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EnergyAmyon AI companies are shredding rare books

Did you manually set those utm_source parameters?

EnergyAmyon Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

The idea that grammar is all it takes to process natural language is absolute beans.

EnergyAmyon Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition

If you're doing that as part of a business, yes. If you're doing it personally, no.

EnergyAmyon Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI

This is as ethical as it gets. They're getting compensated by being able to use the result of their work freely. This is the rising tide that lifts all boats.

EnergyAmyon window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world

That's not at all specific. What individual files and directories?

EnergyAmyon Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump

No, it's more healthy to start the conversation on why we allow corporations to do bad things with excuses like "just serving customer's needs"

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

People are humans. Natural people are people, and therefore humans. Humans have rights because we all want to live in a society where it's not OK to murder people without consequences.

Corporations are pieces of paper we've scribbled on. Because they are pieces of paper, they cannot be harmed.

This is the primary difference between corporations and people.

People can be harmed through the pieces of paper they've scribbled on. That is material. But do not mistake that for the paper being harmed. It can't be. It's just a piece of paper.

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

You're trying to make sense of a broken worldview. Hopefully the absurdity is becoming clear.

No, it's just a piece of paper.

Yes, rights/laws/norms/etc are legal fiction. Harm is material. Without harm, there's not much purpose to a legal system. A bad legal system lets someone harm someone else, and then wave around a piece of paper saying "Oh, it was this piece of paper that did it, not me, I'm not responsible!"

A good legal system recognizes that that's absurd. We currently play along far too much, and Citizens United was a breaking point for many people.

Even in our broken legal system, we recognize this fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

Which is why elsewhere I make the argument that we should strongly reject the terminology of "people" in any relation to corporations. It leads people down bad mental thought processes by sneaking in priors.

Corporations are not "X people". Corporations are not people, period. Natural people are just people.

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

I'm also focused on the broader principle, not just specifically any one structure such as LLCs.

I have the legal right as a person to write on a piece of paper "i am a person". That piece of paper does not inherit any rights by my doing so.

Me writing "Microsoft" on one paper and "Google" on another paper certainly means that those two pieces of paper are distinct. Neither one, however, has rights.

What I meant by intermingling/combination/whatever is that, there are no rights to inherit, because a piece of paper has no rights, inherited or otherwise. That includes intermingled rights of people. People may have complex intermingled rights on certain subjects. That is not applicable to legal fictions, because they don't have rights and can't inherit rights.

I think it will become clear as you picture the silly idea of writing "I'm a piece of paper and I have rights" and then expecting that to mean anything. Work backwards from there.

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

It's a dangerous game to anthropomorphize legal fictions by using terms like attributing "will" to them. Likewise by sneaking in priors with the term "people". It's best to stick to calling them legal fiction.

It might help to picture them as literally a piece of paper. It would be pretty silly to say that piece of paper has a "will of its own" or "rights" or calling it a "person", wouldn't it?

If I scribble "i am a person" on a piece of paper, it's still just a piece of paper. If I get a bunch of people to join in and scribble something on the same piece of paper, it's still just a piece of paper. There's no confusion over "rights" or "will". It's a piece of paper.

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

You're confusing them again, which is why sneaking in priors with the term "people" is bad. "granted to them by the people" means "We The People", society, etc, not the people in control of the legal fiction.

> being proxies of their constituents

These proxies have no rights. People can exercise their rights as people. Or, they can create legal fictions with no rights. That legal fiction inherits no rights from the owners, which is where the analogy fails. There's no intermingling/combination/whatever to call "rights", because there's nothing.

Every action that legal fiction takes is a permission granted to it by society that continues to tolerate its existence. That tolerance is finite. When that tolerance ends, so does the legal fiction's existence. Unlike with people, there are no moral quandaries with revoking the privilege of existence.

Rights being inherent to people is an interesting but separate topic. We've generally agreed as a society that people have rights.

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

Corporations don't have the right of representation, because corporations don't have rights. People have rights, and corporations are not people.

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

They're not, and the terminology shouldn't be confused. "Juridical people" tries to sneak in priors about what "people" means.

People, of course, have rights. Corporations are not people, including "juridical people". They are legal fiction with absolutely no rights. Every action they take is permission granted to them by the people.

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

Because corporations aren't people. Full stop.

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

They can vote and act in their capacity as people. They can fuck off otherwise.

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

The contradiction clears up when you realize that corporations are legal fiction without rights, merely privileges granted to them.

You can act in your capacity as a person and exercise your rights, taking on personal liability.

You can act via a fictive legal proxy, which has no rights and shield yourself from some liability.

Trying to blur those two is madness.

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

This is an impressively awful take, congratulations.

Corporations aren't people and don't have rights or votes.

If you want to have a say in the way a place is run, you can do so in your capacity as a person.

If you want to do so from a legal fiction "proxy", fuck off.

EnergyAmyon Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

If you want a say, live there.

EnergyAmyon Declining America

The article doesn't say exactly what information. Is it something that technically maybe could possibly be considered under NDA? Or something more substantial? France said:

> “Each country is free to regulate their borders,” Mr. Baptiste acknowledged. But he said the scientist’s case was “extraordinarily atypical” and a “subject of concern.”

I'm inclined to believe that they think this is atypical. How did he "attempt to conceal" it?

EnergyAmyon Hawaii passes law bypassing Citizens United, governor signs it

That group can have the legal fiction of the corporation for liability reasons. They can also, separately, assemble as a group for political speech, each using their own rights as a person. That corporation is not a person and has no right to speech. Their group for political speech in turn represents them as people and does not shield them from liability.

We've unfortunately conflated this, to our detriment. Legal fictions don't have rights. People do.

Directors of Widget Corp can group together separately from Widget Corp and exercise their personal rights, or they can fuck off. Widget Corp isn't a person and has no rights.

EnergyAmyon Hawaii passes law bypassing Citizens United, governor signs it

They can do so without the protections of a corporation. You can take actions qua you as a person, and assume the liability for those actions. Or you can shield yourself behind a legal fiction, but that is not a person. It has no rights, only permissions granted to it. This is the way it should be, and has been corrupted by the Supreme Court.

EnergyAmyon Starship V3

If that's one of the better criticisms of the book, that's a pretty good recommendation for the book. The article author clearly just doesn't like their dream being shattered.

EnergyAmyon Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Miracle

> This embrace of phonics education and the near-complete rejection of whole language theory was a key component of the program's success.

EnergyAmyon F-15E jet shot down over Iran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purge

EnergyAmyon IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

Treating Catholics as "what Christians believe" is just as wrong. Pretribulational premillennialism is a popular position in mainstream Christianity in the US, e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind_(novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture's_Delight

It's all bullshit in the end, but I personally know many people that hold that view that consider themselves Christian. In fact, they think Catholics aren't Christian and are going to hell, because they worship idols.

More specifically, when talking about US politicians like Mike Huckabee that spout off weird religious stuff like this, you can assume protestantism at least, if not fundamentalism and associated woo.

EnergyAmyon IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

Christians are ok with that, because they think they'll have been raptured already.

EnergyAmyon Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

Iced is promising, using it for a small side project. Fairly straightforward and easy to use, but lacking basic things from more mature libraries (unsurprisingly, since it's still early). If you want something like a QTreeView for example, you're on your own. It's cool that it supports WASM, though I'd call it alpha support for now.

EnergyAmyon AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

How do we know they don't feel true pain? Can you define it well enough? Perhaps humans are the ones just "simulating" pain.

We've proven that they can have substance, we imbue it with a process called RLHF.

EnergyAmyon AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

Airplanes and bees are both structured entirely differently and yet they still both fly.

Just because LLMs don't work the same way the human brain does, doesn't mean they don't think.