Dialectically this reads like we need people with positive or actually neutral views on china who are not communists as to not give the westbrains reason to do a pawlowian discard response. Then again, he’s most likely not the stuff to watch if YOU want to advance as a marxist.
So i guess there is an argument for this channel and similar ones.
She’s like the human version of the book black shirts and reds. The amount of work one can spare if they just show her videos is insane. So sad most libs in germany barely speak english.
Yes of course. There are rallies at times but since 2019 a lot has changed and there is a huge difference between a group of 20 people holding a venezuela or cuba banner and a huge banner on a building with hammer and sickle on it.
Dozens of protesters have been maimed or killed in germany in recent years and the amount of structural violence in germany is off the charts. If you are member of the dkp, you can lose your teachers job or your administrative job, you will be treated as less at your job, etc. Its quite brutal although of course not comparable to the people we stand up for.
You might have seen what happened in gießen. The protestors were completely peaceful and still some had their bones broken, allegedly intentional. German police has dozens of deadly and non deadly weapons, tank like protection and sprays chemicals on people which can blind them permanently.
I mean, of course they do. o7
Pretty tough question. At least I dont know of him saying that. How do you figure?
In germany, they would probably just beat us senseless and set fire to us in a cell.
I sympathize. Having been born into a rough working class family, although in germany, i’ve had my share of cruel experiences.
The amount of bigotry in the educated “leftist” circles is astonishing. Most would shit their pants the moment the first explosion rocks their bed at night.
Having grown up in a rough, poor neighborhood I learned something that is very rare in germany: the low value of life. People on the short end of the working class who barely hang on, have low or no perspective and get discriminated against multiple times per day do not necessarily blink at the use of violence. Especially lethal violence isnt as uncommon as rich leftists might think. It was a constant reminder in my youth that it is a bad idea to disrespect a stranger.
Thats why i understand a lot more of the horrors that people in warzones must face than average and I can tell you, these people would die of a heartattack instantly. They would shoot themselves just to not be as frightened anymore.
Its what I tell people who yap about war. If you saw someone die by the hand of another, if you were threatened with (credible) lethal force, then you can talk about war.
Before that, “leftists” who are pro war shut their mouth in my presence.
Brillant analysis! Thanks! :) always a pleasure reading your texts.
Brillant analysis, all of it. Thank you comrade.
To shed light on the dkp first hand (local group):
Let me know if you want to know more about them.
Thanks comrade!
I can see the appeal of this to a user who does not have essentially the same mind as the machine (i do somehow, i understand computers a lot better than people) and i have come around to legitimate uses of ai like getting through to people on the emotional level for example by making it print propaganda or making marx and lenin sing a song together.
i do however think that the more interesting find is how the core problem of “normal” users is that they dont fit with the machines way of doing things, which could ultimately stem from capitalist exclusionism, hear me out:
This is a thesis, not against ai but for a different view on its inception and use in the west.
Machines normally use binary (i always compare it to light switches in a row) and above that they use assembler, a really interesting but unfinitely verbose way of writing code. This is even too bothersome for me as it really means you need to repeat a ton of stuff.
but there lies the kicker. the machine code (assembler) is not just logical. it was thought up by a human (woman iirc) and therefore does represent the inner workings of that persons mind. If you go down the autism road with this and accept that a ton of programmers are in fact gifted autistics, this kind of gives a hint at what we are looking at.
The rise and hype of ai (besides billionaires pushing for it with insane amounts of money) might be in fact based on the messy interface that has not really been developed in a sane way but by infinite abstractions which help more “normal” users and devs understand how things work. if the language concepts and education were instead more geared towards “typical” users and their way of perceiving the world, all these abstractions would not be needed but a more wholesome way of interacting would surface.
I think the underlying reason why this hasnt been done, why for example alternative and less purist shells like fish or zsh havent found more widespread adoption is because the vast majority is being kept stupid for the exact reason to extract the maximum amount of capital from them. Because if you taught children to use linux because its essentially a magic wand, you would have a really bad time trying to make them use your hastily thrown together app which is slow and messy and extracts all their data.
And I think ai is kind of being used to get around this issue without actually tackling its core (diseducation). this is being done with a lot of issues that capitalism produces and socialism actually solves. Instead of proper education, we have (badly) artificed the part of the brain that we dont allow people to actually develop. it has been outsourced to a computer that can be turned off by the wealthy. there is a movie that portraies this in a different way. it is “in time”.
the core reason why I came up with this was because my first thought when I read this post was “why is this person spending so much time, effort and resources on so benign an issue?” and then it hit me. because for a grown up, learning about computers can be impossible or at least insanely boring, the core concepts are missing (same with communism btw) and finding quality education under the mountains of (not ai, this time) slop is also a huge issue.
This also perfectly explains why china is on a whole different plane of existence in terms of ai. since education is not being kept away from people to not be able to revolt or see their misery, the people are not as helpless and AI is only used to make their advanced needs being met because their basic needs are being met easily.
TL;DR: Not saying AI bad. I’m saying i might be seeing the reason why ai is so successful in parts of society where it absolutely shouldnt (imo) and where its application is rarely a net positive. The answer is capitalist diseducation (imo).
exactly. I do find that it would be great if more people could understand the need and purpose of all this faster but I also get that the material conditions arent right for that atm. i would be highly interested to see how the grad progressed in the past couple of years in terms of activity and users. that could tell us about how politics affects ML ideological accession.
this reads a little like the bsw in germany who split from the “left” party. i would love to have an in depth analysis of the bsw done by a seasoned ML. that would rock.
its comments like these why I joined the grad. this the core of accepting and dealing out criticism to make each other advance both in understanding and as a person that gives me hope of a future that is actually conducive to human development for everyone.
thank you comrades. o7
I didnt know that one but it was pretty cool to watch.
Sarcasm? I’ll use this to just apeak some thoughts:
To reduce the population of ukraine, redirect tax money to the rich, keep ukraine from being neutral or god forbid side with russia once the empire collapses, prepare for war with russia. Many reasons. None of them had to do with the normal people living in ukraine.
The answer would have been to back down, invite a delegation from russia and europe and have them discuss this, staying neutral, booting the putschists from power and holding elections with international observation.
They are as smart as their forefathers. The question is how to make the worker revolution work this time.
They are. I hope other people in germany will understand that this is the end of the line. Democracy is dead.
While those are technically true, they are inconseuqential at best, plain wrong at worst.
Yes, the dems could be pushed left a little over a long time in theory. But practice has shown that this is not achievable since all other material circumstances are against it.
The “least bad” option is a communist party, absolutely not the dems.
Voting is not going to help half as many people than going to the next soup kitchen or neighborhood meetup and organize there.
I hate these soc dem apology posts. Biden has blood on his hands up to his shoulders.
I think the most pressing issue is how to go about material conditions of the individual.
People are born into different circumstances. If and when capitalism begins to actually give way to a communist future, the people will still be born with different skills.
This means if someone has a really strong focus on a certain topic, they will need special education if humanity wants to utilize that potential and if we want to give that person the maximum possible success in life, depending on their wishes.
I think what will most likely give way is the “need for glory” that we currently use as our only social currency since community has been killed off completely.