Yes, clearly. He demanded rich slopters.

he literally said that he wants contributors with big LLM subscriptions who can use those expensive models. Which is to say: he wants to only play with the rich kids.

https://thenextweb.com/news/torvalds-ai-assisted-by-tag-utterly-stupid-open-source-summit

You don't grasp the arms race. The more slop code is added, the fewer the contributors who understand it will be. The "deep learning" inside the model becomes the same outside.

What remains is that only contributors paying for the frontier models will be able to work in the codebase.

He has always claimed this apolitical stance. He hasn't an issue with closed software. He used bitlocker until it became the problem it was always going to be. He not in it for freedom, just for the benefits of the freedom to him. He is an engineer, not a philosopher.

Only of course that stance doesn't add up. What you will, and won't, work with and on is a political choice.

If you are willingly fixing the trains at Auschwitz, you are a Nazi engineer, not just an engineer.

Loads of tech people take the stance they are apolitical, but are they really amoral when the chips are down?

People are so wound up nowadays that any topic that has any emotional weight at all causes immediate shutdown reaction 😮‍💨

Just to say, the more you read about politics, sociology and philosophy, harder it gets to show this type of edge connections from topics that aren't in the center... at least this is how I feel.

Is there ever not an oppressor and oppressed? If not this is a shit framework for evaluating anything.

Wtf are you talking about? How are you being oppressed, exactly?

Not taking action is axiomatically “nuetral”, no matter the state of things otherwise. Maybe not defensible, but neutral nevertheless.

Read this, learn something.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jim-macdonald-anarchism-is-a-social-not-a-political-movement

Everything is political because everything is done through a context of society and the perceptions of the people behind it. When you deny that, you are just trying to shut down conversations about the ethics of things, and generally people with morals don’t try to avoid talking about morals.

Citation needed. When I am writing software I am not making a political statement. When I do FOSS, that isn't because I have a political goal in mind. Frankly, I don't give a shit about the context of society or the perceptions of anyone reading my stuff. It isn't about anyone other than me. Do you write software? Is every bit of your work/hobby political? When I deny those things it isn't because I am trying to shut down conversations about ethics. Nor am I amoral merely because I do not wish to discuss your topics. Did you even bother to ask me why? No, you just assumed. That isn't how you have conversations.

Also, religion and atheism are two unrelated things, since a religion is a social group and atheism is a personal belief. A proper comparison would be between, let’s say, theists and atheists, and both are beliefs.

Moreover, it’s quite a bad faith argument to compare beliefs, which are an unprovable, personal opinion, and things like software and politics, which are real world matters.

Are they both beliefs? As an atheist I've made no claim, or professed any belief. I am not saying there is no god. I am saying the people professing their belief in one have not met the bar of evidence for a god. The agnostic position, imo is pretty weaksauce and gives too much benefit of the doubt to the believers by even entertaining the notion that they might be correct, that we just don't know. It is a cop out to placate the religious that cannot present actual evidence.

It’s not the same to believe in god or not, or to believe that minorities need to die or not.

Why are software and politics so inextricably linked? Why are they considered real world, but religion not? You keep making all of these assertions and providing no evidence. Anything presented without evidence can be easy dismissed.

Overall, fuck off with your “not political” bulcrap.

Please level up your opinions with actual statements of fact before engaging.

But tell us how you feel about Ed Sheeran.

kirby's adventure for the gameboy is so white washed i cant believe people cant just wake up and tell its about limitless consumerism greed by the white man invading lush green lands and terrorizing the inhabitants.

every call for the a button is a murdered [insert your political scapegoat here]

It's clear that you want attention

They're the ones that want it? Not you? You've posted several threads in different communities with the same hyperbolic personally attacking subject targeted towards an individual. You get the sort of nuance and thought you put into things. I don't think you put much into these posts.

Acting as if a well-known and influential developer of many decades. Has magically overnight turned into nothing but a Vibe coding script kiddie. It's hyperbolic, downright absurd, and not at all rational or respectful. Not at all concerned with why someone like him might turn to such systems and how they might actually benefit everyone. Just reflexive and reactionary " reeeeeeeeee AI bad! "

Is AI bad? Well at the moment it definitely has its problems. And can confidently generate some bullshit when left to its own devices. That's unquestionable. But what is also unquestionable is that at large it's only going to get better. And if there is one thing a generative pattern detector and generator is well suited for. Generating/checking code might be it.

AI is stealing jobs? No it isn't. The oligarchs are using AI to steal people's jobs. But there's two points with that to understand. It's the oligarchs and not AI. And the only reason having a job is considered so vital. Is because we tie people's existence to it needlessly. As a species we could largely do away with the need for people to have jobs to survive. The reason we haven't, is again those same oligarchs. It wouldn't benefit them. To be equal to everyone else feels like oppression to them.

AI is destroying the environment, gobbling up all the power, and slurping up all the potable water? No again AI is not. It's the oligarchs rushing to build massive oversized data centers. In an effort to monopolize ai. I assure you running a simple model on olama on my home PC doesn't have any water connected to it. If anything uses little to no more extra power than it would under normal operation. It's always the oligarchs. Always the oligarchs and the states they wield against us.

Posting reactionary cringe we'll have people not taking you seriously as you've seen. If you want thoughtful intelligent responses. Provide thoughtful intelligence prompts.

holy fuck, you are the one that keeps spamming this drivel for atention.pleas go away