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Cake day: January 26th, 2024

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  • It’s sort of surprising that this article gets so much backlash, since it’s just a rehash of the NYT article with a more critical analysis of the historical facts. And those facts aren’t even really something new - at least it was all suspected, now a bit more confirmed, or something the mainstream would see as problematic.

    But I guess they can’t attack the facts presented by the venerable NYT so they take it out on the “far left” and “fringe” Aaron Mate.

    At this point, I just want to see China arming Panama or Mexico or Venezuela to the hilt with modern weaponry, missiles and drones, and then when the USA invades them helps with constant logistics and satellite information of “points of interests”. We’ll see how the whole mainstream would defend this because they just had to liberate the poor people oppressed by those regimes there. That would be the equivalent to what the US, Nato and EU have been doing. Although I doubt China has any interest in such funny games.














  • they do it while dehumanizing people and devaluing humanity

    You’re making wild assumptions about people who disagree with your opinions. How ironic you accuse “them” of dehumanizing people.

    But I do agree that this gets to the core of the matter, the shock of a piece of software being able to produce intelligent text while clearly not having general intelligence is quite the shock. Same with creativity, while the entertainment industry produced equally empty content slop using human labor it’s a painful shock to our identity as humans. I suspect this is a reaction to disillusionment and the intellectual pain that comes from it.

    My opinion on LLMs is rather nuanced, the worst possible outcome I can foresee is the anti-AI crowd helping the oligarchs to establish IP ownership of all LLM models and monopolizing the tools, so that only they can have access to the “means of generation”. While the rest has to pay for the privilege of using it.



  • Quite possible it’s just a fuck-up. But really the police should be able to do what a TV documentary crew can do. I mean what is the police there for? (Socialist answer is obviously to protect the rich and powerful)

    How many cases were not pursued because it wasn’t profitable and opportune to make a popular documentary for them? Inequality based on identity like gender is the core belief of fascism, so this is a serious problem to leave unfixed.