Regardless of whether this is fake, it feels like this is the weirdest thing I’ve ever read on the internet.

Yes, but:

Sorry, I thought we were using seal pelts as a stand in for something actually useful.

People buy what they can afford. The seal clubbers also like to put “ethically harvested” stickers on their pelts.

Because I like this meme I can now pretend to conclude that every thought this person has deserves to be a meme.

I believe they’re making a point about media’s efforts to blame consumers for global warming, while the 20 most emissive corporations singlehandedly released 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2024.

All your actions can do is delay the inevitable or make it worse. Within the next 5==-4.;;; hours, you will still be alive, but you will have taken a shit. Good luck dear reader, for you <rest of article requires paid subscription>

I’m not claiming that you made that screenshot. I appreciate everything else about it, but I wish you had found a clean version.

I made this comment because self censorship is a problematic pattern that should have no place on the Fediverse. Saying nothing is equivalent to endorsement, to which I cannot morally oblige.

Thank you for your perspective, I’d like to hear more of your thoughts on the matter.

You can still say fuck on the internet, idk what kind of anti fuck propaganda this is.

Counterargument: ctrl+f is a great place for regex. Write once read never problems are a great application for unreadable languages. Imagine if people wrote scripts in the language vi uses for editnig<escape>bceediting, which mostly isn’t even displayed as it’s typed! <escape>

But yeah, it’s kind of terrible for anything else.

I don’t know much lisp, but in scheme you can do (1 . + . 2) = (+ 1 2)

The silent majority is, as in all extreme cases, deadly.

Note: Self censorship is a pattern that is best to avoid spreading. Surely there is a clean version of this screenshot.

Nice timing, I just finished it!

I was able to adjust the bit mask format to be easier to work with by hand and got it most of the way, then used the SAT solver to quickly finish the rest when I got stuck.

Based on my other comment, do you have any in mind that would be more appropriate?

For each operation my CPU’s ALU can do, I need to find a bit mask that turns it on only for the desired set of 8 bit opcodes. The bit mask is of the form [01_].[01_][01_][01_][01_][01_][01_][01_][01_] where 0 and 1 mean the bit has to match and _ means it doesn’t matter. The bit before the . is the xor of all the other bits in the opcode.

The solver has to figure out both which opcodes represent each instruction and what bit masks are needed to give them the desired operations.

I don’t know what that’s from, but the premise of “person thinks name tag is for their benefit” alone would be funny enough even if it was actually a name tag.

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Most so called inventions and discoveries are things that others have already done or will do anyway but get no credit for.

I’m under the impression that in most of those cases it is a matter of duplication of work, rather than plagiarism as is being discussed here.

For this problem, the reward is also 1 million dollars. Surely you’re not claiming it’s ok for Sam Altman to take the prize over someone who did the majority of the work.

I say this as someone who releases all their software under open source licenses which maximize the ability to share under the condition that attribution and the ability to further share/alter is preserved.

There is such a thing as malicious sharing of information/software/academic works, e.g. the distribution of proprietary software tools, plagiarism, etc. Harmful sharing ultimately limits the sharing of other information such as original authorship and source code. :::

tl;dr

If the Clay Math Institute knew for certain that Sam Altman was lying about authorship, they wouldn’t want to give him the prize. That makes these actions deceptive and by principles of radical sharing of knowledge, morally wrong.

I appreciate your perspective, thanks for the discussion.

Knowledge cannot be stollen. That concept is human fabrication. Knowledge is meant to be shared and once share is flow freely.

Stealing knowledge in an academic context means using it without credit, aka plagiarism, much unlike the common definition for media.

Attribution doesn’t restrict the flow of information, it simply gives credit where it is due. Refusing to attribute a work, strictly speaking, limits the flow of authorial information.

As stated by the article, if sharing work may be punished by a bad actor people will selfishly restrict the flow of useful information in response to protect themselves from plagiarism. Doing something that makes academics choose between further advancement of their field and their own self interest is the principle malfeasance.

https://xkcd.com/2101/