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Re:Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:44PM (#49647605)
I doubt anything besides AI could ever become omniscient. Not that AI has a particularly high chance at it, but I can't imagine anything else even coming remotely close.
Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:23PM (#47854078)
Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.
Or Arsenic - it really cures what ails you - you won't be bothered by whatever it was you were complaining about before.
Thank you, I was excited for new drinks and flavors and this saved me the read.
Re:AI and the Ship of Theseus on Thursday March 05, 2026 @08:04PM (#47269448)
If you genuinely believe you cannot create something that has just as much rights as you have then I feel sorry for your children and anything you create.
Re:AI and the Ship of Theseus on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:49PM (#47267085)
Of course not, because everyone making these arguments wants people to have some magic sauce so they get to ignore all the rules placed on the "artificial" thing.
Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:13AM (#47263452)
I'm somewhat confused on how it actually muddies the waters - any person could have read the source code before hand and then either lied about it or forgot.

Our knowledge of what the person or the model actually contains regarding the original source is entirely incomplete when the entire premise requires there be full knowledge that nothing remains.

Re:Good software knows when to stop on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:58AM (#47263203)
That's also a good case of the difference between a "Yeah, it'd be cool if you added this feature for free" type of feature request vs "I'm actively paying a company making a hack version of what I'd like from you - would you please let me pay you instead - for the love of god, please please please take my money?"
Re:So you're a manager now on Thursday July 31, 2025 @10:34AM (#44746111)
This time 100,000.

For some reason my high performance meant that in addition to my high performance I should manage these other people working on other projects (that are just as in depth as mine) and this can in no way detract from the amount of work I do.

God I want to quit.

If you're willing to say that a fifteen year old bot was "writing" then I think having a discussion on if current "bots" pass the Turing test is sort of moot
Here's three comments, two were written by a human and one written by a bot - can you tell which were human and which were a bot?

Didn’t realize plexiglass existed in the 1930s!

I'm certainly not a monetization expert. But don't most consumers recoil in horror at subscriptions? At least enough to offset the idea they can be used for everything?

Not sure why this isn’t getting more attention - super helpful and way better than I expected!