No, Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html lays out the ideas.

He emphasizes the moral case for Free Software versus the Open Source folks emphasizing the practical or technical case for Open Source Software. There has always been confusion over the word "Free" in "Free Software" and "Open" now suffers the same problem (look at all these LLM licenses claiming to be Open Source), and I think "Freedom Tech" is a pretty good way of talking about the same thing.

The Free/Libre Open Source Software community has a lot of overlap and similarity but can be split into two camps:

1. I am truly free if I am allowed to contract myself into slavery (BSD-ish, permissive licensing).

2. It is not freedom to be allowed to contract myself into slavery (GNU-ish, copyleft licensing).

Maybe that's an unfair or unrealistic characterization but that's how I tend to think of it.

I disagree with a lot of Stallman's views (he's on the left) but the four software freedoms are legit. See Stephan Kinsella's excellent summary of similar views from a more right-libertarian perspective at https://mises.org/library/book/against-intellectual-property

Mises explained that the "store of value" function of money is derived from the "medium of exchange" function. And therefore it's superfluous to talk about a "store of value" function of money as though it were separate from "medium of exchange." I read the first few paragraphs and it sounds like you basically agree with Mises. Except Mises was talking about money and what makes money money.

In the beginning, we wanted Bitcoin to become money. It was a wonderful medium of exchange for a while. Then some things happened that made it more cumbersome as medium of exchange. Some people recognized the problem and started working on solutions. Other people seem to have moved the goalposts by talking about "store of value." You're right to say that in order for Bitcoin to be a "store of value" it needs to be valuable over some time interval, between two exchanges. The question now is: do we still want Bitcoin to become money?

I agree with Stallman that the best way to get started is to start replacing your proprietary apps with free apps and work your way down. nostr:npub1fkluklzamwpyn7w8awxzrcqe7z8mldlvthk4gz9kz3vsh6udz62s9qj48l has a lot of posts about this. First, care about freedom. Second, find Free software and use it. Third, communicate improvements to developers of that software. Fourth, help build improvements.

And that's just running the already trained model. I assume it's something like millions of times more energy to generate the training data and then train.

I can hear my fans whirring as the model runs haha. I do have an idea because I run ollama locally. It is quite laggy and whirry.

Surely a model can be trained to recognize text from the most common models out there. Then we can run this model in our browser and use it to auto-block pages that were written by models.

Suppose you grew up in an area where only two firearms manufacturers were permitted and only two calibers of ammo were permitted. Then suppose you go to a major gun show. The variety of offerings at the gun show is overwhelming. This might be something like going from a Windows vs Mac world into the Free world of computing. There are so many damn options it is mind boggling. So be it, that is freedom, right?

Generative Pre-trained Transformer, but your point remains.

And also to your point, anything it generates depends on its pre-training. So the more content that gets created with GPTs the more pre-training that happens with later GPTs, and a lot of noise results.

GPT models are good at speech to text and text to speech. I read GPT was designed for those kinds of things.

Ukrainians might object to that policy.

I don't know. What is static typing? Type checking at compilation? When is the web compiled? Perhaps that is his point, it's not compiled.

Content-type?

FBI director unsure if city of Butler is a hoax.

FBI director unsure about gunshots or firecrackers.

FBI director unsure if Trump was on stage or it was his stunt double.

FBI director unsure if rifle fired 5.56mm bullets or airsoft pellets.

Another thought.

Media of exchange facilitate social cooperation therefore media of exchange are the true social media.

Can someone point me to a comprehensive list of publicly available videos of the Butler shooting? It seems most of them are just the "TV channel pointing at the podium and connected to the audio from that podium mic" view.

Keen observation. Wow.

Did you hear this somewhere?

Slowly making it harder to download videos and slowly removing select videos.