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  • I think that the meaning of capitalism was deliberately changed so that the Soviet Union doesn't sound as insane as it was to future generations.

    That's certainly a claim. One I've never heard before. You should probably provide a source for that, because that sound like bullshit.

    Besides, I don't think calling the Soviet Union "state capitalist" downplays how bad they were, especially when that's coming from a leftist.

  • People saying LLMs are a singularity don't know how LLMs work.

    When you feed ChatGPT some text, what you get out wasn't the result of the text being processed by a neural network. It's the result of the text being processed by a deterministic algorithm, one part of which was decided on by a neural network far in advance. That's what neural nets do, they contribute to other algorithms that, while often complicated, are deterministic. If ChatGPT were to become sentient somehow, it would be happening behind the scenes with a neural network you've literally never interacted with before.

  • It's not defeatism. It's identifying the problem, and identifying that political change should be the priority. When liberals are out there deregulating this shit, subsidizing the industries that contribute to the issue, and then saying it's the fault of the consumers, you can start to see why just telling people to cut down on their carbon footprint and leaving out that we should be advocating for environmental regulation, walkable cities, etc. might be an issue.

    TL;DR Saying that corporations are the primary ones at fault isn't "defeatism", it's saying we need to do something about them. If you're such a doomer that you think corporations are invulnerable, that's on you.

  • china is capitalist, also they produce less per capita than the US, this is silly

    Oh what's that, the party calls themselves communist? Guess north korea is a democracy now cause they call themselves that, this totally makes sense

  • I mean, other visions of Web 3.0 are essentially a larger scale version of what the Fediverse already does. I'm not that optimistic, sadly, since that kind of decentralization isn't particularly profitable.