FSF is working on freedom in machine learning applications

Re:FSF is working on freedom in machine learning applications by thanksgiving on Monday October 28, 2024 @10:30AM (#41971387)

Context I found when I googled this sentence

https://old.reddit.com/r/thewestwing/comments/uyh7db/there_g...

In a terrible coincidence, I just watched The War at Home today. This dialogue really hit close to home:

    JOSH: A five day waiting period, that's all. A person can't wait five days to buy a gun? If someone needs a gun right now, right this second, isn't that something the public should be concerned about?

    ...

    JOSH: I didn't need nationwide. I needed those five districts. Now we're gonna have to dial down the gun rhetoric in the Midwest.

    JOEY: Why not dial it up?

    JOSH: Because these numbers just told us that...

    JOEY [KENNY]: You don't know what these numbers just told you. I'm an expert. I don't know what these numbers just told you.

    You say that these numbers mean dial it down. I say they mean dial it up. You haven't gotten through. There are people you haven't persuaded yet. These numbers mean dial it up.

    Otherwise you're like the French radical watching the crowd run by and saying "There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."

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Now I guess the person I'm replying to thinks machine learning is a fad and it is a mistake for fsf to work on this? What does this mean?

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Re:FSF is working on freedom in machine learning applications by blackeyeblitzar on Monday October 28, 2024 @10:36AM (#41971444)

I interpreted it as programmers (the FSF’s people) are moving on to a technology (LLMs) where existing notions of free and open source are dead or misused or impractical. And the FSF’s movement will be irrelevant unless they build a movement for this AI world, which this is.

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