I just find it frustrating, everyone argues about the fluff and the system grinds on unabated. I am far from alone in shouting about this, for centuries now, and the predictions always seem to come true anyway…

Where you direct that support matters, if you send it above yourself just please be conscious that you are ceding that power to someone who can hold it above and use it against you, unless you have some mechanism to retract it (maybe instantly recallable representatives, for example).

I don’t know, I may be preaching to the choir here, and I am not meaning to be condescending nor (incidentally) proselytise or anything, people need to come to their own conclusions.

Either way, good luck and I hope that it all works out, I suspect this ride still has a way to go.

I suppose all of these conversations blend into one after a point in some regards, that isn’t your fault so sorry for being so ranty.

That is not how systems work, there are myriad problems that stem directly from the hierarchy of ruler and ruled (whether they nominally represent you or not, the reality is that their lived experience isolates them from you and your lived experience), and they require that dynamic to persist in order to enact their will no matter how benevolent the current rulers might be.

The whole arrangement relies upon always having incorruptible, benevolent and competent people in charge, and even then there are material realities such as market crashes that will derail things, the idea is a caricature of instability.

I am starting a revolution in a sense, I have been for a long time, it just isn’t focused on some quick and easy (for presumed onlookers such as yourself, at least) miracle event that fixes everything, because in reality to beat structures you have to build your own- in this particular case one fundamentally built upon mutual aid is what we aspire to.

Best option for what exactly? The ends are completely different there, progressive wave or not, if you leave the fundamental structures and power relations intact we end up back here. The best we can expect are calls to alter some relatively superficial aspects that get quickly moderated once in power, as ever before.

Edit: this became a distracted rant somewhere along the line, so please feel free to disregard.

The GOP loves playing games, this is them playing games and you’re falling for it.

The whole thing is a spectacle. One side plays the comical baddy which some people turn to in ineffectual anger, allowing this anger to be dissipated against the usual scapegoats of the state (in short, minorities of any kind), and so not allowing it to congeal into any kind of threat to power.

Meanwhile the other side plays to fear around the comical baddy (who does do real harm, using exactly the same tools that they themselves dutifully maintain, and not infrequently use); to the point of effectively platforming some of the worst of them; as they flounder around realising they can’t offer anything but austerity and token gestures (most often repealing offenses against the population carried out in legal form, see slavery, segregation, gender rights, the list goes on) without stepping on the toes of power.

Realistically, the past both sides of this are yearning for is one that worked in a period of prodigious exploitation of new avenues and expansion of old ones as they related to the new (or growth, if you prefer).

This is no longer the case as the appearance of anything that has the momentum to keep the whole mass of debt moving becomes a rarer and rarer event, LLMs are/were the next big thing that was being banked on to keep it all going for the next decade or two, but even if that pays off the same crisis is looming down the road.

Neither ‘side’ has a satisfactory solution to this problem as their power all acts through the same levers, hence the recurring patterns absolutely everywhere. Insofar as I can see, the answer has to come from us seizing back power to dissipate its concentrations throughout us as a whole, or these things are going to keep happening.

Obedience seems to keep getting us genocides and wars, can we try some kind of constructive disobedience next please?

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Honestly, it sounds like you might be depressed, but if so I get that too. For the people you helped it got softer, it doesn’t have to directly relate to ourselves to be better.

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Being nice is an act of rebellion in a cold, uncaring world. If it is your nature to try to do good, don’t let other people not being there yet stop you being yourself.

Why are you running defence for them? Their job is to manage your expectations into extinction, they are your rulers not your friends.

My understanding was that any hitherto success of LLMs in mathematics was in its trying approaches and information from different fields where they weren’t traditionally applied (within mathematics), they have surfaced potential links but haven’t created anything in any real sense. Still, a potential legitimate use for them that I personally hadn’t anticipated.