RE: https://mastodon.social/@meejah/117595425483136501
I'm not going to sign #HumanEmacs because I *want* discussions about LLMs effectiveness in particular with open weight models, for example.
You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
LLMs are here to stay. Ignoring their impact without any discussion as proposed on https://human-emacs.org/ is the wrong approach in my opinion. Blocking is not the best thing here, discussing the terms would be better.
If not, what's next? Block all people who use hardware where its vendor has some connections to unfair workforce policies? Block all #FOSS contributors whose electricity supplier as a certain amount of nuclear energy?
It's never black or white.
I think we've got enough experience with #cancelculture, over-stressed #policitcalcorrectness and similar movements already.
I acknowledge the good spirit behind it, I disagree on the chosen method.
YMMV.
@publicvoit I don't share your interpretation at all. I think people discuss LLMs everywhere these days. Once an individual has reached a conclusion and wants to sign up for Human Emacs, then there is no point to discuss LLMs with the other signatories.
I also don't understand the qualifications you make regarding cancel culture and over-stressed political correctness. To me, not wanting to collaborate with people who have terrible opinions is the most natural thing to do. Sometimes I have to. Sometimes its expedient not to know. But other than that, having values and living up to them is what I expect of everybody and specifically of those I am going to collaborate with.