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This is sad. Human endeavors always benefit from the distributed contribution of the many, which keps everyone's egos and preferences in check while approaching the most optimal global solution in the limit. Every social institution works like this, and FOSS is no different. Centralization almost never works in social endeavours. Not to mention the dubious ethical implications of using (potenially stolen) LLM code in FOSS projects.

This might be controversial, but we need more Stallmans; that is, people who care about the ethical implications of tech, and not just the tech.

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Sadly, it's not a great time to be a autistic revolutionary type. Too easy to get cancelled when you make women uncomfortable, or something. Look up what happened to Richard Stallman if you're not sure what I mean. No-doubt he'll be replaced by someone who says Safe Things that don't offend HR departments.



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