Patents aren't vulnerable to cleanroom reverse engineering. You can create something yourself in your bedroom and use it yourself without knowing the patented thing exists, and still violate the patent. That's why they're so scary.
You won't get caught if you write something yourself and use it yourself, but programmers (contrary to entrepreneurs) have a pattern of avoiding illegal things instead of avoiding getting caught.
The sad part is that most software patents are so woefully underspecified and content-free that even Claude might have trouble coming up with an actual implementation.
But it ultimately doesn't even matter because they contain nothing of value anyway. For example googling G0F6 in google patents yields this weird one from yesterday.
This shit patent is effectively claiming to have invented a "layer" that takes user prompts in a service, determines if the prompts need to be responded to in "real time mode", and if so route the prompt to an LLM that runs quickly and return the results. (As opposed to some batched api I suppose?).
I mean this is just routing requests based on if the query is prioritized. Its a patent claiming to have invented an IF statement. Most patents are of this quality or worse.
Might as well read VixRa papers for better ideas. And I mean this sincerely, because at least they aren't as obfuscated and the authors at least pretend to have ideas.
I caught iOS trying to autocorrect something I wrote twice yesterday, and somehow before I hit submit it managed it a third time, and I had to edit it after, where it tried three more times to change it back.
Autocorrect won’t be happy until we all sound like idiots and I wonder if that’s part of how they plan to do away with us. Those hairless apes can’t even use their properly.
> When I read Rob's work and learn from it, and make it part of my cognitive core, nobody is particularly threatened by it. When a machine does the same it feels very threatening to many people, a kind of theft by an alien creature busily consuming us all and shitting out slop.
It's not about reading. It's about output. When you start producing output in line with Rob's work that is confidently incorrect and sloppy, people will feel just as they do when LLMs produce output that is confidently incorrect and sloppy. No one is threatened if someone trains an LLM and does nothing with it.
> Show me a convincing example of something that's simple/clear/elegant/superior in Lisp, and how difficult/complicated/ugly/impossible it would be to do the same thing in Java/C++/Ruby/Python.
Serialize and deserialize data. You're currently using something like XML or JSON for a human readable data serialization format in those languages. JSON and XML are not first class components of those languages. S-expressions are a better version of JSON and are first class components of Lisp.
I am not so sure how it works, but you can define your own evaluation handler for `eval` which, I assume, can be as restrictive as you need if you're dealing with untrusted data.
Ponzi schemes collapse when the participants ask for their money back (redemptions). Tether handled $17B in redemptions in 2022 when their market cap peaked at $83B.
