I think maybe France, their companies keep getting thrown out of countries in Africa and nobody else cares enough to bail them out by doing regime change

The older you get, the more responsibility that you have (family, chores, etc) and also you get tired and go to bed way earlier. We suck.

After Bacon’s Rebellion, they created the concepts of black and white to sow division and prevent another uprising where a unified underclass would threaten the aristocracy

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/inventing-black-white

We are so far from automated luxury communism, and the idea that this technology would actually move us closer, is laughable. I honestly don’t believe that any technology has actually moved us closer to Communism. They seem to actually just concentrate more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.

Look if you want your fun little tech fetish, go right ahead, but don’t claim that LLMs are making the world better.

I watched the “Computer Revolution” and how it was going to fix EVERYTHING. It was going to transform the world.

All it did was just make a couple thousand people, more rich than was possible before.

All we are going to see is this buggy, hallucinating, flawed God take over everything, and like a mad God, it will make incomprehensible demands and pronouncements, and we’ll all be forced to obey them, while a handful of billionaires cook the planet and extract all the value, then we all die.

It’s the stupidest fucking outcome, and every person who keeps being a booster for LLMs and masks their little freakish obsession with them with flowerly marxist language makes me sick.

“actually it’s good that artists, programmers, and writers are being proletarianized, replaced with a shitty hallucinatin LLM that can’t actually do the work, but can bullshit it enough that management thinks they can layoff everyone and just pocket the savings”

Jesus Christ.

“Yes but we need the LLMs to destroy everyone’s livelihoods so that we can have our secular version of a Rapture (violent revolution where a bunch of people who never fucking shoot guns (the SRA is a joke) win against a superior force) and finally achieve fully automated luxury Communism”

Completely delusional

I have a background in virtual screening software, where we just brute forced every compound that was commercially viable to produce (ZINC database) to see if it would bind to a cell receptor.

Having a new way to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks does not impress me.

Based on all the discourse recently, my position that AI and LLMs should be outlawed.

I am an unapologetic Butlerian Jihadist

This is a bad take but I don’t have the energy to argue

Golden throne, thousands of psykers sacrificed to keep the Emperor alive, etc etc

I think that a lot of people know the Democrats are shit. They have been shit for decades.

The problem is that people correctly figure out the Democrats are controlled opposition, and they don’t stick around. They just stop voting.

The problem is the Democrats know this, and they’d rather lose elections, keep their nice little controlled opposition status, rather than try to actually engage with disaffected voters.

The Bernie campaign was a direct attempt to show that if someone tried to reach out to disaffected voters, it could be successful.

The Democrats made sure to sabotage that strategy by rigging the primaries.

So at this point I think the best thing to do is keep criticizing the Democrats, highlight their intentional losing strategies, and wait until enough people catch on, and we build a mass movement to replace them with something better. Hopefully we catch enough people before they give up and just check out of politics completely

The tyranny of the HOA. Your options for what to do with your property is very limited

I think I understand that it says the exchange value of a product is proportionate to the labor time used to create it. Am I getting that correct?

This is my understanding of things, so I think you are correct. Although I think “time” is not the correct dimension. I think more broadly the value of a product is linked to the labor that was put into it, across many different factors, instead of just time alone.

“Is a cookie still worth its labor if it’s burnt? Is a pie worth the labor if it’s a shit pie?”

Critiques like this are irrelevant because they are focusing on small situations where a single item of labor did not turn out as desired. Mistakes get made during the process of creating something, and most normal people don’t focus on the results that didn’t turn out correctly. The example of labor to produce a “shit pie” is not even worth considering.

If anything, you could make a case that if you have some piece of labor that is very difficult and prone to failure you could argue that the value of the product also includes all the failed attempts to create the product correctly, or the difficulty involved.

I am not an economist, I do not read theory, but this is my uninformed take.