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by embedding-shape 6 days ago
> But my point is that you can't assume Anthropic would have lost if they didn't destroy the books. Alsop didn't rule on that, simply because he didn't need to. Judges hate ruling on things they don't need to.

Yeah, I agree with you on this :) It's all guesses essentially, and we cannot know what would have happened in slightly different circumstances, as everyone involved here is human and famously unpredictable :)