Countless dystopian novels have explored machine‘s human rights but the machines have already been granted more rights than us in our own dystopia.

At least those professors seem to either price their books reasonably or readily pirate it themselves to distribute.

My univeristy library would often have one or two copies of the current textbook on course reserve in the library. This meant that 1) you had to know where the course reserves were, 2) hope you could get it before one of the other 100-150 students also taking that course got it first, and 3) hope some dickhead didn’t just take it off the shelf and hide it in their study carrel or in a quiet corner of the library. Number 3 gets worse the higher the level of degree you are studying.

So what he’s saying is the billionaires funding ai can’t afford to do it legitimately

He also fucked children

* Comrade

it's fine when the theft flows up the pyramid. it's not fine when the theft is us stealing back what was always ours

the good ones ensure older verisons are still valid for their course work and only do annual editions because they're contractually obligated by their publisher.

Yep when Napster just linked people who shared files between them, it was the end of the world. So it's fine when it's bigtech / AI?

What a dumbass pedophile.

We do. The issue is at the college/university level, most courses require specific edition textbooks (they update them every 1-2 years) that the professors assign homework questions out of. You'll be lucky if the school library has a copy more recent than the last 8 years.
Then on top of that, many professors will also use digital 3rd party homework services that are tied to a textbook access code that you only get with a new copy. So unless you pay up you can't do homework and fail the class.

The whole system is fucking bullshit

Yes, one would expect human intelligence to benefit quite a lot from free access to information.

Become a more common occurrence too. Possibly an effect much stronger than that of AI requiring lots of computation with unpredictable shittiness of the output.

The cool professors used to make a "study guide" especially if it was their own book that they'd give out for free and told everyone to return the books

It's been a minute, so not sure if it's a thing still.

But yeah. Unregulated capitalism pretty much always ends this way.

You have to buy the book, so they pump out new editions constantly and charge insane prices. It's a captive market

Awesome! POTUS just said piracy is okay!

/s

Yes, there are people who want to have authority and think that if they got to the very top - Google, Meta, whatever, or some government, - then their ideas about authority have become law.

In fact, of course, they are just jerks who'll drop the soap at every step in prison for the rest of their lives when the problem is finally rectified, and it's being slowly rectified.

It’s only ok if you destroy the books in the process. Eating the pages as you read them is the most convenient way. So free food AND free books!

machine learning = good
human learning = bad

The only important thing is to make rich people money. If it makes them money, nothing else matters. Unless it makes them money now as opposed to later. Making them money now is the most important thing.

Bold of you to assume I'm not a fascist oligarch. Mebbe I am?

Just download the books and say its for your neural network project

just happens your also the project