> Why do you need somebody's permission to do math with numbers? Makes no sense whatsoever.
It's part of a very sensible legal framework to incentivize the creation and publication of hard-to-find numbers that you value very much.
I hate intellectual property as much as the next guy, but it's not nonsense.
> Just a number really. That's all intellectual work is: a number.
You saw that everything could be encoded in a number, and instead of expanding your view of what a number could be, it diminished your view of everything else. That's depressing.
> It's part of a very sensible legal framework to incentivize the creation and publication of hard-to-find numbers that you value very much.
I disagree about "sensible".
It's the 21st century, the age of ubiquitous globally networked computers. The copying, moving and transmission of numbers is literally a fundamental operation of these machines.
The tyranny required to maintain this "sensible" numeric ownership system grows every year. The world changing potential of computers is squandered because of this "sensible" system. Look at how much technology has been held back by the copyright industry. Are LLMs going to be yet another victim? I'm sick of it. Society needs to find another way to incentivize creation.
> That's depressing.
Absolutely. This state of affairs depresses me very much. To maintain this "sensible" system, the computer freedom we enjoy today must be destroyed. It's the antithesis of everything the word "hacker" means.
Just wanted to chip in saying that I completely agree with you.
Intellectual property is an idea from last century or older. It doesn't have a place in this new century.
Those "sensible" systems will have to change. Instead of incentivising people to find high value numbers by this artificial scarcity, number searchers will have to find other ways to get paid. That's all.
People that pick up the trash in public parks don't get paid over and over for the beautiful work they did. They have to do it again and again as most of us, once the product of our time is out.
It's part of a very sensible legal framework to incentivize the creation and publication of hard-to-find numbers that you value very much.
I hate intellectual property as much as the next guy, but it's not nonsense.
> Just a number really. That's all intellectual work is: a number.
You saw that everything could be encoded in a number, and instead of expanding your view of what a number could be, it diminished your view of everything else. That's depressing.