being critical of LLMs but not because you want to strengthen copyright is a difficult situation, if you want to interact with outsiders. actually this happens to me a lot: i criticize liberals but from the left, i think UFOs are a genuine phenomenon worthy of study but i think disclosure is bullshit & so is the ETH, i like low budget exploitation movies but totally unironically. coming to your opinions from the ground up instead of copying the opinions of your friends & slowly justifying or adapting them leaves you with a bunch of nuanced positions that don't fit well with the pattern-matching NTs usually do when trying to slot you into some category & figure out how to interact with you. and it's not like i don't understand why that's valuable: i totally spend a bunch of effort trying to satisfy the boolean 'is this person a fascist' when meeting someone new because i don't want to spend time and effort listening to a fascist. the problem is that a lot of the time, these frames are literally put in place as a form of power consolidation: whether you support strengthening copyright or you support widespread use of LLMs, you're supporting exactly the same large businesses for the most part, and only a nuanced position that doesn't frame it in terms of complete automation of existing commercial roles is capable of producing arguments that aren't functionally just shilling for pearson; the framing that UFOs are hostile extraterrestrials or hallucinations is basically just a story the US air force made up because it allows them to pull a paul bennewitz on people on the one hand but also justify military funding on the other, just by changing how the media spins an existing policy (the official air force position on UFOs has not changed since the 1950s); ironic enjoyment promotes bad craft while justifying dismissing good craft & interesting experiments as inherently unserious, & promotes the idea that a 'real movie' is defined by its budget and polish; i don't think i need to explain to masto why an anarchocommunist would dunk on liberals.
@enkiv2 I'm critical of LLMs but also want to continue using and developing them. I used to listen to this UFO and other strange phenomena, podcast, and when they had a guest on that talked about marxism i fell in love with it. A lot of people in that space seem to be vaguely left libertarian anarchist which I appreciate in it's looseness
I'm trying to be less afraid to express my opinions cause everyone gets so heated online but i almost never get into arguments with people in person
@transfaeries
I express my unpopular opinions a lot, publicly, online -- mostly to try to understand how best to express them (since I can watch people misunderstand what I'm trying to say). My policy is that if something becomes a fight rather than a disagreement, I mute them (generally forever). I figure, anybody who doesn't want to see my posts can mute me.
I generally don't express my unpopular opinions in person, unless it's to someone I know well, because it takes a really long time to just get to the fundamental baseline understanding necessary for an arbitrary stranger to understand the point I'm making, and talking too much about something other people don't already immediately care about is a great way to no longer be invited to parties.