Re: Help building Pen.el (GPT for emacs)

[Shane Mulligan]

Hey guys.

In the last week I have been writing a thesis for Imaginary Programming, which aims to make all of this clear and formalised.

I am very sorry if I have sounded frustrated, but I think that this is so important for free software and a GPL-4 may be required to protect people, but also that Copilot and OpenAI's Codex and GPT-3 models infringe upon the spirit of GPT-3 code.

I will attach the thesis into this email.

https://github.com/semiosis/imaginary-programming-thesis/blob/master/thesis.org

I am working around the clock to finish this thesis and have it published, but it's really important to have these protections in place before the huge suite of SASS services and Microsoft Apps hit the market which are using Copilot and Codex to generate derivative works and applications built upon the backs of free software developers.

Thank you.

Shane Mulligan

How to contact me:

🇦🇺	00 61 421 641 250
🇳🇿	00 64 21 1462 759
	mullikine@gmail.com

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 12:28 PM Shane Mulligan <mullikine@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Richard and all.

I have just participated in the Augment Minds unconference and have a recorded demo of Pen.el

I will also be presenting the demo to Nat Friedman. I have made some references to the new codex model and how it has stolen the inspiration from Free software.

The point I'm making is this: Pen.el and software which combines GPT into the operating system is the future

and I'm alerting GNU to this first but I'm also showing GitHub. This is for the following reasons

- The Copilot/codex model is a disgrace

- We need an free repository of prompts and prompt functions for emacs

I hope the demo which I will send in the next day or two (or whenever it becomes available) will be informative. It will be easier than the asciicast.

Thank you.

Shane Mulligan

How to contact me:

🇦🇺	00 61 421 641 250
🇳🇿	00 64 21 1462 759
	mullikine@gmail.com

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 12:16 PM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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  > GPT turns emacs into something very powerful
  > beyond your current comprehension. It's so
  > profound that it will replace many of the
  > online and offline services you may have come
  > to take for granted. It goes way beyond that too.

Unfortunately, telling me that something is "powerful beyond [my]
current comprehension" does not help me start to comprehend any of it.

Would you like to name some of the services that GPT would replace?
I might learn something concrete from that.

  > Here is the recording of me doing that:

  > https://asciinema.org/a/SCUhm3l11N3w5eilUfewBDCiP

I looked at that page, but I have no idea what it means.  The page
shows three boxes side by side.  Each seems to contain some code, or
maybe parameter specs, in a language I don't know.  I clicked on the
first box and it brought me to a similar page with three other boxes.

It tasks about "asciicasts" but I don't know what that means.
If it is something to be viewed, how can I do so?



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