☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ @ yogthos @lemmy.ml

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The living standard of a carpenter in Slovenia is directly built on the brutal exploitation of the Global South.

Funnily enough the economies of all these countries are built on colonial exploitation of the Global South. All of them rely on cheap production in countries dominated by the west. Their economies are not self sufficient.

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Brits and the French are just the most well known colonialists. Meanwhile, modern european colonialism is a direct extension of the promised land colonialism. The EU flag is just a convenient way to indicate Europe as a whole.

The EU is literally doing colonialism in Africa today.

I have it on good authority that they're weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.

North Atlantic Terrorist Organization has spoken!

Same vibes as giving a dog a treat before it gets put down.

Wouldn't Texas be at the top of the list of states most likely to exit?

The knowledge that western domination over the world is crumbling, that neolibarlism is becoming discredited, and that the capitalist system is imploding. Meanwhile, there's plenty of positive news coming out China every day. China is building infrastructure, transitioning off fossil fuels, and improving the standard of living for its people. China is showing what an alternative cooperative model of development looks like, one that's not based on constant war and exploitation.

Iran could enforce selective closing very easily because they can shoot across the strait from the coast. It's a mountainous region where Iran has a bunch of missile installations which would be very difficult to dislodge. Iran can also trivially enforce a full closing because the strait is very shallow. All they'd have to do would be to scuttle a couple of corvettes there, and it would be completely impassible. Full closure would be the nuclear option.

lol do you even know what astroturfing means? 🤣

Ah yes, I reveal myself by resharing a meme somebody else made that's been obviously screencapped. The blueMaga conspiracy theorists never cease to amaze.

Human-like object concept representations emerge from datasets made by humans because humans made them.

And humans made them that way because human minds evolved to represent data in this way. As I keep pointing out, we're feeding data into neural networks that's organized in a way that's natural for our brains to operate on. It's an artificial system that mimics the way we naturally represent data in our own minds.

The artificial aspect of the system lies in the implementation details. The ways we've come up to encode data. These are not essential. It's like a difference between an algorithm, and its concrete implementation in a programming language. The fact that the data is encoded using human designed formats is incidental to the structure of the data which is derived from the way our brains encode information.

Human-like object concept representations emerge from the way our brains are structured. These are the representations that are encoded into data sets by humans.

Also, you've talked about a dialectical relationship, but dialectics are about understanding evolution of dynamic systems. The contradictions represent the opposing forces within a system that guide its development over time. When we talk about a distinction between natural and artificial, what's the system that we're discussing here what are the opposing forces?

I haven't defined artificial out of existence at all. My definition of artificial is a system that was consciously engineered by humans. The human mind is a product of natural evolutionary processes. Therefore, the way we perceive and interpret the world is inherently a natural process. I don't see how it makes sense to say that human representation of the world is not natural.

An example of something that's artificial would be taking a neural network we designed, and having it build a novel representation of the world that's unbiased by us from raw inputs. It would be an designed system, as opposed to one that evolved naturally, with its own artificial representation of the world.

thanks for letting me know how much you're seething and coping, really made my day 😘

so brave

oh absolutely

Are you saying that humans are not a product of nature?