Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "NFTs Are Legally Problematic ft. Steve Mould \u0026 Coffeezilla" video.

@dustinnabil798 Dealing with cases were something goes wrong is like 90% of programming. Every programming language has a zoo of errors to propagate, every software engineering course puts great emphasis on it, there's an entire prolific field of science dedicated only to safety of software, there's a myriad of ingenius techniques to generate testcases. Automatically generated tests, fuzzing, invariants... That programmers don't have "contingencies" is nonsense.
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@jessirarara Ok, then write the program that does the months long process. The entire point of blockchain applications is that there is no authority. That's the whole point. That's also why most NFTs are pointless.
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@PodreyJenkin138 That's two different kinds of security. If the art is secret, ie no one knows it, then you can't prove that it's yours. To prove that it's yours, people have to know what it is.
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@l4cunaz That's totally wrong. Not only do the image generation systems you know of not do that, they LITERALLY, MATHEMATICALLY can't. They can't reproduce anything that was in their training data. Humans looking at paintings, however can. Art is totally safe from plagiarism when it comes to GANs, VAEs or Diffusion models and not safe at all when it comes to human onlookers. That said, all human painters have looked at tons and tons of pictures of other painters. They also have eyes and ears and other sensory organs. They don't just produce art without ever having learned anything.
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@Julia-lk8jn Did you pay attention? NFTs don't imply any sort of ownership. An artists is in no way infringed by an NFT pointing to their stuff.
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@Razmoudah Yes, you can. That's an entire field of research. There's automatically generated testcases and fuzzing and abstract guarantees like loop invariants in functional languages.
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Program safety in theory and practice is a huge, prolific field of research, every programming language has a zoo of errors, there's a myriad of testing techniques and software packages for them, software engineering courses and universities put great emphasis on testing and edge cases. Automatically generated tests, fuzzing, invariants... Programmers know infinitely more about contingencies than lawyers.
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No. When you buy that sword you actually own it. You own it to a much greater degree than anyone can own a piece of intellectual property.
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That's really easy, that's specifically what smart contracts are for. The money and private key of the car go into an escrow until the deal is done.
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@lesslighter Cryptocurrencies are already used all the time. They are popular, because there is demand. There is simply nothing else that can take the place of Monero for example.
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 @masterzoroark6664 NFTs have nothing to do with art. Art flourishes under capitalism.
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