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  Spicy take: the purpose of developing free or open-source software is now effectively to provide free labor to probabilistic automation companies that they can ingest into their models. So why would anyone choose to develop free software for political reasons anymore? All the political reasons in favor have been vitiated by the enclosure of the commons. At the very least, how can someone who is ideologically committed to free software also not be ideologically committed to dismantling probabilis...

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  I would love to know what kind of criticism of LLMs the boosters *wouldn’t* see as toxic Just as with criticizing oppression, you can never be polite enough, because the actual problem the tone police have with you is the content, not the tone.

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