Post #1439370
2026-04-20 12:27 UTC
Replies (3)
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@Evinceo@awful.systems 2026-04-20 12:35
It’s not just that he fails a purity test it’s that he basically only cares about his pet issues like right to repair and hating copyright and positions himself as a social activist while twisting real social issues to fit into his framework of ‘copyright bad, hackers fix this.’
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@jaschop@awful.systems 2026-04-20 13:00
Too narrow of a scope to be useful I think. When he talks about LLCs, the real thing he’s referring to has to be capitalism. The “unaligned AI is already here, it’s corporations” has been around for a while, and I don’t think it convinced a lot of people to become socialists. I think you can’t usefully tackle just the capitalism of the tech industry, if you don’t understand the wider system around it. I mean the VC that sloshes around in tech to raise up one bullshitteer after another comes from somewhere. Real estate, mining, fossil fuels, etc.
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-04-21 09:00
It’s not so much he fails the purity test than it is he thinks all gen-ai works like whisper and open source LLMs grow on trees.