That’s an incredibly reactionary take on technology. Look at how open source is qualitatively different from their proprietary counterparts for a clear example of how the base doesn’t just dictate how a tool is used, but how tools are made and how the constraints built into the tool effect how they are used.

I’ve read enough Marx to know the base dictates the shape of the superstructure which includes technology like LLMs.

As if this technology isn’t a product and in service of capitalist relations. Go read Chomsky to see how CNC machines were designed in a way to strengthen capitalist control. gAI is being developed with the same business logic: eliminate jobs at the cost of quality and robustness.

If they are allowed to train on OSS code then the same is true of proprietary code, they use the same legal mechanisms. Get your code off GitHub…

I’m not wasting my energy guessing what form their evil plans will take.

I find it helps to ask what is the intention. If it is to just unload negative feelings and there is no effort to build something after dumping those emotions, then the intention is to dissipate energy. IMHO it is better to hold those emotions and unpack them in a space where the energy can be harnessed into something more useful than venting. Even a rage room is healthier and more productive for instance.

Because AI does nonsensical things that would require extra effort for a human to do, in this case the lady has a soccer purse and a soccer ball

You require documentation so you can check if they have a criminal past. If there’s no documentation then treat them like someone on parole and give them an ankle monitor. It’s not rocket science, we just our politicians’ job security depends on not fixing problems.

Also you have absolute immunity just in case there is any friendly fire

The pinkertons have entered the chat

Don’t worry, the America’s free market provides many paramilitary groups to shutdown those pesky unions and curious journalists. No need for government involvement!

Joking about how right wing cis transphobic women are „actually“ just men in drag

FTFY

Teflon Don, like Epstein, collected pictures of powerful people doing “embarrassing” things. Unlike Epstein he didn’t use a private island, he used hotels that catered to people with power.

https://zadzmo.org/downloads/nepenthes/docker

Nah, she’s just talking in her sleep because she had a bad dream

They want artificial employees to discipline the labor market but what they will get instead is a deskilled labor force and business structures that are even more resistant to adaptation.

Wouldn’t that have made the USSR capitalist as well? I think a key distinction is how authority within a party is established. If authority is derived from ownership then that is clearly capitalist. If authority is derived from the party itself, then that is something else.

That’s all hard to do when billionaires are the ones structuring society. The point is we don’t get to choose corrective societal actions unless it is an exercise of individual privilege. I would have loved to take the train to visit relatives, but it literally is not an option.

Urban centers have less waste or CO2 per capita than their rural or suburban counterparts. The problem is our pursuit of ever increasing profits is extremely wasteful but is currently how states gain influence.

Ehh, the capitalist class doesn’t call the shots in China though, the party does. And their private corporations don’t simply have shareholders, it has party representation embedded in the control structure making “ownership” moot because ultimately the party can veto or seize production at moments notice.

That being said, when Xi starts claiming socialism is inevitable, he does so to delay it’s implementation.

When being a contrarian asshole becomes your marketing strategy.