Proving yet again AI bros have lost the ability to think. “many I’ve talked to” <- that literally is the data. I’m the data. It doesn’t matter what the number is.

As opposed to your comment

none of the most hardline anti-AI folks on here are

Literally me existing already disproves your comment.

Most? Where’s the data? This hard-line anti-LLM guy has a degree in computer science and has developed neural network systems for a previous company. Many on here that I’ve talked to about it fall under similar category.

As far as I know no. The plan is for the the top maintainers to gather and choose a successor. Though if you have more up to date information I’d love to see it. I could be behind the times on that.

Sort of. The plan is “convene to make a plan” 72 hours after Linus’s git stops updating. I should have been a little more clear though that people have been calling for a democratic secession plan to happen now instead of when Linus passes or steps away.

He’s a hero to a cult of tech bros. He’s never been my hero and there’s many in the Linux space who have been calling him out and asking for a democratic succession plan for ages. He’s not some all knowing perfect being.

As someone who did study computer science and has worked in embedded processor space (so one of the people who’s written assembly by hand he’s talking about).

I’ve never understood it either. People take his word as law blindly and it’s never made sense to me. Yes he has skill, but so do hundreds of others. Yes he’s opinionated, that’s certainly not a reason to hero worship him.

For ten+ years people have been pointing out he’s basically a single point of failure for Linux and begging for a succession plan and he’s been too stuck up his own ass to accept that he isn’t the only one who cares about all this.

This has lead to some extreme cult following behind him for some reason.

Ahhhh fuck bro. I’m sorry you’re too busy meming to comprehend a point.

My point wasn’t to lay out every argument against using LLMs. That’s been done ad nauseum elsewhere (not this comment thread no but other communities).

My point was his supposed beast mode was a poor argument for them by pointing out the exact same argument works both ways. Both smart people and dumb people are using them.

And calculators can’t be tweaked to subtly change messaging to push a narrative, or a product, or whatever.

Calculators didn’t steal the work of all humanity to try to put them out of a job.

Calculators don’t really get used for scams by cloning people’s voices.

Could go on and on how calculators and LLMs are different.

If you think I’m arguing here that they’re gonna go away then please, please, please, go take a reading comprehension class.

I’m arguing Linus’s point that smart people use LLMs is a piss take that shows zero understanding of the world around him. That’s it.

I just also happen to wish LLMs would go away for moral and ecological reasons.

“Everyone who disagrees with me is stupid” - your brain on slop machines

Like that’s Linus’s entire point. “I’m smart, you’re dumb. Fall in line”. Not great

That’s not really beast mode. That’s a guy with a god complex not understanding the problem after refusing to acknowledge he’s not the only one who cares about Linux for the past twenty years.

the people I respect and call intelligent are not the ones that shy away from using new and interesting tools.

You know who else isn’t shying away from the new tools? Trump and his cronies. Like this argument means literally nothing. People like Peter Thiel have said they want the world to end, these are the lines of people not shying away from the tools that Torvalds is aligning himself with.

Dude needs to fuck off and stop being a single point of failure.

Really ready for Ukraine to nuke more data centers so we can lose more of these tankie bots

Legally? No. Morally? You know people are planning this for Halloween right?

So many things encouraging the sailing recently. Marvel just canned Marvel Unlimited to merge it into WEBTOON so they have even more insane power. It’s crazy.

Also, appreciate the non AI flag.

Exactly. It’s all arbitrary. So I get up at 8 or get up at 7. I don’t care. Just let it be consistent

I dunno, the rise and fall and extreme mismanagement of a Seinfeld theme park would make for some great background documentaries for while I work…

“Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair…”

Part of the difference is Rowling still holds so much cultural weight (somehow). So many people still know and watch and purchase Harry Potter stuff. Seinfeld only really holds that weight amongst older conservatives. He’s only popular amongst the people perpetuating the hate. Rowling’s stuff is popular amongst those who should know better.

I do agree we should boycott more (I personally do boycott a fair bit), but comparing the current impact of Rowling to the current impact of Seinfeld is crazy.

It’s never that .txt file that says where it was originally uploaded