The only move for FOSS projects to survive is to reject AI users and their contributions out of hand. Zig and Godot wrote good articles about this.

Scott will literally…

Instead of reviewing a book by a woman.

I’d be willing to bet good money on the ecosystem’s collapse at this point

What does Doctrow care? as far as he is concerned it’s done it’s job. It was never about the people or their labor for him.

It’s Doctrow. If you had a magic wand powered by orphan tears that jail broke IOT devices he would already have written a blog post about it before you finished the incantation.

I was gonna ask about that

If I was on that data center the singularity wouldn’t have gone down like that

Cyberlibertarianism covers it relatively well.

Bankruptcy means they’re not going to be paying out damages for all the AI Psychosis they caused.

My favorite part about this is that they say ‘needlessly.’

Like, they’re completely nuts and believe Claude might have feelings. But they’re not content to just be insane in that way, they have to also be ok with harming it as long as it’s not needless.

God these fuckers

For a while it looked like devs would resist the slop

I don’t think I ever saw this. The only indication would have been a major dev org like the FSF, OSI, SFC or somebody hitting Microsoft with a really aggressive lawsuit over OpenAI. They would have had a slam dunk and it would have set the tone for the way the rest of the world reacted, I think.

Instead it was just ‘wow cool toy.’ That was when I realized the real politics of Foss wasn’t just a couple of bad actors like Eric Raymond but a full on rot.

I am thinking about leaving tech altogether.

I wish I had a plan B, but I’ve devoted my life to being a software engineer and have no idea what else I could do .

It is pretty depressing.

Yeah. I’ve sort of resigned to my world being ruined and everything I ever worked on stolen and sold back to my bosses for the rest of my career.

I just wish there were some way to inflict some fraction of this pain on the people responsible, the people who go to work every day to ruin mine.

gotta be right?

If they actually gave a damn about people they wouldn’t be working at OpenAI

What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World

Surely not things you can print in the newspaper. Surely.

It is also an incredible strength that they actually practice what they preach, and don’t exclude someone based on hearsay and “probably a rapist”.

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He is not sure why everyone is so spooked by the “coordination” between agents on random message boards.

It’s weird to be sure, seems like a bug. Don’t they have a more efficient communication channel available through the harness? If this was real and not a test it would be a catastrophic operational security failure.

With Better Offline and the NYT simultaneously covering Rationalists it seems like maybe we’re getting more mainstream sneering. A bunch of people (including bsky) are finding out about all the weird lore.

At what point does doing something you think will result in the end of the world become attempted murder?

Apparently it’s getting weird over at Automattic

No other Linux or FOSS project ever gets this kind of funding. You should be suspicious of it, not celebrate it. You have been tricked into playing defense for millionaires that don’t give a shit about you.

one million times this

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