changing the licence is much cheaper than pursuing legal action, and sends an immediate and very public signal of disapproval. given that legal remedies would be required either way, and are extremely time-consuming and expensive, it makes sense to send the signal first
not sure that concept makes any sense at all. the entirety of LLMs' capability to perform software design and development tasks, such as it is, comes from the massive resource of copyleft projects, including those using GPL, that the AI companies have ingested
Well, it's a more restrictive license than MIT. A lot of popular projects nowadays are under the MIT license. AI labs still don't give a damn about how the code their LLMs ingest is licensed anyway, and GPL'd code won't stop them one bit. If their code had been used in proprietary ways, then yes, GPL would've been the way to go. AFAIK Omarchy is MIT-licensed, which still requires preserving the copyright notice of other MIT-licensed code it's based on. So I'm not sure what damage has been done to Asahi itself.
these are such classic american thought-terminating cliches. "we have more land and more people than anywhere else" "our population contains too many migrants who aren't as smart as americans used to be" etc etc. the different states and territories that make up the USA all have analogous counterpart countries whether you're comparing climate, population in the absolute, population density, GDP, or any other metric you care to name. many of the comparable countries will have a worse standard of infrastructure than that US state, but there will always be several which perform better, usually utilising fewer resources.
the thing all american states have in common is their american ideology, their american political economy, and their population of americans. it just so happens that these are almost always found, coincidentally or not, alongside extremely outdated and poorly-maintained infrastructure, and a class of ultra-rich parasites hoarding many of the resources. drawing connections between any of these phenomena is left as an exercise to the reader
i think it would be difficult to learn how to reproduce certain phenomena that the models often exhibit. this article breaks down some of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223647
the same indonesia in which the us government helped organise mass killings of hundreds of thousands of alleged left-wing political activists and voters? [0]
we also don't have to flatten these historical events (snowden maybe making some mistakes vs the US government's spying) so we can pretend that they're of equal valence, scale and severity. they are actually extremely dissimilar and one is very transparently worse and more serious than the other
>we also don't have to flatten these historical events (snowden maybe making some mistakes vs the US government's spying) so we can pretend that they're of equal valence, scale and severity
In what way do you think this was done? Nothing I said here was condoning the government's behavior.
i can never tell between them by the URLs, is this the explicitly far right German Compact Magazine or the less-explicitly far right Anglophone Compact Magazine?
right, so this is the second one, i.e. the thiel-funded "centrist" magazine that coincidentally publishes writing from people like nina power (famous for having her alt account unmasked and her pro-nazi posts revealed).
far be it from me to criticise anyone for trying to get this website's userbase to care about anything other than agentic LLM lifehacks, but this kind of "philosophy" mag is not really a big improvement if it's just laundering reactionary ideas through a centrist-yet-contrarian technocrat aesthetic
People understand that they can't, in isolation, fight againts hundreds of billions of capital.
It is better to profess allegiance to their new replacements and eek out a little more time of employment, than to be branded by the powers that be as a contrarian, a luddite, an enemy of progress and get the boot now, not tomorrow.
This idea that it's about the big bad capital is... also not very bright. Who would want to do a job not because it's necessary or useful but just to produce an empty effort that justifies a salary? I can't see any joy or meaning in labouring every day to produce less and worse products than what could have been made without me. If the point of the charade is to justify my salary, then just give me a basic income and I'll spend my day at the beach instead, or doing something that is just a pleasure hobby.
Artists and craftspeople have a problem: How to do my art/craft while still having a comfortable home, food, healthcare, transportation, etc.? Historically one way was to produce commercial art.
Let's say you're a trumpet player. Really, you want to play baroque chamber music--which you do on weekends with your mad young crew of underground baroque chamber music hotheads--but to make rent you'll have to take a job as a studio musician recording commercial jingles and backing tracks for pop acts. It's not baroque chamber music, but you can get paid while you hone your chops (literally, or at least more literally than is usually meant). Life is good.
One day, all the studios decide they don't need a trumpet player because they bought a synthesizer and they can just have a pianist (whom they already employ anyway) do the trumpet tracks, so you're laid off. You even get a new job making more money writing trumpet tracks to be recorded on the synth (with trumpet tracks being so much cheaper now, producers are using them much more). You keep playing trumpet for baroque chamber music on the weekends -- even fall in love with and marry your cellist -- but you can't do it for work anymore.
Is this a happy ending? Well, the love story is nice, but a bit beside the point. The rest of it is, at best, bittersweet. Something real has been lost that can't be made whole with money.
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