If we're talking about long-term benefits, I certainly can't answer that, but I can say all of my interactions with music have been positive from merely listening, learning to play several instruments, learning music theory, etc. Music has been one of the great joys of my life.
Their definition matters more than most, I mean, anyone can define anything however they like. Hell, Windows is open-source, because I said so.
Also, even if it were not for the OSI, this still wouldn't be open source. Because there's no source code available. It's open-weight, which is a different thing. The models weights are, essentially, the "compiled" output. The input and algorithms, we don't know.
Correct again -- CC- applies to data, not code -- weights are data, open weights suggests a creative commons approach …
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it's annoying the open source term is being cargo-culted around and I hate to say it but that ship looks like it has sailed.
funny that free software people were infuriated by the open source term and now the open source term is being completely misused in another context
Motorcycling does not cause immediate harm to society or to the individual, and is a regulated activity anyway.
Alcohol and tobacco are regulated too. Perhaps less than it should, in no small part for cultural reasons. I say this as someone that enjoys the occasional whiskey and smoking a pipe.
I am unaware of evidence of gaming causing harm to society. Maybe it exists. I can't comment on it.
It doesn't work for I2P due to its design, but for things like Nostr, it works well. Essentially, the goal is to build up a list of "known" reliable relays over time, while simultaneously blacklisting anyone who joins and proves to be unreliable relying on the statistic that collaborative individuals outnumber hostile ones in any sufficiently large cohort.
Of course, it's far from being 100% effective, but it mitigates the issue significantly.
Also worth reading, Donald Kagan's [1] "The Trial of Socrates, by I.F. Stone" [2] that sets the context of this context.
TL;DR Stone's story is not very strong.
That's not nearly as easy to answer.
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