> this is the part that lets them hand it over to companies like OpenAI

Your claim is that OpenAI has negotiated usage rights from every single site it’s gotten data from? Do you have any evidence for this?

ChatGPT has “learned” some generalizations from the text that it’s processed, but it has also literally memorized (I.e. copied) billions of words from it.

No problem, chin up!

I guess that’s up for debate - my comment is more of a meta-comment about all the negative responses you received. Cheers!

“Yet you participate in society. Curious!”

I’m pro-capitalism (it’s a very useful tool that has served us well, within limits), but most of the replies here remind me strongly of this comic.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat

A related theory was that this hypothetical body was larger than Neptune, potentially a brown dwarf:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)

Anonymously?

Then you may have some recourse. You might have already done this, but you can see lots of discussion of Xfinity easements here:

https://forums.xfinity.com/conversations/search?q=Easement

I’d probably start there, their support folks seem relatively responsive.

You’re not really answering the question. Are you sure there is not an existing easement on your property? Nothing in all the papers you signed when you bought the house? If there’s an existing line as you indicated, it wouldn’t be surprising that they have an easement.

Not sure about Boston, but many cities have generic easements in place for all utilities, and the 2015 Net Neutrality legislation classified broadband as a utility.

You don’t need any kind of medical card in Massachusetts, just as you don’t at the liquor store. Weed is completely legal here.

You may be confusing the infection with the resulting disease that some infected people develop. By some estimates as much as half the global population has been infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, but many of those people never develop symptoms of the disease toxoplasmosis. And for those that do, many of them require no treatment.

In addition to just increased awareness if someone had a relative with prostate cancer, it’s becoming more common for such men to get tested for the BRCA gene variants. Most people associate these with breast cancer in women, but they also increase men’s risk of prostate cancer substantially, as much as 4X.

https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-brca-gene

Insurance will usually cover the test if you have a family history, and then your provider will schedule more frequent screenings, e.g. PSA tests.

Or 3) you’re imagining the difference, based on your knowledge of what’s being said, just as listeners do.

> how do they convey tone information without using their vocal cords?

The same way English speakers convey the difference between the [s] and [z] sounds while whispering - through context.

When you whisper the sentence Sue went to the zoo, the first and last words begin with the exact same sound. This is because the only difference between the [z] sound and the [s] sound is that the first is voiced and the second is unvoiced, and all sounds produced while whispering are unvoiced. Nonetheless, it’s not hard to understand what words are intended, because of sentential context.

Similarly, speakers of tonal languages use context to understand whispered utterances.

Quite common - 20–30% of women now retain their name when they get married. The number rises every year, after dipping a bit in the 80s.

C’mon, you really think Taylor Swift would have changed her last name?

“He will run yesterday” is perfectly grammatical.

Too many people use “ungrammatical” to mean “this sentence just doesn’t sound right”. It has a much narrower meaning than that.

In fact most languages do, and the order is similar across languages.

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030521-041835

This suggests that it’s not simply a matter of grammar, but is connected to something deeper in our mental models of the world.

Mirror image meaning they’re correct? It’s just common sense that building more supply reduces prices, and it’s been shown to be empirically true in dozens of studies.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/06/02/new-round-of-studies-underscore-benefits-of-building-more-housing/

False, she didn’t give herself a raise. That happened because of a law that the Legislature passed in 2017. Baker got a raise in 2019 under the same law.

https://www.wcvb.com/amp/article/gov-elect-maura-healey-set-to-receive-20-higher-base-salary-than-gov-baker/42369217

Indeed, the previous tenant, a gas station, wanted to stay, but the land owner wouldn’t extend their lease.

> So many jobs can now be automated

I haven’t seen a single compelling example of how ChatGPT will automate anything at all.

Still doesn’t work - that doesn’t mean “point of no return”.

Can’t find any definition of “water mark” that matches that, but OK.

Then why not use that term? Why use a different term that doesn’t have any definition matching that usage?