> we ask them to stop testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models.
Maybe I'm alone on this, but for some reason these sorts of requests strike me as akin to gatekeeping how someone should breathe air. It's math... the numbers and symbols are just out there in the platonic realm available for anyone to do as they like with them. It's patently absurd to request other people to stop.
Ensuring credit where credit is due? That's fine. If your model incorporates the efforts of many others, then it's reasonable to request acknowledgement of everyone who contributed (even indirectly). But that's not what the request states — presumably their ask subsumes any advanced ML model, including those that weren't trained on a giant corpus of text.
> akin to gatekeeping how someone should breathe air.
The law is also a sequence of letters available to anyone. Yet you cannot practice without passing the bar exam. And that is not the only example; many professions can only be practiced by licensed individuals: medical doctors, journalists, electricians...
jesus christ the number of asinine contrarian comments here is unbounded apparently
> you cannot practice without passing the bar exam
you cannot represent other people in a court of law without passing the bar. you can absolutely read the law and represent yourself pro se.
> licensed individuals: medical doctors, journalists, electricians
first of all you don't need a license to practice journalism, the press credentials you're thinking are for the news agency itself. second of all doctors and electricians are licensed because there are material liabilities. you should read some more of that law that you're gatekeeping...
EDIT:
> News agencies and media organizations issue internal press credentials to verify a reporter's affiliation and identity, while official access credentials are provided by specific host institutions, government bodies, or event organizers.
EDIT2: it's hilarious to me that people here (again because of pure contrarianism and maybe anti-AI sentiment) are really arguing for a return to mathematical guilds. what's next? destroying all gutenberg presses?
EDIT3: freedom of the press is literally in the first amendment
throwaway713 · · focus · HN ↗
Maybe I'm alone on this, but for some reason these sorts of requests strike me as akin to gatekeeping how someone should breathe air. It's math... the numbers and symbols are just out there in the platonic realm available for anyone to do as they like with them. It's patently absurd to request other people to stop.
Ensuring credit where credit is due? That's fine. If your model incorporates the efforts of many others, then it's reasonable to request acknowledgement of everyone who contributed (even indirectly). But that's not what the request states — presumably their ask subsumes any advanced ML model, including those that weren't trained on a giant corpus of text.
fph · · focus · HN ↗
The law is also a sequence of letters available to anyone. Yet you cannot practice without passing the bar exam. And that is not the only example; many professions can only be practiced by licensed individuals: medical doctors, journalists, electricians...
mathisfun123 · · focus · HN ↗
> you cannot practice without passing the bar exam
you cannot represent other people in a court of law without passing the bar. you can absolutely read the law and represent yourself pro se.
> licensed individuals: medical doctors, journalists, electricians
first of all you don't need a license to practice journalism, the press credentials you're thinking are for the news agency itself. second of all doctors and electricians are licensed because there are material liabilities. you should read some more of that law that you're gatekeeping...
EDIT:
> News agencies and media organizations issue internal press credentials to verify a reporter's affiliation and identity, while official access credentials are provided by specific host institutions, government bodies, or event organizers.
<a href="https://2021-2025.state.gov/media-credentials-and-visa-information/" rel="nofollow">https://2021-2025.state.gov/media-credentials-and-visa-infor...
EDIT2: it's hilarious to me that people here (again because of pure contrarianism and maybe anti-AI sentiment) are really arguing for a return to mathematical guilds. what's next? destroying all gutenberg presses?
EDIT3: freedom of the press is literally in the first amendment
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