There’s no contradiction here.

With high value art you definitionally buy a story not the content. Without a certificate of authenticity or a story that goes with it there is no story and no value to it.

With K Dick’s example the two lighters would become of different but equivalent value, perhaps the new value is in the story of how two identical copies and yet different came to be.

You could 3d scan the statue of David and reproduce it down to its tiniest detail. And yet the copy is only worth as much as the cost to make it or even less, while the original is invaluable.

You can see the Mona Lisa on your phone any time you want and yet millions will take the trip to the Louvre to see what is most likely not even the original.

The story and the history of an object is what you purchase when buying art or antiques of high value.

Maybe related to massive mail voting - just speculation haven’t seen breakdowns.

People also confuse legalisation with general availability. The two are not synonymous.

Maybe some of that but my sense is that given how prescient FB has been on buying companies that grew to become staples, like WhatsApp and Instagram I would say what they’re seeing here is something like the future of social media - even if tiny.

Unfortunately they can’t buy it, but they can do the next best thing: position themselves to take advantage of it, while in its infancy, and if possible control it while they can still throw their weight about before it takes off independently.

He’s also certain everyone will be talking about it, and any publicity is good publicity. So long as he hogs the limelight he wins. His worst nightmare is not being talked about.

This is like inviting the Catholic church in an institution specifically built to protect former victims of same and similar institutions.

Given that anyone can start an instance and federate with Threads, or join an instance that does, freedom of choice is unaffected.

That sounds a lot more Christ-like (feed the hungry, give as much as you can to the poor etc) than whatever mutation the evangelicals are worshipping.

I was an avid Reddit user but dropped it like a stone in the kerfuffle - it took a while but Lemmy has now replaced that 90%

I’d love to see a content propagation analysis.

My sense is that a ton of new memes are first shared on Lemmy then shared across to other social media.

…Ok, so the niche forums don’t have critical mass yet, and you’d have to post to some general thread to get any response - but all the cool and thoughtful people are here, so the level of general discourse is higher, I love it.

That’s scamming. Modern political misinformation’s goal is maybe to convince but primarily to flood you with shit, muddy the waters such that you lose your ability to discern the truth in a reasonable time frame and abandon action, jam the machine, - “eh, both the same”, “eh, middle ground”, “eh, who knows who’s right”, “don’t want to get involved”.

Kleptocracy loves that. It’s very successful too - see climate change action, public transport, the current supreme court etc.

That’s the point! It doesn’t come with bash as a shell, it comes with ash - even if you install bash and switch to it, bashrc is empty. It’s a bit bare bones, which is kind of charming, until it’s annoying. Haha!

I’ve only installed it a couple of days ago in a vm and It’s pretty good but a couple of things are a bit startling if you’re coming from debian.

Eg. The lack of niceties like the ll alias. Or The config you have to go through to allow SSH Some utils I’m used to like broot refuse to install properly even though the apk exists. Fz-find doesn’t exist in the community repository.

But you can’t argue with apk - so much better than apt or how frugal it is re resources.

Looking forward to getting stuck into it a bit more.

Stylus also super cool to get old non responsive websites to behave well enough on mobile.

Tankie = nice useful idiot for effective pincer maneuver from the right.

While the right galvanizes their voters with “these very limited interventions is communism”

Tankies undermine the left’s enthusiasm: “Not left enough” to make a difference.

Oh yeah? Enjoy the current supreme Court.

a “flatulist (professional fartist)” hahahahahahaha, I’m dying.

I would never have thought I’d read these words anywhere, let alone Wikipedia.

He does appear to have their loyalty, if reports are to be believed.

However even every single one of the OpenAI employees on board with him, they’re not taking existing IP with them. And to recreate it from scratch, it seems, would put them so far behind as to not be worth it. Otherwise why freak out about the workplace?

Re Microsoft, they do seem to have the least amount of risk, where at minimum they’ll keep what they have, while the max upside is 100% of everything.

Although even for that, there are some uncertainties that only people with inside knowledge might have. E.g. if MS were instrumental in Altman’s subterfuge that caused his firing, if the board doesn’t want MS involved if they can force them to divest their 49%. Doesn’t seem likely.

Or if the board can create a different for-profit where MS doesn’t have a part and let the other one wither.

Or the risk of massive lawsuits from OpenAI against MS if they wholesale take their employees re IP theft (we’ve seen it between apple, google and Amazon).

Good points for you also.

However, as the situation unfolds… from the amount of effort being put in trying to get a hold of openAI by Altman/Microsoft…

It seems to me that there’s a lot of claimed real-estate (eg training data and weights, ongoing subscriptions, income streams, exclusive agreements etc) that would be nontrivial or impossible to be gotten hold of or recreated from scratch.

And as we know Altman is not involved in the nittty gritty, aka doesn’t know shit about shit in recreating what was there - so the initial bravado of “I’m just going to do my own” - was clearly a bluff that didn’t pay off.

Hence now is trying different ways to get back on the ship / get another hold of the golden goose.

To be honest the more I see his frantic manoeuvring the more I think he’s inconsequential to the endeavour and he just happened to be lucky - and these jerky moves, to me, demonstrate that he’s well aware of it.

My little theory is that he was in cahoots with Microsoft re some product roadmap, against the wishes of the board.

1. Microsoft was not consulted re his firing as not to alert him or because there’s no point asking the revealed adversary.

2. Microsoft was “furious” and desperately tried to reinstate him.

3. Immediately offered him a job. Effectively undermining their investment in open ai.

Insert Bilbo “after all, why shouldn’t I” meme.

He’s lying, and playing that “back in my day we weren’t snowflakes like those liberals are today” card that plays well with fox news audiences.

Doesn’t have to be remotely true, just has to paint a picture that confirms the bias.

Of course when push came to shove to actually confront someone to protect people he hid like a little bitch behind the chairs…

…and now he was waiting for someone to hold him back from his bravado - it ended up being Bernie who couldn’t hold back a feisty kitten if he tried.

But it’s ok this guy learned how to act tough convincingly in wrestling - so he went on the media circus.

Yes, but aren’t you now even more positively inclined towards “reunification”? /s