On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 11:11 AM <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > Yet you have not named even one benefit. I will name some costs: > > LLM companies have repeatedly knocked over many other web services with > bad crawlers that disrespect robots.txt as widely reported on Mastodon > and elsewhere over the last 5 years;
This discussion is about the use of AI in Guix. > several documented cases of suicidal ideation encouraged by LLM leading > to self-harm or murder, reported on regional news outlets and collected > by Caelan Conrad; "Suicidal ideation" is now progressive "life-affirming care", but again this discussion is about the use of AI in Guix. > poisoning of discourse by ax-grinding cultists intent on appeasing > Roko's Basilisk and deploying their lie machines to Look Big, visible in > many venues No idea what this means. > > It would be up to me, Greg, and others to explain why LLM use might be a > > great idea, and up to you and others to explain why the idea might be bad. > > What idea? I believe Hugo is referring to software freedom, but I disagree with his premise. I do not need to defend the use of AI because I am not advocating that Guix contributors be compelled or required to use AI. Users should continue to be free to make their own software and hardware choices. Those advocating a prohibition of or restrictions on the use of AI do need to present a compelling case and reach consensus. [...] > > We should also differentiate between personal objections and what we as a > > project want. We can only do that by actually writing out a list of > > objections first. > > Neither of these sentences is true. Even if the former were true, the > latter does not follow. You want a list of objections only so that you > can "overcome" them with more slop. You continue abusing this term with your personal attacks.
