It is no surprise at all to me, that the folkloric heroes who take from the rich and give to the poor, a merry band of men of the people for 1000 or more years, perhaps as mythically relevant as King Arthur as a fundamental statement on the morality of rich people and their scumbag cop soldiers,

no surprise at all, that Hollywood, which cannot stop itself from telling stores of Rich People Who Are Actually Just Like You And Me, they spend millions (billions?) a year on pushing this “rich people are not evil” narrative,

it is no surprise that the ultimate enemy of the rich is being recast as a psychopathic villain in this ahistorical culture. The fucking poster straight up says “He was no hero,” as though a movie poster is capable of rewriting centuries of folklore.

Nobody gives a shit, for damn sure, and everyone involved should have “useful idiot” tattooed on their foreheads.

Those are some wildly feels-based choices.

This whole internet could run on a tiny fraction of what it current consumes, with no drop in service levels… if the extraction of profit from every single interaction was not prioritized.

That being said, I was addressing someone who refused to believe that local inference was even possible on CPU; this tells me that the efforts to present the current grift as the only and inevitable AI outcome is working, on minds that do not fundamentally grasp what the technology is, nor what it’s doing. I think the tech is great, and highly useful - the way they are implementing has perverse incentives and existential outcomes, and it does not have to be that way, but it is, because capitalism.

Was scrolling my account history and came upon this old post, in which many people, yourself included, expressed disbelief that Meta was knowingly taking money to foment genocide, which we learned when Careless People was released, was absolutely the case. And we learned just this week, Meta been paying Nazis to post on Facebook.

I wonder what the line is, for people in general.

Sometime between then and now, Careless People was released, in which we learned that from Zucklerberg on down, they knew about the genocide, and they took the money. We also just learned this week that they have been inviting Nazis into their content monetization setup - paying Nazis to post, that is.

What do you think now?

Listen, everything that they are doing by scorching the planet and turning the tap water brown, could be achieved on CPU or much smaller GPUs on local machines - it’s a question of focused, tight training. What they’re doing instead is literally attempting to build gigantic models that take in absolutely everything (burning real books in the process because fuck history we got money to make) and attempting to sell the idea that this brute force, one-thing-does-it-all approach, which requires us to give up everything else that is good in the world, is the only way forward, and yes, we must build the roko basilisk now.

It’s a big, big grift.

I have always felt surrounded by right wing bullshit, on previous socials and in life.

This is the only place where I look around, and believe that it is people further to the left of me that are maybe taking things a bit far. I do NOT, for the record, agree with the apologists who want us to let more fash in, I like being in a place where I am, for once, the moderate.

I like the overall thing, but, how do you explain the loss of cultural memory?

I guess at some point, the false humans could/would program their “global” firmwares to forget, but, at that point they are completely at the mercy of the technology’s ability to self-perpetuate; if it develops problems, they will not even know that it exists (so presumably nanotech) and therefore not know how to fix.

One could posit some group of hidden technologists of indeterminate size, who maintain the systems. Perhaps they are even AI nanomachines that walk around with the very sophisticated automatons.

Biggest question/doubt on my part is, why the hell would any being so advanced as to build a Cylon, ever want to be human?

Have to say, when I’m strictly looking for hard info, like, what are the command line switches to achieve the right config for a thing, the AI is pretty much always right. It’s not without use, but Doing Things For You is not its best use.

If you want an anti-poster boy for PR, look no further than that great bastion of human rights and democracy, Israel.

That depends on what you are calling Capitalism. I’m all for free markets and such, but Capitalism was never anti-feudal - first thing the Burghers did was marry their kids into Noble families. It was strictly about adding “man with enough money that he doesn’t work” to the protected class.

Never has it been more clear what Capitalism is. It has fuckall to do with freedom and everything to do with sharecropping.

If you’re running a site that anyone from the public can sign up to, resources are not some afterthought you add to your argument like pepper. Resources are everything. I have been on this Internet since NCSA Mosaic; look up the term “hugged to death”.

NYPA

Sometime in the last two years, the number of people consider themselves to be programmers has at least doubled. We have a giant contingent of people who have never gone through the hell of actually developing a skill but are now “developers” in much the same way that typing “make me a song like ______” now makes you a musician. No theory, no chords, no building of callouses, just load up our AutoPlagio and dance the night away!

And these sudden Developers and such are all very upset at having their legitimacy questioned by a bunch of… of… NERDS.

Response guy seems to think that “legitimate crypto” is a thing.

My SSH keys are legitimate crypto. Fake money for criminals is not legitimate.

You are missing the gnu, if you’re calling it an OS.

Venezuela is being run by Rubio as a Banana Republic, except with oil. The president is talking openly about annexing us. Do the math.

To be fair, it is wartime.

I ain’t writing them off just yet.