I love this, I have a friend who has a 3d printer and we started looking at the repo for this project to print the mechanical shift register and play with a physical toy representation of storing a bit of data: https://github.com/mattmoses/MechanicalComputingSystems
Edit: I love that other people are thinking about this around now
I think comparing it is reasonable and valid. Equaling it would be incorrect. What Meta is (allegedly, likely) doing here is several orders of magnitude worse, in scale and intention. I'd say both ethical and probably juristical.
But just because the scale and intention are different, does not mean we cannot compare both cases. They are not equal, far from it. But they are compareable.
> Parent comment implies Swartz was guilty of some degree
as a constructive criticism, you might want to reconsider your interpretation of
>"Remembering Aaron Swartz in this moment"
-> Which was arguably more innocent — scientific papers.
As in, both hold some degree of illegality (objectively), so when pointed that "he is guilty of some degree" is due to the jurisdiction laws (broken or not) regardless of societal/moral values that the context may apply.
perhaps a better answer would be to point that he shouldn't be punished for those actions.
I think a skill here is learning a bias for experimentation and accepting the results one finds. Also the book "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" showcases the kind of open ended play that results in people discovering stuff like this.
The reasoning steps look reasonable and the interface is simple and beautiful, though Deepthought-8b fails to disambiguate the term "the ruliad" as the technical concept from Wolfram physics, from this company's name Ruliad. Maybe that isn't in the training data, because it misunderstood the problem when asked "what is the simplest rule of the ruliad?" and went on to reason about the company's core principles. Cool release, waiting for the next update.
Edit: I love that other people are thinking about this around now