Jaron Lanier Looks into AI's Future | AI IRL
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"Single payer economies leads to bad things like Bolshevism and Stalin"

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  • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    Yeah but I like shorthand things and Stallman's a pedophile, idk, wish the space wasn't dominated by misogynistic weirdos

    • jaeme
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      11 months ago

      Stallman's personal failings in other areas doesn't discredit his essays on Free software. I don't care for Stallman but I don't want other people in this space to suffer more than they already have for his blunders.

      The free software world is more open (pun) than it has ever been. The misogynists are on the way out lest they want someone like Drew Devault to write an essay exposing them (Hyprland)

      Edit: in the last 2-3 years after the pandemic.

      • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        Yeah I just like FOSS as a term and a concept and I'm not really sure what's to be gained by tossing it for FLOSS. Maybe this is naive but I've found when a term speaks to people it catches really easily on the internet, like CSAM for CSAM being almost universally recognized overnight. I guess I just feel like if FOSS was worth throwing out for reasons other than "Actually I call it GNU/Linux" it would already be done; or it would feel more compelling to do so

        • jaeme
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          11 months ago

          I don't like either FOSS or FLOSS. But I see where you're coming from. I think FOSS is not worth arguing over in terms of changing what people already within the community say (compsci is already filled with strange terms), but I also want to clearly communicate the ideas of the 4 freedoms to outsiders coming in which FOSS doesn't do to those already unaware. "Our community" is already really niche as it is and also has bad actors who want to erase the freedom aspect as much as possible and using unclear and confusing terminology is a real tactic (look at people calling LLMs and machine learning "AI")

          Acronyms don't explain anything by themselves to people who don't already understand them. Your example works because it's already self describing, FOSS isn't as much.

          • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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            11 months ago

            Bro I need me some four principles of the people shit. That's badass, I ain't been in the social aspect of Libre software for a while. We need a Sun Yat Sen emoji

        • buckykat [none/use name]
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          11 months ago

          No, don't toss it for FLOSS, FLOSS is the same thing and has the exact same problem as FOSS. Stop grouping them together entirely.