So, no one's buying our textbooks anymore, it's getting costly to do our work, stop over claiming results for your marketing and insulting our work? I would have stuck with that.
Everything else seems to be organizational or standard politics. I would have avoided the political sections as it just sets those signatories up for getting into those fights, having not realized what they cosigned.
The issue of attribution is a hard problem that has festered for a while, that has mostly been obscured by the inability to discern an authors entire body of ingested information. I would be careful as, the proposed opt-out restrictions will be eventually imposed on people, which sorta blows up the whole math enterprise of universities/etc. Ie. the proposed leads to a book author revoking a person's ability to reference their arguments in a mathematic paper for money, spite, etc.
The nice thing about the Internet is that a person, great or small, can voice their grandiose and yet myopic views of a problem and their absurd solutions to it...freely.
Considering that the rant is using photos from Star Trek and Oliver Twist to make their points, copyrighted material with no indication of permission, they're less "creative" than a stochastic parrot.
I'm annoyed at the cost statement, as that's the sleight of hand. "$20000" at current pricing. Add some orders of magnitude to the costs and you'll get your true price you'll have to pay when the VC money starts to wear off. 2nd, this is ignoring the dev time that he/others put in over multiple iterations of this project (opus 4, opus 4.5) and all the other work to create the scaffolding for it, and all the millions/tens of millions of dollars of hand written test suits (linux kernel, gcc, doom, sqlite, etc) he got to use to guide the process. So add some more cost on top of that orders of magnitude increase and the dev time is probably a couple months/years more than "2 weeks".
And this is just working off the puff pieces statements, and not even diving into the code to see it's limits/origins, etc. I also don't see the scaffold in the repo, as that's where the effort is.
But still it's not surprising, from my own experience, given a rigorously definable problem, enough effort, grunt work, and massaging, you can get stuff out of the current models.
Opensource is a bit more complex than being a "public good". They're focusing on the low cost as a jump starting point, which make me doubt their sincerity/understanding about managing that relationship healthily.
It's not going to solve the housing issue and is mostly for press (and it's not even getting into ulterior motives), but it might help with preventing a longer term issue of large investors becoming a major issue. Additionally, I wonder about the choice in properties as properties aren't fungible.
I suggest waiting till the gcc side matures, with the minimum of a working gcc frontend for a non optional dependency. Optional dependencies with gcc_codegen might be okay. Git is pretty core to a lot of projects, and this change is risky, it's on a fairly short time frame to make it a core dep (6 months?).
Rudimentary analysis of five battles spread out over a 1500 year period; supposedly supporting sources that upon examination state their unsureness; stating propaganda casualty numbers without a hint of irony to justify; allows you to unequivocally state that no one did volly fire? Ugh.
Everything else seems to be organizational or standard politics. I would have avoided the political sections as it just sets those signatories up for getting into those fights, having not realized what they cosigned.
The issue of attribution is a hard problem that has festered for a while, that has mostly been obscured by the inability to discern an authors entire body of ingested information. I would be careful as, the proposed opt-out restrictions will be eventually imposed on people, which sorta blows up the whole math enterprise of universities/etc. Ie. the proposed leads to a book author revoking a person's ability to reference their arguments in a mathematic paper for money, spite, etc.
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