Comment by latexr
3 days ago
What a profoundly bad faith argument. We all understand that singular words are public domain, they belong to everyone. Yet when you arrange them in a specific pattern, of which there are infinite possibilities, you create something unique. When someone copies that arrangement wholesale and claims they were the first, that’s what we refer to as plagiarism.
It’s not bad faith argument. It’s an attempt to shake thinking that is profoundly stuck by taking that thinking to an absurd extreme. Until that’s done, quite a few people aren’t able to see past the assumptions they don’t know they making. And by quite a few people I mean everyone, at different times. A strong appreciation for the absurd will keep a person’s thinking much sharper.
>> They key difference between plagarism and building on someone's work is whether you say, "this based on code by linsey at github.com/socialnorms" or "here, let me write that for you."
> [i want to] shake thinking that is profoundly stuck [because they] aren’t able to see past the assumptions they don’t know they making
what is profoundly stuck, and what are the assumptions?
That your brain training on all the inputs it sees and creating output is fundamentally more legitimate than a computer doing the same thing.
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It is possible that the concept of intellectual property could be classified as a mistake of our era by the history teachers of future generations.
Intellectual property is a legal concept; plagiarism is ethical. We’re discussing the latter.
This particular user does that all the time. It's really tiresome.
It’s tiresome to see unexamined assumptions and self-contradictions tossed out by a community that can and often does do much better. Some light absurdism often goes further and makes clear that I’m not just trying to setup a strawman since I’ve already gone and made a parody of my own point.