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He fucked around knowing he was on camera and found out he was fired from his lobbying firm.

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Lemmygrad and Hexbear aren’t “leftist” in the confused sense that Americans usually mean “leftist.” They’re actually leftist in the original sense, meaning that they want to abolish private ownership of the means of production. To the extent they’re “widely hated,” it’s largely because the Anglosphere has been indoctrinated against real, actual socialism their entire lives.

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More often than not, when Americans say leftist they really mean left-liberalism a la Bernie Sanders, which is really center-left at most, and not actually leftist in the original sense, a sense which Americans have forgotten thanks to two Red Scares and the first Cold War.

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The “Uyghur genocide” is bullshit Atlanticist propaganda, and English-language Wikipedia is basically NATOpedia in its slant on the topic, so yes we will deny it. It’s a product of the new Cold War propaganda campaign against China.

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This is the common refrain. It’s easier to believe we’re bots or shills than believe socialists walk among us specter

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<@wtry> I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance
<@wtry> Hope this isn’t a Tankie instance.

Comedy gold.

There is a specter haunting lemmitor, the specter of specter

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Hating the settler colonial, apartheid State of Israel, which has been ethnically cleansing for three generations and is committing genocide as we speak, is not antisemitism.

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Guantánamo Bay

Since 2002, the base has included the detainment camp for individuals deemed of risk to United States national security. In 2009, the U.S. President, Barack Obama, gave orders for the detention camp to close by January 22, 2010. As of 2021, it remains open due to a congressional refusal of funds for its closure.

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Opposing a settler colonial, apartheid State, which has been ethnically cleansing for three generations and is committing genocide as we speak, is not a “soft aura of antisemitism”.

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Michael Parenti: Left anti-communism: The Unkindest Cut

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Oh, thanks. I’m glad I got to the party late then!

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On the one hand, the board was an insane cult of effective altruism / longtermism / LessWrong, so fuck them. But on the other hand, this was a worker revolt for the capitalists, which I guess shouldn’t be surprising since tech workers famously lack class consciousness.

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People are asking what is wrong with these cults. It’s a lot to cover so I won’t try. People who follow the podcasts Tech Won’t Save Us or This Machine Kills will already be familiar with them. Here’s an article relevant to the moment that talks about them a little: Pivot to AI: Replacing Sam Altman with a very small shell script

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mastodon.social/

me, at the thanksgiving table tomorrow
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I’m sure the developers make the lower half of six figures, but they still have to sell their labor to survive, so they’re still working class.

I’ve been an SF Bay Area software developer for almost thirty years, so I know them well. I consider us members of the professional–managerial class (PMC). We generally think we’re “above” the working class (we’re not), and so we seldom have any sense of solidarity with the rest of the working class (or even each other), and we think unionization is for those other people and not us.

When Hillary Clinton talked about the “basket of deplorables,” she was talking to her PMC donors & voters about the rest of the working class, and we eat that shit up. Most of my peers have still learned no lessons from her election defeat, preferring to blame debunked RussiaGate conspiracy theories.

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Dimwits don’t have money. It’s coming from the wealthy. This is how the capitalist class has always run “democratic” countries.

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Will liberals hang on to their debunked RussiaGate conspiracy theories until the end of time?

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This is good for Bitcoin 📈

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Ahahah. No. Cryptocurrency is for rubes to get rubed, and tying a State’s sovereign fiat money to a commodity belongs in the dustbin of history.

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The value of a State’s fiat money comes from them requiring that taxes be paid in that same money. Yes they can print as much money as they want, but they don’t, and they can regulate its value by destroying some of it through taxation.
Second Thought: Why The Government Has Infinite Money

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If they can print as much money as they like then they obviously they can always make any interest payment, as former Fed. Chair Alan Greenspan himself has plainly stated.

Furthermore, the government doesn’t need to borrow money in the first place, because again, it can print as much as it wants.
So you might ask, why does our government create these treasury securities in the first place? I think the answer is largely twofold. Firstly as another tool for managing inflation. By giving the wealthy a safe place to profitably park their money, that money is temporarily removed from the real economy. Secondly because those same wealthy capitalists are the ones calling the shots in the first place, and they want a safe place to profitably park their money.

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It’s a good reason to end capitalism. Until we abolish private ownership of the means of production, the capitalist class will control the State.

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I’m an elder Silicon Valley software developer who has followed crypto since the early days. I never bought the hype because 1) I understand the technology and 2) I have a Marxist perspective on economics and politics.

I think cryptocurrency was a libertarian monkey’s paw wish that only further empowered those who already had power. The crypto grift collapsed early last year, and everyone has moved on to the shiny new AI grift. Most people know now that the crypto emperor had no clothes.

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If you wanna believe in dunning-krugerrands, I can’t stop you.

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Tokyo worries is vulnerable to attack from China

Hey Japan, who has a history of such attacks from the East China Sea?

📽

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Because they weren’t able to sufficiently indoctrinate Altman into their cult.
Pivot to AI: Replacing Sam Altman with a very small shell script

Until Friday, OpenAI had a board of only six people: Greg Brockman (chairman and president), Ilya Sutskever (chief scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and outside members Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner.

Sutskever, the researcher who got OpenAI going in 2015, is deep into “AI safety” in the sense of Eliezer Yudkowsky. Toner and McCauley are Effective Altruists — that is to say, part of the same cult.

Eliezer Yudkowsky founded a philosophy he called “rationality” — which bears little relation to any other philosophy of such a name in history. He founded the site LessWrong to promote his ideas. He also named “Effective Altruism,” on the assumption that the most effective altruism in the world was to give him money to stop a rogue superintelligent AI from turning everyone into paperclips.

The “ethical AI” side of OpenAI are Yudkowsky believers, including Mira Murati, the CTO who is now CEO. They are AI doomsday cultists who say they don’t think ChatGPT will take over the world — but behave like they do think that.

D’Angelo doesn’t appear to be an AI doomer — but presumably Sutskever convinced him to kick Altman out anyway.

Yudkowsky endorsed Murati’s promotion to CEO: “I’m tentatively 8.5% more cheerful about OpenAI going forward.”

We’ve written before about how everything in machine learning is hand-tweaked and how so much of what OpenAI does relies on underpaid workers in Africa and elsewhere. This stuff doesn’t yet work as any sort of product without a hidden workforce of humans behind it, pushing. The GPT series are just powerful autocomplete systems. They aren’t going to turn you into paperclips.

Sam Altman was an AI doomer — just not as much as the others. The real problem was that he was making promises that OpenAI could not deliver on. The GPT series was running out of steam. Altman was out and about in the quest for yet more funding for the OpenAI company in ways that upset the true believers.

A boardroom coup by the rationalist cultists is quite plausible, as well as being very funny. Rationalists’ chronic inability to talk like regular humans may even explain the statement calling Altman a liar. It’s standard for rationalists to call people who don’t buy their pitch liars.

So what from normal people would be an accusation of corporate war crimes is, from rationalists, just how they talk about the outgroup of non-rationalists. They assume non-believers are evil.

It is important to remember that Yudkowsky’s ideas are dumb and wrong, he has zero technological experience, and he has never built a single thing, ever. He’s an ideas guy, and his ideas are bad. OpenAI’s future is absolutely going to be wild.

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I’m very doubtful

After a lifetime in software development, I’m more doubtful than that.

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They’re not bothering to try very hard. Their strategy is, in the words of Steve Bannon, to flood the zone with shit. It’s about quantity, not quality. So much bullshit that debunkers can’t keep up.

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Havana syndrome strikes again specter

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Cuba continues to commit the cardinal sin of being a good example.

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For the ableists in the room: to reduce mouse usage.

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This is an old, tried & true tactic which Steve Bannon colorfully called flooding the zone with shit.

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The fuck is wrong with you.

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Giving conflicting orders is everyday cop shit. All IOFs Are Bastards.

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Some people still follow GPSes into lakes ¯_(ツ)_/¯ There’s a gormless technophile born every minute.

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You’re basically saying that virtually every Linux is the same, which to a certain extent is true and to a certain extent is not true.

Basically you haven’t said anything.

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Sorry sweaty but this truth is too inconvenient for libs of lemmy.ml. lemmygrad.ml & hexbear.net would be more receptive.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/5bb7d604-b0e1-4cb8-94c9-81cad34d6a3b.jpeg asklemmy is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get.

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This sounds more like an !asklemmygrad question.

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This is the whitest American question I’ve heard in a while.

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I’m guessing a “SPAD” is a “Special Advisor”, because I think “Maria” is from Ireland and works for an NGO.

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This is not a problem of “human nature” but of colonialism / neocolonialism / imperialism.

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Shoulda used non-fungible hydrocarbons.

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Good thing this instance isn’t federated with lemmygrad.ml & hexbear.net, protecting everyone from https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e07fa03a-75f8-4d09-aa10-6c3e06268090.png

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