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Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare (www.lifewire.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Didn't he kind of pull a 180 on those VERY questionable views? Not even trying to refute that he is not right about everything, as that's just silly, but I'm pretty sure he pulled back on that particular extremely dumb opinion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As always a source of some kind is appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it," Stallman wrote. "Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per [sic] psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/richard-stallman-returns-to-fsf-18-months-after-controversial-rape-comments/

Took me a bit to find, but also he talks about how the Minsky scandal was a-okay in that same article. So maybe I should say he mildly changed course instead of pulling a 180. Still a strange opinion to hold.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for finding the source. Well, at least he backed down on the pedophilia thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Only two days after his job became on the line.

Call me a pessimist, but that timing seems suspect to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He did. But also not really.

He's held the view that there's nothing wrong with adults having sex with children for decades (and even championed it using his workplace email address)

He then said he's changed his mind... two days after people were calling for his resignation and his job was on the line.

Now, maybe I'm just a pessimist, but I personally think that was more of a last-ditch attempt at saving his job than a genuine sudden epiphany that maybe having sex with children is wrong that just happened to happen at the time that it did.