The LLM part is bad news but it isn't the sign.
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@Howitzer105mm @grayrattus You can see it's definitely a well-thought out position.
@mhoye @Howitzer105mm I wrote that I hope for 3 things: cheaper GPUs, more open models, universal income.
Without those next 5 years will be tough as many IT engineers will land on the streets with huge debts and burnouts.
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@mhoye @Howitzer105mm I wrote that I hope for 3 things: cheaper GPUs, more open models, universal income.
Without those next 5 years will be tough as many IT engineers will land on the streets with huge debts and burnouts.
@grayrattus @mhoye We can have cheaper gpus now. Tell Altman to quit buying bare silicon with no use for it.
Prevent data centers from consuming, checks notes, EVERYTHING.
Make the tech bros pay the fair market price and royalties for every scrap of human output they've stolen.
We stopped 'domain tasting' by instantly charging 0.50 cents to corpo squatters trying to extort money for your domain name.
We'd kill AI the moment we use the same model on them.
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It is a chosen tradeoff, I suppose.if it is coopted then it becomes irrelevant whether I am maintaining a “good” version; it gets drowned out. Worse, my maintenance may be upstreamed and used to benefit the capitalist version.
It being preserved and public does enable the chance for it to be rediscovered at any time, and possibly in ways that inconvenience malicious parties (if they haven’t died out prior).
Ideally we would be actively undermining this system.
Of course. Though the overthrow of capitalism will not come purely from software.
I would like to avoid a situation where the people responsible for the disease, where the diseased system itself, can use my work to save themselves/itself.
That would be unfortunate. Although I deem it extremely unlikely.
Most work that promotes autonomy and agency is worthless to them at best or inimical to their interests.
Most work that puts autonomy, security and control in the hands of the people/users, especially ones who use it to enact their agency & assert autonomy, is actively unwanted to the point that direct hostile intervention has been undertaken at points in the past over it.
(Not only in software work there.)
Collective access to and control of this technology is a form of power; it would be fantastic if I could find a way to direct that power into a political form which may challenge the current form.
A direct challenge seem unlikely, but if what its purpose is and what it enables is contrary to the malicious interests, then it does have good odds of providing indirect challenge or contribution to a direct challenge.
And of course, some in quest of liberation may use it to survive or save themselves long enough for the wider overthrow to take place (hopefully).
Although it may be that the system is so diseased and falling apart so quickly that the pace of my work will render it useless in that regard.
That would be a Plan9 ending.
Were you luckier, you might complete your work after the hostile system’s crumbling and see it finding use too.
Good chance as well that the system finds no use for what I’m doing, having other tools better suited already at hand.
Quite.
Still, it’s a risk I’d rather not take just now, I guess.
Fair enough. You do have that choice, and your discomfort is not groundless.
@lispi314 @hipsterelectron @mhoye @froztbyte Yeah, tradeoffs are everywhere. No free lunches, figuratively speaking.
The overthrow of capitalism will not come purely from any single thing, no. A struggle dependent on technology controlled by its enemies will not get far, though.
My work is not so strongly ideologically pointed that it can't be put to other ends. Most work is not, IMO. Tools have bents, but you can never say "this tool is useless to the enemy."
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@lispi314 @hipsterelectron @mhoye @froztbyte Yeah, tradeoffs are everywhere. No free lunches, figuratively speaking.
The overthrow of capitalism will not come purely from any single thing, no. A struggle dependent on technology controlled by its enemies will not get far, though.
My work is not so strongly ideologically pointed that it can't be put to other ends. Most work is not, IMO. Tools have bents, but you can never say "this tool is useless to the enemy."
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@lispi314 @hipsterelectron @mhoye @froztbyte I don't consider "direct hostile intervention" to be proof of "they couldn't subvert it" but rather of "they decided this was the easiest way to subvert it."
I've also seen cryptocurrency become the opposite of what many had hoped it would be in the early stages. I now tend to think that technological features are secondary to the social and material features around them.
I am happy to share my work and to work in community with others, but I 2/
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@lispi314 @hipsterelectron @mhoye @froztbyte I don't consider "direct hostile intervention" to be proof of "they couldn't subvert it" but rather of "they decided this was the easiest way to subvert it."
I've also seen cryptocurrency become the opposite of what many had hoped it would be in the early stages. I now tend to think that technological features are secondary to the social and material features around them.
I am happy to share my work and to work in community with others, but I 2/
@lispi314 @hipsterelectron @mhoye @froztbyte think now that it is wisest to grow that group along lines of trust rather than just leaving everything out in the open for bots to hoover up.
By "useless in that regard" I meant "useless to the diseased system."
I don't imagine one can keep a secret forever, so I expect my work will leak eventually if it ever becomes interesting enough. I'd like there to be a real, coherent system rooted in material reality in place to challenge the incumbent 3/
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@lispi314 @hipsterelectron @mhoye @froztbyte I don't consider "direct hostile intervention" to be proof of "they couldn't subvert it" but rather of "they decided this was the easiest way to subvert it."
I've also seen cryptocurrency become the opposite of what many had hoped it would be in the early stages. I now tend to think that technological features are secondary to the social and material features around them.
I am happy to share my work and to work in community with others, but I 2/
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I don’t consider “direct hostile intervention” to be proof of “they couldn’t subvert it” but rather of “they decided this was the easiest way to subvert it.”
There is some truth to that, but it’s also just a relatively effective way of stopping work even if they didn’t have a use to subvert it to.
I’ve also seen cryptocurrency become the opposite of what many had hoped it would be in the early stages.
It enshrined capitalism and scarcity at its core. There was never a chance of liberatory potential. At best it could be a poor substitute for hawala for the ones that have anonymization.
(Hawala is still subject to a lot of the harmful dynamics of capitalism.)
It’s why most anarchists reject anarcho-capitalism as an oxymoron.
I now tend to think that technological features are secondary to the social and material features around them.
Technologies are instanced applications of social features. Pure technical mechanisms don’t really make sense unless considered within their context of operation or the notion of what problem they solve.
The closest is abstract mathematics, and that semi-frequently turns out applicable to things one hadn’t expected.
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@lispi314 @hipsterelectron @mhoye @froztbyte think now that it is wisest to grow that group along lines of trust rather than just leaving everything out in the open for bots to hoover up.
By "useless in that regard" I meant "useless to the diseased system."
I don't imagine one can keep a secret forever, so I expect my work will leak eventually if it ever becomes interesting enough. I'd like there to be a real, coherent system rooted in material reality in place to challenge the incumbent 3/
@lispi314 @hipsterelectron @mhoye @froztbyte one by that point, though. I'd imagine a commons away from the bots, rooted in pseudonymity and relations of trust built over time, would be conducive to this. So that's kind of what I have been hoping for in my gestures towards "a human Web" and "careful.party." 4/4
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@Netzblockierer @mhoye @torvalds that's likely never going to happen, I would advise finding or establishing a fork. Isn't that the great promise of open source? I don't understand a lot of the whinging around this topic because by my estimation schisms are nothing new to humans, digital or meat space.
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Today the number of people under 50 who'll reach for perl or raku or who cares what it's called as their first choice of tool for anything new is zero. In practice Perl is an esolang now.
Torvalds' position is that contributing to the kernel should be _more_ difficult for everyone else, but, through LLM usage, easier for existing kernel developers.
Ted Tso's adamant position that "you can't make us learn Rust" is the same insularity.
If the kernel was a country, we'd recognize this.
Today the number of people under 50 who’ll reach for perl or raku or who cares what it’s called as their first choice of tool for anything new is zero.
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Today the number of people under 50 who'll reach for perl or raku or who cares what it's called as their first choice of tool for anything new is zero. In practice Perl is an esolang now.
Torvalds' position is that contributing to the kernel should be _more_ difficult for everyone else, but, through LLM usage, easier for existing kernel developers.
Ted Tso's adamant position that "you can't make us learn Rust" is the same insularity.
If the kernel was a country, we'd recognize this.
@mhoye Under 50 here and I do.
Why? I need something well supported and portable. That is frankly Perl.
Also honestly don't remember that being a Perl community take about it being difficult to parse etc. I remember that largely being slander pushed by the Python community to try to make up for how shit python was at everything for the longest time. Basically a lie pushed at the academic level and as a meme on forums based around trotting out the worst code imaginable treating it like it was the language was only capable of.
It is was/is the intellectual equivalent of taking C or Python code written for a obfuscation contest and telling people this is what the language is and only how it can be written.
Also holy fuck? Human ergonomics and python and ruby? From a tooling/dev/admin perspective I think the only thing worse I've encountered is node.
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@mhoye As a 34 years old Perl dev, I have to disagree on the number being zero.
@mhoye @demiguise Aye. Under 50 here.
Also why Perl? Portable.
Only langauge sorta close to it in that area is rust, but it so needs a hell of a lot of maturing to do in terms of feature stability(very much suffers constantly introducing stuff that can't be counted on to be available in the version of rust available in the package repo for Debian or the like).
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I remember in early 2000 trying to recompile some small tool written by esr on an sgi and never reaching the speed of the binary. The makefile he provided was doing something strange with the source files I never bothered to understand. The readme was hawking his services as a developer. I decided this guy was a full of shit extractionist and subsequently cought much flak from my "friends" for shitting on CATB.
I was sooo smug the last years
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Anyway: The worst thing an organization's leaders tolerate is what that organization becomes, and the blast radius of a single toxic contributor is huge and largely invisible. For everyone who speaks up to say this behavior isn't acceptable, there are dozens or hundreds of smart, competent people who peer into your community, see that this is how you live and move along without your ever knowing they exist, on their way to a better life somewhere else.
We don't have to live like this.
@mhoye Hear hear!
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