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I think, fundamentally, this "dividers accusing of division" irony happens because we hold a lot of our values as shallow, single-word thought-terminating cliches, rather than a contextualized and well-informed idea "why do we like this thing?" Obviously, that happens to the word "freedom" a lot - any of us could name political examples for that one all day. But here it's happening for *inclusion*, so it's worthwhile to ask the probing question everyone is inclined to skip over reflexively: "inclusion to do what?" The answer, of course, is that LLM boosters would prefer the *exploitative inclusion* of people with anti-LLM values. They want us here, sure, but as the captive Omelas Child of open source. After all, the machine has already fed on our past labor - why not the present and future too? Why shouldn't they be entitled to it all? To perpetual software alimony? Obviously that's not actually healthy or equitable for a community, and kicking such people to the curb is defense of the individual and group.