A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
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A pessimist sees a dark tunnel.
An optimist sees light at the end of the tunnel.
A realist sees a freight train.
The train driver sees three idiots standing on the track. -
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel.
An optimist sees light at the end of the tunnel.
A realist sees a freight train.
The train driver sees three idiots standing on the track.the epistemology of railroad accidents
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the epistemology of railroad accidents
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A pessimist sees a dark tunnel.
An optimist sees light at the end of the tunnel.
A realist sees a freight train.
The train driver sees three idiots standing on the track.@DocAtCDI An optimist is just a poorly informed person.
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someone with the rare neurological condition Alice in Wonderland syndrome
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@DocAtCDI An optimist is just a poorly informed person.
true for optimists and pessimists
the common problem is pessimists criticizing optimists when they are equally delusional. only a realist has the right (to criticize both)
then there is the second order problem of the pessimist who fancies themselves a realist when the aren't
don't get me wrong, i'm no optimist
but an optimist is easily spotted and dismissed
rooting out the very annoying pessimists who don't understand they are also delusional is a very annoying chore
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someone with the rare neurological condition Alice in Wonderland syndrome
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i thought you were asking a riddle. i didn't know the answer so i just pulled that out of my ass. i don't even think it fits. there is a condition where your vision seems sunken and distant, as if viewing things, right in front of you, as if they were very far away like through a tunnel. and i don't think it's Alice in Wonderland syndrome is it exactly
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i thought you were asking a riddle. i didn't know the answer so i just pulled that out of my ass. i don't even think it fits. there is a condition where your vision seems sunken and distant, as if viewing things, right in front of you, as if they were very far away like through a tunnel. and i don't think it's Alice in Wonderland syndrome is it exactly
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A pessimist sees a dark tunnel.
An optimist sees light at the end of the tunnel.
A realist sees a freight train.
The train driver sees three idiots standing on the track.@DocAtCDI three idiots walk into a tunnel
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A pessimist sees a dark tunnel.
An optimist sees light at the end of the tunnel.
A realist sees a freight train.
The train driver sees three idiots standing on the track.@DocAtCDI an opportunist sees themselve as a train station
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@mathieui@piaille.fr Thanks for engaging with this. I appreciate the pushback, and I think some of your concerns are worth taking seriously.
That said, I want to clarify something about my position: TGPL (or any specific licensing mechanism) is just one possible avenue among many. The broader argument isn't tied to any single instrument. Regulatory pressure on governments to mandate that models trained on public data be returned to the public, expanded public funding for open research infrastructure, international treaty reform—these are all on the table. The point is strategic pluralism, not a bet on one tool.
On the copyright concern: yes, major players have shown contempt for copyright. But that's precisely why I think purely technical or market-based solutions are insufficient, and why political and legislative pressure matters. The history of generic medicine access is instructive here—no single mechanism won that fight, but the combination of compulsory licensing advocacy, treaty pressure, and public funding reform produced real change over time.
Now, your Luddite parallel: I actually think it argues for my position rather than against it. You're right that the weavers never reclaimed the technology. But the lesson I draw from that isn't “therefore reclamation is impossible.” It's that refusing or destroying the means of production doesn't work. What eventually produced change was organized labor movements that took the existence of that technology as a given and fought over who controls it and under what conditions. That's exactly the kind of struggle I'm advocating for here.
The real question you're raising, I think, is about the subject: is there an organized political force capable of carrying this through? That's a fair and hard question. But it's an argument for building that force, not for abandoning the goal.
