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[steve smith]

On 4/14/25 12:23 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> Let’s say that in some obscure corner of the world there’s a 
> freakishly intelligent child that reads 100 papers from sci-hub and 
> arxiv every day and keeps doing this until she’s 40.   Her 
> comprehension is high and her reasoning unmatched.  She sees how to 
> apply these models within the fields where they were proposed and in 
> others and can synthesize high-quality engineering solutions at will.
>
> Has she stolen something?  sci-hub did the distribution, so it is not 
> technically her copyright violation.
>
Let's say that she was not a free agent but birthed and raised by an 
autocratic leader (e.g. PRK, CCCP, Russia, ???)...

Does that change anything?  I can't say.  Splitting hairs can be such 
hard work!  But apparently that makes it good (necessary) work!


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