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Where are the nuanced left-wing takes on modern AI and LLMs?

So much of the discourse around this tech is centered on rejecting it because of who currently owns it. But like all tech, it can be used for both oppression and liberation.

Who is focusing on the latter?

Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them

A few days ago I read a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs . It captures well the frustration spreading through the free and open source software…

Hong Minhee on Things
@zanzi that said, I don't know anyone who fits your description, so I'll follow this thread with great interest! :)
@zanzi i might be wrong but I believe that the main reason why such takes don't take much place in the mainstream discussions is that many people in that camp, or adjacent to that camp, are riding the hell out of the horse of the argument that this technology, at the stage it currently is, is not that good yet and cannot be relied on to actually do stuff. At least, that's what I could make out of it. It does seem a bit ungenerous and biased.
This and also the argument about water voracity.
GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

The current and projected impact of AI and formalization on the practice of mathematics is analogous to the impact that the automobile had on the evolution of cities.

Before the introduction of the automobile, city streets were narrow and optimized for humans, horses, and carriages. When cars, buses, and trams were introduced, they were undoubtedly faster and more powerful than any prior form of transport; but they would clog the roads and crowd out pedestrians.

Over time, new roads, railways, and freeways were built for the exclusive use of mechanized vehicles, enabling rapid and efficient long-distance travel; but this came at the cost of urban sprawl, the degradation or destruction of once-walkable communities, traffic congestion, and significant environmental impacts.

It was only belatedly realized that to resolve these problems, it was not sufficient to simply make automobiles faster, more powerful, or more energy efficient, or to bulldoze all the old roads and networks to make way for new ones. Thoughtful urban planning, as well as the development of social and legal rules on how to manage traffic, were necessary to allow both pedestrian and automotive transport to co-exist in a manner that retained the benefits of both. (1/5)

“In this paper we present work on enumerating all the incomplete open platonic solids, finding 6 tetrahedra, 122 cubes (just like LeWitt), 185 octahedra, 2,423,206 dodecahedra and 16,096,166 icosahedra.”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20425

@xgranade sorry, i hadn't read those replies, and thanks a lot for your answer!
@xgranade of course having a superposition of positions or momenta should be just as disconcerting as of any antithetical macroscopic observables. Indeed the experiment has fallacies: micro and macro phenomena don’t interact as pictured in it. However, since modern QM is heavily taught via linear algebra, I figured the thought experiment found its use in that it forces students to remember we aren’t just manipulating basis vectors or directions on projective spaces, but describing real physics