The bourgeoisie might have been the middle class in feudalism, but they are very much the ruling class in capitalism (as others here have pointed out).

Damn, I thought my one crank uncle who said aliens are demons was a one off.

As if the brainworms weren’t enough already.

Also I’ve heard that prolonged stress can be damaging to memory, among other things. Or maybe it was specifically about depression and such, I don’t know. Can’t remember off the top of my head (tempted to say “no joke intended” to be a smartass about the other recent comment in here). But anyway, I think I’ve been hit by that kind of thing a lot. I can remember enough to function, but in terms of like childhood memories or even things I did a few years ago, there just isn’t that much that I remember.

Mood. I’ve been depressed since I was a child and my memory is shit.

Is this from the game where you make tulpas of people you know and trap them on an island?

There’s a Starfinder CRPG in development. Harebrained Schemes’ Shadowrun games are also good, especially Dragonfall and Hong Kong.

Am a burger, can confirm the one on the right is burgerland. Red filter and all.

My favorite song by Blackwater Oyster Kulak is Don’t Fear the Wrecker.

It looks like Anubis (the catgirl who guards self hosted software from bots) added some query params that fuck up sharing. It works fine when you strip away all the query params except for v.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=yagpCdD_Gsg

I feel like I was cooking here.

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That’s why I slop on company time.

Moving “at the speed of AI” is an actual fucking phrase the suits at my workplace are using. Some devs who are already familiar with the tooling are dubbed “AI champions” by management and tasked with bringing the rest of the devs up to speed.

I’ll have to attend. I’ve been musing a lot about this shit lately ever since my employer’s been ramping up agent usage. I’ve gotta say, it’s hard not to see capital as crystallized labor when I’m to create documentation – in what are literally called “skills” – so that a machine can do most of my job when operated by someone with much less training, a much lower salary, and much lower benefits.

Former Catholic here. Can confirm. I haven’t believed in anything spiritual for a decade and a half, but always find a way to twist any interpretation of my circumstances into confirmation that I am a bad person. I even feel like a bad person for not being able to convince myself to believe in the papist phantom they call god.

Just now I had to manually prevent myself from inserting a jab at the schismatics and the prots.

Salmon fucks and dies.

There was an industry who swallowed AI

I don’t know why they swallowed AI - perhaps they’ll die!

There was an industry who swallowed slop

That’s churning and churning and vomiting won’t stop.

They swallowed the slop to catch AI

I don’t know why they swallowed AI - Perhaps they’ll die!

There was an industry who swallowed an agent

How flagrant to swallow an agent.

They swallowed the agent to catch the slop

They swallowed the slop to catch AI

I don’t know why they swallowed AI - Perhaps they’ll die!

There was an industry who swallowed automated reviews

How new to swallow an automated review!

They swallowed the automated review to catch the agent

They swallowed the agent to catch the slop

They swallowed the slop to catch AI

I don’t know why they swallowed AI - Perhaps they’ll die!

There was an industry who swallowed a data center

What a temper, to swallow a data center!

They swallowed the data center to catch the automated review

They swallowed the automated review to catch the agent

They swallowed the agent to catch the slop

They swallowed the slop to catch AI

I don’t know why they swallowed AI - Perhaps they’ll die!

There was an industry who swallowed LLM tutors

Minds must be in a stupor to swallow LLM tutors.

They swallowed the LLM tutor to catch the data center

They swallowed the data center to catch the automated review

They swallowed the automated review to catch the agent

They swallowed the agent to catch the slop

They swallowed the slop to catch AI

I don’t know why they swallowed AI - Perhaps they’ll die!

There was an industry who swallowed the hegemon… They’re dead - party on!

Sounds like it’s related to horseshoe theory considering he’s equating factual and reliable news sources like MintPress and the Gray Zone to disinformation peddlers like Alex Jones.

✊!

That is a new twist but the underlying logic of accumulation remains intact. Read Capital for sure but also consider how the platform economy updates Marx’s categories rather than overturns them.

I didn’t mean to do otherwise. What you say is true though. This definitely isn’t a qualitative break with industrial capitalism in the same way the financialization that happened/is happening for more than a century isn’t a qualitative break with it.

The problem with this model is precisely what @Philosoraptor@hexbear.net pointed out, which is that unlike machines in a factory, an LLM is not a deterministic tool. On top of that, the nature of work it automates is such that it requires active decision making, hence why it hasn’t been automated so far. And here’s where the whole scheme falls apart because the LLM is unable to actually determine whether something is correct in a business sense. All they do is produce stochastically probable outputs, which means human is the bottleneck in the whole process. You can get an LLM to generate code orders of magnitude faster than a human could, but somebody has to figure out that it’s actually doing what’s intended.

That’s definitely an important issue regarding making things with LLMs. Deterministic tools like compilers and LSPs didn’t cause as much of disruption to the industry to my knowledge, even if they did have their naysayers. The human bottleneck issue isn’t what I was trying to get at, though.

I’m trying to look at it from production of software all the way to its consumption. My suspicion is that the differences between software and physical products – both in how they are produced and how they are consumed – might have an effect on how surplus value is extracted and how that effects the organization of society at large that is, in some ways, qualitatively different than what happened during the industrial revolution.

If my hypothesis sounds vague, that’s because it is. I’ll definitely need to finally read Capital in full at least.

The push that comes to shove? Also the invisible hand.