The Cordon Sanitaire Between Free Software and AI

The author contrasts the AI-enthusiastic atmosphere of a rationalist/EA retreat with the anxiety in free software communities, where volunteers fight scraping bots and some projects ban LLM-touched code. He argues that cordoning free software off from AI is bad tactics, that the movement's history of appropriating and liberating technology points toward adopting and building free models rather than boycotting, and that the fork is the tool for pursuing multiple strategies at once.