Comment by thedevilslawyer
2 days ago
IMO, you're needlessly taking a defensive stand. It's ok to take a forward looking stand on how access to knowledge should be.
2 days ago
IMO, you're needlessly taking a defensive stand. It's ok to take a forward looking stand on how access to knowledge should be.
Oh come on. We all know there’s pretty much every novel you’ll find at Barnes&Noble on Anna's Archive as a pirated copy, not just scientific papers. At least be honest; it’s as much a mundane piracy tool as it is a knowledge repository.
I was absolutely saying that. Novels are part of the knowledge too - a scientific paper and a novel have equal weight
Phrasing "here's a way to pirate novels using an LLM" as "I'm on a mission to grant everyone access to the wealth of humanity's knowledge" is just disingenuous. Sure do novels count as knowledge, but there's a moral difference between making scientific content available to researchers for use in research versus saving money by pirating books.
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