[lopsidedmarble]

Ah yes, there's that craven willingness to abandon your own best interests to your oppressor that HN fosters and loves so much.

Demand better protections. Demand better pay.

Demand your rights. Demand accountability for oppressors.

[pessimizer]

The goofy thing is to think that you're the first person to have made a "demand" and that anyone cares about your "demand." The reason people are oppressed is not because they have failed to make a request not to be.

Real "let me speak to your manager" activism. You have to have been sheltered in a really extreme way not only to say things like this, but to listen to it without laughing.

Here's some unrequested advice: the way to make simple people follow you is to make them feel like leaders among people they feel superior to, and to make them feel like rebels among people they feel inferior to. Keep this in mind and introspect when you find yourself mindlessly sloganeering.

[lopsidedmarble]

> The goofy thing is to think that you're the first person to have made a "demand" and that anyone cares about your "demand."

Unsure who you are addressing, but clearly its someone other than me.

Did you see where the OP implied that any activism is useless? Got any harsh words for that philosophy?

[bigfishrunning]

You know what, pessimizer, you're right. We should all bow down and submit to our lord Sam Altman right away. We should shove everything we produce into his meat-grinder because there's nothing we can do about it.

The LLMs are harmful to the business of creating software. Full stop. Either we can do something about it (like expose the futility of licensing in general), or we can just die.

While I think this licensing effort is likely to be ignored, I applaud it and hope more things like this continue to be created. The silicon valley VC hose is truly evil.