and that they won't be able to share their works (except as an unmodifiable PDF) with other colleagues
I don't think so. It's true that only someone else who has Lyx (or TeX knowledge) can modify a shared file, but since Lyx is free and easy to download, I don't see how that presents a problem.
You might as well say that you can't share Word documents with people who don't have Word. Except that Word isn't free, so that is a problem.
Why not turn the free reproduction of ebooks to your advantage?
Even the lowliest pirate will feel guilty about pirating an ebook they could have easily bought for $1. And since a download costs you nothing, unlike print books, you'll profit even at that ridiculously low price.
Sure, most of your customers will be curious people who buy things on the web for the hell of it, rather than the very small number actually interested in your field, but you might actually make more that way.
A few years ago South African university students started a similar project: Free High School Science Texts, because many school textbooks are printed outside SA and are too expensive in the local currency. It's limited to physics, chemistry and maths though, which I suppose limits reduces the chance of 'debate'.
One advantage: you can slow them down. Humans can't post thousands of spam posts per minute. For a bot to mimic a human, they also have to avoid doing that kind of behaviour. While that doesn't eliminate the problem, it certainly reduces it.
That's probably the best way out of this mess: make up your own religion. Preferably one that allows you to do anything you want.
Now nobody can criticize you!
But it's still just a game. The virtual characters only have virtual suffering.
That's a matter of degree. If the AI were so realistic that in between getting shot at, these virtual people were experiencing virtual lives, writing virtual books and dreaming virtual dreams, we would be approaching seriously dodgy ethical territory.
But so called "AI" is nowhere near that level yet. Throwing up your hands when you're shot at may be a humanlike behaviour but it takes a lot more than that to make you human.
When people bring their kids in to get some gravol for their viral gastroenteritis, I tell them that it has been shown to be no better than placebo, so I don't offer it. Parents hate that.
The bigger difference is that it deprives someone else of a car. With software you can have your cake and give it away. The authors lose potential profit but not their original code.
There's a reason free software is more readily available than free cars.
The worry of course is that high ranked sources of encyclopedic information are self sustaining. Why link anywhere else... do you have time to find anywhere better when you've got a post or article to write?
In that case you could do worse than an encyclopaedia that at least can be edited and improved:)
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and that they won't be able to share their works (except as an unmodifiable PDF) with other colleagues
I don't think so. It's true that only someone else who has Lyx (or TeX knowledge) can modify a shared file, but since Lyx is free and easy to download, I don't see how that presents a problem.
You might as well say that you can't share Word documents with people who don't have Word. Except that Word isn't free, so that is a problem.
Why not turn the free reproduction of ebooks to your advantage?
Even the lowliest pirate will feel guilty about pirating an ebook they could have easily bought for $1. And since a download costs you nothing, unlike print books, you'll profit even at that ridiculously low price.
Sure, most of your customers will be curious people who buy things on the web for the hell of it, rather than the very small number actually interested in your field, but you might actually make more that way.
Meanwhile, Kurzweil and co. have been working on cellphone software that allows blind people to photograph text and have it read aloud to them.
Will that also be disabled? Or will the users just be sued?
Narrator: You wouldn't steal a spaceship...
Bender: Or would I?
Not limited to binary. Any base k number ending in 0 is a multiple of k (and therefore equal to k, composite, or both).
How long will it take for someone to combine a netbook with a digital ink screen (ala e-book readers)?
A few years ago South African university students started a similar project: Free High School Science Texts, because many school textbooks are printed outside SA and are too expensive in the local currency. It's limited to physics, chemistry and maths though, which I suppose limits reduces the chance of 'debate'.
For that I'd use a laptop or USB harddrive.
Not trees, algae. If oil is black gold, I think we'll soon be calling this green gold.
One advantage: you can slow them down. Humans can't post thousands of spam posts per minute. For a bot to mimic a human, they also have to avoid doing that kind of behaviour. While that doesn't eliminate the problem, it certainly reduces it.
Bicycles are great ... if the terrain around you is relatively flat.
2) Consumption of alcohol at work
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I knew there was a downside to being allowed to use Python...
Afrikaans is even closer - think Dutch with English influences.
The sentence "my pen is in my hand" is written identically in English and Afrikaans. Pronunciation is only slightly different.
That's probably the best way out of this mess: make up your own religion. Preferably one that allows you to do anything you want. Now nobody can criticize you!
Terminal anthropic principle: if the world had ended, you wouldn't be here commenting about it.
Nature can be nasty.
But is nature ever as deliberately cruel as the kind of chef who prepares Ikizukuri?
But it's still just a game. The virtual characters only have virtual suffering.
That's a matter of degree. If the AI were so realistic that in between getting shot at, these virtual people were experiencing virtual lives, writing virtual books and dreaming virtual dreams, we would be approaching seriously dodgy ethical territory.
But so called "AI" is nowhere near that level yet. Throwing up your hands when you're shot at may be a humanlike behaviour but it takes a lot more than that to make you human.
More like an RV on a bike.
Companies usually have more cash than individuals and are therefore more attractive targets for legal action.
Yep. http://twitter.com/johnathan/status/1255697916
Not to mention potato blight (anyone remember the Irish potato famine?)
When people bring their kids in to get some gravol for their viral gastroenteritis, I tell them that it has been shown to be no better than placebo, so I don't offer it. Parents hate that.
That's easy to solve. Prescribe them a placebo.
The bigger difference is that it deprives someone else of a car. With software you can have your cake and give it away. The authors lose potential profit but not their original code.
There's a reason free software is more readily available than free cars.
The worry of course is that high ranked sources of encyclopedic information are self sustaining. Why link anywhere else... do you have time to find anywhere better when you've got a post or article to write?
In that case you could do worse than an encyclopaedia that at least can be edited and improved :)