More like Trump’s pick for office but since then Proton wised up and put the CEO on mute lol

Implying brains worked before AI lol

Sure but again this is only a problem if copyright exists. Stallman himself invented GPL due to frustrations of copyright. The permisiveness is default human behavior that was corrupted by evil people and terrible systems. The neutrrance of copyright just returns us to this default state of sharing.

Sure but that’s mostly irrelevant in practice now. Gpl was notoriously unenforced so this aspect of “getting source code” almost never yielded to much in practice. FSF did a great job with limited resources it has but as code copyright is basically gone now and reverse engineering is so accessible we can actually empower real free software that is fully transparent and verifiable. If you imply that somehow we’ll start regressing existing tools to proprietary software I don’t see that at all.

We already have a perfectly good policy framework for datacenters: just charge them the negative externality costs. The problem is that they want datacenters now and repay external costs like electricity, water etc later because it takes 1 year to build a datacenter but 5 years to route power and water.

We already solve for this with economic credits but people just don’t trust these systems because of corruption and poor governance. The credits never trickle down to people who pay for externalities.

This is not even a datacenter issue.

Honestly I don’t disagree with your take. We should slow down and be diligent with our roll out and policies but sadly that’s not what the mainstream discussion is all about - it’s all so binary.

This story keeps getting parroted and it’s completely untrue. Luddites gained no extra rights due to their actions they gained rights decades later through actual policy activism.

The problem with majority of “LLM critics” is that they are brain dead luddites that argue with ragebait emotion rather than rationality.

Unsurprisingly LLMs are just computers that can be useful, can be wasteful, can be life saving and can be society destroyed - it’s a tool.

Honestly american humor has been on massive decline in the last 20 years despite increase of the overall comedy market. Particularly american standup is so bad these days despite bringing in stadiums of people. It’s so cringe: “they’re trying to cancel me yap yap yap”

Copyleft exists only because of copyright. If there is no copyright there’s no longer a need for copyleft.

Why? The entire purpose of GPL is to counteract copyright. If there is no copyright we no longer need GPL either.

Interesting - you have a source for that? EV’s are famously easy to produce so if Mexico can’t make their own it’s pretty bad look.

You’d think so but somehow they are in practice, no?

Hot take: LLMs is the best thing has happened to open source movement:

• software copyright is defeated and basically eliminated in practice
• reverse engineering is so accessible that proprietary protocols cannot be hidden and can be reimplemented by AI agents as free software
• open weight LLMs are incredibly competitive and run on general hardware
• linux is de facto winner in all computing and rising in desktop and gaming niches

We’re literally in the golden age of free software

I’m not sure what law it would break but it’s generally expected in business to follow local laws be it for contracts or certification.

Here’s blog by google https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/gnis-lake-ontario-lake-america-name-change/

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” in the United States. Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS for the U.S., people using Maps in the U.S. will see “Lake America,” those in Canada will continue to see “Lake Ontario,” and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names. These updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out now.

I’m not sure what people expected. Apple maps renamed the gulf as well. Every commercial map service has to do it as it’s a regional law.

Americans should be upset and their broken politics not wait for corporations to stand up for them.

It’s just braindead luddites throwing meme words

Agree, AI is just a computer.

This is why I like capitalism. It turns choice into value, a vote if you will. Just needs guard rails for edge cases.

Respect to phylloxera, goated