It's not about what I believe, it's about what we already know. Computing is old enough now that you don't need to be some kind of mad prophet to know things about the future, because you can just look at how things have played out already.

More to the point though.. at the beginning at least, Stallman was a respected hacker and not just some random person pushing politics on a community he was barely involved with. It's gotta be that way I think, anyone who's not a respected AI/ML insider won't get far

If you are a random outsider… then how do you know there is the room and potential for such an individual?

I remember you now, and I would block you if I could. On the off chance you’re not doing this on purpose, read this please: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Regardless of whatever you believe, you still need to write the actual claim/argument down?

You don’t have any more credibility than most other HN users… so just stating insinuations as if they were self evident doesn’t even make sense.