses, written in English but never mentioned to the Native signers, might appear in the “official” document.

Illegitimate “chiefs” also signed treaties. The Creek complained bitterly in 1825 that the Treaty of Indian Springs, which sold virtually all of the Tribe’s remaining land, had been signed by individuals not authorized to make such a sale. The Federal Government’s negotiators were well aware of this. The Tribe’s senior leaders had refused to sell and left the negotiations. After the senior leadership had left, the negotiators turned to the few remaining minor chiefs and persuaded them to sign the treaty.

https://www.cmich.edu/research/clarke-historical-library/explore-collection/explore-online/native-american-material/native-american-treaty-rights/land-transfers

Which is all basically theft through deception and similar. But to judge it that way we do have to already assume that the Natives owned the land that they were then cheated out of...

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

I (think I) remember some mazes or hallways could be generated in the shape of the swastika, but it got patched away many versions ago. Guess Evan will have to do some swastika-pruning once more.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

(you know who I’m talking about)

(I don't)

 

Just published "Negation in English and other languages" by Otto Jespersen, edited by Brett Reynolds & Peter Evans

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/501

Otto Jespersen's landmark study of negation provides a wide-ranging analysis of how languages express negative meaning. Drawing on an impressive array of historical texts and comparative examples, primarily from Germanic and Romance languages, Jespersen examines the forms, functions, and historical development of negative expressions. The work traces the evolution of negative markers, analyzes how negative prefixes modify word meanings, and reveals coherent patterns in how languages structure negative expressions.

Through meticulous analysis of authentic examples, Jespersen documents both common patterns and language-specific variations in negative expressions. His treatment of topics such as double negation, the distinction between special and nexal negation, and the various forms of negative particles provides a methodical account of negation's complexity. The work's enduring importance stems not only from its analysis of the cyclical renewal of negative markers (later termed “Jespersen's Cycle”) but from its comprehensive scope and detailed examination of negative expressions across multiple languages and historical periods.

This new critical edition makes this classic work accessible to modern readers while preserving its scholarly depth. The text has been completely re-typeset, with examples presented in contemporary numbered format and non-English examples given Leipzig-style glosses. A new introduction contextualizes Jespersen's achievement and demonstrates its continued significance for current linguistic research.

 
 

Honestly I haven't been following the development too closely, aside from seeing the trailers, so I'm wondering what are others thinking of it? Are you optimistic/pessimistic?

 
 

I've recently opened a community for discussing Heroes of Might and Magic series (discussion of related games is welcome too: Might and Magic RPGs, etc.).

The community is here: !homm@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Of course, the current hot topic is the upcoming new installment in the series... well not that much of a hot topic yet, since the comm has just 5 subscribers for now, but you can help with that! :D

 

Nice!

Also, this site tracks the uptime of LG and other pirate libraries: SLUM: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor.

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