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I think this is actually advantageous to us in a way, because clearly AI is something of a system shock to many people right now, whereas in a hundred years it may have not been nearly as apparent as the danger it is (and I don’t mean LLMs, I mean AI in general, especially for surveillance and weapons).
I don’t think it’s a doomer comment at all, I think the last paragraph is trying to tell you without saying the word “datacenter” to go look up the addresses of data centers.
They’re villains created by transphobes?
Had to use 'runk", because 'runc" is already taken. :P
That’s true, but the reasons they did it are not their fault.
There’s a name for the thing that demands minimal spending on public services and national spending on private business, even at the expense of human life…
I think this depends on whether by EU you mean the actual political leadership body, or the member countries as a general Western-European power/cultural/economic projection project.
The EU itself cannot compel military action by member countries, for instance, so you could argue it is never imperialist. But if all the major EU countries are also in NATO and sign up to help the US invade Iraq and Afghanistan, is it really unfair to criticize the EU as a shared Western-European bloc?
“Without a hierarchical authority system of a small group ‘directing’ the large group, the people can’t remain organized!” - every supposed “stateless”, “classless” ML.
In other countries than the US that distinction actually means a lot more. For instance, some countries will not allow a bank to repossess cars or houses once a simple majority of the loan has been repaid. In the US, you could be on the final 1 cent payment and the bank, from a legal standpoint, can foreclose on the whole thing if you fail to pay it. In realistic terms, it’s theirs until the loan is entirely repaid.
I don’t know, I think that a “hobby” should be linked to use or an activity, specifically, not simply ownership. Consumerism for the endorphins isn’t really a ‘hobby’, it’s an addiction at best (and I have some personal experience in this area).
If you’re renting or leasing cars for a specific use, like racing or camping, I think that’s completely defensible; I even think certain vehicles like RVs should probably mainly be rented or leased, to make sense.
But “having the newest car for my ego” isn’t a ‘hobby’ without diluting the meaning to nothingness.
They never have been, the appeal of a populist with strong convictions is not some new phenomenon, it’s literally every notable, charismatic leader in history (good or bad).
Centrism is purely about the fear of being blamed for an adverse outcome, and hewing to the least ‘controversial’ path as a result. It’s even telling, because by definition Centrism has no fixed ideology; if a country has 2 fascist parties, then centrists by definition lie in whatever light exists between those 2. I use that example apropos of nothing, of course.
No one would surrender to the Dread Pirate Tom.
I hate to say it because I’m on the side of cars being both an effect and a cause of major negative social issues, but he’s right that you’re dismissing the fact that society forces people to interact with it as it dictates unless you have the money to force otherwise, whether that’s building a whole-ass off-grid house because you have the money, taking a helicopter instead of a car because you have the money, or taking a bike instead of a car because you have the time (which is only going to be the case if you have the money to not have to rely on a time-sensitive wage-based job).
The alternative is often being jobless, which usually means being unhoused, which has so many negative knock-on effects involved that it certainly should not be held up as a reasonable alternative.
Any time you attempt to convert it into a usable asset, including using it as collateral or citing it as an asset for loans or investment capital solicitation, it should be taxed. Once someone accepts its value in exchange for something, it’s no longer speculative.
He just wanted to make sure Cortana has image-gen training data.
I was heading to reply to your comment when I discovered my previous one has been deleted. Didn’t seem worth continuing to debate the topic if mod tools would be used to excise the bits of my arguments that you didn’t like.
I certainly haven’t revised Marxism any more than Lenin did by your own argument (since advancements are literally revisions anyways).
“Political class” was me attempting to avoid getting into what I assumed would be an unproductive debate about how the politburo and other central committee members were clearly not of the working class based on their power and lifestyles; I was not asserting it as an actual part of Marxist class hierarchy.
And using “we’re collectivist not horizontalist” is a great euphemism for saying “we’ll recreate the vertical structures of class stratification, but claim the collective Will as we do so”.
Look, I think you and I probably agree at the root about Communism vs Capitalism. I think where we diverge is that I don’t think Marxism needs to be “advanced” to function within the confines of a State-dominated Capitalist world and operate as peer-states, which is what Lenin was trying to do.
I think the beauty of Marxism (as well as many other forms of Socialism, including ones Marx considered Utopian) is partially that it rejects the instinct to play using the rules and language that Capitalists and Statists use to order the world (and the language absolutely controls the mental and therefore social models).
If you start trying to alter it so that you can just have a peer-state operating under a Socialist model of labor organization, you’re still going to fall prey to the inherent re-structuring that States as structures naturally undergo due to how inter-national power works.
Why did the USSR collapse? I think you and I both agree it’s not due to it failing on it’s own, nor due to it being somehow destroyed by the US and their cronies (though they certainly did everything they could to harm it, they couldn’t ever destroy it without military action, which is capitalism’s go-to method of “competition”). In my view, it’s because its Statist governing* model was intrinsically incompatible with its Socialist social and labor model in the long run.
Yes, absolutely. Laziness (on anyone’s part) isn’t the result of or unique to AI use. That includes laziness on the part of schools in not doing their job in staffing properly, and pushing professors and teachers to pick up the slack.
Calling my comment where I’m arguing for Marxism “anti-Socialist” is hilarious. Guess only the one form of Socialism that the mod likes is real Socialism, huh?
Luckily, revolutions have never required the majority of a populace to actively participate in to succeed, just a majority going “meh, sure”.
But yes, I am personally also very worried that we’re reaching a point with technology that state surveillance and violence will both be too easily applied and too pervasive for the revolution to overcome.