It’s weird that boomers tend to strawman us as responding to criticisms of AES with “that’s not true socialism.” Maybe socdems who think Norway is socialist but Cuba isn’t would say that, but anyone who’s reading Marx and is actively participating in discussions about socialism above a high school level probably understands that real socialism has been tried and has succeeded.

Which brings me to my next point: Socialism’s biggest success story is China. It defies every trope yet it looks like most Western leftists are too afraid to claim it as the success it is, evidence that without sanctions, coups, and blockades socialism is a system that can take us to the future capitalism is currently killing. For every rags to riches story in America, there are thousands of people who received dignity, employment, and an economy that worked in their favor thanks to Chinese socialism. It’s the best example of what socialism can achieve without being sabotaged, a country that went from a feudal backwater with tyrannical landlords, where the local warlords could claim the peasants’ daughters as their property, where famines would routinely come and kill several million people, to the largest and most advanced economy in the world in less than a century. And they accomplished this by taking on Western capital and beating them at their own game.

You’ve given me a lot to think about. Maybe I should read Attention is all you need again.

Yeah I admit that the self-play approach is more promising, but it still starts with the internet data to know what things are. I think the transformer architecture is the limiting factor: until there’s a way for the model to do something beyond generating words one at a time, sequentially, they are simply doing nothing more than a very advanced game of madlibs. I don’t know if they can get transformers to work in a different way, where it constructs a concept in a more abstract way then progressively finds a way to put it into words; I know that arguably that’s what it’s doing currently, but the fact that it does it separately for each token means it’s not constructing any kind of abstraction.

Pfffft, 100% chance this thing is only saying that because it picked it up from a LW blog, these models aren’t yet capable of actually reasoning about anything.

protest for the sake of conducting the genocide more effectively is definitely enough reason to cut settlers some slack!

Can someone find a recording of him actually saying it? Telesur doesn’t have any info on it. I can’t tell if he was just joking and this is another Why China banned the letter N ridiculous premise you can only believe if you forgot that the enemies of the US still have functioning brains and aren’t mindless drones.

Check out Lutris, I use it to run a lot of programs that I can’t just run through Steam. You can set up an environment called a prefix and it acts a bit like a Windows virtual machine, which can run any Windows program you throw at it.

Not to mention True Detective!

They should let you strap IEDs to these things. No shade to the engineering it takes to make a proper spinny weapon, but it takes the wind off my sails to know how much more unhinged it would get with no rules at all.

Dale Cooper Francis York Morgan

Really it should just be “during a gold rush, sell land” because no other commodity is immune to oversupply from the kinds of economic dynamics at play during a gold rush.

Here’s something weird, the link https://geo.center/about redirects to https://geo.center/about-superframe, which after a minimal amount of digging appears to be a recently defunct indie game studio.

Couldn’t immediately find much info on why that studio would be linked to a supposed open source journalism platform, but it seems a little weird. I checked the real about page, and it seems like the site is supposed to be called “activist.watch” but got stuck with a different domain name? Chapo.chat situation?

The vibes are off for sure.

I’m just gonna pre-emptively leave this here then

Me reading theory:

Me doing praxis: :actionable-threat:

mrs whyesseff can we please get the emoji shooting a gun emoji that ulyssesT uploaded? it’s so fire…

Me asf when I multiply by the inverse magnitude

I don’t think you’re wrong in spirit, but we are the “never again” crowd. It’s a good motto to live by and it’s entirely true. The fact that some people hypocritically use it to defend the genocidal state of Israel doesn’t take away from how the rest of us should continue the remembrance of the Holocaust and vow to never allow genocide to happen again. Being Opposed to “never again” is something that you shouldn’t do, even ironically.

At least in Star Wars they explain the context with the scroll at the start of the movie, libs think that Ukraine literally popped into existence in 2022.

I’m willing to show some decency to her if I see you bringing the same energy to the >186,000 Palestinians martyred by the state her website will censor you for criticizing. Except whiny libs like you spend orders of magnitude more time trying to build bridges with fascists and imperialists than you do expressing empathy with their victims. When those victim’s time comes, you go and hold them to a standard that you never held their oppressors up to.

And those who demand instant perfection the day after the revolution, they go up and say “Are there civil liberties for the fascists? Are they gonna be allowed their newspapers and their radio programs, are they gonna be able to keep all their farms? The passion that some of our liberals feel, the day after the revolution, the passion and concern they feel for the fascists, the civil rights and civil liberties of those fascists who are dumping and destroying and murdering people before.