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If fair use is cut down...

It's not a case of cutting down fair use. It's a case 9f enforcing current fair use limits.

The choices here are to respect copyright or destroy it. Having and AI exception is nonsense.

"I'm not illegally downloading the latest blockbuster/ best seller / chart topping album. I'm scraping the internet for training data for my AI. It just so happens I need to filter the data by hand before it can injest it. I keep looking for suitable data, but haven't identified any yet. "

There's plenty of non copyright material out there to do research on. It won't make for useful AI products, but they can start licensing for that.

A corrollary to what you're saying is that people assume that because you've replied to them, you must be disagreeing with them. Often I'll agree with a poster but comment to add to their point, only to get chewed out for disagreeing with them when I didn't.

...and then return it to his grieving wife?

Mainly because it's shaped like a snow plow and won't care if anything soft is in its way.

Yes. A diamond is just a rock somebody found. Same for gold. They have value because they are scarce and people think they are pretty (up until the last couple of centuries when we developed industrial uses for both). Nobody has ever needed a diamond or a hunk of gold to survive, yet they have value because we say that they are valuable.

New name: "Y"

It's not hard. He's saying that this study makes no claims about effectiveness, but people are so programmed with the catchphrase "safe and effective" that they conflate the two.

Sometime you need surrealism to get you close to reality.

Sadly, very true.

He was a troubled man at points in his life, and that takes a toll.

Containers are the ultimate "works for me" in software development. My experience it makes for more fragile software that depends on its environment being perfect and nothing else will do.

I've noted over the past few years, how any company that invests in R&D rather than pays dividends is labelled as "loss making" by the press.