Why NATO in the example?

[Postscarcitysociety]

Many people in the global south would not agree that NATO is the peaceful organization. Can we use less controversial example? I am happy to suggest better one?

[yozachar]

Quantum Computing

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Conclusion

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~ Generated by AI

[thenerdie]

cry about it

[danielchicote]

Because is an ASSHOLE

[ni7r0g3n]

@Postscarcitysociety I could not agree with you that the sun is hot, but it is nonetheless. Unless you think backwards and to you stopping ongoing conflicts === starting one and vice versa, NATO is a peaceful organization. Moreover it's an example on a repo, why do you care at all? It's not like cloning this will have NATO knocking at your door. Are you going to stop killing processes because killing is wrong?

[msoedov]

@Postscarcitysociety, you are free not to use it.

[yhyu13]

Because is an ASSHOLE 因为他是个混蛋

LIKE XQC : tRUE dUDe

[ff137]

Imo it's a perfectly reasonable request to change the example text. Open-source projects should honor the principles of inclusivity and neutrality, and steer clear from potentially polarizing topics.

[dennydream]

Who cares? NATO exists, you don't have to support them or what they do. It's text. Use whatever text you want. I don't care one way or the other, just seems like an odd thing to complain about.

[OlajideOgun]

@dennydream same way you can think its odd to complain about they can think its odd to include it in the repo

[ni7r0g3n]

@OlajideOgun no, not really. The repo owner supports NATO/Ukraine and it's his own repo, it's not odd that he writes whatever he wants in the README.md, even if it has nothing to do with the repo. It's, instead, odd complaining about the examples used in another person's repo, and not because they don't work or are not good examples, but because you don't agree with the sentence used. Imagine if to the Bob and Alice examples people responded with "I know Bob, he is a horrible person, can't we use John?"

[alxspiker]

I find it's more useful to train the AI against your views so that you can prove it works. If you don't like NATO, change the text to be ANTI-NATO, the AI will reflect whatever you want and it will prove to you that the AI works.

[mmike87]

Is this post for real? If you don't like it - write your own LLM and provide your own example. My God, the things people complain about ... especially when someone if GIVING you their work for FREE for you to use however you want, more or less.

[Postscarcitysociety]

I am not Libyan but I sympathize with Libyans. Because of Nato actions, Libya has turned from richest country in Africa to the most unstable one. I can understand people living in America and Europe that NATO gives the sense of security. So, this is polarizing topic. I was suggesting the author to use less polarizing topic if we agree on Github being global platform. But at the end of day, I don't want to impose my opinion on the main contributor of this repo.

[Postscarcitysociety]

cry about it

Yeah. I am crying. Libyans are already crying. I am human being. Whenever I remember about Libya, I cry.

[ff137]

Is this post for real? If you don't like it - write your own LLM and provide your own example. My God, the things people complain about ... especially when someone if GIVING you their work for FREE for you to use however you want, more or less.

It's a suggestion to change the example text. The justification is perfectly rational, that geopolitical themes are polarizing.

Frankly there is no good reason for this particular example in the text; Alice and Bob is general and abstract, here it's referencing very current and real events, which any rational person would get tired of seeing. The project may be used by many thousands of people, so it is a rational suggestion -- but the overreactions, not so much.

[imartinez]

Being 100% transparent, I used that text because it was the one used in LangChain documentation for indexes, which are a core component of this POC. I just reused it, there is no intention or political reason behind.

Having said that, I'm more than ok to change it to a more neutral one. Would also help get rid of some wrong characters that are in that text.

Will change it as soon as I find a good candidate.

Thanks for the discussion, but please keep it respectful. We are here to build, together.

[wyrmling]

Yeah, I'm from Ukraine and I don't support Ukrainian Nazi government, NATO, US, UK and Europe, as they can't find peaceful solution to their own problems and continue to drag Ukraine to hell.

[msoedov]

@wyrmling, you are full of shit

[Postscarcitysociety]

Hi everyone, please reminder to everyone. Let's be civil. It's important to have healthy disagreements and differences but let's not do ad hominem attack.

[MetaMmodern]

1. You are free to make a PR to suggest a change of text instead of opening a senseless discussion.
2. The example text might have been a way to show author's support to Ukraine. If you don't like it it's your problem. Same applies for reactjs, leaflet, svelte, pnpm, etc. Good luck changing those organizations attitude.

[Postscarcitysociety]

1. You are free to make a PR to suggest a change of text instead of opening a senseless discussion.
2. The example text might have been a way to show author's support to Ukraine. If you don't like it it's your problem. Same applies for reactjs, leaflet, svelte, pnpm, etc. Good luck changing those organizations attitude.

Does it mean supporting Libya negate supporting Ukraine? One can support the cause of both countries. Also you are confusing NATO with Ukraine.

[MetaMmodern]

1. You are free to make a PR to suggest a change of text instead of opening a senseless discussion.
2. The example text might have been a way to show author's support to Ukraine. If you don't like it it's your problem. Same applies for reactjs, leaflet, svelte, pnpm, etc. Good luck changing those organizations attitude.

Does it mean supporting Libya negate supporting Ukraine? One can support the cause of both countries. Also you are confusing NATO with Ukraine.

I'm not confusing NATO with Ukraine, I'm saying that one statement leads to another. Anyway, your topic states that "NATO is a peaceful organization", and such statement is not made in any of the files in this repo. The example strictly says:

"That’s why the NATO Alliance was created to secure peace and stability in Europe after World War 2.".

Nothing about being peaceful, only about securing peace, those are different.

Moreover, the provided example is a direct speech of president of USA Joe Biden(src: https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2022/ ), changing text inside the example will cause more confusion and will be treated as misinformation(despite the fact that it's not mentioned anywhere that this is a direct speech)

And as I said, instead of opening a discussion about the current example being "bad", you could have directly proposed any other example through PR creation, that would cause a more productive discussion on pros and cons of one example over the other. Unless we see the other example this thread is pointless.

[yozachar]

primordial :laughing: