Really, the amount of stuff we are wasting on seriously useless things, we don’t need a new MacBook every year, we don’t need crypto miners, we don’t need these GPUs for llms, it is ridiculous. I wish we made better use of it

A lot of technology we consider obsolete is truly just not profitable for our overloads, look at how many people are using mp3 players again, look at how many people are listening to records again. It is important that we remember old tech so we can revive it if we want in a better world and destroy the tech we don’t need like fucking crypto farms and ai data centers.

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Me neither however people like these only bring it up when they want to use artworks and fruits of labour as training data. Like yea read, use characters, use story elements, yea but training algorithms be it llm or youtube with things intimately connected to humans like their labour, passions, interests as mere data points just perpetuates alienation. Not to mention the fact that art can’t be automated like this, if someone wants to remix a song in dj they need to learn a lot about music, if someone wants to remix art tey need to know a lot about art, these people use every leftist cause to defend capitalist technology.

Thank you!

Literally, would you mind having a private discussion? You seem so interesting honestly, you see what’s behind the veil of politeness

How can someone who prescribes communism as their ideology can stand for alienation of people from their labour and humanity? Algorithms trained on this whether llm or youtube are fundamentally alienating technologies, one of the main component of communism is removing alienation from labour. I also don’t believe anything just exists, it might exist in a vulgar condition but it is given chape and form by labour so everything just exist and labour exposes.

I honestly hate how high tech everything is, you can’t be sure that your hobbies, interests, passions aren’t being used to train an algorithm. Like it doesn’t matter where you are, every social media that is based on algorithm is one made for addiction whether it is chinese or American it doesn’t matter. World needs to be a bit low tech.

I understand what you mean, I have tried but it is too difficult, I wish assisted suicide or euthanasia was an option. I sometimes think cruelty and torture is what everyone wants, they don’t us to live a fulfilled life with our conditions yet don’t let us go out in peace either.

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Yes Jason Hickle xd his book is really good because he whether knowingly or unknowingly taps into knowledge that is beyond consumption and actually asks “what’s necessary?” In a world filled with stuff, he is a breath of fresh air

I personally think of it like this and I wrote it with this kind of mind “a socially awkward person isn’t more likely than anyone else to harrass someone but they might be less likely because they don’t go out since when I was a socially awkward teen I rarely talked even online” I didn’t mean to dismiss anyone’s experience and just wanted to say that people who think that a socially awkward individual is more likely to harrass someone are wrong and only think that because that’s the trait of undesirable person, for example a neurodivergent person.

Even Asmongold is so much of a standard in streaming/gaming circles, this is what “respectable” youtubers look like.

And other things did them better and faster, like llms never needed to exist. Everything good that can be done a llm was already either being done better by something else or some sort of llm or ml already existed for it like alphafold in protein folding

I recommend you read Less is More by Jason Hinkle, that book I think really shows the resurgence of low tech nowadays

My hopium is that deep mind existed way before this mess and so most likely they’re developing better editing tools and such instead of giving their films for training slop machines

It’s alright I get it, I live in a fascist household so I was forced to develop my dog ears like that

To them hard work is anything a masc person with a body built from constant gyming does. A disabled person can die on work floor by ut it wouldn’t be hard work for anyone

Honestly I can’t give them this interpretation because of how much antagonizing they were towards people who would do non-traditional work. Western leftists seems like a euphemism used for disabled people because those are the only ones who can’t work as much as everyone else.

A main point is that even soviets made advancements for their time in how much they accommodated everyone of every need, like reading pat sloan’s soviet democracy literally made me cry. Even earlier utopian socialists championed what these can’t grasp 8 hour work, 8 hour leisure, 8 hour sleep, these people claim to be nom religious and for “automation” but they are for sure very Protestant in their worship of hard work