Option A: Psychotic breakdown
Option B: Ethical impracticality
Option C: Political extremism
Option D: Two contradictory things at once
Option E: Something that doesn't prevent the other options but packaged with something nasty and unpalatableOption F: Sensible but ultimately vague and action-less common place neutrality.
Option G: Nuclear optionOption H: Donothing
It was such a brain dead exercise in futility. It was designed for the winner from the start.
Nussbaun’s comment on the result is hilariously dull:
On a very personal note, I regret that the winning option does not
acknowledge all the legitimate concerns around AI: environmental impact,
copyright and licensing uncertainty, the health of Free Software
communities, and the strain of aggressive scraping on the open web.
The GR results give us raw numbers about our opinion, and a direction,
but we have a lot of work ahead of us to act as a community and
understand how we can continue to accommodate the very large minority
that would have preferred to ban or discourage AI.
Lucas
¹ obligatory disclosure: the script used is AI-generated
Yeah, the option that doesn’t say anything won. Who knew?…wait yes, mathematicians, they knew. The most important part of a survey is choosing the options carefully.
How was it “designed for the winner”? Proposals to a resolution vote are submitted and seconded, with no restrictions on who, how many or what proposals are added, you just have to be a voting member of the ML. You can look at the list of proposal sponsors and the seconds to see how that’s done.
The Debian vote was so stupid:
Option A: Psychotic breakdown Option B: Ethical impracticality Option C: Political extremism Option D: Two contradictory things at once Option E: Something that doesn't prevent the other options but packaged with something nasty and unpalatable Option F: Sensible but ultimately vague and action-less common place neutrality. Option G: Nuclear option Option H: Do nothingIt was such a brain dead exercise in futility. It was designed for the winner from the start.
Nussbaun’s comment on the result is hilariously dull:
Yeah, the option that doesn’t say anything won. Who knew?…wait yes, mathematicians, they knew. The most important part of a survey is choosing the options carefully.
How was it “designed for the winner”? Proposals to a resolution vote are submitted and seconded, with no restrictions on who, how many or what proposals are added, you just have to be a voting member of the ML. You can look at the list of proposal sponsors and the seconds to see how that’s done.
https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002