LarmyOfLone @ LarmyOfLone @lemm.ee

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The way I would classify it is if you could somehow extract the "creative writing center" from a human brain, you'd have something comparable to to a LLM. But they lack all the other bits, and reason and learning and memory, or badly imitate them.

If you were to combine multiple AI algorithms similar in power to LLM but designed to do math, logic and reason, and then add some kind of memory, you probably get much further towards AGI. I do not believe we're as far from this as people want to believe, and think that sentience is on a scale.

But it would still not be anchored to reality without some control over a camera and the ability to see and experience reality for itself. Even then it wouldn't understand empathy as anything but an abstract concept.

My guess is that eventually we'll create a kind of "AGI compiler" with a prompt to describe what kind of mind you want to create, and the AI compiler generates it. A kind of "nursing AI". Hopefully it's not about profit, but a prompt about it learning to be friends with humans and genuinely enjoy their company and love us.

Of course not, the Israel lobby would get her before Biden and the democrats could shake themselves out of absolutely flabbergasted horror.

But that just makes the hypocrisy more delicious. Nobody can take the USA seriously any more.

Still interesting. zstandard using pretrained dictionaries (zstd --train). Previously they used zlib.

Does anybody know if you can pretrain dictionaries for 7zip for large ebook libraries? Or any better compression library for text?

Biden is Harris’ boss.

Exactly! Jill Stein only presumably works for Putin the war criminal, and if so in a far less stringent capacity, compared to Harris who definitely absolutely works for Biden the war criminal.

Absolutely a far worse situation! :D

I don't care for Jill Stein and Putin. But the hypocrisy is still astounding. Lets ask Harris to call Biden a war criminal. Because he is one too. This is all just performative politics.

Now make a square out of squiggly yarn

String theorists claim this is the true shape of spacetime!

You mean Budapest Memorandum. Russia claims that the US and EU violated that treaty using IMF loans for economic coercion, then Ukraine violated it by turning anti Russia, letting mass murdering NAZIs hold power banning Russian language and and attacking Russians in Ukraine, and then swaring to join NATO in their constitution. That treaty is toast since the aftermath of the Euromaidan massacre.

How much do you know about what actually happened to start this war?

Thanks for the numbers, state owned share is a really good sign.

On the other hand, the primary goal of the state owned enterprise is to provide social value.

Interesting. I guess even if that wasn't the goal, the money sort of "has to" actually trickle down. Like even if functionaries siphon off some wealth or it's spend on stupid project, most of it lands in a pot where it can only be used for... investments or useful things. Even if their goals were nationalistic instead of socialistic. It has nowhere else to go and can't go off to foreign investors or into some tax haven or just be used for speculative financial games. Or use it to undermine democracy by buying news and social media.

I guess the motivation for functionaries is also different. For plutocrats the "game" is to gain ever more capital and beat the competition and reach a high score. And they fear loosing everything. So even if the state capitalist's goal was to "create profit through appropriation of the value the labor of the workers creates" they ultimately have to do something useful with it then. Of course it would be in their interest to use it to secure the power of their government.

The problem is that electronics make you dependent on a expensive, long and fragile and closed source technology. This is the opposite of liberation. Except for prosthesis of course.

Ideally we'd rather have 3D printed sensory and internal organs to augment ourselves. Things that don't wear out but can repair themselves and grow to become truly part of our body. Augments that last a lifetime and ideally extend our lifetime.

The ultimate would be a type of biocomputer that we directly control with our brain and that can alter our body. Which is science fiction of course, but imagine meditating to reconfigure your body in some internal space, like changing your sex from male to female and then slowly growing towards that over a few months. That is far off obviously, but it marks the goal we should move towards. Not electronics or mechanics as a foreign object, but biological systems that become part of us.

I agree with all of what the article says about building solidarity instead of the unjustified and dangerous demonization of China. But I'm not convinced China can still be classified as socialist. I simply don't know enough though.

Would this be possible if China were just another capitalist country? If the capitalist class – a relatively small group of people that own and deploy capital – dominated political power, would they really allow resources to be directed so consistently to solving the problems of the working people? If so, why doesn’t this happen all over the world? Why haven’t other capitalist countries achieved similar successes in improving people’s lives?

Not sure that argument proves anything, there are other explanations.

Fundamentally any society can either base their wealth on resource extraction or the work of people. China clearly chose the latter, so it makes sense for a "state capitalist" country to invest in education, healthcare, housing because people are what generate wealth, and this is paid back in the future. China is currently reaping those rewards. More wealth to distribute to those in power as well.

It might simply be that China isn't capitalist long enough for the capitalist class achieving enough long term political power to cannibalize that wealth and undo those advances like they have done in the west.

China could be at a stage the USA was during it's golden age in the 1960 with the new deal etc. Maybe in a few decades China will fall victim to the same processes of capitalist corrosion. Maybe it's just a matter of time.

Right now China has more centralized power structures that can make intelligent and rational decisions - unlike neoliberalism. Nobody is in charge of the US any more it's all just systems and rules and individuals and institutions that draw policy in short term but insane directions.

Also for example renewables is just a good new market to dominate, as well as reducing dependence on the middle east and indirectly undermining the US stranglehold on that. China can sell energy all by itself without relying on US controlled systems. You don't have to be an environmentalist to see this as smart business strategy.

I'm certainly rooting for China and hope it becomes more open.

Anyway, very interesting article. I guess I should read the book.

Link to the book on the anarchist library annas-archive.org

Just unbearable cruelty by the Israeli fascists

How are they making this about Iran? Very clever propaganda.

Well they most certainly didn't use a separate RF transmitter. The pagers are connected and can be remote controlled that way. I heard elsewhere they also triggered the explosives by heating up the battery.

Israel does have a lot of leverage in the US and the current elections. Netanyahu practically dogwalked Biden into this. The danger is how incredibly WEAK the US government is now to do anything rational or decent. They've paralyzed themselves. Thanks Obama!

You can’t claim things like “Israel must be wiped off the map”

And again you are victim of racist propaganda in the US. This is a mistranslation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel

Norouzi's translation of the Persian quote reads; "the Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."

I could also quote a lot of radical garbage from Bush or other worse nutjobs in the US. Some quote meant for internal consumption inside a country does not represent Iranian foreign policy.

And a lot of liberals, progressives and socialists agree that the fascist Israeli apartheid regime needs to be ended and stop oppressing the human beings in the territories they occupy and control as basically open air prisons. They need to stop violating international law. They need to stop with their terrorism and crimes against humanity.

Israel is basically a failed state. The only solution now is a 1 state solution for Palestine-Israel after a period of "de-nazification" of Israel.

Again, you really should try to comprehend that other people might have a different viewpoint of the "benevolent terrorism" by the USA and Israel. You probably have a hard time picturing them as human beings with their own thoughts and ideas and loves and families. They see they are suffering at the hands of imperialist terrorist regimes and of course they fight back.

Thanks. I imagine most unicode characters and emojis are just copied over from some default font?

Maybe they'll patch it into a https://www.nerdfonts.com

Yeah I was mocking the label "terrorist organization". There is no question that the USA and Israel routinely carry out terrorist attacks and should be labeled a terrorist regime. They've had decades to create peace and more moderate culture but they want this constant state of precariousness.

Neither is ok of course. The thing is that Israel had an overwhelming military and economic advantage for decades. The strategy should have been to aid in democratization, education and prosperity of the occupied Palestinian territories and neighboring countries. Propaganda is an incredibly powerful tool and they could have used it to de-radicalize Palestinians and create a peaceful 1 or 2 state solution. They've had decades to do this. But they did the opposite.

Part of it is I believe the US geopolitical strategy. The USA does NOT like democracy in countries it wants to exploit. This isn't ideology it's just a result of playing imperialist games. Imagine countries with oil and resources were democratic and educated, they'd want to own and control their own resources instead of accepting all this despotism and corruption. See Saudi Arabia.

And of course, see Iran. They had a democratic society and when they wanted to "renegotiate" the oil deals in 1953 the UK and USA created a coup and put a dictator in charge (the shah) to continue to exploit cheap oil. You sometimes see this propaganda of how modern Iran was in the 1960 under the Shah, but there was also repression and torture in prisons. Iran's theocracy today has a guardian council that is I believe partially structure the way it is to prevent foreign influence or NGOs (the modern tool to create color revolutions). Of course Iran and other groups fight back, and one of their tools is Hezbollah.

Israel serves as a client state of the US to help control the middle east, and partially their strategy is to keep them unstable, to have the right amount of extremism and repression and poverty and suffering so they can be ruled through force alone.

Socialists call the USA fascist long before Trump because they do not see people in other countries as equal or "worthy" of democracy or prosperity. So from that viewpoint Israel's policy was fascist long before Netanyahu. At some point they killed of most of their Kibbuzihm which was their socialist base.

And all this is the reason why propaganda is presenting this as a pure "good vs evil" conflict instead of the brutal and cruel calculus of power or imperialism using very sophisticated strategies and tools.

Iran is attacking Israel. They could stop doing that anytime and have Israel leave them alone. That includes giving up on their uranium enrichment.

This is the ingrained propaganda that is clouding your understanding. Iran always complied (reasonably) with the NPT and seeks peaceful use of nuclear power. Just as Iraq didn't have WMDs. These lies are framing their resistance and defense against imperialist aggression as aggression on their side.

Obviously Iran isn't as nice and democratic, post racist and secular as the USA (/s) but they do have the right to defend themselves. Hezbollah is their tool. The US and Israel has theirs.

Worse? We have numbers for the respective body counts. They probably killed more Palestinian children in the last 8 months alone than Israeli victims in the entire history of terrorism against Israel.

Israel had decades of superior military power to culturally genocide re-educate Palestinians and create peace. Instead they chose fascism, oppression, and violence against their neighbors.