Incidentally, Sean Foo touched on this the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W927Y4Ot9E4

Anarchists being the left version of libertarians is a hill I will die on.

Here’s how I approach the argument https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10530205/7669396

Oh haha no, just sharing

lol yeah, he basically wanted to have neutrality and trade both with the EU and Russia

Oh yeah, people have been talking about this being the outcome since the start of NATO enlargement after the fall of USSR. What’s significant about these kinds admissions is that we’re hearing directly from the horse’s mouth. Here we have somebody from Biden admin directly admitting this was a war of choice.

Indeed, Europe had strategic significance back in the days of USSR because it was an ideological alternative that US was fighting against. Today, Russia is capitalist and doesn’t really pose any ideological threat to the US. Hence why the US is now so focused on Asia because Chinese model is now showing itself to be superior and that’s what the US wants to contain.

I completely agree that the only things that’s anomalous about Trump is his style, but in terms of substance he’s admin is behaving exactly as any other.

If there are incorrect assertions in the post, then you should’ve clearly noted what they are and helped correct misunderstandings. Instead, you’ve spent a lot of energy complaining how you’ve been treated unfairly here, but haven’t actually made a single constructive comment that would help anyone. You could consider going back to the original thread you made your comment in, and instead write a new comment that’s actually helpful and informative. Explain what the incorrect assertions are and why they are incorrect.

If there was a problem with the information provided, or factual mistakes, then it would be perfectly reasonable to point that out and provide sources you prefer using. However, simply attacking the post for using LLM summary is not constructive or helpful. Misinformation is something being factually wrong not coming from a source you don’t like.

Meanwhile, it should be pretty clear that coming in to tell people that they’re posting slop is an attack on them. Somebody spent time learning something new, they wanted to share it. You came in and started berating them. If you don’t understand how that’s an attack then perhaps do a bit of self reflection.

Attacking people for learning things is frankly inappropriate behavior, do better.

You were given a reason for why your comment was removed. Making personal attacks or reactionary comments is not tolerated here. In general, this is a Marxist instance and we’re not free speech absolutists.

I’m also guessing he got sold out in the end. Making bribes and deals was probably what the US was doing this whole time and why they didn’t move in sooner.

The first signs of an empire’s decline are often felt in its periphery and client states. Japan and occupied Korea function as modern colonies. Both now exhibit the severe strains of hypercapitalism, including brutal work cultures, corporations with extraordinary power, weak labor movements, and a legacy of anti-communist ideology imposed to maintain a compliant capitalist class. Japan’s own economic trajectory was deliberately undermined in the 1980s when its technological and manufacturing prowess threatened to surpass the United States.

I can highly recommend this article as a comprehensive intro https://dashthered.medium.com/marxism-for-normal-people-dialectical-materialism-deb5034685a4

yeah we could chat on matrix or something, or even just a lemmygrad thread could work, that way we’ll have an easy reference and meeting notes :)

It might be good to figure out who’s all interested in this idea, will likely have some ideas here too. :) Maybe all of us who are interested in this could get together and talk through the ways we envision models being used, and how to facilitate that.

There are basically three main aspects in my mind. First is education on why these tools are useful in general, why they shouldn’t be shunned, and how to apply them effectively. This is particularly important for people who aren’t developers themselves. Having good guides, and explanations. @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml has already been doing some great work on that front with the crush community.

Then there’s the aspect of how to apply these tools politically for effective agitation, making memes, writing essays, etc. This happens ad hoc right now, but it would be good to start building consistent Marxist messaging in general.

And finally, there’s the development of these tools which falls to technical people with the expertise to make that happen.

Starting a discussion about the direction we want to see would be very useful. Very much agree that we have to start working on this collectively, and we have to come up with a concrete vision for what we aim to build.

I’d argue that core principle should be that the models have to be open, doing what WSWS did with simply calling out to a proprietary service is not the way to go, these have to be tools that we own and control.

We should also aim to make models that can be run locally which means focusing on 32bln or less params. Figuring out how to improve the quality of output for these models would be really important.

The approach that petals is doing also needs to be explored, where they use torrent style distributed framework for training models. This avoids the need for big data centres for training new models.

And @haui@lemmygrad.ml already did a great job covering the content creation aspect.

yeah that’s very on point

I suspect people of Europe are going to end up dealing with the problem themselves at some point.

indeed