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I'm so used to seeing the joke version of this that I was confused by the traditional version lol
Delete the gym, hit a lawyer, facebook up.
AI is a broad term; of course neural networks and machine learning have been important in a lot of research etc. That's all great. LLMs...it's all anyone wants to talk about (maybe image generation too) and it's junk for any application that matters.
If looms could only make burlap, and the capitalists tried to make burlap underwear a thing, I think the luddites would be wise to say to the public "hey, don't buy this crap...it's uncomfortable!" Of course, in reality, auto-looms did a lot of the same stuff traditional weavers could do. I think pointing out that when techbros say LLMs output is great, pointing out that LLMs output is generally garbage is effective. Luddites couldn't really say that the output was significantly inferior (or maybe it was and people didn't notice...jesus I hope that's not the case with this garbage!).
Maybe that's what we disagree about. To me, the auto-looms are only making burlap and I don't see any reason to think they're going to get much better. And they're lighting the planet on fire :P
I am not willing to capitulate to this kind of BS: "LLMs are very useful and they're clearly here to stay." I just think that's horseshit. That's what the capitalists who are selling them want you to think, but I genuinely believe if you ever look at it in a critical context you'll see.
I mean...looms actually seem useful. My experience with large language models is that they're only useful when the output doesn't really matter. Like...they're fine if you're "searching" for things that aren't really defined and you don't really care about the answer (i.e. "what are the five trendiest coffeeshops in Barcelona that are likely to have english speaking staff?" it can't actually know any of that...what's "trendy" even mean? Whatever, who cares, go to a coffee shop on your vacation, have a nice time).
But when it matters you just cannot rely on them...They can't be relied on to use the correct words when precision of language matters, they can't do "research" or "analysis" in any meaningful sense...like maybe better than a sharp middle-schooler? But not as well as a dumb undergrad.
And I don't see any reason, understanding what the technology is to think they'll get better at those things. It's predictive in nature. You know...like maybe it'll go from 60% reliable to 90% reliable over the next hundred years because they'll find some way to focus on high-quality and relevant training data, while still using gigantic training data to get the model up and running...? But since it's fundamentally a predictive model (trying to predict what a good answer would look like), it's never going to be able to actually be relied upon for answers to questions when it matters.
And idk what the cost would be when factoring in all the externalities...environmental destruction, energy consumption...hell, even the infrasound from data centers fucking up everyone's brain...like...there's just no way this makes any economic sense. Right now it's all mega-subsidized, but when that comes to an end...is it gonna cost $10 per prompt on average? $50? Idk, but I know everyone using it now will not want to pay for it.
Honestly, get back to Morrowind. it holds up. And the mods are insanely high quality. TR adds more content than was in the base game and at a genuinely similar quality level. I don't know how they do it!
Yeah this was a good and interesting article. Not sure what it's doing here. Not mad I got the chance to read it, but...definitely not a shitpost!
I guess everyone else learned the playbook and started beating them at it
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WOAH what a thing to come out of one's mouth. Like...abusers always have mountains of justifications but something like this...it seems like it's gotta cut through all the delusion...that's not a thing a good person can feel, let alone say! Like...realizing you feel that way about someone should be a huge wakeup call that you're a monster and need to do some serious work on yourself. Saying it out loud...wowee
This either is a mediocre joke, and not true…or it is true but their idea of “high net worth” is owning a small town hardware store lol
This is a good post! 🎉
When you know you know sometimes! Me and my wife were a bit like this.
Cooking is always welcome.
Do it! It’s easy; Linux mint is soooooo easy
I haven’t seen it! What makes it a Christmas movie?
I like the theory that the fellowship of the ring is a Christmas movie because if you read the books, they use a Gregorian calendar and if you add up travel time etc, apparently you can prove that the fellowship left Rivendell on December 25!
I hope this is a nice conversation and you’re not frustrated; it’s nice for me!
inside
I don’t disagree it shouldn’t be an echo chamber; I’m glad you’re here (not that I have or should have any say in the use of the space!). Definitely not “inside” though. When I say “inside” I mean within a democratic centralist organization with some kind of political discipline. Organizations I’ve been part of would, from time to time, task members with researching and creating a report on AES countries, and then presenting their report internally to help develop well-considered positions on them. That’s the level of “internal” that I mean! Like…among people who trust each other, and only those people.
strategic criticism
If you mean that “strategic criticism” winds up just being “no criticism” I think that may be a fair critique of a lot of ML orgs.
Theory
Obviously the importance of theory is something people disagree about heatedly but to me, resistance to imperialism in the imperialist countries is so minimal that I’m happy to see a wide variety of tactics and let what happens happen. I got my theories but I ain’t gonna go out of my way to criticize someone else’s (hell, I was general Secretary of an IWW branch for several years…Marxist friends joke thay of course the anarchists made the Marxist be the organized one)
authoritarianism
When it comes to the word authoritarianism, I think a lot of Marxists have the same knee-jerk traction, which is to turn to Engels’ On Authority. Not for no reason, I think he makes a good point:
But the anti-authoritarians demand that the political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social conditions that gave birth to it have been destroyed. They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists.
So am I authoritarian? I mean I guess so, in that I believe in revolution. I believe “authoritarian means” may be appropriate. I don’t think any MLs see authoritarian means as a desirable feature in and of themselves. I think every ML wants to see them discarded as soon as they are no longer necessary. I think reasonable people can disagree about what that looks like, obviously…but that’s a difference of degree, not of kind, right? At least I would see it that way.
Big agree that intellectual dishonesty is bad. We should all think and speak and work as clearly as we can. Insofar as MLs (or anyone else for that matter) think unscientifically (worshiping books, class reductionism, etc), that’s bad!
I think some people can hold China accountable; Chinese people! When I say “we can’t hold them accountable” I mean “the internet.” (Of course I think people in the CPC have the most power and greatest obligation to hold the government accountable, but I understand skepticism about that, obviously. I don’t think that skepticism is merely a result of western propaganda or something. I worry about that too; they clearly don’t do a stellar job lol).
propaganda
You said your categories but not what you meant by them, just that they are important factors for you. So having a target audience makes something more likely to be propaganda, as does intention to spread a political message, as does the actual effectiveness of reaching people? That’s all fine; I don’t think these really help us come to agreement on what is or isn’t propaganda. Like…it looks to me like your messages in this thread have a target audience (tankies and/or potential tankies), they intend to carry a political message (comparing china and the us like this let’s China off the hook for its own evils)…maybe they don’t reach many people (maybe even just one?). But in the scheme of things I don’t think that factor particularly weighs in favor of anything on Lemmy being propaganda lol; way too puny for reaching any substantial number of people (And fwiw I would say the same thing about my own messages).
I don’t think tankies think what you think tankies think. Maybe I’m wrong, but my impression is that when Marxist Leninists get together, criticism of “AES” countries is a perfectly fine topic of conversation “inside” the group, but when it’s done “outside” it serves the interest of the US/capital/imperialism. And I think there’s something to that; it does! A little full of yourself to think it could matter more than looking reasonable to outsiders or educating your insiders…but it’s not totally crazy. I don’t know, there is plenty though, like look at bad empanada (I think he’d be considered a tankie, right?). Guys done quite a bit on the Uyghurs.
I say all this as a Marxist Leninist (I assume I’m a “tankie” to people who use the word “tankie” lol).
Of course, I’d also say it’s a bit silly to think one could “hold [China] accountable” by the opposite means.
We disagree about what propaganda means, I guess. I don’t think “doing anti-China propaganda” means you hate China or something, I think it just means you’re conveying a political message that runs counter to their political message. I don’t understand the distinction between political messaging that is or isn’t propaganda?
I mean, I do understand that context; it is a propaganda piece portraying China as comparatively better than the US.
China is comparatively better than the U.S.
Making propaganda to that effect is good.
Everything is propaganda. You’re doing anti-China propaganda; I’m doing pro-China propaganda. with a veneer of nuance or whatever but my words have political meaning and so do yours…
I’ve never understood how any expression of political thought could not be propaganda… or that there’s an especially good/principled way to separate what you and me are doing from whatever you mean by propaganda…if it’s a government paying for it I really don’t think OP qualifies…or else the PRC should get its fuckin money back lol
Naw it’s not one sided, you just didn’t hear about the guy who got banned for accusing 4 people of being CIA agents.
The Sound of Music is not a Christmas movie.
My wife and her family and a whole bunch of Canadians all think it is and I am so flummoxed by it.
Bet he feels like a big man.